these bible stories are too silly to be true.
take off your rose colored glasses and you will begin to see some great imagination, exaggeration and great story telling!.
telling !.
Yet there is something unique about the Bible. This is the book that gave rise to over 43000 sects with each of them believing in the Bible yet is convinced that they are right whereas rest of the sects are false.
https://theway21stcentury.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/how-many-christian-denominations-worldwide/
last year i had a brother tell me that one proof evolution is false is that he doesn't see it happening today... i was going to bring of viruses evolving so fast that new vaccines must be developed each year but felt he was too closed minded to receive it.
today i was listening to the audio book of 'an ancestors tale- richard dawkins' and noted oe point that shined through.. here is evolution happening>>>.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html.
Cofty,
At the core of evolutionists and atheists is the hatred of irreligiousness and irrationality of religions. Typical example is modern day atheism High Priest Richard Dwakin's God Delusion. Book speaks more on religious irrationality than the process of evolution.
Many people like The Theory of Evolution because they too hate the irrational stories of religions and luxurious life-style of religious leaders even though theory cannot explain too great things such as origin of universe, origin of life, origin of consciousness ...
Sir Alfred Ayer, Howard Storm, Antony Flew were all once fundamaterialists. Once on their own, they left their blind belief on matter.
last year i had a brother tell me that one proof evolution is false is that he doesn't see it happening today... i was going to bring of viruses evolving so fast that new vaccines must be developed each year but felt he was too closed minded to receive it.
today i was listening to the audio book of 'an ancestors tale- richard dawkins' and noted oe point that shined through.. here is evolution happening>>>.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html.
Cofty,
I was just trying to direct attention to a related truth.
Theory of evolution came as an act of frustration because excesses of religions were too intolerable at that time. Darwin did not know that religions were really enemies of God—they were using God for their own luxurious life style. To attack the very basis of religions something had to be invented which resulted in The Theory of Evolution.
In other words, irreligiousness of all religions was the CAUSE, and expression of atheism through theory of evolution was the EFFECT. It means Cause and Effect principle is at work behind everything. Irreligiousness of religions was an evolution from true spirituality that existed when earth was paradise. This condition will not be permitted eternally. At the right time God would “renew” the system of things. (Mathew 19:28)
Shadow of the things to come has already started appearing even now. Have a look at what is happening at Russia's Seashore Safari Park and other places …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IvDImlML2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUg9E41ImzY
i said it was an act of frustration because Darwin knew that he could explain certain things through theory of evolution, very great things such as origin of universe, life, consciousness could not be explained.
these bible stories are too silly to be true.
take off your rose colored glasses and you will begin to see some great imagination, exaggeration and great story telling!.
telling !.
smiddy3, The writers thought resurrection would be a great proof for Messiahship hence they invented stories of people being resurrected, but they had no idea that the great genius Paul would come later and invent another doctrine that says one man's sin would make every one sinners and one man's death would make everyone righteous.
these bible stories are too silly to be true.
take off your rose colored glasses and you will begin to see some great imagination, exaggeration and great story telling!.
telling !.
Look at the wisdom of the writer of "Lord's prayer." (Mathew 6:9-13)
* Let God's name be sanctified (redundant, His name is inherently and always holy)
* Lead us not into temptation (something God would never do)
* Give us our daily food (this is like a fish in the ocean seeking water--we are flooded with provisions for life's enjoyment--all fruits, seeds, grain ... in thousands of varieties)
* Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. (teaching God how to behave Himself)
these bible stories are too silly to be true.
take off your rose colored glasses and you will begin to see some great imagination, exaggeration and great story telling!.
telling !.
Interestingly, Bible itself gives something that negates the rest of the things it says.
See what it says about how everyone would be judged. All nations—including atheists—would be judged according to humanitarian acts each one performed, not according to belief in any God. (Mathew 25:31-46)
In outlook and wisdom, Bible writers too are no different from Pope John Paul II who attributed his survival from assassin’s bullets to intervention by “Our Lady of Fatima.” See how he failed to wonder why “Our Lady of Fatima” didn't guide the assassin’s bullets to miss him altogether.
all of the names attributed to the almighty god are nothing more than the inventions and imaginations of imperfect human beings.. their are only four hebrew letters that are attributed to god in the hebrew scriptures known as the tetragrammaton usually translated as jhvh or more accurately yhwh .. their is no tetragrammaton or it`s equivalent in the christian greek scriptures which can easily be attested to by looking at the kingdom interlinear of the christian greek scriptures of the new testament published by the wtb&ts a word for word translation of the greek text.. anything other than that is an addition of imperfect humans to put a name to those letters and not one that the creator has endorsed or verified with his stamp of approval to this day.. the wtb&ts published "aid to bible understanding" in their first edition they said words to the effect that the name jehovah was the most commonly used in christendom/the world ,so that was the name they adopted.. { it had nothing to do with divine revelation or a voice from god or holy spirit it was because it was the most popular use of that name in christendom }.
Name Jehovah, associated with the myth of exodus, cannot be the real name. This is attested by the fact that Jesus profusely used the term “Father” instead of Jehovah.
If at all there is a name, it should stem from His most important act He regularly performs in large scale. According to Jesus, God “renews” the world whenever humans deplete/destroy the provisions for life’s enjoyment. (Mathew 19:28) Hence His name must do with this aspect—something like omnibenevolent which is hinted at throughout the Bible (Mark 10:18; Psalm 100:5; Psalm 145:17; 2 Peter 3:9 ….)
His love is unmistakably highlighted in Mathew 25:31-46 where it is shown that all nations—including atheists—are judged according to humanitarian acts each one performed, not according to belief in any God.
so these countries roughly constitute europe.. here's how well they did in 2017 vs 2016:.
2017 peak pubs.
2016 peak pubs.
Signs are that JWs are all set to crash-land with a great scream (contrast Isaiah 60:22). Organization is to be renamed as TITANIC II
how about .... the international brotherhood of stupidity.. the righteous zombies club .
If the name is to explain the character of the entity, then the best name would be:
Let-us-take-the-speck-out-of-your eye-when-we-have-plank-in-our-eye.org.
last year i had a brother tell me that one proof evolution is false is that he doesn't see it happening today... i was going to bring of viruses evolving so fast that new vaccines must be developed each year but felt he was too closed minded to receive it.
today i was listening to the audio book of 'an ancestors tale- richard dawkins' and noted oe point that shined through.. here is evolution happening>>>.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html.
The thread that runs through the details of Bible is evolution.
1) A nation believes that they are God’s chosen people and rest of the world is pagan. When the history unfolds, the so-called chosen people go under occupation by the so-called pagans. From this theological crisis, a new theology of a messiah (who would restore everything) is evolved.
2) When the Messiah did arrive, no restoration took place; rather Messiah himself was murdered. From this evolved another teaching that it was God’s will that Messiah should be murdered by sinners so that sinners can seek forgiveness on the basis of such a death.
3) Even about specific subject you can see such evolution. For example, resurrection of Jesus. Mark was written first, and he’s hardly got anything about the resurrection; Matthew comes next with little more information; and then toward the end of the century we get Luke and John, and then and only then do we find stories about Jesus eating broiled fish, cooking breakfast by the shore, inviting Thomas to touch him, and so on..And finally book of Acts saying about 40-day works of resurrected Jesus (See, just from one-verse resurrection from first gospel of Mark to 40 days post-resurrection works in Acts)
