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Did I suggest it did? Methinks you're reading what you want to read into what I said.
What has its textual accuracy got to do with its interpretation?
You clearly don't understand what I was saying, do you?
Because the the Bile was written by ancient peoples with ancient ideas of reality... they didn't understand the simplest things we take for granted... like the world is not flat (so heaven is not up there someplace). Monotheism to the Hebrews meant believe and worship in only one God, not that there was only one God allowed to be worshiped. They really did believe that false gods were still gods so Satan becomes a possibility to them, demon possession becomes a possibility, witchcraft and magic... we know better now. We know God is not a man with fingers, eyes and a voice or a back side...
Sorry, I've never read the Bile. Kidding. Ancient ideas of reality? That doesn't mean a thing except that they were old and didn't have what we have, it doesn't mean they're wrong. Lack of understanding? Again, doesn't mean they were wrong. The Bible never claims the earth is flat. Heaven isn't up there?
It meant that there was one God that is worthy of worship, one God allowed to be worshiped and believed in without consequences. You contradicted yourself...
Know better? Where's the proof against it?
Yes, that's why Moses saw God's back and heard God's voice. That's why God's hand covered Moses when this happened.
The Hebrews didn't change their descriptions, or their understanding. They changed their amount of dedication to Him.
I would love to see where this bogus number (.002%) came from. Your reference (completely out of context of adding and taking away from is totally inappropriate (look at Mark 16 and everything added to the Bible in the New Testament). That expression refers specifically to Revelation. NOTHING ELSE.
Global flood? Sun stopped in the sky? Talking donkeys? Slay a thousand with the jaw bone of an ass? Women unclean during menstruation? Leprosy contagious? Demons possessing people?
You don't see the error, do you? Monotheism now means there is one God. You just stated there is only one God worthy or worship... implying there are other gods.... you are the one who contradicted yourself... along with the Hebrews. It isn't until the later prophets where they state there is only ONE God. Even in the Ten Commandments it is stated you shall have no other gods before me...
Ha ha ha ha ha! So God is a finite person with an ass and genitalia... I'll bet He isn't circumcised!!!!!! What was the rest of the universe doing doing this finite moment of God on Mt Sinai? Just hangin' around?
OY!
Evidence? Just because you disagree doesn't mean it's false.
No, I did not imply anything. You assumed.
You assume much.
Evidence?
Ten commandments.
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Eyewitness accounts, as recorded in the Bible.
Why post here if you're going to mock others' beliefs? Or make assumptions, yet again? Because I didn't claim God was finite.
I never said finite, I stated that He has physical attributes. Stop making unfounded assumptions. I hate repeating myself.
Textual evidence and reliability. Read Josh McDowell's Evidence That Demands A Verdict sometime.
What, have you never read Judges? Or 1/2 Kings 1/2 Chronicles?
So you're going to make accusations instead of arguments?
That's not an argument. He didn't stop talking. People stopped listening- God talks to me every day. But do you believe me when I- and others- say that?
The only 100% reliable guide, anyway. Anything else is subjective, and therefore not completely reliable.
Yet Jesus considers the words to be God's in Mark 10.
You ask me for sources, yet you give none when you try to refute it. Lee Strobel, Case For Christ. In reference to the entire Bible, not simply Revelation.
Hello? Physical features doesn't mean that God is always physical. Trinity?
They were. You don't know much about Bible history, do you? Histories were often passed down and passed around orally- with great detail in getting things right. And no, that doesn't mean they're unreliable.
Like I said before, why are you bothering to post if you're going to mock people's claims?
Trinity? I believe I've said that 3 times now, once in my last response.
Another claim without backing. Any more you'd like to share with us?
So is your writing/testimony on the level of the prophets because they wrote what God said to them?
You should probably study the trinity doctrines, then, because you got God talking to himselves (sic)...
Omnipresent, so no, not more than one 'person' in the same place at the same time, one person in different places at the same time.
So what they say isn't trustworthy? If I wrote down right now that I'm sitting in a classroom with a green backgrounded powerpoint presentation in front of me, it wouldn't be reliable simply because I said it and someone else wrote it, and didn't write it myself? That's what you're claiming.
You don't know much about the Hebrew culture. It was normal for them to care very much about what they were told and what they told other people, they cared very much about getting things right so they wouldn't displease God and for plenty of other reasons. Your last statement might be true today, but you cannot prove it has always been true. There are always those who want truth, regardless of the cost.
Jesus gave His disciples authority to cast out demons, raise the dead, heal the sick, and do plenty of other things. But He can't give people today that authority? Anyone who is indwelt by the Spirit has that authority. The only difference is, some people are very good liars and so their writing must be tested against the Bible.
I know the trinity doctrine, thank you. Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it isn't true. That's not how truth works.
The first and second is an unbacked claim. You don't know and cannot judge what I do or do not understand.
Practically every one except the first two. Or are you going to be just like the other ignorant debaters on this site and only listen to what you want to hear, and claim that it's not evidence (even though it comes from a perfectly legit source).
Can you provide the source in which you came to the conclusion that Satan was a god to the Hebrews?KCDAD said:
You seem pretty sure of yourself; care to provide the proof that they were wrong?KCDAD said:
There were other gods false gods objects and concepts that man made into gods. They werent really gods at all in the sense that God is a god.KCDAD said:
This argument would hold weight if the word God was first written in English but it was not. El in the plural form Elohim was how the one and only true god was referenced in the Old Testament. This is why translators translated the word into the English word God instead of Gods.KCDAD said:
