Mr Strawberry
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Just imagine how excited you'd be if the evidence was on your side. Unfortunately it isn't.
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Oh, so you're assuming distant authorship?
That doesn't work the other way around?
And here I thought you were hinting that Jesus' step-brothers wrote the Gospels!
Anya,
For someone who believes the authors of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were those of the same name and were not anonymous as the vast majority of scholars agree on, has obviously not taken any time to investigate the book you rely on so heavily. Your understanding of the book is based on dogma, not objective analysis.
I fully understand why many christians stay away from an objective analysis of the book, because of the realities they would have to face, or come up with a rational to ignore, as they do with certain scientific findings that contradict the bible.
I couldn't care less about evidence.Just imagine how excited you'd be if the evidence was on your side. Unfortunately it isn't.
... I don't need to believe there's a vial of it in the Smithsonian.My hope is built on nothing less,
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I never said that Mark, Luke, and John were written by Matthew. I said Matthew was probably written by Matthew.
What the heck is up with dogma? That's not a very polite word.
Like I also stated, I have not come even close to studying everything there is in the Bible, I admit. There is just an unbelievable amount of information that can be gathered from this Book. But I start again and I pursue it as fast as I can! No one in their lifetime can even get close to the treasures this book possess.
Sometimes what is more important is WHAT is written in each book. The books are put together for a reason.
Luke was a doctor and the book of Luke is wriiten from a doctors perspective, it focuses alot on Healing and diagnoses, read it to see what I mean.
Definition of omnipotent: can do anything. If you can't do something, then you aren't omnipotent, it is as simple as that. Therefore, if god cannot lie, then god isn't omnipotent, because there is something that god is incapable of doing, whereas an omnipotent being finds nothing impossible.
The wiki page about the new testament has a very brief but fair (in my opinion) overview of the authorship of the gospels. It's not very long so you might find it useful to skim through.
New Testament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You can't always trust wikipedia!!!
But do these cannots mean He is not omnipotentnot almighty? Not if we let Scripture define its own terms!
How is God Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient?
You can't always trust wikipedia!!!
But, making it up as you go along allows so much flexibility.
Yea sure, and what a coincidence, they have evidence to support what they claim!!!!
What a concept!
You mean their conclusions to the evidence. We all have the same evidence yet draw different conclusions from it.
You mean their conclusions to the evidence. We all have the same evidence yet draw different conclusions from it.
The Bible itself says that it is true.
Bingo, and therein lies your problem.
Prophecies claimed and fulfilled! All within the same book that's authorship is questionable which also claims, with circular reason, that it is true.
Just go ahead and claim what you know you have to claim in order to justify your cognitive dissonance: Faith
Because you know you can't prove us wrong with anything objective.
No, a god who can lie is not excluded, because he only has to fit Definition 1, God is omnipotent.
No there isn't. If you want to believe in the Christian God, you have to DEFY logic.
Your "better way to define God" is to ignore the logical contradictions about how he is defined.
In other words, you'll define God as loving, and caring, and just, and completely ignore the parts that are contradictory:
Like how can Jesus be both 100% man, and 100% god at the same time?
Or, how can God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit be only ONE god?
Or, how can Jesus, an eternal being, sacrifice his life? He's eternal.
Bingo, and therein lies your problem.
Prophecies claimed and fulfilled! All within the same book that's authorship is questionable which also claims, with circular reason, that it is true.
Just go ahead and claim what you know you have to claim in order to justify your cognitive dissonance: Faith
Because you know you can't prove us wrong with anything objective.
Sort of like your "faith" that life evolved from non-life? Sort of like your "faith" that mutations produce new genes, when 50+ years of mutational research proves otherwise? Sort of like your "faith" in transitional species, when all fossils are found to be in stasis?
http://www.weloennig.de/Loennig-Long-Version-of-Law-of-Recurrent-Variation.pdf
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