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Scarne  Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Mastara posted:
I'm not too worried about the likelihood of it. The bible said it will happen, it will. I dont have to venture much of a guess. The real question is when?
The end of days was supposed to happen in the lifetime of the people listening to Jesus speak after the Resurrection. But that had to be retconned since that clearly didn't happen (the most fun version being that at least one of those listeners is still alive).
Or maybe the end of days already happened?  
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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Sin_of_Onin posted:
People decide these things emotionally with some reason thrown in as opposed to purely logical or even with a majority of logic. People decide and then fill in their logic.
That seems true of anything.
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Azure-TheBlueOne  Title: Made in Alaska
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Registered: 2003-2-24 19:25:37
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I read the whole bible from Old Testament to New while I was in bootcamp. That pretty much did it for me.
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redlegOIF  Title: Fire for Effect!
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Out among the free range sheep
While the big birds sharpen their claws
For a time we stuck with the Shepard
But you wouldn't play Santa Claus
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illmyrin posted:
The timeline.... All my life I had thought Jesus was born, wise men spread his tale, he was a magical wise man who attracted followers who wrote the New Testament.
What really happened was
Jesus was born.
Jesus died.
Some guy who never met Jesus started telling stories about him 40 years after Jesus's death.
This guy's stories became the basis for the Gospels written by other people who NEVER MET JESUS.
And the clincher, the bastards assembled it backwards in the Bible! Paul's letters went out DOZENS of years before the Gospels which got stuck in there first. It's deceptive.
I think Paul might have been a great deceiver.
Paul is the only reason Christianity still exists. Without bringing in the Gentiles, it would have died back in the first century. Of course, Jesus buds didn't like Paul, Jesus was a Jewish prophet trying to prepare Jews for the end of times that he truly believed was about to happen. And he was right, as far as his own life was concerned.
btw Mascara, you might consider that the value of prophets in the bible was that they interpreted the events around them through the eyes of God. They weren't predicting the future as people have come to believe, they were talking about what was current at the time. Revelations isn't about the future.
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Sin_of_Onin posted:
People decide these things emotionally with some reason thrown in as opposed to purely logical or even with a majority of logic. People decide and then fill in their logic.
That seems true of anything.
Yeah I am usually right in an obvious way.
People just don't like to think that they are this way.
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Azure-TheBlueOne Title: Made in Alaska
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Azure-TheBlueOne posted:
I read the whole bible from Old Testament to New while I was in bootcamp. That pretty much did it for me.
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"All our ideas of the justice and goodness of God revolt at the impious cruelty of the Bible. It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes... but all our ideas of the justice and goodness of God give the lie to the book, and as I never will believe any book that ascribes cruelty and injustice to God, I therefore reject the Bible as unworthy of credit. "
http://www.deism.com/paine_essay_age_of_reason.htm
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God was a little testier when he was only a storm god living in a portable tent.
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
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Azure-TheBlueOne posted:
Azure-TheBlueOne posted:
I read the whole bible from Old Testament to New while I was in bootcamp. That pretty much did it for me.
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"All our ideas of the justice and goodness of God revolt at the impious cruelty of the Bible. It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes... but all our ideas of the justice and goodness of God give the lie to the book, and as I never will believe any book that ascribes cruelty and injustice to God, I therefore reject the Bible as unworthy of credit. "
http://www.deism.com/paine_essay_age_of_reason.htm
The early Bible is set in a moral ethic of people getting what they deserve. It relies on rather straight forward morality where if you do good then you will be rewarded. It is not uncommon for people to believe in such morality. The Bible also changes throughout its existence to question that idea. Particularly in the book of Job and other writings that were common around the time of Jesus.
The story of Jesus is written entirely in this context of a cruel world that the faithful begin to question. The Jews were conquered and ruled over by the Romans and King Herod. The entire idea behind the coming Messiah was that they needed to be saved from this cruel world and deserved to be saved from it.
Then Jesus comes along and saves them, but not in the way they thought he would.
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F is for Fake-believe
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"What Jesus fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem"--Reg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jefferson_Bible&useformat=desktop
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There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill. The result is an octavo of forty-six pages, of pure and unsophisticated doctrines
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