Well to be fair, quite a few books that are traditionally credited to Paul, are not Paul's work at all, or at least are questionable. 2nd Thessalonians comes to mind as well as most of the non-Prison epistle. Romans (very highly plausible it was written by Paul) was pretty much a fund-raising...
Well I know I haven't really been involved in this debate from the get go, but I would just like to chime in on this statement, and forgive me if it's already been stated.
That said, people can indeed be "proved" (not really the correct term, but you used it) wrong when it comes to Biblical...
So then the second point of this would be that since Christianity is not a "science", science is not a religion. I've said this in another post, but again, science is not religion, religion is not a science, the Bible is not a science book and The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection...
Christianity provides no explanation of "how" life started, nor should it. Science is the field by which the "how" questions get answered, not religion. Religion is not a science and sciecne is not a religion. The Bible is not a science book and "The Origin of Species by means of Natural...
Ive been thinking about this for some time now, and Id like to just throw this out there for debate. What does evolution have to do with Christianity, God, or any other organized religion, but being that I am a Christian, Id like to direct this towards Christianity.
From my point of view...
Well lets just break it down verse by verse.
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message Pretty straight forward, Jesus is praying for not only his direct disciples but also for the people that they will effect, and so forth.
, that...
Well no, a belief in Jesus and/or God doesn't mean a belief in some "anti-Christ" figure. I am a Christian and personally believe the whole "anti-Christ" ,rapture, end of the world shenanigans to be nothing but an incorrect hermeneutical view of a very few select passages of the Bible.
What are you talking about?! Haha! Seriously man, are you that ignorant about the Bible?! Are you just making this up as you go along or what?
Tell me where in the Bible it is part of Gods plan to have abortion? I'd love to see that.
Wow, that is perhaps the most illogical argument I've heard in a very long time. First of all, you blame God, whom you say you don't even believe in, for NOT stopping something that you seem to deem as wrong, that other people are doing instead of blaming the people that are actually doing it...
What makes you believe that Christianity and free thought and reason are mutually exclusive? I myself am more into critical thought and reasoning and these go hand in hand with Christianity. Saying that one must abandon Christianity in order to have reasoned thought is simply ridiculous.
So why then would you compare the two and say that one must abandon Christianity for "scientific reason" when by your own statement, they have nothing in common? It's like saying one must abadon algebra for political science. It's nonsensical.
This is perhaps the most asinine nonsensical illogical statement I've heard in quite some time. What, pray tell, do "scientific reason" and Christianity even have in common?!
There are plenty of Roman historians that talk about Jesus. And of course they used "references", what historian doesn't? Take Thucydides and his history of the Peloponnesians Wars for instance. Does that make them any less "plausible"? Of course not. Thucydides himself states that some of the...
Well that's not what I mean. The whole concept of Jesus being the Son of God is a matter of faith. That's an entirely different debate. I was responding to the question about Jesus existing as a historical person at all.
Jesus as a historical person is very plausible for several different...