RE: Pull up a chair
March 17, 2014 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2014 at 6:14 pm by Phatt Matt s.)
(March 17, 2014 at 5:52 pm)discipulus Wrote: Pull up a chair and have a seat. In this thread I invite atheists and agnostics to discuss the topic of faith.
What is faith?
We all know that faith is an important aspect of Christianity. But what about atheism? Does an atheist exercise faith?
If so, how?
In what way?
I maintain that many atheists do indeed exercise faith despite what they may say about it.
So let us begin the discussion.
Did you get your Bible from the Catholic Church? The founding Fathers of Protestantism did. The Catholic Church decided your New Testament Canon. IF you don't trust the Catholic Church why do you trust your Bible? Maybe the Church fucked with it all those years before the invention of the First Protestant Church in the 16th Century!
The printing press was invented 65 years before Luther's revolt; and according to Hallam, a Protestant historian, the Catholic Bible was the first hook ever printed. In 1877 there were exhibited hundreds of old Bibles, at South Kensington, England; it was called the “Caxton Exhibition," and among them were nine German editions of the Bible, printed in Germany before Luther was born; and there were more than one hundred editions of the Latin Bible, the very thing Luther is pretended to have "discovered."
This disproves the popular lie about Luther finding the Bible at Erfurt in 1507. Many Protestant historians have repudiated this charge. To name a few: Dr. McGilfert in MAN LUTHER AND HIS WORK, page 273, says: "If Luther was ignorant of the Bible, it was his own fault.
The notion that Bible reading was frowned upon by ecclesiastical authorities of that age is quite unfounded." And Dr. Preserve Smith in LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARTIN LUTHER, page 14, writes: "The book was a very common one, there having been no less than one hundred editions of the Latin Vulgate published before 1500, as well as a number of German translations." And Murzel in HISTORY OF GERMANY, Vol.11, p.223, says: "Before the time of Luther, the Bible had already been translated and printed in both High and Low Dutch."
