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Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by Daniem
hello! to believe so much design has no designer well thats just ignorence.
Originally posted by randyvs
but then to rather your beliefs over to some man made fairytale like evolution, where first you have to get past the most fantastic monumental
most stupendous hurdle of all religions ever dreamed up anywhere in the
cosmos or other dimension or hyperdimension in and/or between Heaven
n Hell and that is to believe there is even the slightest chance that everything has happened by chance. thats inexcuseble ignorense lol
Originally posted by watchtheashes
I don't ever recall praying in the streets or in public...
Originally posted by watchtheashes
The thing that no one here is getting is that Jesus was a man that existed. Why so quick to believe eyewitnesses of UFOs, but not so quick to think that maybe the ancient witnesses weren't lying?
After all that would be against the whole premise. Therefore why write a book that says don't lie and then lie? Saying Jesus didn't exist is like saying the writers who saw him are lying. Which of course would go against what they stood for. Why is there always a need to debunk Jesus of all of them? These very words sum it all up:
Luke 21:17: "And ye shall be hated of all men for My name's sake."
He was right. Furthermore it was Jesus that spoke it therefore it must be true even to these days.
"That Scripture Might Be Fulfilled"
The earliest works on the Christian godman were simple documents designed for liturgical use. The figure of Jesus had no discernible features, no true biography – merely attributes befitting his messianic status, such as absolute assuredness and "authority" and the concomitant display of anger, irritation and pity of one who expects to be obeyed.
Each worthy tenet of a higher morality, every pithy statement of priestly wisdom, was coupled to the majestic name to give sanction and assurance of its heavenly origin.
"A cycle of lessons, or perhaps a manual for preachers, was drawn up for ecclesiastical usage, and it was upon this liturgical foundation that the Gospels were based." – Grant (Jesus, p180)
The compendium that resulted – ambiguous, inconsistent, improbable and impossible – though never intended as a "history", none the less masqueraded as such, underpinning the claims of the faith to a unique historical foundation.
But any attempt to reconstruct the timetable or itinerary of the "ministry" of the Christian saviour is doomed to failure because the gospels are both inadequate and contradictory. One moment Jesus is in the Decapolis, receiving word of the death of John the Baptist, the next he is in Phoenicia expelling demons. One moment Jesus is "transfiguring" on a mountain in Syria, the next he is pontificating in Samaria.
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by Daniem
hello! to believe so much design has no designer well thats just ignorence.
to some man made fairytale like evolution
...there is even the slightest chance that everything has happened by chance. ignorense lol
Originally posted by Electricneo
However, don't be a hypocrite and celebrate Christmas though
that's embracing religion only when it's convenient and fun
-that's out for you dummies.
-no Christmas tree -no giving and receiving of presents-Christmas is
after all a religious holiday.
I love Christmas-it's a part of religion that I thoroughly embrace.
It's the best.
All you scrooges who give up on religion unless you give up on Christmas
all your ranting is meaningless.
Originally posted by watchtheashes
Therefore when Maitreya comes and does his thing, and he gives you the proof you want you will undoubtedly follow him because he will be doing it in front of many people's eyes.
Originally posted by watchtheashes
Therefore when Maitreya comes and does his thing, and he gives you the proof you want you will undoubtedly follow him because he will be doing it in front of many people's eyes. There is a star in the sky that cannot be explained and the professionals are sworn to silence for the time being. That is part of the proof you will get that what I have been saying will come to pass one way or the other.