The bible alone mentiones 4 science-proven occurances and says jesus had a certain age while they happened, if you count that amount of years back, he was not born in the so called "year 0", as those facts give him a birth year of -8 or -4 or +4 or +8. So why believe one date in the book, when the very same person is said to be different ages at the same time?
Oy, this is just silly. The Bible doesn't give a date for Jesus' birth - in fact, the entire compendium is devoid of references to the calendar system we now use. (woops, ratcharmer covered this... need to read latest post!)
"god created earth and the sun 3 days later" The sun excisted way before the earth (or any other planet in this system) was more then a pile of gas and dust orbiting the star. So we are quite litterally the result of intergalactal waste being compressed by gravity, larger objects atracting smaller ones and thereby forming a planet.
Citation please? The concept of creating
ex nihilo kind of circumvents the problem of having a planet before its star, if you think about it for a couple seconds. Sort of like how the concept of a deity defies all scientific examination... as Dawkins would say, "isn't that just too easy?" Well, yes, but it's a concept we still have to take into account.
Every single religion, pictures their deities as being one of their tribe/a person from the area they live in, wearing clothes one of their tribesmen would. Asian tribes? the deity has asian characteristics, Central african? the god has brown skin. If there would be 1 god, he/she/it would have 1 appearance, and even if "it" had the ability to shapeshift, those "not local looking" shapes would have been represented in the religious texts.
I'm sorry, I'm just getting a mental image of some alien-looking thing showing up in the middle of Jerusalem and everyone freaking out. You'd either have social chaos or leave no room for faith... the Bible makes it pretty clear that Jesus wasn't showing up to force anyone's doctrinal hand. It puts him in the underground, and shows he wanted people to believe in him without needing obvious signs. He was somewhat reserved about his miracles, too, and even asked someone to keep it quiet once.
Yes i called god it, if it has to be neutral to both genders, it cant be either of them without being biased.
If a god exists, I doubt he/she/it is terribly concerned about being PC.
(transexual mutant? the rib is MALE when it gets cut out, yet becomes female after)
Nah, the clay was female, didn't you hear? So it was just returning to its original form.
Lets take a look at the suposedly 144.000 spots in heaven, if that number was true, it will be filled up fast, unless out of the billions of people that died in the past, only a very selected few would be allowed to enter.
As far as I know, Christians are kind of vague on that number, since there are a lot of questions about the passages it is found in. (Revelation as a whole is very enigmatic.)
(must have been fun for the 1st person to enter, existing totaly alone)
Yes, that was relevant.
What makes believers belief that they actually have a chance to get there? if the place is reserved for perfection, (and perfection is used as total absence of evil) then no one that ever killed an animal, no one that ever made a negative remark, no one that ever was angry or annoyed about anything, no one that ever thought about the things described before, would get a spot.
According to the Bible, that is exactly the reason for Jesus - a substitute to pay the penalty for the human race's misdeeds, past and future.
Resulting in a overly paranoid, humorless, emotionless shade of a human. Must be alot of fun to be ending up in heaven then!
- Paranoia is imperfection - it results from perceived threats, and presumably there wouldn't be any in heaven.
- Many people have claimed all humor relies on cutting down other people, but that's not the case - I, for one, enjoy word humor quite a bit, and that brand rarely involves cruelty.
- There are many emotions which are not negative. The Bible paints a picture of heaven which has those in heaven so enraptured by the presence of God that they would never think of doing anything evil.
The man (magically healed of the rib that has been cut out) proceeds to have sex with that transexual mutated rib. (Nice way to write in a book "go f.ck yourself" as he basically is having sex with his own rib)
Wow... I thought nothing on the internet would surprise me anymore... did he just call the alleged first woman a glorified sex doll?
They get 2 sons, the sons end up hating eachother and start to fight, one of them kills the other. Later on the surviving son manages to produce offspring. How can he have offspring? did he have sex with his mother? did his parrents get a daughter? either way it is incest.
That is an
old dispute - and the solution should be obvious if you know anything about the Bible. Laws and social stigma against incest are due to the genetic dilution that results from inbreeding, and the often-resulting birth defects. The Bible would of course have the first many generations of humans being somewhat genetically "pure" - having none of the predispositions to congenital defects and diseases that we have now. Incest would have been perfectly acceptable and healthy (and, as you point out, necessary) for a long time.
Ever wondered why jesus'symbol is a fish? Or why he suposedly fed loads of people with plenty of bread and 2 fish? Here is why: we are in the sun era of fishes (0-2150), sun eras are based on the time a certain nebula takes to orbit the sun. The bible itself states "when i return, it will be the end of this age (old version: era), and a man that brings water will come with me" Gues what the next solar era is? Aquarius.
Zeitgeist much? I like how your whole post is a stream-of-consciousness of random bits of discredited documentaries you've seen on PBS.
Zeitgeist didn't get much momentum for a reason. Also, can you give a reference on that Bible quote?
Furthermore, you cannot make a cell from just protein.
Yeah, ratcharmer, I laughed when I read that part too.
The 6000 years thing is not actually in the Bible anywhere, but was calculated by Bishop Ussher in 1648, and used both the Bible and dozens of other sources, such as the historical writings of King Nebuchadnezzar.
Actually I think it's supposed to be 10,000 years now. And that's not terribly far-fetched, especially when you take into account magnetic fields, sun shrinkage, and subterranean oil pressure - Science makes a pretty convincing argument for the idea that as recently as 20,000 years ago, life in any form couldn't exist on this planet. I can't find a reference for this right now, sorry.
