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I'm just providing feedback on how you can acquire and retain more viewers. The 2 main things you can do to improve your viewership are:
  • Have a more energetic delivery of your content.
That might be perceived as fanaticism. I prefer the doctor giving a diagnosis approach.

  • Keep it concise - 3-5 minutes is a good length for a lecture. This may mean re-structuring your content into multiple tightly focused videos on different topics, but that's a good thing.

Fair enough. I figure that the knowledge of why science really was wrong and how deserved a few extra minutes.
 
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And though I really don't want to bring it up again how about terribly failed prophesies.

The Tyre prophecy is debunked with a simple map.

Having had the experience of sitting through post after boring vacuous post where you tried to reinvent the prophesy wheel, and make God look dumb, I can save lurkers time. Here is the bottom line and truth of the matter. God was totally and wonderfully right, and Subductionzone was tragically and totally wrong.
 
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Having had the experience of sitting through post after boring vacuous post where you tried to reinvent the prophesy wheel, and make God look dumb, I can save lurkers time. Here is the bottom line and truth of the matter. God was totally and wonderfully right, and Subductionzone was tragically and totally wrong.

LOL, oh you could not be more wrong.

I did no such thing. I am the one trying to save what little is left of Biblical prophesy. Nor am I trying to make God look dumb. You are once again conflating a book full of errors with God. If anyone is trying to make God look dumb it is you.

Luckily for God you are not succeeding.

And for the lurkers here dad was tragically wrong and he is still worshiping the false idol of the Bible.

Tyre is still alive and well.
 
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"Indeed, in a 2010 BBC interview, he stated that he was 'still a Marxist'.[9].."


Christopher Hitchens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So what does that make him, a godless Marxist?

Perhaps, and so what? Jesus would have been considered a Marxist today too. Look at how he said that personal riches should be treated. Hitch made that comment because of his support for the Iraq war was causing other lefties to call him a Neocon. He was not a conservative, he was a man who did not tie right and wrong to political parties. He believed that Iraq was a serious threat to the world and did not let his political differences with Bush to taint his view of that threat.

Htchens was one thing that creationists cannot seem to get a handle on. He was honest.
 
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Here is a simple one that the gospels disagree about:

What day was Jesus crucified? Was it the day of the Passover as Matthew, Mark, and Luke claim or the day before as John claims?


Contradictions Part 8: The Crucifixion | Finding Truth


Please no apologetics sites. Or sites that are designed to lie for Jesus.

Therefore, Passover (Nisan "Aviv" 14 ) was on Thursday, that year, the Feast of Unleavened Bread began on Friday (seven day feast last to Nisan "Aviv" 21), and the regular weekday Sabbath was on Saturday. Â Â Â Jesus was crucified in the morning on Wednesday and placed in the tomb before 6 P.M. He arose from the grave sometime after 6 P.M. on Saturday, which would be early Sunday morning, the first day of the week, according to Jewish time-keeping. Â This explanation fits Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 12:40 that He would be "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?


The answer lies with the Jews celebrating more than one Sabbath, or Passover. There were two Sabbaths at the time of Jesus's crucifiction.

SO, He was crucified on Wednesday. John uses another form of time keeping where the sixth hour is in the morning around 6 am. He says..early in the morning, the prepared for Jesus crucifiction and around 9 am he was crucified.

NO CONTRADICTION


Depending on the website; they don't lie about Jesus. SAB website does.

Get it people, there are no contradictions. The Bible solves the problem within itself, you just have to dig deeper.
 
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Therefore, Passover (Nisan "Aviv" 14 ) was on Thursday, that year, the Feast of Unleavened Bread began on Friday (seven day feast last to Nisan "Aviv" 21), and the regular weekday Sabbath was on Saturday. Â Â Â Jesus was crucified in the morning on Wednesday and placed in the tomb before 6 P.M. He arose from the grave sometime after 6 P.M. on Saturday, which would be early Sunday morning, the first day of the week, according to Jewish time-keeping. Â This explanation fits Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 12:40 that He would be "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?


The answer lies with the Jews celebrating more than one Sabbath, or Passover. There were two Sabbaths at the time of Jesus's crucifiction.

SO, He was crucified on Wednesday. John uses another form of time keeping where the sixth hour is in the morning around 6 am. He says..early in the morning, the prepared for Jesus crucifiction and around 9 am he was crucified.

NO CONTRADICTION


Depending on the website; they don't lie about Jesus. SAB website does.

Get it people, there are no contradictions. The Bible solves the problem within itself, you just have to dig deeper.

And dig and dig and dig........if you dig deeply enough you can 'prove' anything Anya....
 
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Therefore, Passover (Nisan "Aviv" 14 ) was on Thursday, that year, the Feast of Unleavened Bread began on Friday (seven day feast last to Nisan "Aviv" 21), and the regular weekday Sabbath was on Saturday. Â Â Â Jesus was crucified in the morning on Wednesday and placed in the tomb before 6 P.M. He arose from the grave sometime after 6 P.M. on Saturday, which would be early Sunday morning, the first day of the week, according to Jewish time-keeping. Â This explanation fits Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 12:40 that He would be "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?


The answer lies with the Jews celebrating more than one Sabbath, or Passover. There were two Sabbaths at the time of Jesus's crucifiction.

SO, He was crucified on Wednesday. John uses another form of time keeping where the sixth hour is in the morning around 6 am. He says..early in the morning, the prepared for Jesus crucifiction and around 9 am he was crucified.

NO CONTRADICTION


Depending on the website; they don't lie about Jesus. SAB website does.

Get it people, there are no contradictions. The Bible solves the problem within itself, you just have to dig deeper.

Ummm....two Passovers...?? I don't think so.....

Besides which, you aren't answering the contradiction.....Matthew, Mark and Luke claim Jesus was executed on the day of Passover.....John claims it was the day before. Your 'answer' doesn't solve the contradiction.....
 
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Ummm....two Passovers...?? I don't think so.....

Besides which, you aren't answering the contradiction.....Matthew, Mark and Luke claim Jesus was executed on the day of Passover.....John claims it was the day before. Your 'answer' doesn't solve the contradiction.....

Ummm, two Passovers?? I think so!

I answered the question. There is no contradiction. Do you know Jewish Holidays and célébrations? I don't think so because you think they don't believe in their célébrations! How would you know they don't have 2 kinds of Passovers? Hmm?

I can assure you that they did.
 
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Ummm....two Passovers...?? I don't think so.....

Besides which, you aren't answering the contradiction.....Matthew, Mark and Luke claim Jesus was executed on the day of Passover.....John claims it was the day before. Your 'answer' doesn't solve the contradiction.....

HOW COULD WEDNESDAY BE THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH? Â

  If Jesus was crucified the day before the Sabbath, (Nisan 14 or "Erev Pasach" how could He have been crucified on Wednesday?   The answer lies in the fact that the Jews celebrated more Sabbaths than just the weekly Sabbath. They had a number of feast days that were "High Sabbaths," or high days. Jesus arose on the first day of the week after the Sabbaths* (plural). Sometime after 6 p.m. Saturday, end of the Jewish day, in Matthew 28:1 we read;  "In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."

The day after the crucifixion was not the regular (Saturday) Sabbath but a Special ("High" - Greek, "megas", large) Â Sabbath. Â Â

John 19:31 states, Â "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away." Â

Note the John states this was not the regular Sabbath, but it as a "high day." The Jews observed several "high" Sabbaths ("holy convocation" Exodus 12:15) in their seasons. These holy convocations did not always fall on Saturday.

This is the only view that fits the biblical account is that Jesus was crucified on Wednesday and buried before 6:00 PM that day. Â Â Â The Jewish day began at 6:00 PM which was the Passover (Nisan "Aviv" 14). Â Therefore the Passover began on Wednesday after 6:00 PM which would actually be Thursday in the Julian calendar. Â Â Â The women brought the spices on Friday, rested on Saturday and went on Sunday morning after 6:00 AM and found the Lord was resurrected. Â Â Â This is the series of events and is accord with Jesus' states of Matthew 12:38-40. Â Â Â Jesus was in the grave three full days and three nights. Â Â Any other view violates the biblical account and the historical facts.
WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?

He died on the Passover, but before it actually started (6 pm).
 
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Ummm, two Passovers?? I think so!

I answered the question. There is no contradiction. Do you know Jewish Holidays and célébrations? I don't think so because you think they don't believe in their célébrations! How would you know they don't have 2 kinds of Passovers? Hmm?

I can assure you that they did.

Whether they believe in them or not doesn't solve your chronological problems. You have one report stating that an event takes place on a particular day, while 3 others say it was the day after....either the one is wrong, the 3 are wrong, or you live with a contradiction...but why should that surprise..?

The thing is full of 'em.......despite the gymnastics you guys perform in an attempt to cover them up....
 
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Whether they believe in them or not doesn't solve your chronological problems. You have one report stating that an event takes place on a particular day, while 3 others say it was the day after....either the one is wrong, the 3 are wrong, or you live with a contradiction...but why should that surprise..?

The thing is full of 'em.......despite the gymnastics you guys perform in an attempt to cover them up....

This is why "apologetics" is a very disgusting practice. It assumes that the Bible is correct and then they look for explanations to cover the errors of the Bible.

Here is another one for you. Or several. Though our Christian Bible has been retranslated to match the error that Luke's book has the passage in Isaiah did not say the messiah would be born of a virgin, it says he would be born of a young maiden. Of course that is hardly a "prophesy" at all. So I will let that one slide. Back to the clear errors of Luke.

No poll at that time required people to return to the land of their birth. In fact it would be hard to find such a poll ever. Strike one.

Romans kept very good records of polls. There was no such poll at the time of Jesus' birth. Strike two.

There is no record of a slaughter to innocent children by Herod. In fact the only reasonable census was in the year 6 AD. It still did not require a trip to one's homeland. And it gives us another problem, Herod was dead by then. Strike three! You're out.

Seriously the important part of Christianity is the message it carries. Not the various myths that have grown up to support it. You should not need the myths to support the message. If the message is true it does not need the myth to support it.
 
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Ummm, two Passovers?? I think so!

I answered the question. There is no contradiction. Do you know Jewish Holidays and célébrations? I don't think so because you think they don't believe in their célébrations! How would you know they don't have 2 kinds of Passovers? Hmm?

I can assure you that they did.

Your assurances mean nothing without evidence. Kindly present some.
 
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Whether they believe in them or not doesn't solve your chronological problems. You have one report stating that an event takes place on a particular day, while 3 others say it was the day after....either the one is wrong, the 3 are wrong, or you live with a contradiction...but why should that surprise..?

The thing is full of 'em.......despite the gymnastics you guys perform in an attempt to cover them up....

What? Are you sure you know what you are talking about?

Jews not only believe in their Passovers, but they participate in them! What does that have to do with solving the problem? The problem is solved! Gees.

If you can't understand what the links explained and what I explained, then I am sorry for you. I answered the question, there is no contradiction at all. All reports say he died on the same day, and that is wednesday.

I DON'T LIVE WITH ANY CONTRADICTIONS. THE BIBLE IS NOT CONTRADICTORY. It is INNERRANT and AUTHORITATIVE.

I guess it's a surprise to you that the Bible is correct and others are not! Seems a little complicated to swallow.

I don't perform any gymnastics, just get over yourself please. Just accept the fact that people who study the Bible enough know without any doubt that it is not contradictory.

Why are you trying to prove the Bible to be so false and so contradictory? You will get no where with it, I'm sorry. The Bible stands firm and with resolve, you will not be able to tear it down. People have tried and failed.
 
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Your assurances mean nothing without evidence. Kindly present some.

Ok, I have but will do so again:

The Feast of the Passover (a high Sabbath) and the  Feast of the Unleavened Bread (another high Sabbath) were celebrated on April 14th and 15th respectively. Sunset initiated the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Nisan 15 was a "high day", a non Saturday Sabbath.
WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?

Ok to make things clearer:
1. There is the Feast of the Passover: April 14th
2. There is the Feast of Unleavened Bread: April 15th
3. April 15th was a NON Saturday Passover
4. Regular weekday Passover is on Saturday.

5. April 14th was a Thursday Passover, the day Jesus was crucified was PREPARATION DAY (Wednesday) for this Passover
6. April 15th was a Friday Passover (Unleavened Bread)

7. Jesus was crucified in the morning on Wednesday and placed in the tomb before 6 P.M. He arose from the grave sometime after 6 P.M. on Saturday, which would be early Sunday morning, the first day of the week, according to Jewish time-keeping.

WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?
 
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Ok, I have but will do so again:

The Feast of the Passover (a high Sabbath) and the  Feast of the Unleavened Bread (another high Sabbath) were celebrated on April 14th and 15th respectively. Sunset initiated the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Nisan 15 was a "high day", a non Saturday Sabbath.
WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?

Ok to make things clearer:
1. There is the Feast of the Passover: April 14th
2. There is the Feast of Unleavened Bread: April 15th
3. April 15th was a NON Saturday Passover
4. Regular weekday Passover is on Saturday.

5. April 14th was a Thursday Passover, the day Jesus was crucified was PREPARATION DAY (Wednesday) for this Passover
6. April 15th was a Friday Passover (Unleavened Bread)

7. Jesus was crucified in the morning on Wednesday and placed in the tomb before 6 P.M. He arose from the grave sometime after 6 P.M. on Saturday, which would be early Sunday morning, the first day of the week, according to Jewish time-keeping.

WHAT DAY WAS CHRIST CRUCIFIED?

I had no idea that the Ancient Hebrews used a modern calendar... oh, wait...
 
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This is why "apologetics" is a very disgusting practice. It assumes that the Bible is correct and then they look for explanations to cover the errors of the Bible.

Here is another one for you. Or several. Though our Christian Bible has been retranslated to match the error that Luke's book has the passage in Isaiah did not say the messiah would be born of a virgin, it says he would be born of a young maiden. Of course that is hardly a "prophesy" at all. So I will let that one slide. Back to the clear errors of Luke.

No poll at that time required people to return to the land of their birth. In fact it would be hard to find such a poll ever. Strike one.

Romans kept very good records of polls. There was no such poll at the time of Jesus' birth. Strike two.

There is no record of a slaughter to innocent children by Herod. In fact the only reasonable census was in the year 6 AD. It still did not require a trip to one's homeland. And it gives us another problem, Herod was dead by then. Strike three! You're out.

Seriously the important part of Christianity is the message it carries. Not the various myths that have grown up to support it. You should not need the myths to support the message. If the message is true it does not need the myth to support it.

Can you please give Bible verses to what you are describing?

It's not myth. It is the Message. It's a plan that has a beginning, a middle, and an end which has not come yet.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.



Lexicon :: Strong's H5959 - `almah
עַלְמָה
Transliteration `almah
Pronunciation al·mä' (Key)
Part of Speech feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From עֶלֶם (H5958)

Outline of Biblical Usage


I.virgin, young woman

A.of marriageable age


B.maid or newly married

"There is no instance where it can be proved that 'almâ designates a young woman who is not a virgin. The fact of virginity is obvious in Gen 24:43 where 'almâ is used of one who was being sought as a bride for Isaac." (R. Laird Harris, et al. Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, p. 672.)
Hebrew Lexicon :: H5959 (KJV)

Where is the problem? Almah is a Virgin...
 
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