(July 4, 2020 at 10:00 am)possibletarian Wrote: 'Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.''
Matthew 24:34
Then this generation... then this generation...
It always amuses me how each generation of Christians think they will live to see Jesus return, and how they contort and twist alleged prophecy to fit their times and conditions.
Yeah it is amusing because Odin gave much realistic promises compared to Jesus, and yet Christians reject him.
Jesus promised to make terrible people go away.
Odin promised to make ice giants go away.
I don't see any ice giants anymore...
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"