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Old 06-04-2006, 09:37 PM   #111
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well, I guess if you want to pick out geneology mistakes

http://www.duncanproductions.com/SBC...e_of_jesus.htm

see if that clears anything up. If not I will be happy to explain.
OK, I'll make you happy. The link would not work on my PC, so please explain. But if you are going to use the separate lineage Joseph/Mary argument, or Leverite marriage, don't even bother.

An explanation based on what the Bible actually says in context, in the verses which cite the genaeologies would work for me.

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Ok...it's 11:30 at night, and i just got back from a trip, so its taken me a bit longer to get all the things I want to comment on in order. There were just so many things that one allegiance said...I couldn't pick just one! Ok..let me see if I can get this coding done before midnight...sleep sounds good right now...
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Jesus has been proven to be REAL. There is not even ONE educated atheist that would deny this.
Wow...Guess we're all just crackheads that work in a gas station somewhere.

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Are you done..? Ok now that you are done acting like a child. If romans did use tombs, why wouldn't they put people who died in them? What, were they going to leave the people who were crucified up there? I don't understand why being crucified would be any different. They died, and when they died they were put in tombs...Jesus requested a tomb before even been put to death
...acting like a child? i won't even go there. and just cause jesus requested a tomb...you think theyre going to look at their criminal and say "why sure, you want that lined with cotton or silk?" the whole point of crucifiction was complete embarrassment. that's why they don't get tombs and such. and as to them not finding him if he were left up there...I don't think many historians would be able to find substantial vulture and wolf dung to find his DNA in, as animals would eat his carcass, as they did others who were crucified.

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I'm not on shaky ground at all..don't flatter yourself. I have an answer for all of those SUPPOSEDLY contradictory questions that you posted. And I've answered ever other question..I'm not going to run and hide like some other Christians might.
ok...then do this for me. i got this from a book called "the book your church doesn't want you to read". it was one of the first books i read when i started deconverting.
the challenge is to put together a complete, linear, sensical version of the easter story using all of the parts mentioned in the four gospels. if it mentions something to do with jesus death/resurrection/prior events, it better be in there. start a new thread with your version of that, if you don't mind.

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Nope. You can do that yourself.
well, as we seem to be so uneducated and wrong, you might wanna help us.

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That Jesus was a real person? If thats the case maybe you should read a little bit more on that site about the people who STUDY Jesus's life for a living.
you know, you'd think that most christians would be able to tell you a LOT about the life of their lord and savior themselves, without referring to a website or others who study. if i accepted christ, i would study about his life...might wanna know more about the most important person in all the known universe, you know? might interest me a bit.

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Of course there is evidence to the contrary...there wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't. And the flood WASN'T world wide. Look, I know it makes you feel really cool to try and shove stuff back in my or other theists faces, but just b/c there isn't adequate evidence now doesn't mean there will never be evidence..
yet...you answered someone wanting proof of a WORLDWIDE flood here...
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Not really, no. For example:

The Bible claims that a worldwide flood happened a few thousand years ago, and that one family survived on an ark with two of every living creature on board.

Yet there isn't a shred of evidence for a worldwide flood a few thousand years ago, or ever for that matter.
so...the flood went from worldwide to not worldwide in such a short time? where then did it happen, exactly? and what is your argument? could you please decide?

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Further, why are you quoting the bible to me...it holds no relevance to you.
oh dear. we're not allowed to use your own book in a debate with you? i thought you'd appreciate having some home-field advantage...maybe a little bit of familiarity. and we never said it had no relevance, i don't think. i mean, it HAS influenced a LOT of history, and much of western society as we know it. we just refuted what you said. if you want, i guess we can go back to using more secular things to debate with you though.

ok, i think i finished. i hope i got the tags right...if not, ill fix them.
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Old 06-04-2006, 09:59 PM   #113
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People have died for all sorts of reasons. Based on your reasoning, then it is ok to steal, because because two thieves were crucified for stealing and one went to heaven. And I hope you have taken into account Jim Jones and David Koresh, hardly something you would expect from men that were eye witnesses of a lie.

All the actions of the so-called Jesus in the Christian Bible point to deception, fraud and sorcery. I will show you, Jesus is claimed to cast out demons from two men, the demons then left the men and entered pigs. The pigs then ran into the sea and perished.

My friend, can you drown a ghost? Can you break the neck of a ghost? The fabricaters of Jesus messed up big time, their script has a flaw. By the way, can you kill a ghost?

Let's continue, Jesus, the master of witchcraft/ sorcery. Mark ch9, a little boy is deaf and dumb, Jesus claims he has an unclean dumb and deaf spirit. Hogwash. Jesus is a fraud. There are no such spirits. Ask any medical doctor. Speech impediment and hearing problems are not spiritual. Jesus is a 'Quack'. Jesus died for his own sins ( witchcraft, sorcery and magic).

The acts of Jesus has contributed to the mis-diagnosis of maladies, causing untold human suffering. People were categorised as demonic, filled with unclean spirits and diabolic entities, when a good physician was all that was needed.

The Christian Bible is filled with these acts of sorcery done by Jesus, and if he was indeed crucified, then he deserved to die for his sins.

What a shame, the Messiah was in our midst, and you use his enemies arguments to this day to challenge him in much the same way.

If I were you I would watch the world events very closely, the One World Government is coming, a world without borders, If it resembles the world spoken of in Revelation, will you believe then?



"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666" (Rev. 13:16-18).

http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/markbeas.htm
http://www.av1611.org/666.html
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I have read a great deal of history of the period. There is no evidence that the disciples were martyred except the Bible.

And the Bible was not written by reliable individuals. Cite me a single mainstream scholar to support your position. And I do mean mainstream - there are cranks, kooks, and deluded partisans in this field.
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I think you guys and the Beatles went to the same Public School system and learned about the same state sponsored doctrines.


Didn't the Beatles say they were "more popular than Jesus?" As well as didn't they say they have "come to destroy Christianity?"

Couldn't have figured by their own words.
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Ok...it's 11:30 at night, and i just got back from a trip, so its taken me a bit longer to get all the things I want to comment on in order. There were just so many things that one allegiance said...I couldn't pick just one! Ok..let me see if I can get this coding done before midnight...sleep sounds good right now...

Wow...Guess we're all just crackheads that work in a gas station somewhere.
I guess so. You can ask any educated scholar, atheist or not, about this one. They wont deny Jesus's existence, but they could deny the Christian Jesus. Nevertheless Jesus was a real person. What about the whole B.C, A.D thing...ya know the dating methods.


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...acting like a child? i won't even go there. and just cause jesus requested a tomb...you think theyre going to look at their criminal and say "why sure, you want that lined with cotton or silk?" the whole point of crucifiction was complete embarrassment. that's why they don't get tombs and such. and as to them not finding him if he were left up there...I don't think many historians would be able to find substantial vulture and wolf dung to find his DNA in, as animals would eat his carcass, as they did others who were crucified.
Actually it was Pilate who granted this request.

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ok...then do this for me. i got this from a book called "the book your church doesn't want you to read". it was one of the first books i read when i started deconverting.
the challenge is to put together a complete, linear, sensical version of the easter story using all of the parts mentioned in the four gospels. if it mentions something to do with jesus death/resurrection/prior events, it better be in there. start a new thread with your version of that, if you don't mind.
Um. Ok, that's good to know that your faith can be swayed by reading a single book.

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well, as we seem to be so uneducated and wrong, you might wanna help us.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/1764

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/ref...ah/jesusx.html

I don't know if you all are aware of the whole Council of Nicea thing and Constatine. But they were both very real. The council decided the deity of Jesus. Unless of course you want to say Constantine wasn't a real person. You guys need to look at ALL of history.

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you know, you'd think that most christians would be able to tell you a LOT about the life of their lord and savior themselves, without referring to a website or others who study. if i accepted christ, i would study about his life...might wanna know more about the most important person in all the known universe, you know? might interest me a bit.
I do. Will you stop ranting about how I don't. Where does that get you:huh:
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so...the flood went from worldwide to not worldwide in such a short time? where then did it happen, exactly? and what is your argument? could you please decide?
No no. It is still a world wide flood. Apparently one of my sources was misleading, but regardless there is no evidence that suggests that a world wide flood couldn't have happened.

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oh dear. we're not allowed to use your own book in a debate with you? i thought you'd appreciate having some home-field advantage...maybe a little bit of familiarity. and we never said it had no relevance, i don't think. i mean, it HAS influenced a LOT of history, and much of western society as we know it. we just refuted what you said. if you want, i guess we can go back to using more secular things to debate with you though.
Not when it is taken out of context so badly...it loses relevance.
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No. The Jews were never enslaved in Egypt in the first place.

Of course not.

What makes you think that anyone here has "faith" that life arose from primordial soup? The precise mechanics of how life arose on earth are still unknown (and completely unrelated to evolutionary theory) and you won't find many scientists who claim otherwise. We have plausible working hyptheses for how abiogenesis could have occurred but thus far, no one is claiming that we've figured it out and no one takes "primordial soup" on faith. One thing we do know is that there is no obvious reason why natural processes are insufficient to bring about and there is no necessity to posit magic as an explanation.

There is also no inherent contradiction between being a Christian and believing that life arose through natural processes. Lots and lots of Christians accept evolutionary theory and assume a natural process for abiogenesis.

The CPC is strong in this one.

Noah was a fictional character, dude, and you aren't being persecuted. Suffering a little ridicule for advocating preposterous, ill-informed and provably false beliefs is not going to kill you.

Cite? Source?

Great song. I used to play it in my band. You don't actually think it's evidence of anything, though, do you?
Never enslaved in Egypt? Wow you guys are trying to rewrite History aren't you?

Just like you weren't there the day the atoms decided to become a living cell, you were not there when Jesus or any of his disciples walked the earth. You only have free will to decide if you want to believe in God or not.

How life arose is unknown, how could that be from a bunch of know it alls? Who would question everything biblical. For as much smug hand waving over the authority of the scripture, you don't know how life came into being? Yet you will trumpet the theory of evolution all over the world, as if it's prove able, when you haven't even observed how all this life can start.

Yet you tell me I don't know anything.

Godidit is looking better all the time.

No wonder there is men that ride the fence, they believe in evolution yet have to believe in God at the same time, thus they weaken their own Maker to fit into what they think He should be.

Until you can arise life out of primordial soup, your theory is nothing more than a theory. An elaborate one, drawn up in the highest places on earth.
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No no. It is still a world wide flood. Apparently one of my sources was misleading, but regardless there is no evidence that suggests that a world wide flood couldn't have happened.
Um, actually there IS evidence that suggests that a worldwide flood could not have happened. Read through the following website;

http://evolution.mbdojo.com/flood.html

Just to pick a few of my favorite pieces of evidence disproving a worldwide flood;

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- We would expect to observe a uniform, worldwide blanket of randomly sorted boulders, cobbles, sand, and silt overlain by a layer of clay. This blanket would overlie any pre-existing geologic record. Since the Flood allegedly took place a mere 5000 years ago, this evidence should still remain with very little erosion. But this worldwide blanket does not exist.

- There would be no segregation of fossils. If all organisms lived at the same time, we would expect to see trilobites, brachiopods, ammonites, dinosaurs, and mammals (including humans) all randomly mixed together in the worldwide blanket described in point #1. This is not what is observed. The fossil record exhibits an order consistent with the theory of evolution (but inconsistent with creationism), from simple forms to more complex forms, and from creatures very unlike modern species to those more closely resembling modern species. There is not one instance of any fossils that have been deposited "out of order".

In addition, there would be no extinction events found in the fossil record. There are at least five major extinction events, a situation where fossils are abundant below a certain line within the geological layers, but totally absent above that line. The most notable extinction event is the one that killed off the dinosaurs (and 90% of all other life) 65 million years ago. There is no way to explain these geological features with a global flood.

- No varves, ice cores, tree ring ensembles, coral cores, or other examples of periodically accumulated accretion should be found to extend back beyond the time of the Flood. They do. Ice cores, drilled from stable ice plains, show 40,000 years of annual layers. Varves, which are mineral deposits, show millions of years of annual layers.

- If the flood occurred about 10,000 years ago, the polar ice caps should have no more than 5000 annual layers. Or, at the very least, there should be massive evidence of melting and salt water intrusion at that time.

- We should expect that all mountain ranges (being all formed during or immediately after the Flood) should show similar, near equal amounts of erosion. They don't.
Oh, and to end on a humorous quote I found at the website I linked to...

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And no one said one or the other didn't happen. Were you there?
No one was there, it’s a work of fiction. A work of fiction with such piss poor editing that it places Jesus dancing at a party and looking at all the kingdoms of a flat world at the same time.

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Do you know what order he did these things in. How does that prove that the Jesus story is fiction.
This order nonsense is only you grasping at straws. We are talking about mutually exclusive stories.

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You can't bully me out of this argument with your rudeness, your going to have to show me evidence that disproves that both of these things couldn't have happened.
Don’t you dare talk about rudeness when you are in the middle of trying to bullshit people
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It doesn't say that he immediatly goes to the mountain after he is baptized. You have no evidence for your baseless claim.
No evidence, EXCEPT for the book of Matthew
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And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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But I do, since you consider the Bible to be evidence...you're obviously using it.
Sure it’s evidence. It’s evidence that you don’t know what it says and that you are making it up as you go along

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Also there is no need to be so hostile.
You continually insult the intelligence of the Atheists on this board, myself included. You are being treated very well, all things considered.

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So when you quote the bible to me it is supposed to mean something, but whe I quote it to you there is no relevance? Cool.
Except that you aren’t quoting what it says. You are making shit up about what is in the bible and what isn’t.
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Um, actually there IS evidence that suggests that a worldwide flood could not have happened. Read through the following website;

http://evolution.mbdojo.com/flood.html

Just to pick a few of my favorite pieces of evidence disproving a worldwide flood;



Oh, and to end on a humorous quote I found at the website I linked to...
I can see where this is heading from the first sentence. "We would expect to observe a uniform, worldwide blanket of randomly sorted boulders, cobbles, sand, and silt overlain by a layer of clay. " The bold word there is the key word. Uniformity. You rely on uniformity to tell you that it can't happen. You are begging the question. You have nothing to base natural law off of. In other words, you don't know that the future will be anything like the past by just observing the past. ASSUMING absolute uniformity is against this occurence. You can't KNOW that there could be uniformity b/c you would be able to see the future. It legislates the meaning instead of looking for it. You can make assumtions all you want from uniformity, but you are negating the scientific method in the very act.

All in all this site was obviously presuppositioned and makes a bunch of fallacious claims.
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You might want to learn something about using other people's copyright lyrics before posting the complete lyrics of a song. It's illegal. Still, I suppose theists don't care much about other people's rights.


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I think you guys and the Beatles went to the same Public School system and learned about the same state sponsored doctrines.

Didn't the Beatles say they were "more popular than Jesus?"
Yes, and actually at the time, they probably were. Except that they were not being serious and actually comparing themselves to Jesus.


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As well as didn't they say they have "come to destroy Christianity?"
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Couldn't have figured by their own words.
You mean John Lennon's words. "Imagine" was written years after the Beatles broke up.

This is a a new one. Proof of God by John Lennon lyrics. You really don't have a clue, do you?

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