The two different genealogies found in Matthew and Luke is complete nonsense. There are only 3 names common with both list and they were basically produced by these unknown authors to tie Yeshua/Jesus to the throne of King David.
Many religious scholars realized that there was a problem with...
The person that could have been the Prostitute was the woman of Nain spoken of in Luke. As matter of fact the verses never mention her name or label her as a prostitute.
[Lu 7:37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's...
Most Christians are taught that the Old Testament is irrelevant except for when they need to prove something that was prophesied by someone in the Old Testament. Without the Old Testament Christianity wouldnt be able to justify paying tithes or the coming of Christ.
By staying away from the...
I often refer to myself as an Agnostic-Christian simply because Im involved with churches as a Gospel Musician. It is all about the music and not the worship with me. I use to be a fundamental blind sheep by how I know the real truth about religion and its origins.
When I attend church...
If all of the symbols, rituals, dogma, customs and creeds that came from the Catholic Church and are now used and incorporated in the Protestant Church were eliminated, the Protestant Church would have nothing.
The Catholic Church is truly the foundation of the Protestant Church that just so...
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I think that it is hard to change your belief from theist to atheist if you have been indoctrinated over a long period of time. But after weighing the evidence against Christianity and the God based religions you can slowly drift away from the brainwashing and the dogma.
There are actually two versions of the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament, the 20th chapter of Exodus and the 5th chapter of Deuteronomy.
The Old Testament wasnt written down until after King Cyprus released the Hebrew people from exile in Babylon. This was around 565 BC. While in Babylon...
Every one that is born into the world is born an atheist. What ever the religious preferences of the childs parents are the child is baptized or indoctrinated into that belief system. It the parents or caretakers of the child are non-religious that child may choose a belief in some God or...
I like RF because it in not dominated by religious fundamentalist. The fundamentalists that do post on RF are not crazy lunatic fanatics. Its good to share religious opinions with people all around the world.
Many of the facts that are now coming out were mentioned by Sen. Kerry during the election but no one paid attention to him because he voted against the 87 billion dollar bill for the troops. Now Republicans as well as the Democrat?s are totally free and feel safe to express their true feelings...
The words of Ernestine: After the people/languages were scattered at the Tower of Babel, those people carried the legend about the flood with them, each adding/changing a little bit, but all with the same core truth of a flood of proportional magnitude. Noah's ark is not a myth, but the those...
There are two difference stories in Genesis concerning the number of animals Noah was to load on the allege Ark.
Ge 6:19
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Ge 7:2
Of every...
Comparing the stories
The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq, describe how the Bablylonian God Ea had decided to eliminate humans and other land animals with a great flood which was to become "the end of all flesh". He selected Ut-Napishtim, to build an ark...