Religion Ask a Christian - Continued in Part 2
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The Bible is a church document to the aid in the teaching of Christs message by the church.
The church wasn't formed to aid in the teaching of the Bible.
So contextual understanding has been around since the first Christians. No cop out needed. In fact no Bible needed.
Whistling in the dark again. It’s OK to ask for help.
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lessons are driving y9ur machinations..
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The new testament is a church document.
The old testament is a group of books that have nothing to do with Christianity. Contextual understanding is key.
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You've reduced an argument concerning doctrinal differences between the old testament and the new to the task of getting the excess s**t off your arse. Perhaps it isn't me who needs to grow up.
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If he's claiming that the bible is s**t, I don't see how you can refute his argument.
It's Richmond supporter logic in all of it's glory.
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If god is the only true god why does he tell his brainwashed it is wrong to worship other gods?
This is one of the key questions in understanding the bible and the evolution of christian belief.
The original concept was that there was a hierarchy of gods or divine beings. These gods acted as a sort of council in the early part of the story, the creation until the flood, and are referred to in the plural form. At some point the heavenly council decide to divide humanity into 70 nations, with each nation getting its own patron god. It is mentioned in the bible that Yahweh's lot was a sons of Israel. Thus Yahweh was considered just one of a host of gods. This makes sense of the capricious, violent, jealous, vengeful, genocidal god of the Exodus and conquest.
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Just same old story repeated as it has for thousands of years...if I don’t understand something it must (a) god.
Lets take the eye .The first organisms with a modification resembling an eye lived around 550 million years ago. According to one scientist’s calculations, if they eye improved just 0.005 percent each generation, it would take 364,000 years from eyes to evolve from a patch of light sensitive cells to the complex eyes we have today. And in a geological timeframe, that’s just a blink of an eye.
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Ray Comfort...the same guy who thinks bananas are an atheists nightmare?
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Trilobytes?
They weren't modifications. They were fully functioning compound eyes similar to modern day insects.
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Organisation ABC's book is an organisation-ABC document to aid in the teaching of messages from organisation ABC's hero by organisation ABC.
Organisation ABC wasn't formed to aid teaching the book that organisation ABC produced. Trust me.
Contextual understanding has been around since the beginnings of organisation ABC. In fact, no book was needed because organisation ABC was already there to tell us how and what to think. The book is a supplementary teaching tool to give you the truth from organisation ABC.
Am I talking about Scientology or Christianity?
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Is your Ray Comfort video just creationist propaganda? I wouldn't waste my time watching fundie nonsense if I were claiming to be a truth-seeking agnostic like your good self.
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Yes
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I haven't watched the whole thing. I came across a snippet of it somewhere else and found it interesting. I then tracked down the full video and posted it here because I thought someone else might find it interesting. Have you watched any of it?
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This is a pseudoscientific film trying hard to be scientific but ends up proletyzing Christianity. It’s God of the Gaps: The Movie. And of course the alternative to not knowing everything is automatically Christianity. It raises three old and debunked arguments for God and tries to appeal to emotion (through music, imagery) instead of rationality.
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First I thought it could be Christianity but you gave it it way with the term ..trust me.. Christianity started 300 years before
said book so then there is no possibly that the organisation was formed to aid in teaching of the book and no need to “trust me “ as you put it.
Scientology started from something written so that’s probably out as well.
Is it .. I am a university ?
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I think it's funny that the channel hosting has 666 thousand subscribers.
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Actually the one on the left is one variety of wild banana from which some modern varieties are descended the other is Musa acuminate pictured below.
Sorry, what is the banana stuff in aid of here?
It's a reference to an infamous video of Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort proselytising that the banana was proof of the existence of god, it's hilarious footage.
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god is god to where we all congregate and match numbers and say hello and ride on the back of another..
can't say more than that..
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Well at least some of your response is pleasing
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