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No one is an ‘atheist.’I'm still not an atheist.
It is a firm Jewish belief that words have power. The verse could have very easily been translated as, "By the power of the Lord..." Word's have power...and God spoke, "Light" and there was light. Amazing to contemplate.By the word of the Lord
No one is an ‘atheist.’I'm still not an atheist.
It’s a pejorative term contrived by believers intended to relegate those free from religion to be the ‘aberration,’ that they reject the ‘fact’ that ‘god’ exists, and that religious is the ‘norm.’
The fact is that religion and ‘god’ are recent contrivances of man, the actual aberration.
That's the stupidest logic ever...Red shift, cosmic background radiation, Friedmann's solutions to Einstein's field equations, quantum mechanics, the First Law of Thermodynamics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Inflation Theory say otherwise.
they've gone delusional over the most remote possibility of all - sortof fits their profile, to make real what is obviously false.The Big Bang | Exploratorium
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This extremely dense point exploded with unimaginable force ...
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only proves there has never been a time matter or energy have not existed ... also they left out - the cyclical nature of the bb.
I am not sure of what you mean or how you see this.The "you" wasn't the "Meriweather" you it was the "one" you.
The limit is within us humans. It is not that God is a human thing, it is that humans can only describe God with human terms within human limitations.Mostly I see that God is a very human thing.
The first thing to understand is that Biblical accounts are about teaching a principled value in a story form. In the beginning, people didn't read or write these stories, they told them in memorable ways. People listened.What is there to understanding about myths and lies?
There is no reason to unquestioningly accept “the gods spoke…”It is a firm Jewish belief that words have power. The verse could have very easily been translated as, "By the power of the Lord..." Word's have power...and God spoke, "Light" and there was light. Amazing to contemplate.By the word of the Lord
I think I do. It is pure guess, but I can't help but picture you being taught, perhaps even forced to believe, that every word in the Bible is literally true. Only a minority of Christians have that view, and some cannot even seem to envision anyone having that non-literal understanding of the Bible the majority of Christians and Jews have.Then you chime in with pathetic delusional justifications to destroy young lives with threatened torture and eternal fire.
Is that what is not understood?
It's you who don't understand. Go away.
Yes. From the original writers' and original audiences' perspectives, words have great power.There is no reason to unquestioningly accept “the gods spoke…”
It was authors unknown who wrote, “the gods spoke… “
So, when you wrote, “The first thing to understand is that Biblical accounts are about teaching a principled value in a story form”, we are to understand that those accounts are not necessarily true, accurate, reliable or connected with the thoughts, directions, commandments of any gods. They’re stories written by “original authors” who are largely unknown, without any authority from any gods.Yes. From the original writers' and original audiences' perspectives, words have great power.There is no reason to unquestioningly accept “the gods spoke…”
It was authors unknown who wrote, “the gods spoke… “
No. But it was a great "Gotcha" attempt.So, when you wrote, “The first thing to understand is that Biblical accounts are about teaching a principled value in a story form”, we are to understand that those accounts are not necessarily true, accurate, reliable or connected with the thoughts, directions, commandments of any gods. They’re stories written by “original authors” who are largely unknown, without any authority from any gods.
Is that about right?
Thanks. That was a great “but… but… but… but…what’s for lunch”No. But it was a great "Gotcha" attempt.So, when you wrote, “The first thing to understand is that Biblical accounts are about teaching a principled value in a story form”, we are to understand that those accounts are not necessarily true, accurate, reliable or connected with the thoughts, directions, commandments of any gods. They’re stories written by “original authors” who are largely unknown, without any authority from any gods.
Is that about right?
Yes, it was.That was a great
Mine was not a broad brush. I quoted your comments and addressed them in specific terms.Yes, it was.That was a great
I enjoyed your broad brush. You can argue that I said that in the Bible, the word 'sun' doesn't really mean sun and the word 'light' really doesn't mean light. We both know that was not the author's (in this case my) intent. Now, if you wish, we can take an entire Biblical story and break it down we can dissect my point. But I have a feeling doing that isn't on your mind.
Hollie's fine. In this case, she was taking a poke at me, not at religion. It tickled!Hollie's only desire and intention is to subordinate religion and faith in God. She has no desire for honest debate. She's on a mission.
Not true. Not poking at you. Questioning the ideology is not personal. A legitimate question is ask is, “with such a variance of believers, believing such a variance of interpretations of Biblical tales, why should the non-believer accept any of it”?Hollie's fine. In this case, she was taking a poke at me, not at religion. It tickled!Hollie's only desire and intention is to subordinate religion and faith in God. She has no desire for honest debate. She's on a mission.
Pretty sure it was both.Hollie's fine. In this case, she was taking a poke at me, not at religion. It tickled!Hollie's only desire and intention is to subordinate religion and faith in God. She has no desire for honest debate. She's on a mission.
