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Your being ignorant and your mocking what you don't know or understand.
So... by your logic you must have the supernatural elements available to believe in it?
Muppet's and Harry Potter are qualified to believe in it
Magic and supernatural have very little to do with each other. Magic is typically used to fool people. Supernatural is an element that is just the way it is naturally. They don't cross paths except that you might think your getting fooled witnessing something supernatural when its those abilitys are normal.
Correct...I can't do magic
So your entire reasoning depends on magic...that's really really sad
The bible may be hard to believe in some sections based on the fact that we are not able to recreate the supernatural elements.
What historical documentation? The bible? It's demonstrably not accurate...so I hope you don't mean that
en.wikipedia.org...
the Bible is a historical document containing first-hand information
Did I miss something? I seriously doubt that I'm getting demolished on this thread. The fact is I'm not able to find anyone that can contest my theories with fair resistance, which is why I'm still on this thread.
You pretty much just ignored and dismissed everything i said without providing evidence again... Not surprising. You've been thoroughly demolished in this thread. Give it up.
No some things that are magic are supernatural which is not to say that all things that are supernatural are magic.
Harry potter is about magic, spells, rituals, etc... According to this it is supernatural. So you think magic is real?
You can't just make words to mean what you want them to. Magic is supernatural, therefor Harry Potter is supernatural and by your definition that means it is real.
Originally posted by itsthetooth
reply to post by flyingfish
Your being ignorant and your mocking what you don't know or understand.
So... by your logic you must have the supernatural elements available to believe in it?
Muppet's and Harry Potter are qualified to believe in it
Well thats why it was chopped, so you would have no problem finding it, otherwise you may have scanned over it and missed it. Originally I just posted the link and you didn't find it that way either. Probably because you didn't see the need to read the whole page.
Thats what you get for not paying attention as I even pin pointed the reference a few times.
The reason why it was hard to find your quote was you had clipped a whole paragraph to get the phrase you wanted ignoring all the other information in that paragraph that shows the bible is far from a clear document and again shows that you are very dishonest.
Granted it wasn't a headline, but they still quoted it, therefore its not a lie.
So what are you saying, they lied? It was quoted as a historical document.
Read cherry Picking. I am saying you mined for a quote to suit your argument so you lied. You ignored all the other information that shows the bible is not clear documentation
Well I gave bible info allready, never gave Pye, sitchen, or von daniken, however all you would do once I did, was cherry pick informaton to try to discredit each of them, so why bother. You have allready done this and totally dismissed the rest of their work as invalid. You were apparently cherry picking long before I was.
They ALL prove that we aren't from here except that some are just easier to understand.
I only have your word for that. Your word has been proven to be no good,
'You have not provided any supporting evidence for your claims. No comment until you do'
As if only certain ones are going to be clear. They are all published under the title of the bible, thats good enough. You can only nit pic so much.
The NIV and ESD are both good and I'm not sure of the origin.
So you are not sure of your so called documents origin. That alone makes means it is not a clear historical document.
Actually your the one being dishonest, they made it clear they are assuming.
It's thought to have been, YOUR assuming.
Here is your dishonesty again. They think the verbal history was passed down. Not documentation from first hand witnesses as you claim. Again far from a clear historical document. They are definitely assuming and you are definitely denying the truth again.
I wasn't trying to pass that off as straight findings, I was trying to tell you the same thing. Those sections are noted in the bible anyhow. In certain additions they tell you where each part of the information came from.
Looks like more of a reconstruction or a repair than anything else.
Do you actually understand English?
Scholars surmise the original Greek text from the versions that do survive.
Do you know what Surmise means?
To infer (something) without sufficiently conclusive evidence.
To make a guess or conjecture.
An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture..
Reconstruction my a$$. It is however you dishonestly denying what your own link is telling you
Your making assumptions that the cherry picked sections are not in order. The fact is you don't know. So you cant win based on an assumption.
Regarding the events that took place I'll agree that its probably as accurate as we are going to get.
That is it is also an admission that the bible is not a clear historical document.
So I have proved my point again and even though you decided to give me your opinions and not a reasoned argument supported with evidence you still lost.
That's the second time and again there will not be a third.
Originally posted by itsthetooth
reply to post by MrXYZ
Magic and supernatural have very little to do with each other. Magic is typically used to fool people. Supernatural is an element that is just the way it is naturally. They don't cross paths except that you might think your getting fooled witnessing something supernatural when its those abilitys are normal.
Correct...I can't do magic
So your entire reasoning depends on magic...that's really really sad
The bible and what error are you talking about?
What historical documentation is that?
While your all happy and laughing. Where is the retraction you owe me Or are you so dishonest that you cannot bring yourself to admit your error?
Originally posted by itsthetooth
reply to post by MrXYZ
The bible may be hard to believe in some sections based on the fact that we are not able to recreate the supernatural elements.
What historical documentation? The bible? It's demonstrably not accurate...so I hope you don't mean that
And yes the bible is a historical document, in case you have missed what I have repeatedly posted, here it is again...
en.wikipedia.org...
the Bible is a historical document containing first-hand information
Did I miss something?
I seriously doubt that I'm getting demolished on this thread.
The fact is I'm not able to find anyone that can contest my theories with fair resistance, which is why I'm still on this thread.
Or you could just take the supernatural out of it and call it not possible.
Yes, a historical document that's demonstrably wrong when it comes to history and science in hundreds of cases. That is, unless you take the tooth "# it, everything's possible...just add a bit of magic and believe" approach to it all
No one has produced anything that has proven the idea of intervention wrong. No one is able to produce target food for humans, no on e is able to produce a species that has a relationship with man. But I'm a joke, seriously you need to think next time.
Embarrassingly so... trust your peers the word is out your a joke, almost to the point I feel bad for you.
I never said I agree to those. Your just stereotyping me like the others are doing.
Tooth, you really believe that the earth was created in 6 days, and that man was punished for eating a forbidden fruit after being convinced by a talking snake?
Originally posted by itsthetooth
reply to post by flyingfish
No one has produced anything that has proven the idea of intervention wrong. No one is able to produce target food for humans, no on e is able to produce a species that has a relationship with man. But I'm a joke, seriously you need to think next time.
Embarrassingly so... trust your peers the word is out your a joke, almost to the point I feel bad for you.
No one is able to produce target food for humans...
Originally posted by itsthetooth
reply to post by Barcs
I never said I agree to those. Your just stereotyping me like the others are doing.
Tooth, you really believe that the earth was created in 6 days, and that man was punished for eating a forbidden fruit after being convinced by a talking snake?
Profiling makes us all look bad.
I believe as a control measure we could have been punished for not obeying what was told.
I think Pye's video proves there were punishements as well.
As far as a talking snake, I don't know if anyone else ever realized but the bible is full of advanced technology. They had radio communications, atomic bombs, and the burning bush was probably just a radio device. The talking snake could have been many things, and it may not have actually of been a snake.
On the flip side it may also be possible that with supernatural intervention, or control that a snake could be made to appear to be able to talk.
Nope. Its called Quote Mining
Well thats why it was chopped, so you would have no problem finding it, otherwise you may have scanned over it and missed it. Originally I just posted the link and you didn't find it that way either. Probably because you didn't see the need to read the whole page.
You cut it that way because you only looked at what supported your claim. You ignored all that did not even within the same paragraph and you are doing it still. Shockingly dishonest.
The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as "contextomy" or "quote mining", is a logical fallacy and a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning.[
Nope quoting out of context the way you did is lying by omission.
Granted it wasn't a headline, but they still quoted it, therefore its not a lie.
The above does not constitute a logical argument with supporting evidence as is required.
Well I gave bible info allready, never gave Pye, sitchen, or von daniken, however all you would do once I did, was cherry pick informaton to try to discredit each of them, so why bother. You have allready done this and totally dismissed the rest of their work as invalid. You were apparently cherry picking long before I was.
First you admit you do not know the origins and now you say in your opinion its good enough. News for you: 'Don’t know' and 'looks good enough to me' does not qualify your use of the bible as 'a clear historical document'. End of.
As if only certain ones are going to be clear. They are all published under the title of the bible, thats good enough. You can only nit pic so much.
Agreed they made it clear. You on the other hand denied it. Now you changed your mind and claim it was me. Dishonesty of a child. (10 - 12 at best).
Actually your the one being dishonest, they made it clear they are assuming.
You know your dishonesty is the only tool you seem to have left. You replied to my argument, supported by a quote from YOUR link:
I wasn't trying to pass that off as straight findings, I was trying to tell you the same thing.
your link says 'Scholars surmise the original Greek text from the versions that do survive.' so you again was not trying to tell me the same thing. You were maintaining your dishonesty.
Looks like more of a reconstruction or a repair than anything else.
Claiming the bible to be 'a clear historical document' is you claiming otherwise.
So if your trying to say that the bible is not 100% in order, I agree, I never claimed otherwise
Cherry picking what you will answer now are you? Please address this point as you should have.
For many Christians the Bible is also infallible, in that it is incapable of error within matters of faith and practice. For example, that the Bible is free from error in spiritual but not necessarily in historic or scientific matters
Explain. Your cherry picked sections? If you mean the bibles cherry picked sections then you are in even bigger trouble with your claim.
Your making assumptions that the cherry picked sections are not in order. The fact is you don't know. So you cant win based on an assumption.
Do you have something that proves those sections to not be in order?
Who says I'm in denial? I'm in total agreeance with everything I have been directed to that offered proof. Now what I got from the links and what you make out of them are different, but that's not to say I deny them.
Even if we are to suspend reality for a second, how does intervention explain diversity without evolution.
Joking aside, the fact your in such denial about observable reality, and intrenched so deeply within fantasy, it's really not that funny.
I apologize for poking fun at your illness.