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Science confirms the Bible?
RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 18, 2013 at 11:28 pm)Polaris Wrote: Plus I stand by the New Testament as well. Less factual (well there are some corroborating facts that fit within the historical narrative, but I don't concern myself with them as I do with the OT), more spiritual.

Cool as hell! Finally I can have a conversation with a Christian that knows his gospel, and means it. So, did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on one ass or two?
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 19, 2013 at 12:26 am)cato123 Wrote:
(June 18, 2013 at 11:28 pm)Polaris Wrote: Plus I stand by the New Testament as well. Less factual (well there are some corroborating facts that fit within the historical narrative, but I don't concern myself with them as I do with the OT), more spiritual.

Cool as hell! Finally I can have a conversation with a Christian that knows his gospel, and means it. So, did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on one ass or two?

I'd say any motif story that includes a selfish stalker who commits a fake suicide to clamor for attention had to ride in on an ass , but it would be an ass riding on an ass.

And if I am offending Christians, good, because claims of virgin births and surviving rigor mortis have never been true and deserve no lick of value as claims. Otherwise Thor makes lightening because we observe lightening.

The only truth about Christianity that can be proven is that someone started a cult and managed to market it. But none of the fantastic claims in that comic book were ever true even if the book is peppered with real names and real people.
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
(June 18, 2013 at 10:55 pm)Polaris Wrote:
(June 18, 2013 at 8:04 pm)Rahul Wrote: Please continue, good sir.

First one shows that the Bible is a copy/paste of five different books during the Captivity...it's a real mess when you try and separate the different interwoven statements. Also explains why there are different accounts in the Bible like Genesis and the slaying of Goliath. That and there was a compromise for which Bible to use, but I think even Christians acknowledge that one.

There was a cult where Yahweh was depicted as having a wife goodness named Asherah, who is seen as one of the enemy faiths in the Bible. Some speculate that this was a precursor faith and the Jews went out of their way to remove it from history....I say it's more of a cult because it was only seen in one area to my recollection (even if they tried to eradicate it, they're likely be more than just one remaining evidence...aka we have four Mayan codices.

Elohim was the name for God used during the time of Abraham, but could also been seen as the name of a supreme Canaanite god....the implications being quite destructive to the origin of the Jewish faith.

You need to find William Dever's "Did God Have A Wife." In it he details these developments. It is more in the context of "folk religion" v "state religion." For that, there needs to be a "state" and Judah developed one in the late 8th century BCE. Once you have a central monarch you quickly find priests clinging to him like the parasites they are. The idea of central government rule v a clan based and far more conservative countryside is hardly news. The attempt by rural peoples to try to hold on to their old beliefs - regardless of what they were - is well attested in history from the Pilgrimage of Grace against Henry VIII's confiscation of the monasteries or the revolts in the Vendee against Napoleon. Dever sees the same sort of dynamic. The desire of rural peoples with only a shaky allegiance to a national government seeking to maintain the old ways against some greedy priests trying to exert their power.
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
Stimbo Wrote:Cool as hell! Finally I can have a conversation with a Christian that knows his gospel, and means it. So, did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on one ass or two?

Oooh oooh! I know this one!

The answer is, One ass. He hijacked it. Tongue
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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(July 6, 2013 at 9:20 pm)missluckie26 Wrote:
Stimbo Wrote:Cool as hell! Finally I can have a conversation with a Christian that knows his gospel, and means it. So, did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on one ass or two?

Oooh oooh! I know this one!

The answer is, One ass. He hijacked it. :P
I think the word is "stole"
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RE: Science confirms the Bible?
Nah man, he and his posse only meant to borrow it. He never told the owner though, so technically he twocked it (TWOC - Taken W/O Consent). There's a nice little morality tale for the kids! It's a wonder that donkey wasn't found burnt out up on bricks with its legs missing and the radio hocked for tab money.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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