Maximilian
Energetic proclaimer of Jehovah God's Kingdom.
Sorry, but the whole hand washing custom is not original idea of the Abrahamic religions.
Prove it.
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Sorry, but the whole hand washing custom is not original idea of the Abrahamic religions.
3. If the Bible was uncorrupted, historically and scientifically sound, science would agree God might exist and might have been observable in past history, but presently unobservable.
2. So if God is observable science would agree God exist.
4. If God wanted his existence to be undisputed, he would be undeniably observable.
Please list one clear concise indisputable prophecy that has come to pass.
Anything as vague and ambiguous as the following will not be counted.
NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAIN #1-1
Being seated at night in my secret study,
Alone, sitting upon a stool of brass;
A revealing flame shall leap forth from the solitude,
Granting that which is not to be believed in vain.
along the lines
I didn't notice any pointed queries. I won't mention the obtuse ones.
But you really need to have that dyslexia seen to.
One reply. Get all your questions into one reply. Don't make multiple posts when responding, make only one reply. Stop the scattershot, order your thoughts and procedures and put your entire response into one reply.
One reply.
Or did I mention that already?
And I take it , in the absence of that reasoned response I mentioned, that you accept that "murder" is a hopelessly vague notion.
The Bible is a fount of knowledge.
Leviticus
11:9
“These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.
11:10
But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:7
And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
No Bacon. No Baby Back Ribs. No Lobster. It's no wonder they were all grouchy all the time.
Morals are subjective, not objective. Morals come from your mind and the laws of the society you live in.
Evil doesn't prove a god exist. Evil just proves that there are humans that do bad things to others.
Is that the same god as the Jews or Muslims?
One cause of suicide is religiously inspired feelings and actions against homosexuals.
But there are other reasons as well...
Shunning and Suicide in the Jehovah’s Witnesses: Alienation’s Deadly Toll
For one woman in Michigan who had left the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the strain of losing her community was too much, and, struggling under the weight of the shame her abusers had taught her to assume, she drowned the family dog and shot her husband and two adult children, before turning the gun on herself. According to family friends, Lauren Stuart and her husband had left the organization because their children wished to attend college – something the Jehovah’s Witnesses strongly discourage – and she wished to pursue a modeling career. Because she could no longer be a member of the group in good standing, former friends ignored her, looking the other way when seeing her in town, refusing to speak with her or acknowledge her presence. In a small community, such treatment can make life intolerable, and although the Jehovah’s Witnesses have claimed in court that shunning is a “personal choice” and never absolute, their own internal convention videos show a harsh reality, where parents are coached to ignore their own children if they are disfellowshipped.
For you to operate from inside your materialistic, non-transcendent worldview and then demand materialistic evidence for the non-material, transcendent God (which invariably exists outside your perceived worldview) is a logically fallacious category error since it requires material evidence of the non-material, non-transcendent proof of the transcendent. It is exactly like asking to have an idea put on a scale or what color a song is. It does not work as they are completely different categories.
As Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem makes evident, ‘Whatsoever may be bounded cannot explicate itself without referring to that which is without itself - some postulate whose certainty is unobtainable.’
This is just what famed Physicist and Mathematician James Clerk Maxwell alluded to when he came to the conclusion, “Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent, it must have been created.”
Suicide among LGBT youth - Wikipedia
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Were you likewise informed as to origins of Satan the Devil?
Are you saying that Abel married Eve or that Abel married his sister(s)?
With no objective moral values or obligations, you would have had absolutely no objective justifications to not follow along with their moral yardstick - despite the fact that it resulted in murdering men, women and young children simply because of their ethnicity.
As Voltaire put it, “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
And evil is an objective moral value.
While Muslims do not worship Jehovah God the ancient people of Israel were a nation dedicated to him:
"For I am Jehovah your God,Contemporary Israel, however, “is determined . . . to conquer the desert and make it flourish by the power of science and the pioneering spirit, and to transform the country into a bastion of democracy." (David Ben-Gurion, Former Israeli premier) They are not dedicated to Jehovah God.
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
“You are my witnesses,”declares Jehovah,“
Yes, my servant whom I have chosen,
So that you may know and have faith in me
And understand that I am the same One.
Before me no God was formed,
And after me there has been none." -Isaiah 43:3, 10
And evil is an objective moral value. You refute your own claim . . .
Just as you would have committed genocide in biblical times? 1 Samuel 15:3
Nobody, for example, gets their morality from the bible - it doesn't have a clear moral message.