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I believe, that the things Jesus taught, to be 100% true , and "any one" before or after word are questionable.
Though Paul taught concerning Jesus, Paul taught things Jesus did not autorize and were in direct conflict .
This has been the source of division in christainity since the assyembly of the bible.
The bible is an assyembly of old testament scriptures then the gospels the disciples recorded then letters to varrious churches .
Though they are bound together in a book and the references to Jesus exist the do not all represent Him 100% .most of them are personal perspective, not God directed. but most folks are too immature to undrstand that, so they work overtime to try and justify it altogether.
Chapter an verse are not how letters were originally written, that too in an accepted invention.
The jews worshipped their religion, and the temple, and forgot God.
Christians worship their bible, and forget about having a personal relationship with God.
.."the way is narrow, and few there be that find it." Jesus.
I believe, that the things Jesus taught, to be 100% true , and "any one" before or after word are questionable.
Though Paul taught concerning Jesus, Paul taught things Jesus did not autorize and were in direct conflict .
Then why did the Apostle Peter (who walked with Jesus) give him (Paul) the seal of approval?
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This has been the source of division in christainity since the assyembly of the bible.
The bible is an assyembly of old testament scriptures then the gospels the disciples recorded then letters to varrious churches .
Though they are bound together in a book and the references to Jesus exist the do not all represent Him 100% .most of them are personal perspective, not God directed. but most folks are too immature to undrstand that, so they work overtime to try and justify it altogether.
How do you know this (bolded)?
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Chapter an verse are not how letters were originally written, that too in an accepted invention.
So? How does that change the message?
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The jews worshipped their religion, and the temple, and forgot God. Christians worship their bible, and forget about having a personal relationship with God.
.."the way is narrow, and few there be that find it." Jesus.
It's ironic that you quote the Bible, after chastising others about using theirs.
Thanks for the replies, but the person that asked for the thread to be started seems to have gone AWOL.
Oh well, I guess we will never know how "Christianity is 100% true".
Not ironic, jimmie . . . intelligent and perceptive. The Bible only CONTAINS truth. It is NOT all truth.
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Right Mystic....It is up to each Christian to cherry pick the parts of the bible they like or agree with, and ignore the parts they don't....
You employ the wrong standard of truth, sanspeur. The absolute standard of God's truth is the Spirit of agape love who IS God. Anything not compatible with the Spirit of agape love is not God's truth.
You employ the wrong standard of truth, sanspeur. The absolute standard of God's truth is the Spirit of agape love who IS God. Anything not compatible with the Spirit of agape love is not God's truth.
Right Mystic....It is up to each Christian to cherry pick the parts of the bible they like or agree with, and ignore the parts they don't....
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You employ the wrong standard of truth, sanspeur. The absolute standard of God's truth is the Spirit of agape love who IS God. Anything not compatible with the Spirit of agape love is not God's truth.
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Just as Sanspeur stated.
Not so . . . what I like or agree with is NOT the same standard as that which is compatible with the Spirit of agape love who IS God.
Time is the 4th dimension - generally accepted as the rate things change.
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You are not old enough to know what the length of a day was, 5 thousand years ago.
Are you suggesting that a day five thousand years ago was appreciatively longer or shorter than it is today? Is this one of those half-baked attempts at vindicating the Bible by claiming everything we know about the laws of physics were different a mere 5,000 years ago (and 5,000 years ago is not even a drop, not even a single water molecule, in the vast ocean of cosmic time - not much happens in 5,000 years when talking about how the earth behaves in the astronomical sense; it takes 25,000 years just for it to wobble once on its axis).
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How may planets in this solar system spin?
All of them, though Mercury is gravitationally locked with the sun causing some freaky time variations depending on where you're standing.
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Do they that spin do so at exactly the same rate ?
Nope.
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So how long is a day on mars?
Dunnae, and I'm too lazy to go look it up right now.
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The length of a day is an invention relivent to the rotation of the earth , other than that, time is not real, it is an accepted fabrication.
That's not really true. The only aspect of time that exists only in our heads is how we divide it up. But if time did not exist, then the universe would be static, immobile, and incapable of change.
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Secondly , record keeping for the length of a day to accomplish a task would seem impossible to some one attempting the same task in the length of a much shorter day.
There's no reason to believe that an earth day was any shorter 5,000 years ago than it is now.
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So what you call a day, and God's perspective of a day, are completely different things.
Well, it would certainly be in keeping with the almost deliberately confusing motif the Bible offers its readers. We might as well call any length of time "a day" since linguistic precision didn't seem to be one of the Biblical author's priorities. After all, such precision is really unimportant when writing a holy book filled with rules and laws.
Last edited by Shirina; 06-02-2015 at 05:07 PM..
Reason: To prove that time does actually exist beyond the human mind lest I be unable to change my post.
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