RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
June 15, 2015 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2015 at 11:45 am by nihilistcat.)
I should also say, the church (to its credit I suppose) does not draft dogma arbitrarily or without significant thought (including with regard to its scientific implications). So it is true that many of the changes we see in the Catholic church did not necessarily involve official doctrinal changes (but rather changes in the way these doctrines are taught). So for instance, at one time the church was steeped in a view that the earth stands in the center of our universe. But was that explicitly official dogma? The church is smart in the sense that it almost always leaves itself enough wiggle room to adapt to changing information (in particular, new scientific discoveries).
I'm not sure how it treats claims like those contained within the Exodus narrative, which many archaeologists consider mythical at this point (there's been many excavations of the Sinai over the last century, and although the digs should have found evidence supporting the Exodus narrative if it indeed happened, nothing has been found, leading to the conclusion that the Exodus narrative never happened).
Genesis, Exodus, mythical, figurative, but then if these foundational narratives are not historical truth, how does that affect the credibility of the Jesus narrative (who is linked to these earlier forebearers of Judaism by a number of New Testament passages)?
Faiths will even point to their continued existence over the course of centuries (or longer) to bolster their claims, but I'm not sure why we should find that fact compelling?
I'm not sure how it treats claims like those contained within the Exodus narrative, which many archaeologists consider mythical at this point (there's been many excavations of the Sinai over the last century, and although the digs should have found evidence supporting the Exodus narrative if it indeed happened, nothing has been found, leading to the conclusion that the Exodus narrative never happened).
Genesis, Exodus, mythical, figurative, but then if these foundational narratives are not historical truth, how does that affect the credibility of the Jesus narrative (who is linked to these earlier forebearers of Judaism by a number of New Testament passages)?
Faiths will even point to their continued existence over the course of centuries (or longer) to bolster their claims, but I'm not sure why we should find that fact compelling?