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Robbie Parry
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Mr Byrne, what if the universe is akin to Eternity from Marvel Comics? ;-)
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DW Zomberg
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fifteen prophetic references that Jesus ended up fulfilling
Yeah, and the last Harry Potter book "fulfilled" the prophecies of the first one.
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Rebecca Jansen
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The Old Testament is a cupboard full of all kinds of old stuff... bits lifted from the Sumerian cuneiform which includes Noah and his son Nimrod, a couple creation stories roughly stuck together, some thou shalt nots and thou shalts top ten lists, some poems or song lyrics, a story about a proletariat cat named Job who is rewarded for faith with torments, a few 'just so' stories with pillars of salt and other punishments, Abraham denying his wife is his wife so men could rape her without murdering him, a scene of human sacrifice e of his own son because a voice told him to, oops.
The the New Testament is a pack of fleshings out of some sayings a couple people remembered however accurately and passed on, plus a childhood super powers story grafted on, some bits some guys didn't like and demanded not be included and destroyed wherever copies were found, a bundle of various letters from a villain turned hero, and some dude's wild dream for a finale, translated from Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, maybe even Coptic Egyptian into Latin and then old English.
Don't worry about it, just pray every day "Lord protect me from your followers!" Hey, maybe that's working, you never know. Oh wait, Ted Cruz and Pat Robertson are still there, maybe not. This is middle earth, midgard, everything is supposed to be half effed up. Go do something positive and over time it can be a bit more livable...:^)
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Adam Schulman
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I don't know why the arguments between theists and atheists persist. Neither ever persuade the other, in my experience.
I'm a stone-cold atheist. I know theists who are wonderful people. I know atheists who are horrible people.
One's belief or lack thereof in God or any particular religion, by itself, tells me nothing about what kind of person you are, your political beliefs, etc.
All I ask is that the state, and society, leave me alone about my atheism. First amendment and all that.
Being an atheist may make you "scientifically correct" but it doesn't automatically make you morally superior to theists.
That's all I have to say on this matter.
Edited by Adam Schulman on 12 October 2018 at 1:28pm
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Robbie Parry
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Adam Schulman wrote:
| Being an atheist may make you "scientifically correct" but it doesn't automatically make you morally superior to theists. |
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Of course. People are a very peculiar breed - and come in all shapes and sizes.
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Eric Sofer
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People can't be judged generally by their beliefs, any more than by their gender or race.
"All women are terrible drivers." "All Muslims are terrorists who want to kill all non-Muslims." "All Jews are greedy."
I am still of the mindset of not hating groups of people by their nature, but to hate them individually. For example, I do not hate all Baptists. I hate Baptists who would kidnap black people, tie them to a tree, and beat the shit out of them, possibly to death. That method works, for me at least.
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Eric Jansen
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It certainly is lucky you Christians came alonge to show the Jews they were getting their own mythology wrong._________________
You know the early Christians were mostly Jews, right?
Call it what you will, the faith recorded in the Bible was a living and active thing, growing in depth and revelation as it went from Adam to Noah to Abraham to Moses to Jesus. It's all one continuity.
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John Byrne
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You know the early Christians were mostly Jews, right?••• Jesus was a Jew who preached to other Jews about Jewish matters. The term “Christian” did not emerge until long after his death. (For ease of discussion we will assume he actually existed.) If someone could have approached Jesus and told him he was founding a new and separate religion, he would have disputed that concept. He thought and acted as a Jew, based on his own interpretation of the Law. He believed himself to be the fulfillment of that Law. He wasn’t the first. The schism starts when Saul of Tarsus, known as Paul, who had never met Jesus except in a "vision." and started preaching his own version. What we call Christianity would more properly be called Paulism.
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Richard Stevens
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Yeah, and the last Harry Potter book "fulfilled" the prophecies of the first one.
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Finally, someone made me love Harry Potter.
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DW Zomberg
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It's all one continuity.
The New Testament is a retcon written by folks who badly misinterpreted certain parts of the Old Testament.
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John Byrne
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The OT itself is a jumble of rewrites and retcons, designed to advance particular agendas. Archeological evidence for those big stories is sparse indeed, not to mention the absence of reports from other cultures describing supposedly world wide events. How did the Chinese miss the Flood? Why didn’t the calendar obsessed Aztec peoples record the Sun standing still for a day?(I’ve long been fascinated by the picture of other cultures around the world blithely carrying on with their business, while in the Middle East God was using a series of incredibly inefficient delivery systems to give us the Most Important Messages Ever.)
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Robbie Parry
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I know we've been down this road before, and there are people (such as Ken Ham) who will always justify something, but the Genesis 1/Genesis 2 contradictions make no sense to me. Was Adam lonely and in need of animals? Or did he and Eve come last, the pinnacle of God's creation?
I never understood the Abraham/Isaac story, either. An omnipotent being, by definition, would know that Abraham was sincere, why that whole charade?
I did read about an early Christian group (Marcionites) who rejected the OT God, believing him to be a different being to the NT God.
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