(August 22, 2013 at 5:30 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: The Jews "copied" a few myths and folktales from the near east and Babylon but it was with an important monotheistical twist when they did do this. Jesus was a revolutionary and reformer within Judaism, as he was a Jewish Rabbi himself he wasn't particularly copying anything at all. Mohammed and Joesph Smith just took chunks of the Bible/Torah and re-mastered them basically. It's fairly obvious to see that this was a deliberate manufacture on their part.
But why is it that when the Jews did it, it's a "twist," while the others are a deliberate manufacture?
(August 22, 2013 at 5:30 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: True though I don't think Jesus knew anything about Confucianism or whatever else, his inspiration was the Jewish Torah and God/himself. It's just a universal truth and certain enlightened individuals throughout the world through the Holy Spirit have come to understand and preach it.
Are you seriously trying to claim the achievements of all of other religions as those of your own? Do you have any evidence for this boldly presumptuous claim?
(August 22, 2013 at 5:30 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Though you no doubt think morality is essentially just your own opinion, or the opinion of a collective culture of which you're part and/or something to do with evolutionary programming. Without God that's all it can be I suppose.
Perhaps, but that's irrelevant to your claim.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
