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Would it be right then to show a child rapist love rather than justice?
It was written over 2,000 years ago and spell out pretty well.
Science says otherwise.
But true.
I'd be finding out.
Again, it says that those who don't believe are condemned not those that are not baptized.
Ah, well there you are. Were you filled with the Holy Spirit? Interesting question.
Ok, how?
So do you hold other ancient writers to the same degree of doubt? Plato? Aristotle? Pliny the Elder? Do you question whether or not they were eyewitnesses to events they wrote about?
Ok.
Are you serious? Jesus was a Jew and His followers were Jews. Its not a matter of convenience, but of fact.
You have quite a problem with analogy.
1. People were present when He was crucified.
The church grew exponentially right after the crucifixion.
That wasn't really my point.
Do you understand history and historical documentation? I think not.
Thank you that tells me volumes of where you are coming from.
Justice without love is not real justice. The punishment must fit the crime and we must not be vengeful in our punishments. Eternal torment for any crime is unwarranted and the same punishment no matter what the crime is unjust.
How do you know it is true?
Photos of weather is your evidence? This is what you said:
This does not allow you to process any information that is against your position. It is bad epistemology.
More threats.
It implies both. It can be read either way and Christians interpret it differently. Why should it be confusing if God inspired it?
I believed I was just like you do I assume.
I believe that this maxim is first of all very subjective, who determines how extraordinary a claim maybe and how evidence is determined extraordinary to explain it. An example being for instance, life coming from non-living materials. This is an extraordinary claim, which would need in line with the maxim, to be extraordinary due to the fact only life we see arising comes from living materials. Another example would be intelligence, we only know of intelligence arising from intelligence...it is an extraordinary claim which according to the maxim would need extraordinary evidence. In both examples there isn't any extraordinary evidence for those claims, yet you have no problem believing both without it.
Would it not be most likely that if a movement (the Church) were to be growing and was considered a problem for Rome that those writers that wrote about it, would have been happy to claim that they were worshipping someone that didn't even exist? Why would they claim someone who didn't exist was crucified by Pontius Pilate?
Why would those that felt Christians were a problem ignore such a prominent element to the whole movement? And again, why claim He was killed by Pontius Pilate if He didn't exist?
Actually the accounts of the Bible have very few inconsistencies, and the material is very cohesive.
I am totally in awe of this. That is like saying why are Christians not following Jewish standards. We are not called Jews because we are not Jewish. Jews turned to Jesus as their Messiah, which was turning away from those who rejected Christ as their Messiah. We as the Christian Church are gentiles that are grafted into the line of Jews.
A proper analogy would be this: Your daughter got punished on Tuesday for not picking up her room, she got punished Friday for not following directions, she got punished the following Friday for another offense. When discussing with your husband who was say out of town for several months, you relay the instances of offenses of why your daughter was punished. You don't wait to punish her, you don't give a day to day report of her punishment but when listing all the offenses you do it when you are compiling all the events that were around that point.
Have you heard of inductive reasoning?
I wanted you to tell me what "evidence" could or would be used to determine this.
Do you understand that evidence to support my claims is wide range and as far as the historical components, they are confirmed.
It gives me insight into your worldview.
All sin is the same to God. WE are eternal beings, our destination is eternal. If you think you know more than God, if you think you are more moral than God, if you think you are more just than God, you will live an eternity without God. The act of receiving salvation is really very easy, so you can't really claim that it was too hard to do when you are facing God and He knows what has been done to show you He existed.
I see it happening.
Source?
I didn't say anything about the deaths. The war reference is to rumors of war...so many nations and the talk of war.
If you will notice here, you have the Antonine Plague in 165 the next plague is not for 376 years. Then the next plague after the Justinian is 805 years later, then we have 543 until the next one, now we see 21 years between, then eight, then 38, then 12. As you see they are closer together.
Pot kettle black.
I said I would be looking into it. If it were me and I did in fact.
I know this is what you believe, but you have not shown it is true. I know you are more moral than God because I know you would not send someone to hell for lying. Do you think I deserve eternal punishment for my wrongdoing?
It is easy if you believe without sufficient evidence.
These are the top 20 earthquakes measured. The Richter scale was introduced in 1935. If you look at the estimated Richter scales there were larger ones in history. This shows the deadliest on record was in 1556. List of historical earthquakes - Wikipedia
Which is not quantifiable.
Do you think these are the only pandemics in history? No, these are some of the worst ones.
So this is very important to discuss. This is not the case. Here is why.
