No, it's a product of ongoing reasoned enquiry, and as you know, reasoned enquiry, of which science is one (large) aspect, has enabled the heavy lifting that's created the modern world.
I don't speak merely as an admirer looking on, or as one communicating with you on the net. In 2004 I...
Yes, I've seen lots of those pictures. They make it clear he was tall, handsome, cheerful but thoughtful, and Nordic-looking with long wavy chestnut locks, and a freshly washed and ironed tunic ─ would have looked just right in a Volvo ad.
Quite right, my apologies. I was thinking the Christian God was the God of the Tanakh, but of course at the same time I knew that Paul had thrown out the covenant of circumcision with that God. And the Christian God, a few centuries later, became triune too, a totally different concept to either...
I don't think you're backing a winner here. Most people, Christian or not, aren't interested in looking like tribesmen and -women from 3,000 years ago. The handful that are, are already doing it.
When you say, "men's clothing only", what do you make of priests in pretty skirts ('robes')?
And I...
This is the god of the Tanakh, whose history is heavy with human sacrifice, mass rape, massacre of surrendered populations, murderous religious intolerance, and more. Don't take my word for it ─ it's all spelt out in the text. If you don't know where to look, just ask and I'll set out a few...
The point is that God, when the mood takes [him], sends evil, as all three examples show.
And of course God has no objection to infanticide or abortion, as is made clear and express in
Hosea 13: 16 Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the...
I was quoting the KJV, where 'evil' is the translation on each occasion.
In the examples from 1 Samuel 16:14 and from Isaiah 45:7, the word being translated as 'evil’ is Hebrew ra’, meaning ‘bad, evil’ (and translated as ‘evil’ in 442 of the 663 times it occurs in the KJV, so the net tells...
Apologies for answering this twice. Since the first reply, I've also remembered ─
1 Samuel 16:14 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do all...
But when you're not only omnipotent and omniscient and eternal and infinite but also perfect, how can there be anything you can't do?
Why, the very concept has already abandoned all notions of reality! Just like God!
Well, no, the bible doesn't say that, only the unknown author(s) of Acts in the NT.
And like all the NT authors, the one who wrote this never met an historical Jesus, so he was simply reporting hearsay, however traditional to his branch of proto-Christianity.
All good historians are very...
But on all the examinable evidence, God does nothing at all, which in my respectful opinion removes any basis on which omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, perfection (whatever that means), and the qualities of being eternal and infinite can be attributed to [him]. The same is true of all...