Must be my Mandela-effect acting up again, .. I could swear you said "throw"??
Nope. I didn't edit my post at all (and even if I did, it would have been a few minutes after at most. Your response was nearly a day later).
You never know?
Have you ever picked up a book, read a few pages and put it aside, and years later picked it up again and wondered how come you never finished reading it seeing how good it was? I did, and one of those books was the Bible.
Hey, just a suggestion OK?
Then I would recommend you read
this book once a year. I mean, you never know when you will see it with new eyes.
In any case, the fact that people read it and believe it does not make it true. And quoting Bible verses (throwing them at me, if you prefer
) is not going to make me say, "Hmm, maybe I should read it again." And yes, I have read the Bible all the way through.
Is this Harry Potter book about proving wizards are real? Because the Bible is all about proving God is real. So yeah, why not?
Which part of the Bible is dedicated to the task of proving that God is real? Can you post the verses for me?
If you shown document in the pages of Spider-Man of a scientific experiment proving, or even a theory on how getting bit by a radioactive spider can give you superpowers, of course, I don't see why not?
The documentation of how Peter Parker got his powers is quite well known, and has been retold many times. It is remarkably consistent.
Did the above image convince you that getting bitten by a radioactive spider could give you super powers?
Because it has been proven to be correct for thousands of years, and millions of people, including me have verified every claim in there to be correct.
Except it contradicts both reality and even itself. There are also many claims in the Bible which are incorrect.
For example, the Bible says that Mary and Joseph returned to Bethlehem for a census or taxation (which strikes me as odd - I live in Sydney, but I was born in Vienna, and never have I had to return there for a census or to be taxed). This census was conducted by Quirinus:
Luke Chapter 2
2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2:2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
But the thing is that Matthew says that Jesus was born in the reign of King Herod:
Matthew Chapter 2
2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Unfortunately, King Herod DIED nearly a DECADE before Quirinus became governor!
So how can Jesus have been born at a time when Herod was king AND Quirinus was governor when the two events never happened at the same time?
OK, do you believe in the BB-Evolution claims as the answer to your existence? If you Do, can you quote the parts that convinced you that you evolved from a gorilla, and that now you are a happy evolving atheist ape?
This site does a much better job of it than I can.
Umm, .. are you going to hate me if I said "yes" ?? If you are, then no, since I don't want you to hate me, .. besides, it doesn't matter either way!?
No, I won't hate you.
I will, however, think that you have lead a very sheltered life, and if your life has been so sheltered, then maybe you ought to learn what evolution actually is before you start campaigning against it.
Umm, .. open your eyes to things you missed, your erroneous views of life, and best of all; "how we came to be" by helping you understand just who your loving Creator is!?
Again, do you think that I have had such a sheltered life that you are the first person ever who has done this?
Also, it's rather arrogant to think that your point of view is the only correct one and everyone else must be shown it.
I have helped a lot of people throughout my life in many different ways, but not one has ever called me arrogant.
Regardless of that, when you come up and start talking to me in a way that shows that you find works for you must also work for me BECAUSE it works for you, that is arrogant.
I mean, I am a Star Trek fan, but I know there are lots of people out there who really don't like it. Let's say I got one of those people, sat them down and told them I was going to show them Star Trek. "No," they'd say, "I've watched it, and I don't like it."
"Oh, but you're wrong, aren't you?" I'd reply. "Here, let me show you why you are wrong."
Wouldn't that make me a jerk? Of course it would.
And yet you are doing that sort of thing with your religious beliefs. You've decided that since they work for you, they must be the best thing ever, and you must share it with me, a poor little atheist. So you quote Bible verses at me and tell me how much you groove about God. And that's fine if you do. But if I wanted to be a part of that, I would have done it already. I don't want to be a part of it, and if you decide that you have any entitlement whatsoever to try to push it onto me, then that makes you arrogant.
I believed I could help you, but now you will have to ask me for it. If you don't, that's fine, only then, I would not "think" you're a fool, because I am old enough, experienced enough, and wise enough to know better.
I will have to ASK you for it? Oh no! Please, don't do that!
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Wow, this is exactly what I meant when I spoke of arrogance. You are now telling me that I will have to ask for something from you that I never wanted in the first place! You can keep it! I'm not interested in hearing about how warm and fuzzy it makes you feel, I'm not interested in your religion sales pitch or your proselytizing. And if that kind of thing is the best evidence that you can present for the existence of your god, then it's little better than those dubious testimonials you see on the infomercials at 3am.
