You can't stop the bible from projecting to the past or the future, or prove that God doesn't know them. To do so is not from a standpoint of evidence or knowledge, of course, just projecting your thoughts .
It's an inaccurate historical narrative. Give real life evidence of your assertion, please. Otherwise I'll go with the null hypothesis.
You just made the assertion. You claim it is wrong, where? Far as I know there was an Israel, and a captivity, and a destroyed temple, and etc etc. It doesn't get waved away cause you no likey.
How about the names of the months, dad? How about the days of the week? Do they scream out "Jesus" too? No. So, is the greek pantheon correct too? Where I live, we name the days of the week after the norse gods. Are they real as well?
No, they are still clouded with the stains of the present state nomenclatures. But to the informed, they are rife with real meaning despite the temporary labels. The calendar points to a year ), however, as the central point of time, from which all past and future is measured.
The Epic of Gilgamesh was written down between 2500 and 2000 BC. Written DOWN, dad. The narrative is probably much older. The earliest parts of the bible was first penned around 3500 years ago, 1000 to 500 years after the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Great, now evidence the dates, and how you think you get there. By the way, that happens to be right after the flood time or so. Maybe they are close!
If so, (and that remains for you to demonstrate) we have a group of people that had flood stories, and realization of lifespans many times what we now have, etc... As I say, the evidence mounts for a different past. The records of the bible, regardless of when the first known hard copy date, represent the records from Eden.So you are not going to prove in any way that God plagiarized from the pagans!
What was passed down was legends of local floods. Most of the world's population lives, and has always lived, close to major bodies of water. Floods are a given, and legends of floods are as well. What would have been significant was if they all correlated at the same time. They don't.
Many actually don't speak of local floods, though, even if some of that is in the mix. You can't dismiss it all cause you no likey.
Yes, and the Harry Potter books tell tales about trolls and wizards and muggles. Does that mean that they are all true as well? If you want to use the bible as evidence for anything, you must first prove that the things in the bible actually happened. You must do this by using independent corroborating evidence. You have not done so.
The Potter books are known fiction, and known works from this time. If one looked at them from the new heavens observation point, in the future, one might get clues to how this state used to be! For example, if someone died, or was sick, or fell down, etc etc. Story content aside, there are basic realities of the day, and laws, that a book works with.
No, what you SAID was that swines were cast before pearls. You can read it yourself. THAT doesn't make sense.
Yes the swines of fables of so called science, dirty little things they are. They are cast everywhere, school, TV, books, etc.
I have shown it, and you are trying to wave it away.
Despite visions of grandeur, you actually did nothing remotely similar. Science is a body of knowledge and study of how the universe is. In no way does that tell how it was, or is meant to. The ramblings of so callled science on alternate creation stories are merely present state scenarios, exptrapolated mentally, into the mystic unknown.
You mean the sacred record that was written down several hundred years after the "facts" it tries to relate? The sacred record that was edited by fallible men at the council of Nicea, were a lot of the original texts were removed, and what was kept was then claimed to be the word of God by fallible men? The sacred record that has been translated and retranslated time and time again? The sacred record that has so many possible interpretations that even the believers themselves argue about how to properly worship their God? Yes, truly it is insane to doubt that.
The book that comes at you six ways from Sunday, regardless of translation. The observer must know how to observe the spiritual, otherwise all they would see was a book, and the men that God used to slap it together. That ain't seeing much. Nor does it qualify them to comment intelligently on what went on. It merely stamps their opinion as severely sawed off, and pint sized, in the big picture. You don't know if God was behind the scenes, face it. If you claim you do, prove it.
You keep saying this, and I keep asking WHY. WHY would it work in the present.
Same reason the different state will work in the future. God set it up to work. get out of the endless fluke mentality.
Physical science came from people making theories about natural laws that were eternal and unchanging. If they aren't unchanging, the science falls apart. Was it pure luck that science got were it is today? No. You are simply wrong, but you're too arrogant to admit it, even to yourself.
It got where it got (on the verge of killing all life) in a few hundred years or so since it came to exist. Do you think anyone envisions some change in the universe in that time?? No. By the time they arrived on the scene, it was a present universe scene, and that is all they have seen.
Let me put it in terms you might understand.
Some science went to sea sea sea,
to see what it could see see see.
But all that it could see see see
is the present deep blue sea sea sea.
Elementary.
All you have is observations of men. Men that lived thousands of years ago. I have observations and research of men living today, using modern technology.
Thank you for admitting it is I that have the empirical evidence! Present observations are, class, what? Observing the present universe...good.
Dad, you have already lost this discussion. Your failure to provide evidence for ANY of your wild assertions is just getting sad. This debate is tantamount to me kicking the dying carcass that is your pet "theory".
No, more like an ant licking a lollipop, seeing a man walk by, about to step on it, and looking up defiantly. It isn't about the lollipop of this state. As sweet as you may think it is. Not the future, God, or creation.
The only way for you, who already admitted it is I that have the empirical evidences, can have any case at all, is to prove the universe we see was the creation state one. Nothing else can help, and you can't do it. You appeal to us to accept it on faith. Not to question it. It just had to be real, because...golly gee, it is real now, what else could ever be?
No, you went insane and it all came together in your noggin, is more likely.
The evidence of that would be you growing a case, and being able to present it. Also, your record is bad here. Claiming things that are shown to be lies. You claimed, for example, that the prophesies of the bible were mostly fulfilled. That shows an ignorance on a basic level. Maybe you better look into stuff, before claiming stuff. And admit you do not know stuff, when you don't.
As much as I laugh at creationist claims, even theirs isn't as full of ludicrous assertions and contradictions as yours. So, no, I wouldn't compare them. Creationists normally butcher science but have fairly decent theology. You butcher both like a madman. Your's is blasphemy of the highest order. The first commandment is completely humiliated in your theories, as it is all based on insane bible-worshipping. Let me tell you this, dad: The bible isn't God. You are supposed to worship him. Not the book.
Another mad as a hatter claim. Show us your bible case, that I have wrong then! Strut your stuff. We're all ears. And also solidly evidence that the unniverse was in this state at creation. Otherwise, as is apparent, you actually have neither a bible case, nor a science case.
So, he took a guess based on how they were seated? This isn't exactly a smoking gun, dad.
Sitting round a table, if they all were sitting, does not tell you who will dip bread with you next. Guesses don't usually turn out right. Look at lottery tickets.
I gave you a list of 207 of them. I'm pretty sure there are more. Start a new thread and I'll talk about it there.
I defeated the first one. If that can't stand, you may as well consider it's friends all ran away for cover.
As I said, there are no absolute truths. Everything has the chance of being wrong. Even me. The chance of me being wrong about this particular issue, though, is almost zero.
I see. So you are as close to absolute truth as it gets. Interesting.
Quote the passage that gives evidence of your assertion. Evidence, dad. Also, I don't think heaven is insane. I think you are.
I just gave you a few short chaps. In there we have Jesus on a flying horse, the New heavens, etc etc.
Yes, exactly. Science is about natural phenomena.
Except where it serves your godless purpose, and you wave reality away at a drop of a hat. Such as pre singularity.
What you are doing is trying to use science to support your wild ideas. If science isn't needed, what place is there for a "different state past"? Just say "goddidit" like all the other creationists, and there wouldn't be a problem. Instead, you invent this whole fairy tale about things being "different" in the past, without saying how things were different, why it stopped being different or when it's going to be different again.
It changed after the flood, far as I can tell. The differences are many and varied, the close spiritual, different life processes, atomic realities, laws, light, and etc.
It also takes a lot of physical violence to my frontal lobes, or a life time of indoctrination. I would rather not have either of those. [//quote]
Your mental agony is noted.
No no, I agree that the bible stories and creation are impossible. The problem is, I'm not insane, so I realise that this means that those stories aren't meant to be taken literally.
So your definition of sanity is to doubt God for no reason. OK. If the universe of the future is different, and new heavens is possible. You don't know. Admit it.
Where is death defined as such? Is it in the bible?
That is a big topic. If the poost were not so long, we coulld look at that.
Ah, so the devil speaks through me, right? The only one possibly with more than one personality here is you, dad.
The serpent led to Eve, and the message was the same as I outlined, as what you brought up. Sorry if that is news. I wouldn't take it personal. though. It is what is behind so called science.
No, it's a list of failed biblical prophecies.
I see, mostly unfulfilled too, as you said. Thanks for showing your stuff.