Seems to me that the O.P has never listened to Professor Bart Erhman...an atheist who is an expert on the historical Jesus and who believes from the actual evidence, the man really existed!
I would challenge the claim all of the new testament was written by individuals who were not...
You have completely misunderstood the fundamental principle of language writing.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...thst is a summary of the overall creation event.
What comes next is the finer details explaining the event.
They are not two separate events.
Enjoy amigo.
I'm trying to reconcile your statements there...
On the one hand you believe the earth is "very old", on the other you claim "I am just a simple farm boy that believes if God said it I believe it because it is fact."
Can I ask, are you claiming the following are all translational errors? (may...
"read", it should be "its embarrassing to read"!
Secondly, is not the evolutionary claim that we are a result of the interraction over time of various "chemicals" in a primordial soup? That would suggest that before we "came alive" so to speak, the difference between us and "buildings" is not...
Oh my...
“all I know is that I know nothing.”
Do you know who said that? Do you also know he didn't record any of his own statements that we have record of?
[He]revolutionised the way we approach ethics and epistemology (the theory of knowledge). Although he never wrote down his teachings...
Sorry my tablet insisted on using the wrong quote to respond too...ive deleted it.
But to answer your statement there...trinitarian issues you may have arent really relevant in this thread, but I'll bite...tell me, where does the bible tell us Christ is when he returned to Heaven...is it not...
Matthew 24 is an account of a part of Christs ministry and it records the Son of Man (God) saying
Readiness at Any Hour
(Genesis 6:1–7; Mark 13:32–37; Luke 12:35–48)
"36No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,g but only the Father. 37As it was in the...
That's not correct...look at the new testament claims that Abraham was saved by faith.
Abraham predates the Exodus and giving of the Mosaic law at Mt Sinai by half a millenia!
Even Abraham was saved by faith and he demonstrated that faith by his decision to follow the Lord.
People simply do...
See thats where you do not understand the history of the existence of Christ.
Firstly, your statement is unsupported by the historical facts. The prophecies such as the ones in Daniel are proven to have been written before the events occured. It wasnt New Testament writers who wrote the book of...
The bible says,
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
It also says,
and he made the stars also
It would seem to me that there are two ways to look at it:
1. There are multiple "universes in existence" where we are bound to our own universe and as a result of sin, we cannot...
My hope is always that the atheist is here for the same reason as the Christian, to discuss God. Some believe he exists and best explains our reality, others do not. My challenge to those who do not is, for you what offers a better solution to death than "kaput"? Honestly, it's that simple for...
Whilst I couldn't these days, when I was in my 20's I spent a little time in the army reserves.
In our basic training course, i was one of the best shooters in my platoon and I can say that given I was new at shooting at the time, and given the young guy who shot at Trump couldn't shoot good...
Whilst I couldn't these days, when I was in my 20's I spent a little time in the army reserves.
I was one of the best shooters in my platoon and I can say that given I was new at shooting at the time, and given the young guy who shot at Trump couldn't shoot good enough to gain entry to his...
Gosh you did well to make all of that up.
There is no evidence that says the law has been thrown out...you have that completely wrong.
Do a bible search for the phrase "abraham was saved by faith"
If abrahams faith saved him, how do you figure he was saved by the law a thousand years before...
Because as of 2023, we have 15.7 million Jews around the world whose entire cultural history supports it! Or are you going to deny an entire race of peoples own recorded history?
The thing that every naysayer ignores is this:
The Old Testament only exists because of Jewish cultural...
Doesn't that actually line up with the bible statement that a pharoah came to power who did not know Joseph?
Let's also remember, the Israelites were in Egypt for hundreds of years...a 10 year discrepancy is not really an issue
I think you might be missing the point of the definition of the word Pagan. A Pagan is similar to the Islamic word Infidel...its someone who has a belief foreign to that of the mainstream view of a group of people (in this case Christianity). I think the idea that this bible verse is calling...
There is a difference between speaking in tongues (as the disciples did which could be understood by each man listening, in a mans own language), and the useless unintelligable babbling you are talking about that no one understands. The tongues you speak of is driven by evil spirit, not heavenly...