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Originally posted by EvolEric
This Thread has been derailed...
What I see is ignorance... The Thread isnt about proving the Existence of God or Jesus... It is not about history lessons on the origins of religion...
This thread was about Prophesy...
TechVampyre if you feel so strong about your "beliefs" then create your own thread...
End this debate that is hijacking the thread...
Back on Topic...
...The Temple of Solomon... it has to be rebuilt... when its finished and the capstone is finally put into place... the prophecies will be locked into sequence... Only then will the end be a guarantee...
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Originally posted by TechVampyre
This is not my thread to show to you..or to prove to you that Jesus Christ "the sun god" is a fictional character based off of Egyptian Myths. So if you would like me to prove this to you..I'm going to need the op's permission. otherwise let's just agree to disagree. I grow tired of this fast.
What an excuse, here I give you permission, go for it. Or are you just one of those, wants to have the last word types that say nothing of value.
Originally posted by EvolEric
Back on Topic...
...The Temple of Solomon... it has to be rebuilt... when its finished and the capstone is finally put into place... the prophecies will be locked into sequence... Only then will the end be a guarantee...
Originally posted by hawaii50th
How do we know the Bible is true?
There have been hundreds of books written on the subject of the evidences of the divine inspiration of the Bible, and these evidences are many and varied. Most people today, unfortunately, have not read any of these books. In fact, few have even read the Bible itself! Thus, many people tend to go along with the popular delusion that the Bible is full of mistakes and is no longer relevant to our modern world. Nevertheless the Bible writers claimed repeatedly that they were transmitting the very Word of God, infallible and authoritative in the highest degree. This is an amazing thing for any writer to say, and if the forty or so men who wrote the Scriptures were wrong in these claims, then they must have been lying, or insane, or both. But, on the other hand, if the greatest and most influential book of the ages, containing the most beautiful literature and the most perfect moral code ever devised, was written by deceiving fanatics, then what hope is there for ever finding meaning and purpose in this world? If one will seriously investigate these Biblical evidences, he will find that their claims of divine inspiration (stated over 3,000 times, in various ways) were amply justified.
www.christiananswers.net...
Originally posted by EvolEric
reply to post by TechVampyre
No thoughts on Solomon's Temple? It was a real building... that is fact...
Originally posted by hawaii50th
reply to post by TechVampyre
I'm not putting stuff on here to prove to you anything. I'm putting it on here for others to read and whoever is interested. So don't flatter yourself. I have nothing to prove to you, you are not the center of this thread.
And anyway, your still here?
edit on 9-3-2011 by hawaii50th because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by EvolEric
reply to post by TechVampyre
No thoughts on Solomon's Temple? It was a real building... that is fact...
Originally posted by bogomil
Originally posted by hawaii50th
How do we know the Bible is true?
www.christiananswers.net...
You'll have to do much better than that here on ATS. The kind of argumentation you're presenting has been analysed and chewed over regularly at a considerably more competent level, than you demonstrate here.
1/ You're referring to 'authority'. What makes this alleged authority into a REAL authority and on what?
2/ Quote: ["In fact, few have even read the Bible itself!"]
On another thread you have demonstrated your own bible-ignorance; and anyway, don't presume that your opponents here will be un-informed.
3/ Quote: ["Thus, many people tend to go along with the popular delusion that the Bible is full of mistakes"]
Where it's possible to take any stand on this from observable knowledge, there ARE some essential mistakes in the bible. Besides it has quite a few self-contradictions.
4/ Quote: ["Nevertheless the Bible writers claimed repeatedly that they were transmitting the very Word of God, infallible and authoritative in the highest degree."]
The world is full of more or less absurd claims, but your source answers this....
5/ ["This is an amazing thing for any writer to say, and if the forty or so men who wrote the Scriptures were wrong in these claims, then they must have been lying, or insane, or both."]
That's the options I would go for.
5/ Quote: ["But, on the other hand, if the greatest and most influential book of the ages, containing the most beautiful literature and the most perfect moral code ever devised, was written by deceiving fanatics"]
This is meaningless embellishing rhetoric.
6/ Quote: ["then what hope is there for ever finding meaning and purpose in this world?"]
So it's black or white. Either these arrogant self-proclaimed 'truths' or nothing. These people need to get out of the holy bubble occasionally and look at the other existing options for 'truth'.
7/ Quote: ["If one will seriously investigate these Biblical evidences, he will find that their claims of divine inspiration (stated over 3,000 times, in various ways) were amply justified."]
Amply justified by whom and on what criteria?
Hawaii, you have to upgrade your sales technique. You're not amongst zombis or imbeciles here.
Don't you have any PERSONAL opinions, arguments or competence on the subject?
edit on 9-3-2011 by bogomil because: spelling and typos
When you talk about proof the way you do, you must certainly mean individual proof. Because what gives meaning to you, doesn't necessarily give meaning to me. (This could be said about the rational, logic, reasoning, whatever also).
Believe it or not; I can understand and respect that: "You know that you know" as long as you give other people the same option without ANY interference in their lives.
This is a cornerstone of egalitarian, secular, liberal democracy and while this is far from religion per se, it's nonetheless very important for religions to have somewhere to practise freely. Free from religious or political authorities interfering, free from competing religions interfering.
Well, you started your post nicely, without preaching or being all-knowing. But I guess old habits die hard, because you end with dishing out trite old christian clichées again; The devil, known to discourage 'knowledge' etc.
Don't sneak this trash into your communication. You only antagonize people, which probably isn't your intention, as you talk about your 'god' of love.
If your 'god' of love is true (which it isn't for me, I can't see anything loving in Jahveh) let the rest of us find love our way, without you pushing your religious labels.
The main reason for pain, wanting and loneliness has a much deeper and extensive reason than I suspect you can understand, but at the level manifested in mankind, it's promoted most of all by individuals who know 'truth' better than everyone else, and want to enforce their 'truth' on mankind. That goes for Hitler, Stalin, Mao as well as Calvin.
The mankind herd left to its own, will only be bewildered and slightly greedy, but not with any pronounced need for 'evil'.