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Interesting, and with you vast education on the bible, neither have you.
You mean he hasn't done so to the satisfaction of someone [you] who has no idea what he's doing.
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Interesting, and with you vast education on the bible, neither have you.
He can't separate personal meaning from exegetical interpretation. I've been out of seminary a couple of years now, and Angellous has his doctorate in biblical studies. We haven't been able to talk this guy through the process, either. To him, education and knowledge merit nothing. It only "proves" that we've been "brainwashed by the System." Only his own imagination and denial merit consideration.
So there's a difference between what the Bible says and what the Bible means.
Otherwise, anyone could just copy and paste Scripture and claim understand what the Scripture says -- like you and your friends -- and not understand what the Scripture means.
Pretending to understand, claiming to understand, and actually understanding meaning are quite different.
You can blaspheme the Lord's name by arrogantly proclaiming that your interpretation is correct because you believe in God / Christ / yourself... that's your problem. Just because you believe thus and such about God or the Bible - that doesn't give you the authority to proclaim your misunderstandings to be truths.
It's rather weak to respond to someone's criticism of your wild claims that (1) they aren't a Christian, therefore they can't understand (2) you don't approve of their Christianity, therefore they can't understand (3) they have a PhD, know Christian history, Christian and secular philosophy, ancient languages, and ancient and modern techniques for interpretation and therefore they can't understand the text [WTF?!].
So swell up in your pride that you have a special understanding of the Scripture because you think that you believe everything correctly already. Beat your chest and make looney tunes theology. At least you're good comic books.
I agree, however, given his level of adamancy about "being right," I thought the education might be justified.I respectfully disagree. While someone with training has a great advantage, there are many folks with a genuine interest who find their way nicely -- at least enough to come to a respectable understanding of Scripture, the ancient world, and whatever else interests them.
We can't shut off understanding to only the academically educated. Now I know that understanding the ancient world has many unique academic challenges, but with so much of that available online, if someone reads a bit... well, you see where I'm going.
I'm delighted to see that our friend has some rudimentary reading in the basics -- unfortunately reading with the same low level of understanding as he reads the Scripture -- it's still better than nothing. I remember when I read the Church Fathers for the first time and how it inspired me... and not knowing Greek or anything else, that first reading still informs me.
It would be wonderful if our friend shed his biases and at least had respect for critical methods and the theology it produces [or rather, the theologies that interact with it] - all of that reading will serve him well.
As it is now, it's all merely a justification for being wrong.
I disagree.Interesting, and with your vast education on the bible, neither have you.
No. That's not what's "currently being taught."Doesn't matter how many Degrees one has in the study of ancient Theology, which is what is currently being taught.
Yes, that is being taught, because that's the truth of the matter.The False supposition that mortal men authored the Bible is present in most of these Teachings.
This is nothing more than delusional, wishful thinking.Ask your most educated Religionists what Day it is. They don't know, thus revealing their ignorance of what Genesis is actually teaching.
Nope. It's not prophecy. Genesis simply is not that kind of literature.An example of this is Gen 1:30 which is PROPHECY of what will happen AFTER Jesus returns to this Planet and changes EVERY animal into a Vegetarian.
No. That's not what's "currently being taught."
Yes, that is being taught, because that's the truth of the matter.
This is nothing more than delusional, wishful thinking.
Nope. It's not prophecy. Genesis simply is not that kind of literature.
Genesis doesn't predict.ALL creatures were made into vegetarians as Gen 1:30 predicts
Isaiah doesn't mention Jesus.Isaiah 11:7 shows the fulfillment of that same Prophecy, and it is AFTER Jesus returns
Only because the one with the credentials disagrees with you...Well no, I'm not really all that embarrassed. But your right, I'm not all that impressed with a man's credentials.
No because the man with the credentials doesn't know God. And I do. And so it is clear to me that credentials are worthless.Only because the one with the credentials disagrees with you...
You can butter it up all you like, fact remains the only reason you dismiss his credentials is because he disagrees with you.No because the man with the credentials doesn't know God. And I do. And so it is clear to me that credentials are worthless.
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Dear Renji, NO other Religion speaks of the Multiverse, the date of the Big Bang, Gen 2:4
Renji:>>Being in a seminary school for about a year, I do not know what you are talking about. Where's the date that you are talking about on that verse? Even if I go to the original Hebrew text, I cannot see it.
Dear Renji, You won't find this teaching in School. It must be read in Scripture because today's Schools know nothing of it, since they spend their time trying to understand the Theology of ancient goatherders. This is because they FALSELY assume that ancient men authored the Bible.
Gen 1:6-8 shows that the FIRST Heaven was made the 2nd Day. Gen 2:4 shows that other HeavenS (Plural) were made at the beginning of the THIRD Day, the SAME Day that Adam's Earth was made, Gen 1:9-10 but BEFORE the plants, herbs and Trees which GREW on the same THIRD Day. Gen 1:12
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nor the FACT that the BB was on the 3rd Day and the First Stars of our Cosmos did NOT light until the 4th Day. Gen 1:6
Genesis 1:6- And God said, "Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water." I'm so sorry, there's nothing on the verse that you've given that talks about a particular cosmos event such as big bang. Even if we go through the Torah or the other parts of the bible, there's nothing, absolutely nothing in there which proves the big bang and stuff like that. In fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with it.
IF you knew what Genesis says, you should have KNOWN that the first Stars didn't put forth their light until the FOURTH Day as Gen 1:16 clearly states. IOW, it's a TYPO, a mistake on my part. God Bless you.
The question is HOW did the LORD scatter then all over the world from Babel as He claims He did? It's easy for me to see that the Creator can do anything He wants to by Speaking it into being. After all, He spoke the worlds into being. Heb 11:3 God Bless you.
Dear Johathan, 1:>>I showed you HOW and WHEN modern Humans blood was contaminated by the blood of prehistoric people and you could NOT refute it.
2. Does well established mean True? Of course not, but there are some naive science worshppers who think so. Can you refute me? No, since IF you could you would have already done it.
3. A repeat of your first disagreement with me. The genetic example is FALSE because it Falsely assumes that Humans had our origin on the present world, when in fact, we came from Adam's world which was totally dissolved in the Flood.
4. Why do you keep repeating the SAME old discredited information that Humans were on Earth BEFORE Noah arrived and brought the intelligence of Adam to this Planet of Apes? Don't you know that prehistoric men were NOT Humans (descendants of Adam)?
I think the argument could be made, fairly soundly, that he knows the god of the Bible much better than you do - while you know the god of Sonofason much better than he does.No because the man with the credentials doesn't know God. And I do. And so it is clear to me that credentials are worthless.
Can you tell us what Day it is?
So yes, I believe I have done that. And I can assure you that my biblical studies have been far more extant than casual internet searches to fundamentalist websites, as you'd like to think. I have read a great deal of classic Christian literature from such authors as Origen, Athanasius, St. Augustine, Clement, Adam Clarke, St. Jerome, St. John of the Cross, Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, A.W. Pink and many others. I have read the entire Bible several times. I have read vast portions of the Bible hundreds of times. I have studied the Bible seriously. And I have devoted a great deal of my time and my life to studying the Bible. I have read numerous articles on the internet as well, covering a vast number of subjects both pro and con. I consider all sides of an argument before I draw my conclusions. I do not rely on any one translation of any biblical text. I read and consider them all, including the original Hebrew and Greek. Academically, I have taken a college course on Eastern religions, and I have taken a college course entitled Christology. In college I have also taken a course in logic, and a course entitled moral theory.
So from my perspective, yes, I've done it, and I continue to do so. I am not finished with my serious study of the Bible, and I will continue to learn about the God that I am certain exists.
How do you know that Angellous and I don't "know God?" You seem to have an awful lot of iron-clad knowledge that appears to have no basis in fact. Bring the facts, man! Prove that we don't know God. Otherwise, your assertion is nothing but trolling blather.No because the man with the credentials doesn't know God. And I do. And so it is clear to me that credentials are worthless.
Genesis doesn't predict.
Isaiah doesn't mention Jesus.
You're in a position to predict nothing.