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Originally posted by Spacespider
Religious texts is as much proof as Lord of the rings really happened
The movie is proof
Originally posted by benrl
I didnt know they found helms deep or the shire...
Originally posted by Spacespider
Religious texts is as much proof as Lord of the rings really happened
The movie is proof
Originally posted by ProfessorChaos
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Hmm, while I am a Christian and fully believe that we were created, what you are postulating here requires faith, not youtube.
Either way, good luck with the hornets nest you're poking.
Originally posted by rival
Proof is greater than compelling evidence...
And the evidence presented isn't actually that compelling. The bible has been translated, abridged,
and interpreted (with bias) thru each translation. Counting the number of words of a translated
text only proves that the translator (perhaps) engineered the wording to set a specific set of numerical
criteria, Unless you also want to claim that God instructed/guided the translation...
This is the problem with ALL OF the alleged bible coding evidence. It does not investigate the original text,
but rather, the King James hand-picked conglomeration of biblical texts, post-translation.
Faith is faith...fact is fact
reply to post by benrl
But they have found a surprising number of locations and evidence of the people that exisited in the bible, not bad for a book of "FICTION".
You don't get all of Pi. You get it to four decimal places.
Observe that 3.141554509... underestimates Pi (3.141592654)... by a mere 0.0012%.
The Bible states that we are INSIDE an image and that we ARE the image of the Creator.
Genesis 1
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Originally posted by ProfessorChaos
reply to post by EnochWasRight
What seems simple to someone who already believes isn't so simple to someone who lacks faith.
To put it plainly, even as a believer, your explanation falls drastically short of proving anything more than the fact that your posts tend to be extremely verbose and loaded with information gleaned from youtube lectures.
Dive deep and open wide.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Originally posted by ProfessorChaos
reply to post by EnochWasRight
What seems simple to someone who already believes isn't so simple to someone who lacks faith.
To put it plainly, even as a believer, your explanation falls drastically short of proving anything more than the fact that your posts tend to be extremely verbose and loaded with information gleaned from youtube lectures.
There are 3 hours of podcasts linked to this thread. You have not listened to them. Again, Ad Hominem is not evidence against the OP. It is simple bias and incredulity.
Dive deep and open wide. The truth is found in the links I provided.
"Be not arrogant because of that which you know; deal with the ignorant as with the learned; for the barriers of art are not closed, no artist being in possession of the perfection to which he should aspire. But good words are more difficult to find than the emerald, for it is by slaves that that is discovered among the rocks of pegmatite."
You may confuse my zeal for arrogance. This is not the case. Time is running out and we are at the event horizon of profound change. My zeal is fueled by the nature of our day and age. The emerald mentioned by PathHotep is something that you must dig for. Even if you dig and find pegmatite, you still need to crack it open. Better get busy, the mine will be caving in soon.
edit on 24-8-2013 by EnochWasRight because: (no reason given)
At each point that we (human intellect) find something we think is 100% true, there are always loopholes out of that truth.
If we could demonstrate fact to the last decimal place, faith would be nullified.