My BC Challenge

[TLK Valentine]

After all, I might end up like a lot of other people did:

Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." -- Socrates

Paul's sentiment was fitting for his Roman audience, even if it was already 500 years old.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Thanks for the QED.

Indeed -- it's always someone else's fault when the church screws up.

 

[AV1611VET]

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." -- Socrates

"We are the wisest animals on earth, for we know one thing, and that is that we were born that way." -- Stupid

 

[quatona]

Right.

As long as scientists have a church to blame, they'll persecute us to the ends of the earth.

It takes a lot to feel persecuted when the calendar that´s circled around your religious beliefs isn´t universally accepted.

I know one foreign lady who accepted Christ early in life.

Later, she was captured and tortured for her beliefs.

She said her captors beat her constantly while demanding she tell them how God created the earth out of nothing.

And there was me thinking they went so far as to demand her to recant the Gregorian Calendar.

 

[TLK Valentine]

"We are the wisest animals on earth, for we know one thing, and that is that we were born that way." -- Stupid

Got a point?

 

[Kylie]

And they did ... just for the educated to use against God.

We call that: diabolical plagiarism.

The educated today soak it up like a sponge.

So you've gone from saying God wrote it to saying people wrote it.

 

[Kylie]

I do.

Only they aren't "gods".

They are fallen angels.

Or maybe Ganesh is the real God and the Christian God is a fallen angel in the Hindu faith, ever think about that?

Of course not, because that's not what you want to believe.

I have a set of Boolean standards I use.

A set of heuristics.

Would you like to see it?

I've seen it. Your standards can take a hike. It's nothing more than a way for you to think you're being clever when you're still just picking and choosing what you want to believe.

 

[Kylie]

Neither.

It was Jesus Christ who did.

And all He had to do was show up.

When he was four, apparently...

 

[TLK Valentine]

It takes a lot to feel persecuted when the calendar that´s circled around your religious beliefs isn´t universally accepted.

Nobody said maintaining a persecution complex was easy.

 

[TLK Valentine]

When he was four, apparently...

Well, in all fairness, it's a long walk from Nazareth to Bethlehem... at least a week on a donkey.

I can't imagine how long it would take a baby to crawl...

 

[AV1611VET]

It takes a lot to feel persecuted when the calendar that´s circled around your religious beliefs isn´t universally accepted.

Be honest (or at least try):

Does it bug you that December 25 is red on a calendar?

 

[AV1611VET]

Got a point?

Ya ... but Paul beat me to it:

Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

 

[quatona]

Be honest (or at least try):

Does it bug you that December 25 is red on a calendar?

Yeah, I feel persecuted. Science should do something about that.

 

[AV1611VET]

So you've gone from saying God wrote it to saying people wrote it.

God is the Author of the Bible, and He gave that task to some 40 amanuenses.

The technical term is: verbal plenary inspiration.

 

[AV1611VET]

Or maybe Ganesh is the real God and the Christian God is a fallen angel in the Hindu faith,

Do you believe that?

If not, mind if I don't either?

... ever think about that?

Yes.

And so did legitimate Bible scholars.

They termed it: diabolical mimicry.

 

[AV1611VET]

When he was four, apparently...

That's the way educatees make it look, isn't it?

For some reason,* the earth had to go around the sun four more times before the year 1 showed up.

* I would guess it was to vindicate Herod, who had all the children from 2 years old and younger put to death.

 

[AV1611VET]

Be honest (or at least try):

Does it bug you that December 25 is red on a calendar?

Yeah, I feel persecuted. Science should do something about that.

Oh well ... you tried.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Words don't define reality; they describe it.

 

[Kylie]

God is the Author of the Bible, and He gave that task to some 40 amanuenses.

The technical term is: verbal plenary inspiration.

So he got other people to do the actual work, he just slapped his name on the front and took credit?

Oh, no, not even that, because the first five books are attributed to Moses, and the other books in the Bible to various other people, and - forgive me if I am wrong - NONE of those various other people were named God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Jesus, or anything else of the sort.

So God didn't write any of it, and he never even tried to take credit for it.

You can make up whatever term you want, but that's like some teenage girl claiming Edward Cullin wrote her Twilight fanfiction because she was thinking about him really hard when she wrote it.

 

[AV1611VET]

Words don't define reality; they describe it.

What do the words "Christ Jesus" describe to you?