...about your assertion that Christian hatred of Jews was rooted in "questions of identity, especially political tribal conflict rooted in war and imperialism.' How do you see this in light of the Jewish origins of Jesus and the early church? My view is that the Gospel of Mark, upon which the ...

^You'll have to pardon me again Doulos, but that's precisely the angle Stahrwe was coming from. He was representing a Southern Baptist Evangelical Young Earth Creationist perspective. And we covered these grounds repeatedly. Then Ant came along. And now you're announcing much of the same. For whate...

Yet part of the point is that the evidence you're using to support your view is very weak. I don't claim that I know... but I do claim that God does, and that S/He's revealed that truth in the books of the Bible. Again, you're welcome to disbelieve that, but kindly base it on real evidence. Well th...

but if you dont know, how on earth can you claim to know that god does? but kindly base it on real evidence. ;) I didn't come to faith by accepting the Bible, but rather through having experiences in life pointing to the existance and truth of what the Bible asserts. I then had experiences continua...

Doulos: A valid assertion. I would simply say the the source of the experience can often be determined by the nature of the experience. I’m not sure I follow you here. The nature of the experience being what? That you had a “communication”? You mentioned earlier that you didn’t hear anything. That’...

...about your assertion that Christian hatred of Jews was rooted in "questions of identity, especially political tribal conflict rooted in war and imperialism.' How do you see this in light of the Jewish origins of Jesus and the early church? My view is that the Gospel of Mark, upon which the ...

Mod Edit. Quote shortened to relevant point by johnson1010 “I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.” Because we ...

'God did it' is not meant to give us mechanical or scientific understanding of HOW... it is meant to clarify BY WHOM, which is an entirely different question. You say "how" is an invalid question, but you think "by whom" is valid? You're assuming there is a whom to attribute var...

" we have nothing about Jesus written within a generation of his supposed lifetime " FALSE Jesus was crucified roughly 33 AD: - Gospel of Matthew (Date 40-140 AD) - Gospel of Mark (Date 55-70 AD) - Gospel of Luke (Date 62-63 AD) - Gospel of John (Date 80-95 AD) ... I could go through the ...

I guess that's always the crux of the matter isn't it Tat? Do we trust ourselves, and our own desires and gut, or do we trust God? Is God real? Is He trustworthy? Is God represented by the God of the Bible? These questions are not solved by myth, but by exploration of truth though. Wherever that tr...