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originally posted by: AtomicKangaroo
a reply to: Barcs
Well like most churches/religions, there are different degrees of satanists.
I'll be amazed when a religion is formed where all the followers are in 100% agreement in the teachings.
originally posted by: TheTruthRocks
Q: Why are the faithful so bent on recruiting?
originally posted by: Dr1Akula
Countless martyrs? 1st century? What a bunch of ridiculous lies! The christian percecutions lasted roughly 12years all together! One in 250Ad that lasted 2.5 years and one in 303ad that lasted 9 years!
Church was hyperbolic making things much more dramatic than they actually where!
Talking about a ridiculous number of martyrs while most of them outside the percecutions where merely criminals that deserved a punishment!
They wrote their fake history as the wanted!
But they never mention the violent persecutions of Pagans, heretics and Jews that lasted for many many centuries and where the worst times humanity ever had, percecuting among others science freedom, free thinking, education and logic!
I can deny his historicity, but point is that you can't prove it....
Iconoclasts where also christians so how I am one? They were accusing those christians worshiping Icons made of wood of Christ Saints etc, as idol worshipers, and they were right since clearly your god says do not worship idols!
How you dare say I am not ''purposed on truth'' just because I refuse to believe same lies?
Lastly Jesus left no words!!! All we have are some gospels from anonymous writers claiming to have being copies of copies of copies what the supposed Apostles originally wrote who supposedly were the followers of a supposed Jewish messiah who they claim was called Jeshuah!!! (Jesus is Jeshuah translated in Greek and not his original name)
There is too much assumtion going on to say that this supposed Christ (also a greek epithet) left some words he said to us!
Plato used myths to teach values virtues and philosophical truths! many centuries before christ supposedly copied him using his parables!
I know this cave myth very well but you should put yourself to the ones living in their cave (blind belief of christianity) ignoring attacking and persecuting others who tell them about the true world that exists outside their dogma!
There is no christian philosophy only christian dogma.
Philosophy really means friend of wisdom (literally) but christianity banned philosophical schools and persecuted philosophers saying there is no greater wisdom to be found than that of their god!
So you do not seek wisdom starting from scratch which is the essence of philosophy , you already have a given truth (Bible) and you try to fit everything in it! So I just proved you that christianity is not a philosophy.
But it did ''steal'' Aristotle's and Plato's concepts of morality, which were already popular in the Hellenistic schools that those that wrote the gospels obviously had study to....
Mind you that the gospels are written in perfect Greek language! There are no Aramaic copies anywhere to be found.So how could the uneducated supposed apostles write in perfect Greek? And how did they already knew about popular Greek writers? Which is obvious to a scholar studding the way the gospels where written!
Lastly the only one provoking Slavery among humans is your god and christ, Babylonian wasn't that bad, all the slander and defamation Jews have written in their bible for them is obviously them being bitter and buthurt because they were their enemies.
You can call it Great truth only talking to someone who hasn't read the bible
What you call as great truth is just immorality, unethicality, violence, barbarism, incest, slaughters, intolerance, bigotry, provoking killing and violence, misogyny, ignorance, illogical supernatural claims, superstitious and every other negative attribute that is the bible, And yes there are much much much better Truths than this abomination!
originally posted by: cooperton
All the attributes you just described are the things people do falsely in the name of God. Jesus said turn the other cheek, so obviously anyone hell-bent on imperialist control is not practicing the Christian philosophy.
originally posted by: Dr1Akula
Jesus also said I didn't come to bring peace but a sword and turn sons against their fathers and daughters against their mothers, He said those that won't accept my word will face the wrath of my father.
So as you see those weren't ''things people did falsely in the name of God'' those people were merely following god's orders! They just did what the bible asked them to!
Also saying ''anyone hell-bent on imperialist control is not practicing the Christian philosophy'' for what the evil the christian Emperors did, is somewhat heretic since for the church accepts these slaughter Emperors as ''Saints'' because of the power and glory they give to church and because they killed and destroyed the pagan ''idol worshiping'', ''demonic'' world.
As for Jesus he agreed with everything said and done in the old testament
he said I did not came to abolish the law, and the prophets but to fulfill them , and he also accused some Jews for not following the old testament.
Children deserve discipline. I know there is a pervading ideology today that everyone deserves a trophy and there should be no consequences for action, but that is total rubbish. When cancer cells arise in the body they are destroyed if the body wishes to remain healthy.
originally posted by: coomba98
Why has no Christian responded to this:
originally posted by: syndicatesyn
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters..
This is the introduction verse. It is stating the creation overview. Do not mistake this as the first day of creation. The earth did not exist yet because it is formless. In other words, nonexistent. This verse is stating the condition before the beginning of creation.
Dictionary:
Formless adj.
: having no physical existence
There was no source of light yet, only darkness and void. This means no stars and no sun at all. It's practically infinitely sub-zero coldest of the coldest, total void of energy.
originally posted by: syndicatesyn
The verse also mentions "waters". Water is liquid. However, how can it be in the liquid state when there's no source of heat? It is also not water as in H20 as matter did not exist yet. So, what could it be? Perhaps, it is stating the characteristic or substance of the void as some sort of being fluid or liquid superfluid.
originally posted by: syndicatesyn
According to current scientific research:
"Are we living ‘underwater’? Researchers believe the universe might be a ‘liquid superfluid’
That’s a question scientists have yet to find an answer to, but a new theory suggests spacetime itself might be a ‘liquid superfluid’.
originally posted by: coomba98
Nope, your reading some scientists opinions.
God of the gaps if slowly getting smaller the more we learn about nature.
originally posted by: coomba98
a reply to: cooperton
Actually your dodging.
your using it incorrectly.
If you want to use the word theoretical, then please use it correctly as your using it incorrectly.
No God needed when science can lead us to better truths.