jillian
Princess
dilloduck said:Easy Jillian---no one has sent you anywhere.
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dilloduck said:Easy Jillian---no one has sent you anywhere.
jillian said:
dilloduck said:Unless you got some particular place in mind? :teeth:
Have I told you recently that I think I love you? YUM!dmp said:Malted Chocolate Caramel Pie
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jillian said:"Inspired" ..... Well, I might believe that. Or I might believe that the bible is a bunch of parables woven together to teach moral lessons.
Why would there have to have been multiple variables for a culture's spoken lore mixed with history to have made it to paper?
There are certain times when a woman just needs chocolate... in any form.Kathianne said:Have I told you recently that I think I love you? YUM!
Hobbit said:Because a bunch of people who never met each other or compared notes put together a singular work over the course of thousands of years without a single contradiction and with the fulfillment of every last prophecy listed over more than two millenia, with the exception of the doomsday prophecies (and most of the precursor prophecies have been fulfilled).
Hobbit said:There's plenty of evidence of God. You just don't want to admit it because the existance of God would wreck your idea of life.
Dr Grump said:All you have is faith. Nothing more, nothing less...
Stephanie said:And whats so wrong with that?
larry_davis said:i don't know who or what god is, but if such a person or thing exsist, it obviously doesn't want us to know anything about it, otherwise we wouldn't be playing a guessing game. religion is dangerous to me, religious people often are convinced they know it all, yet have no answers, proof or can't solve anything. who's to say your god is real more than someone elses?
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Hobbit said:If God didn't want me to know about him, he wouldn't talk to me or have written a book. And I don't think I know everything. In fact, the more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know.
Bullypulpit said:Regardless of any claim to divine attribution, the Bible, The Torah, the Koran, and every other body of religious writings, are the product of human cognition. Thus they are subject to the foibles and failings of their all too human authors.
Dr Grump said:You have absolutely no proof of the above. You have no idea how the bible was put together pre the King James version, or its translations etc. There are no original scriptures left other than the Dead Sea Scrolls, and even those are incomplete, inconclusive and not in the bible. All you have is faith. Nothing more, nothing less...
dmp said:You have no proof that his claims aren't accurate. You clearly have NEVER researched the history of the bible. Try educating yourself. Google is a good place to start
UNLESS you are on mainland China.
dilloduck said:Not necessarily---some can read between the "cognitive" failures and and see the universal truths therein.
Bullypulpit said:With religion, as with any other human endeavor, there will be those who wish to take advantage of the gullibility and fears of others. It is such individuals, whose interpretations of doctrine are wholly ego-driven, that sow the seeds of hatred towards those holding differing views...Towards those who somehowfail to conform with their doctrine...Anything different is wrong. It is this emphasis on the differences between the philosophical schools we call religion that gives rise to the sectarian violence we see going on around us...Catholic and Protestant...Muslim and Judeo-Christian...Hindu and Sikh...It has been the source of all religious conflicts down through the centuries, and will continue to be a festering source of conflict and violence so long as we continue to embrace these differences.
Dr Grump said:The history of the bible is only as good as the research done on it. IMO, if Constantine hadn't converted the Eastern Roman Empire to Christianity it may never have got the foothold it did. Ditto re Mohammed and Islam. It is all in the eye of the beholder.
dmp said:What does Constantine have to do with it?
Dr Grump said:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Constantine
IMO if he hadn't converted his empire, Christianity may have just been a cult...