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I'll ask you a second time:Were they into religion, ghosts, superstitions, poltergeists or things that went bump in the night? no.
They are both dead so they do not exist anymore, they are just as they were before they were born.
Well if you know this "magic man in the sky" so well, why are you an atheist?Yes I am stupid and ignorant about some things but not about a magic man in the sky.
Um...I was saved and learned about God from reading the bible at the
age of around 30. No one spoke to me about it. Who are these people
you speak of? I've also read the Koran and it was very unconvincing.
Had your parents been Muslims you would not have needed to read a Bible [it just would not have been there for you to read] because you would already have known the truth, you would now be saying that Allah is the one true God.
There's an elephant in front of you and you can't see it, better yet you don't see it because you don't want to see it.
If you ask evangelicals what the being in Gen 3 was, the most common answer you'll probably get is 'a Satan-possessed snake'.Satan was that serpent--he used it--the serpent was the most subtle BEAST--Satan was not a beast, he was an angel--fallen, but an angel. He has been an archangel--which is a covering cherub and they are not described as serpentine and there is no record of his shape being altered after he fell.The serpent was cursed to crawl on its belly--Satan was not limited to doing that. (He did take Christ to the highest pinnacle to show him the earthy kingdoms, kind of hard to do on your belly) And of course angels are shinning--and Satan is portrayed throughout the bible as possessing humans--you think animals are somehow beyond him? He is referred to as the serpent in Rev--which does not translate to him being one, or looking like one, but that he was that serpent in the garden--and by the way--just exactly of what great importance is this??
This year's academic conferences just ended in San Diego (ETS, SBL, etc.). There were probably about 1,000 papers presented. I read very few myself, but I follow some blogs of those that do. These things can easily be hundreds of pages long, and sold in bound books for hundreds of dollars.You mean to tell me that there are books dedicated to this one stupid little point?? I suppose knowing "the truth" about that one thing means ones salvation??! That the issue is of such importance that it has required scholars to spend their time researching this is something that escapes me.
No, for them there was no religion so there was no one around to call them atheists, I doubt the word was ever used.Were your parents atheists?
Had your parents been Muslims you would not have needed to read a Bible [it just would not have been there for you to read] because you would already have known the truth, you would now be saying that Allah is the one true God.
You are a creationist which tells us you have nothing at all, your brain has been virtually switch off..lobotomized to everything other than creationism.Apparently you think you have some sort of super powers of all seeing, all
knowing.
I was thinking about this, and realized that it must have been a literal snake, since all of snakekind was cursed to no longer have legs. If it was Satan in the form of a snake, why would God curse the entire species of snakes when it was not TRULY a snake?
I'm just not convinced that the ancient Jews would have understood the serpent in that story as anything other than one of God's animals. It refers to the snake as the "craftiest of all the Lord's creations" or something like this. I mean, especially since Satan in the OT is on God's Heavenly Council in the Book of Job.
Had your parents been Muslims you would not have needed to read a Bible [it just would not have been there for you to read] because you would already have known the truth, you would now be saying that Allah is the one true God.
Were your parents atheists?
Then your point can take a hike.
Then your point can take a hike.
Whatever it was your parents were, why aren't you the same, Mr. Exception?
It doesn't matter if satan is a title--it is his name also--the president is a title, but everyone knows that if someone says the president did this or said that, that they are talking about the president in the office now.
Dr is a title--but if there is only one around and people are calling him dr--they, and he, know who they are referring to. When a child screams "Mom!", she comes running. The captain of a ship will be called just "Captain" and everybody knows who they mean. And there is only one Satan==the one that used to be called Lucifer and he leader of the pack--there are many devils under him, many demons--but only one alpha demon and he directs all the evil.
There is no such thing as angels, fallen or not, who can mate with humans---What Jesus says trumps what ANYONE else says----
(Mar 12:25) For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
We will be as the angels in heaven--there is no sex in heaven--and if you think God is declaring sex outside of marriage to be sin, then will allow it in heaven where there is no marriage, you have no concept of the character of God. Anyone who claims the opposite of something that Jesus Himself has made perfectly clear, is not of God. Believing a man over Jesus will not lead to truth.
Everyone is born an atheist, if no religious person pollutes your mind you remain an atheist.
There were no religious people around me to pollute my mind so I remained an atheist.
What about that is so hard for you to understand?
You were not contaminated with Islam because there were no Muslims around to pollute your mind with Islam.
-snip- (There is no such thing as an atheist as you
can't prove your non-belief.)
Who polluted your parents' minds?Everyone is born an atheist, if no religious person pollutes your mind you remain an atheist.
No, that is not how it works. And what can and cannot be proven has nothing to do with it.
Learn the definitions, not hard.
Then your point can take a hike.
Whatever it was your parents were, why aren't you the same, Mr. Exception?
I know! Don't take the wind out of my sails!Yet another consel sock puppet. They all speak the same language and repeat the same fallacies.
No one, there was no one around to pollute their minds so they remained without Gods, try and understand this, without religion there are no atheists, THEY WERE NOT ATHEISTS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO RELIGION AROUND THEM.Who polluted your parents' minds?
Again they didn't because there was nothing to pollute me with just as there were no [metaphorical] stamps for me to collect.And having done so, how is it your parents couldn't pollute yours, Mr. Immune?
Some day everything will take a hike for both of us.Why don't we just simply this conversation and say your point can take a hike?
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