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The defenders of the faith so far are at a level that I honestly would feel is elementary brainwashed Christianity, and worthy of no replies. I am honestly snickering at everyone of them so far. I will keep re-visiting for signs of intelligence though.
How do you give someone a star?
reply to post by pplrnuts
I will keep re-visiting for signs of intelligence though.
John 2:23 Chapter 12
Oh! The thumb...it hurts so much. Oh! Will I never finish my autobiography?
I just stared your post.
Because you are clearly a graduate from a seminary or other in-depth religious studies.
The people in control decide what "truth" is.
Originally posted by pplrnuts
The lack of links and sources was an intention of mine to keep away from a thread of bickering the validity, or bias of authors, scholars, researchers, etc. It was intended for the topic to stay on the subject matter. Its another remedial aspect that I would assume anyone involving themselves of such a question would already know.
I can honestly say that the counter argument and views from the defenders of the christian cult are accurately of an elementary level thus far. Perhaps I would have been wiser to have posted on a more advanced forum of theology elsewhere. The defenders of the faith so far are at a level that I honestly would feel is elementary brainwashed Christianity, and worthy of no replies. I am honestly snickering at everyone of them so far. I will keep re-visiting for signs of intelligence though.
Originally posted by octotom
reply to post by liveandletlive
How do you give someone a star?
There should be a little star outline next to the persons avatar. Just click on that and it will give the person a star.
Originally posted by reptoidsonice
reply to post by liveandletlive
lame excuse at bigotry. things like "did the tree whither instantly or overnight" bears nothing on the essence and teachings of christianity. and ofcourse the different gospels give differing accounts, haha, thats why there are 4 dood. duh. especially the synoptics and john and the diferences between the material in mark and the material in the missing gospel (or sayings text). anyone who's faith is challenged by you pointing out contradictions (which are almost universally acknowledged by the churches themselves) made by different human authors, writing about the same events at different times for different audiences didn't really believe in the first place. so congratulations at accomplishign nothing
The people in control decide what "truth" is.
I'll agree with you in this point. There are some that "control" what truth is. There is something unique about the early church though. Let's say that you and I had a really good mutual friend who died. After his death, you and I most likely would start telling stories about the memories that we had with him. This would solidify in our minds the remembrance of our friend. So, if someone came along and tried to claim something different about him, we could call that person out because we know how our friend was. That is similar with the early church. Jesus' followers had spent a lot of time with him. After his death, his followers undoubtedly retold things that Jesus had said. This would have ingrained in their minds Jesus' teachings. They in turn would have passed this along to people. This would have then later been written down and so on.
Then the early church spread across the Near East and Asia Minor. So, many people would have been exposed to Jesus' teachings through the apostles and so on. Fast forward to the councils. Due to the teachings of Jesus that would've been passed on from his followers, it would have been relatively easy to pick out though who had distorted the faith. It wasn't a matter of trying to "control" the truth. Instead, removing those from fellowship that had a view of Jesus that didn't match up with the teachings of the apostles.