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I'll answer the rest of your points tomorrow.
To answer this one:
(i) The Bible.
(ii) It's different because when you assess this text objectively using the historical method to determine it's accuracy and authenticity, then it can be demonstrated to be a true and accurate text. Sir Frederic Kenyon who wrote the book "Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts " (see electronic version here Master frameset) was so convinced of the historical reality of the events described in the New Testament that he said"The interval then between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established.""
So my challenge remains:
(i) Demonstrate using evidence (rather than opinion), that The Bible is not historically accurate and therefore does not reflect a truthful and accurate historical record.
(ii) Demonstrate that any alternative belief system holds a more truthful and historical accurate of events described in an alternative text, which can be tested and attested objectively and can be shown to better corroborate with history than the Christian record in The Bible does.
My evidence is The Bible.
You can carry on claiming that I have supplied "no evidence" if you like - but there's nothing of any substance in this claim.
What you actually need to start doing is supplying evidence to support your counter argument (if you have one) which can seriously challenge the demonstrated historical accuracy of the Bible.
Actually it would seem that the arguments that it is valid have failed to find acceptance. Your already starting with the position that its valid which is not the scientific way to go about doing things ;pComprehensive rebuttal by:
Clarence W. MENDELL, Tacitus: The Man and his Work, Yale University Press/Oxford University Press (1957)
According to Mendell, neither John Wilson Ross (or any other writers) have won general acceptance of their estimates of Tacitus, the extreme positions have been abandoned, and the general integrity of Tacitus vindicated.
It would seem that the arguments for forgery have failed to find acceptance.
Including yours?(ii) Every religion makes the claim that their text is correct and historical.
one can be an Atheist and still be a Buddhist but you knew that, so i am not sure why you asked.Including yours?
What a capricious and tyrannical being. Thank God I'm an atheist
We can want whatever we like but we will not get it just because we imagined we can get it.The sane p[erson realizes that Survival is the primal Instionct and hence, he wants to live.
We can want whatever we like but we will not get it just because we imagined we can get it.
You wishing and hoping there's a God changes nothing but don't let that stop you if it makes you feel good.
I don't think I do, you believe there's a God therefore you believe in magic, if magic is reality for you then good luck.You misunderstand me apparently.
I don't think I do, you believe there's a God therefore you believe in magic, if magic is reality for you then good luck.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth = magic.How so?
I see nomagic in what the Bible tells uis, but merely things that ancient people could not explain.
Give me an example of some magic event.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth = magic.
God is Hate if you don't believe in the same God as me, God is the pity you feel for me if I don't love your God,God IS love.
I don't have to love him at all. Isn't that the whole point? We can choose?Yes he is.
But you HAVE to love him, because he is all we mortals have.
More or less. The question, then, is what is reality? What we can deduce with our senses? Or what a book tells us is there?He is Reality.
The sane p[erson realizes that Survival is the primal Instionct and hence, he wants to live.
This requires that he accept life as reality resents them, and adjusts his behavior accordingly.
So sayeth a thousand thousand religions. If I'm in a box, and you say I'm in a sinking ship and need to get in your lifeboat, and someone else says I'm in a downing plane and need to wear her parachute, my first question is: am I, in fact, in any danger at all? With all these religions screaming that we need saving and hell is just around the corner, I stare bemusedly back at them - where, sir, is the evidence for our urgent need for salvation?In this regard, he can thank Reality for having created man in a way that any man can model an image of Reality, and can see, if he will, the Facts of Life for what they are.
This light will help man avoid the errors that will bring suffering and early death.
Truth is the light of the world must must bow down to,
Only when you ignore the bible. When one reads the bible a very different view emerges. Gods killing babies left and right (or telling others to do so)God IS love.
(i) First Council of Nicea (enough said)
(ii) Every religion makes the claim that their text is correct and historical. Christianity is no different. You have a bias.
The bible is full of claims and you have yet to show that it is anything but that. sorry but special pleading doesn't count.
Actually it would seem that the arguments that it is valid have failed to find acceptance.
Your already starting with the position that its valid which is not the scientific way to go about doing things ;p
So sayeth a thousand thousand religions. If I'm in a box, and you say I'm in a sinking ship and need to get in your lifeboat, and someone else says I'm in a downing plane and need to wear her parachute, my first question is: am I, in fact, in any danger at all? With all these religions screaming that we need saving and hell is just around the corner, I stare bemusedly back at them - where, sir, is the evidence for our urgent need for salvation?
God is Hate if you don't believe in the same God as me, God is the pity you feel for me if I don't love your God,
your God will keep us apart if I'm an Atheist, your God will kill any love you feel for me and all because of my Atheism,
just because I don't believe as you do you will have nothing to do with me, how is that love? Gods separate people.
Gods are nothing but trouble for everyone, Gods are divisive, Gods break up families and destroy love.
Some love, some God.
Your God lives in your mind and distorts everything you think.
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