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I wouldn't mention this if the poster wasn't calling some Christians idiots, insulting the OP's supposed lack of knowledge and making generalizations about 'backwoods preachers', but it seems incredibly hypocritical to be insulting the erudition and sophistication of thought in others when you can't string together a sentence or two without proper use of parenthesis, capitalization or commas. I hope you have a great view from that glass house.
Originally posted by CuteAngel
reply to post by kallisti36
The oldest known 'Gospel' is the Gospel of the Buddha. Took the Gospel of the Buddha and modified it here and there and made it out to be the New Testament. You have to be blind sheep to believe the Bible to be of any authority...
Originally posted by kallisti36
reply to post by shagreen heart
It happens to be relevant to me, because not only does the movie slander my Messiah, but I have to refute these falsehoods again and again from it's fans that don't bother to research. I don't care about the guy's psuedo-religious philosophy, he's entitled to his beliefs. I do care when he exalts his philosophy on a mountain of lies about my religion and misleads impressionable people in the process.
Originally posted by silo13
reply to post by zerbot565
if it can be backed up where are the references to scholar material (not wiki)
Again. Watch the video, it had no lack of reference or validity in the references or the reputation of the scholars quoted.
Zeitgeist was created to persuade people into 'believing ' in a one world order'. Once the TPTB get us all believing in one religion - or one lack or religion, they can only control us all the better. For you who think religion controls the masses? The lack of it = Devastation.
peace
You say a lack of religion = devastation, then obviously you do not know the history of religion and its devastation upon this world. Please explain to me how you came to this point of view....
Christianity started out as a catholic religion
Originally posted by tinfoilman
reply to post by kcfusion
This could be a myth too.
Virtually all ancient documents, the original sources are missing. Back in ancient times to preserve documents they simply copied them over and over and over. We have the copies but not the sources. I'm not talking about the Bible hear. I'm talking about all ancient documents.
The Bible was no different and there were a crap ton of copies. To determine if a document is authentic to its time period, scholars will use what's called Textual criticism.
They will look at things like history, the author's writing style, the language the work is written in, the dialect the language is written in, compare it to other works by the same author, and whatever else they have to do to determine when the original was written, by who and so forth. The Bible isn't the only book. All ancient documents including all the works from the Greek philosophers and things like that go through the same process to determine when they were written, by whom, and to find errors in the text and so forth.
One technique for example is where you look at all the copies and compare them side by side to find out where the errors are. For example if you had 100 documents and 99 of them had the same text, but this 1 text over here had something different, that's pretty suspect. That's probably an error.
But no matter how good at copying things you are, there will be errors. The Bible is no different. However, most scholars agree that the errors in the Bible are very few and they're mostly errors. Not something done on purpose. More than that, they're marked!
Not in all Bibles to save space, but if you go get yourself a full size newer translation of the Bible, the places where the text may not be correct, are actually marked. Usually people read right by it and don't even notice it, but it's there. It's not like anyone is trying to hide anything. Biblical errors when noted, are usually noted right on the same page as the text they occur in. This is the way my copy is and there's usually a note.
If you want to see where the Bible may of had copy errors, just look for one that marks disputed text. The online versions usually do as well, so you can just look there too via Google.
Also, the idea that the Bible was heavily edited by the Council of Nicaea and so forth are just myths. By that time the Canon had already been decided.
Also, it's a myth the Bible even has a single Canon. Also, books not in the Canon. It's not like they all vanished. You can usually still read them if you feel like looking them up. You may have to learn a couple other languages first though to read them all. Some of course are missing, but since they're missing we don't know what they said do we?
The thing is, the Bible didn't start out as a book. It started out as hundreds of books and then later was put together in various configurations. It's almost like a Linux distribution. To say the Bible was edited when they created the Canon doesn't make much sense. Before they created the Canon there was no Bible. There were just Christian texts.
But most scholars agree that the text we do have is mostly original as it was written and most disputed texts are caused by mistakes and not anyone intentionally trying to make the Bible say something that it wasn't supposed to. Since you're going against the scholars here, the burden of proof is on your to prove them wrong.edit on 17-2-2011 by tinfoilman because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by silo13
reply to post by zerbot565
if it can be backed up where are the references to scholar material (not wiki)
Again. Watch the video, it had no lack of reference or validity in the references or the reputation of the scholars quoted.
Zeitgeist was created to persuade people into 'believing ' in a one world order'. Once the TPTB get us all believing in one religion - or one lack or religion, they can only control us all the better. For you who think religion controls the masses? The lack of it = Devastation.
peace
Originally posted by CuteAngel
reply to post by silo13
the concept of GOD having an incarnation or coming in the human form is a PAGAN concept, has nothing to do with worship of the creator or Judaism...
Originally posted by tinfoilman
reply to post by racasan
I don't think you paid attention to the video that well. We can't assume that because there was three gifts there were also three magi. That would be a logical mistake. But more to the point, that wasn't the main issue in the video. Even if Jesus did have three magi, the other gods that they were comparing Jesus to did not.
Also, a star in the east. You suffer from the same problem. Yes Jesus had a star in the east. The point of the video wasn't to show that there wasn't a star in the east. The point of the video was to show that none of the other deities DID have a star in the east. What is the relevance of the star in the east? We know how it relates to Jesus. How does that relate to the other deities who did not?
Originally posted by silo13
reply to post by CuteAngel
Christianity started out as a catholic religion
Oh hell (no pun intended) that truly gave me a chuckle.
No... Christianity I can assure you, did NOT 'start out' Catholic.
Now, when you study that one on your own, and get over it, maybe you'll have a clue.
And no, I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just not up for trying to spoon feed someone who is so mired in propaganda, hearsay and just plane fallacies they can't see the forest for the trees.
Zeitgeist is nothing but a stretch of someone's imagination - trying their best (and failing) to refute Christ and make him nothing other than a man, if they give him that credit at all.
Watch the video from the OP.
If you can debunk the debunk video - go for it - I'll listen. But I can assure you, you cannot.
peace