My questions to you have piled up because you do not provide any answers. Can we just assume that you lost all these arguments?.
What's your evidence for the brain living for some time after death? Are you sure brain dead means no neurological function? Are the dead aware that they died?
Where did the universe come from, if God didn't do it?
How do you know that? Why do you think the Bible is a work of fiction?
I'm sure there are more arguments you lost.
Life continues in the brain after people die, scientists find in shock study
We don't know where the universe came from, but that does not default it to an invisible made up being.
I say the bible is a work of fiction because none of the big things in it make any scientific sense, like, there's no geologic proof for a 40 day world wide flood. None. And the 6 day making of everything is also wrong. And that's only page 1!!!!!!
Dear
Taz
The way I would interpret symbolism in the Bible into universal secular terms
A. the 6 days refers to 6 AGES or STAGES
like the Ice AGE, the Bronze AGE, these are EPOCHS
they are not literal earth days
That doesn't even make sense, because if the sun and earth were being
formed, why would anyone try to measure that development in "earth days"
that depend on the earth revolving around the sun as a measure of time
if the earth and the sun were not set in motion yet.
That should tell you it can't mean literal earth days by human perspective.
Secondly even if you subsitute 1000 years to mean 1 age or day,
THAT'S STILL symbolic. It's not literally 1000 years or that's only 6000 years.
The most that can be captured in 6000 years is the HEBREW lineage
not all of humanity and the stages of development we have to go through.
So even the 1000 years just means a LONG EPOCH.
Very vague, like saying AGES ago, not literally 1000 years but a whole period
or stage in time. A whole EPOCH in an ongoing saga of humanity's spiritual
development in self-awareness as well as social growth as a society.
B. In general the Bible represents the existence of Justice on a conceptual level
that becomes MANIFESTED and develops in our human physical society, but in STAGES.
The OT represents the Old School ways of RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE that was Authoritarian rule of law by the LETTER of the law. Government authority
was more like a PARENTAL relationship and that's how GOD is depicted.
As top down authority dictating to children who are immature and follow
authority by blind faith.
That didn't work and led to wars and destruction by CORRUPTION of authority
and the Letter of the law by GREED for political power and material controls of resources.
Next the NT represents the New School of RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
that Christ Jesus embodies and fulfills.
So if we AGREE to receive and live by Christ Jesus, Restorative justice,
and Peace and Justice, then we RESTORE good faith relations by
mutual forgiveness and correction that saves humanity and the world
from any more destructive politics from Retribution or Antichrist.
We have to CHOOSE between
* Retributive Justice that is Antichrist, negative and destructive
* Restorative Justice that is Christ Jesus, positive and constructive
The Bible teaches both the OT and NT so people have a choice
which path we want to follow in life:
to death and destruction by selfish retribution judgment rejection and punishment that divides us and kills relationships.
to good will in life and restoring relationships and society
by forgiveness and correction through Restorative Justice and Peace for all
Though he was portrayed as evil later on by enlilites.
