I went on an enjoyable 3 week mission trip with YWAM in 1995. My cousin also was an assistant director at one of their campuses. The theology of the group is basically protestant non-denominational. Missionaries are required to raise their own support. It is scriptural for Christian missionaries to be paid. Many are supported by Churchs. If you are not a Christian then you should not feel obligated to send funds. They should still like you even if you don't send them money.
hooberus
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I need some info and advise
by sunshineToo indoes anyone know more about ywam (youth with a mission)?
i've checked their website.
they seemed to be some sort of christian group.
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Why is the Bible wrong?
by StinkyPantz inthis primarily goes out to other agnostics and athiests.
this week i got into two interesting conversations that i will admit that i was ill prepared for.
one was with a jw friend of mine who wanted to know why i thought jw's were wrong.
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hooberus
seedy, you also said that "during the last half of the 1st century BC to the first half of the 2nd century AD there were no less then 8 Jewish messiahs, actually I think 9 if you count the Jesus of the bible." Jesus stated that "many" false christs would arrive in Matthew chapter 24.
You also stated "The Christinaity that we see today is more or less a Paulien version." Most of the words of Jesus come from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; none of which were written by Paul. Also Acts, 1st, 2nd, Peter; 1st, 2nd, 3rd John; James, Jude, and Revelation were written by others than Paul. I hope to post some manuscript evidence soon as well as citations from Church fathers (some of whom lived during the first century) which show that these books not written by Paul, not only existed during the first century, but were quoted from as scripture by early writers.
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Why is the Bible wrong?
by StinkyPantz inthis primarily goes out to other agnostics and athiests.
this week i got into two interesting conversations that i will admit that i was ill prepared for.
one was with a jw friend of mine who wanted to know why i thought jw's were wrong.
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hooberus
- The accounts of the lives of these gods are very mythical, whereas the accounts given in the new Testament are written in the historical.
seedy, my earlier point on the historical issue was in regareds to the manner in which the NT is written vs. the way mythology is written. For example even those who don't believe in Genesis would have to agree that it is written in a historical manner, while for example the Gilgamesh story is written in a much more mythological perspective. This doesn't in itself proove that the NT accounts are true, but is does seem to diferentiate them from mythological accounts.
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Why is the Bible wrong?
by StinkyPantz inthis primarily goes out to other agnostics and athiests.
this week i got into two interesting conversations that i will admit that i was ill prepared for.
one was with a jw friend of mine who wanted to know why i thought jw's were wrong.
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hooberus
peacefulpete, while I may be recent to the study of "pagan origins" proposed for Christianity, I am not recent to the study of the formation of Christianity from Judiasm. The messianic concepts found in Christianity are clearly found in the Hebrew Old Testament as well as other Jewish writings. The New Testament clearly gives its source (by quoting approx. 300 times) as being the Old Testament. The concepts of Christianity such as a suffering messiah are so Jewish, that any pagan source is unnecessary. Since the continuation from the Hebrew Old Testament through the Septuigint as well as other Jewish writings between the Testaments is an unbroken messianic hope, and since this is a fact, any other proposed sources which are not mentioned in the NT should rightly be viewed skeptically.
This does not mean however that I will not look at he data though. So far It seems problematic to compare for example the death of "dionysus" by being "torn apart by the Titans, boiled and eaten, with only his heart remaining", to the death and resurrection of Christ. Also while Hellenism clearly influenced the culture of the Jews, the Jewish religion remained much more resistant. This can be especially seen in the attempted forced worship of "dionysus" (see 2 Maccabees 6:7) thrust upon the Jews during Hellenistic times which led to the Maccabean revolt ! Pious Jews with separatist beliefs similar to the Pharasees were the ones who supported this revolt against the attempted worship of this false god. Therefore it is very problematic to claim that Paul (a Pharasee) would incorporate elements of the myth of "dionysus" into the Jewish messianic hope.
I would agree that in the centuries after the New testament was written that some pagan ideas were incorporated into Christianity such as the December 25 date (mid fourth century). Other items of paganism also seemed to have made it into Roman Catholicism. But the basics for New Testament Christianity come clearly from the Old Testament as well as the eyewitness testimony of the disciples themselves 2 Peter 1:16-17.
Edited by - hooberus on 11 February 2003 17:9:39
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what bible is true?
by kls inas most of you know my hubby is in the jw.
cult and every morning he reads his daily text.i asked why he needed that daily dont you know how to conduct yourself from day to day?he goes on to say ..it's bible passages,i said why not read the bible..he say's this text breakes it down and makes the daily reading easier ,read it see for yourself.well i did just that i read passages in it and checked what it said to a bible.
hum o'k it matches his bible but this other bible my daughter gave me from her lutherin church it's different which one do i believe?when asking my hubby he said all bibles change some words so it's easier to understand but ,the new world translation, is the closest there is to the origional.my question what bible is right, what bible can i use to compare that he would see his is wrong.one that is non denominational that suits a certain religion.
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hooberus
Here are some of the differences in the lives of Budda and Jesus. Also while most of the accounts of the sayings of Jesus were written down within a relatively few years of his saying them, the accounts of Budda were transmitted orally and were written down centuries after his death. And many of the sayings of Budda may have been written much later. So could these have been interpolations from other sources? If so then some of the parallels with Jesus may not be genuine.
ttp://www.irr.org/yamauchi.html
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Why is the Bible wrong?
by StinkyPantz inthis primarily goes out to other agnostics and athiests.
this week i got into two interesting conversations that i will admit that i was ill prepared for.
one was with a jw friend of mine who wanted to know why i thought jw's were wrong.
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hooberus
While it is true that crosses and crusifixion predated Christianity the claim has been made by some that before Christ there were other religious figures who were crucified. The Pagan Origins site under "dionysus" depicts a carving of a human-like figure on a cross with the name "bakkus" and then states "This image was made two hunded years before Christians first pictured Christ on the cross."
Does anyone know if this caving contains an actual date?
If it doesn't contain an actual date then how was it dated and is this date generally accepted?
Also the cliam that the carving was made two hundred years before Christains first pictured Christ on the cross (if true) would not necessarily mean that the carving itself pre-dated the Chistian message of Christ crucified. It may only show that it pre-dated Christian pictures or carvings of this event. (The early Christians many of whom were jewish might have been opposed to images.)
In the sites description of the legend of dionysus, he dionysis "was torn apart by the Titans, boiled, and eaten. Only leaving his heart." This seems to be a very different manner of death than crucifixion and would make this carved image seem to be later than the original legend. Since the original story of dionysis gives a manner of death very different from crucifixon it makes one ask: From where did the followers of dionysis get the idea of him being crucified? Perhaps this was an interpolation from Christianity and not the other way around.
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Why is the Bible wrong?
by StinkyPantz inthis primarily goes out to other agnostics and athiests.
this week i got into two interesting conversations that i will admit that i was ill prepared for.
one was with a jw friend of mine who wanted to know why i thought jw's were wrong.
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Why is the Bible wrong?
by StinkyPantz inthis primarily goes out to other agnostics and athiests.
this week i got into two interesting conversations that i will admit that i was ill prepared for.
one was with a jw friend of mine who wanted to know why i thought jw's were wrong.
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hooberus
It has been alleged that New Testament Christianity actually came from pagan sources such as dionysus, osiris, mithras, attis, adonis, etc. an internet site was provided earlier. I have read some on this site. I have also gone to various encyclopedias and have read some of the mythic accounts of the lives of these proposed sources for Christianity. Here are some preliminary thoughts of mine.
- The accounts of the lives of these gods are very mythical, whereas the accounts given in the new Testament are written in the historical.
- A reading of the complete lives of these mythical characters (and not just certain parts) shows them to be as a whole very different from Jesus.
- While the accounts of these myths are as a whole very different from the accounts of Jesus, it is claimed by some that there are parallels which indicate that certain aspects of the life of Christ were borrowed from these pagan sources.
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Why is the Bible wrong?
by StinkyPantz inthis primarily goes out to other agnostics and athiests.
this week i got into two interesting conversations that i will admit that i was ill prepared for.
one was with a jw friend of mine who wanted to know why i thought jw's were wrong.
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hooberus
Old testament observations:
There are pre-biblical accounts which have certain parts which have certain very close parallels to some Old Testament accounts in Genesis. For example the Sumerian and Babylonian "Adam" and "Flood/Gilgamesh" accounts. These are described in Halley's Bible Handbook. These close similaries can be interpreted as providing strong eveidence that both they and the biblical accounts come from a common account. If the creation and flood accounts actually happened the way the Bible says then we would expect to find accounts such as these in very ancient tablets. This does not mean however that the Biblical account actually came from these pagan sources. God through the hand of Moses could have in later times revealed an inspired historical account of these events in order to convey the history of these things to men.
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Why is the Bible wrong?
by StinkyPantz inthis primarily goes out to other agnostics and athiests.
this week i got into two interesting conversations that i will admit that i was ill prepared for.
one was with a jw friend of mine who wanted to know why i thought jw's were wrong.
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hooberus
peacefulpete, I first intend to finish up with some basic obsevations and conclusions on the OT stuff before moving on to the NT. My conclusions I hope will be simple and straight forward. I realize that I am certainly not an expert on ancient texts and myths, but I still feel that I an able to read translations of ancient texts thenselves and come to some basic conclusions on how they affect the reliability of the OT and NT Bible texts.