(September 26, 2014 at 11:57 am)genkaus Wrote: I thought consequence for sin was eternal suffering and permanent death. Your Jesus came back to life and didn't suffer long.Not only that. As an eternal being, what would three days mean to him? Scriptures tell us that he is timeless, that to him a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day. He has existed endless eons into the past and will do so eternally going forth. He can't even claim that the 'sacrifice' was in the way he was treated-- he set that up centuries before it happened and therefore was the architect of his own fate.
In other words, he arranged for some neighborhood bullies to make fun of his t-shirt, and used that as justification for setting your whole family on fire.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
