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@FLRW
The stolen body hypothesis posits that the body of Jesus Christ was stolen from his burial place. His tomb was found empty not because he was resurrected, but because the body had been hidden somewhere else by the apostles or unknown persons. Both the stolen body hypothesis and the debate over it presume the basic historicity of the gospel accounts of the tomb discovery. The stolen body hypothesis finds the idea that the body was not in the tomb plausible – such a claim could be checked if early Christians made it – but considers it more likely that early Christians had been misled into believing the resurrection by the theft of Jesus's body.
Taken as one isolated element in the narrative - the stolen body hypothesis has some plausibility. Nevertheless, the stolen body hypothesis loses all credibility when placed within the whole of the narrative for it cannot account for how it occurred and why the body was never found. The best way to have stopped such a theory in its place would have been for the Jews and the Romans to have found the body and then let it be displayed for all to see it was dead.
Moreover, it loses entire credibility when many people claim to have seen an alive Jesus over a significant period of time.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
iss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!I am following Jesus’ inspired words in CORRECTING YOUR BIBLE STUPIDITY once again: ”As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.” (Timothy 5:20)YOUR QUOTE IN POST #55 THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE VERSES THAT I HAD SHOWN, LOL: "good verses to focus on. Question though. Who is Jesus talking to? And in what time is he talking about?"Well, let's address your Bible stupidity again, Jesus was only talking to His creation, the JEWS, since He ONLY came for the Jews (Matthew 15:24), get it Bible fool? In what time He was talking about had to be when He started teaching which was about 30 years old (Luke 3:23), therefore, since Jesus was approximately born in 4BC, that would make Him 30 years old which was the time He stated the passages shown above that you had no idea existed in the first place, otherwise you wouldn't have said what you ignorantly did in your Bible ignorant post #55! H-E-L-L-O? LOL!It matters not for the rest of your Bible ignorant post #55, because the FACT remains, ONLY A FEW OUT OF MANY of Jesus' Jewish creation will see heaven as I proposed at your expense. Furthermore, since you are a 2nd class WOMAN, you will never see heaven because there will be no women in heaven to begin with, PERIOD!Miss Tradesecret, furthermore, QUIT STALKING ME whenever I easily correct your outright Bible stupidity, where you in return STALK ME in your vain attempt to "try" and get out of you being Bible Slapped Silly®️ by me regarding your Bible ignorance and stupidity as shown in this post, and in this thread alone! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!NEXT PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN WOMAN LIKE MISS TRADESECRET THAT OUTRIGHT "LIES" IN SAYING COUNTLESS NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WILL BE HEAVEN BOUND IN "CONTRADICTING" JESUS' INSPIRED WORDS WHICH SAY ONLY A "FEW" WILL ATTAIN HEAVEN, WILL BE ...?
Following me around in an attempt to correct me is STALKING.
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@Stephen
I have answered many theological questions on this forum since I joined. I refuse only to answer ones that are not being asked genuinely or are personally going to be used as another means of stalking. And no I am not going to go and find any of them for you. This is a forum not an inquisition.
I have even answered some of yours and some of Brothers.
I could name some of my mentors - but you would then say I am bragging so what is the point. You would also hassle them or use it as a means of trying to find out who I am. the fact is Stevie Blunder - you are a creepy old man - stalker - and jealous.
The point is - you have a dodgy way of understanding the bible. You admit you can't prove any of it. And you dislike that someone else actually shows your interpretations to be dodgy.
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Stephen, give it up. Grow a pair. Stop being so personal all of the time.
Repeating my words is not a problem. I own my words. Please stop adding your commentary.
Since I guarantee you that anyone reading my words without your commentary would never come to the same conclusion as you have. Or even if they initially might have come to it - after I clarified my comments they would have accepted it.
But not you. no for you this is one of those things that gets you off - as it does with all creepy stalkers.
It is you who are the narcissist. Not me. It is you who lie about everything.
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@Stephen
and not asking personal ones [questions].I think the only single personal question I have asked you is whether or not you spoke Russian too? Unless you can show differentAny of your own personal information has been given to this forum on the www of your own free will. Your most recent offering concerned your "mentor in Moscow". #311The only way for the forum to know you have stopped stalking is if you actually start asking and answering REAL theological and religious QuestionsJust recently I asked you a theological question based on what you told us your "mentor in Moscow" had disclosed to you;Tradesecret wrote: I have seen many people attempt to locate it [the Garden Of Eden] and honesty none have been very convincing.So what evidence did your "Eastern Orthodox Academic in Moscow mentor" tell you that caused you to believe his account? What was the material he provided that convinced you he was correct as to the location of The Eden and all other scholars and arachnologist were wrong?This was your response;That is for me Stephen. You are not my student.So why do you not " actually start and answering REAL theological and religious Questions" you hypocrite?
Stephen, you have been asking personal questions of me for years. But in any event, my comments above were for the Brother - not you in particular. Unless of course he is another one of your fake personas. You do seem to answer for him in a lot of cases.
Also - you did not ask a theological question. You asked me what this Moscow person has told me that had changed my mind. That is not a theological question. It was simply a personal one - designed as always to find more information to use in your stalking.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Miss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!YOUR LYING QUOTE IN YOUR POST #39 TO UNDERDOG: "That's correct. It indicates that so many people go to heaven that their number can't be counted. It never says anything like this for the people who end up judged. So at least I have a figure. You are just pulling an idea out of their air."WRONG AGAIN Miss Tradesecret, what's new, NOTHING! There are NOT so many people going to heaven like you stated, especially where they cannot be counted, and where you have a figure, which you do not! LOL! You're funny. :)Jesus stated: "Many are called, but few are chosen.” (Matthew 22:14)Jesus stated: "Someone asked Jesus Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And he said to them, “strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able." (Luke 13:23 )Jesus stated: “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few." (Matthew 7:13-14)Miss Tradesecret, as you stated before that I am allegedly stalking you, this is not true because of the simple fact that you are so biblically ignorant and stupid, that I have to continually correct you as Jesus would want me to do in His name, whereas this to you is stalking! NOT!The only way that you will not be continually corrected by me and the membership in allegedly stalking you, is for you to not be so Bible dumbfounded as I have shown you to be above, and elsewhere within this Religion forum, get it?! Since that is absolutely impossible for you to do, then expect further corrections to your outright in being the #1 Bible stupid and ignorant fool in this forum!NEXT PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN WOMAN LIKE MISS TRADESECRET THAT IS DUMBFOUNDED OF THE BIBLE, WILL BE ...?
Thanks Brother.
good verses to focus on. Question though. Who is Jesus talking to? And in what time is he talking about? And is it true to say that this relates to the entirety of history or perhaps just to a fixed time in Jesus' own life? Perhaps he was talking only to the Jews - because as Stephen rightly tells us - Jesus came to the Jews. And if this is the case - then there is nothing to suggest he is not talking about a greater number of Gentiles - as Revelation clearly points out - a great congregation - such that their number could not be counted.
As for stalking - you are the creepy white stalker - and your co - stalker Stephen. The only way for the forum to know you have stopped stalking is if you actually start asking and answering REAL theological and religious Questions - and not asking personal ones. Of course we all know that you can't help yourself. It is in your nature.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Miss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!YOUR RUNAWAY FROM YOUR EMBARRASSING GENDER AS A WOMAN IN YOUR FEEBLE POST #330!: "As I said above my dear ignorant fake creepy stalker, my profile is none of your business. And it is all of mine. I can change it at my discretion - especially if I believe that creepy old white men like you and Stephen will attempt to stalk me and use it for whatever "sick" reason you can think of."Miss Tradesecret, as you stated before that I am allegedly stalking you, this is not true because of the simple fact that you are so biblically ignorant and stupid, that I have to continually correct you as Jesus would want me to do in His name, whereas this to you is stalking! NOT! Your profile page is Jesus' and my business because you as a woman go directly against Jesus in 1 Timothy 2:12, AGAIN!!!The only way that you will not be continually corrected by me and the membership in allegedly stalking you, is for you to not be so Bible dumbfounded as I have shown you to be above, and elsewhere within this Religion forum, understood?! Since that is absolutely impossible for you to do, then expect further corrections to your outright Bible stupidity and ignorance within this forum! Simple math at your expense.NEXT PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN WOMAN THAT USES "CHILD LIKE LAME EXCUSES" LIKE MISS TRADESECRET DOES TO RUN AWAY FROM BIBLICAL AXIOMS, WILL BE ...?
Brother D Thomas,
LOL@ your attempted humor.
There is no allegation of you stalking me. It is quite clear that this is what you are doing. The sadness is however you ACTUALLY don't recognize it. In fact you think it is a joke. Nevertheless, stalking is a serious offence. It reveals much about your character and potentially your own background. Hence why I tend to consider you have been "hurt" as a youngster by the church or someone within it.
The fact that you surmise that you "need to correct me" is part and parcel of a defected brain. A brain possibly that was hurt by the church. I wonder whether your focus on a female changing gender is part of this situation. Is that why you are so traumatized? And why you can't see past your nose? Or is it that you really do hate females and are using this fake persona as a means of saying what you think - in a way that sort of distances you from it. That is really quite clever.
You hate females but you can't actually say that in a normal way - so you invent a character which people know is a persona and use its character to promote your own hatred. Really clever.
Or is it something else altogether?
As for the Bible - given your so very transparent understanding of the Bible, correct is hardly forthcoming from you - even on your best day. To be able to correct someone - you need to at least understand it. That obviously is not the case.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Miss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!YOUR QUOTE TO STEPHEN THAT COMES BACK TO BITE YOU, LOL!: "Stephen, do you think I am Ethang? LOL @ you. What if I am? Prove it. You are so lame. Let's say for the sake of your own speculations it is true. How are you going to prove such a thing? I'm not by the way."Dear, dear, Miss Tradesecret, who removes one foot to insert the other, your statement to Stephen in where you want him to PROVE that you may be the equally Bible dumbfounded and stupid Ethang5, is equal to the FACT that I can prove you to be a WOMAN as your profile so signifies herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgyThe above FACTS are embarrassingly barring that your profile after you were a woman first, now shows your gender to be "other," https://www.debateart.com/profiles/Tradesecret and where your continuous banter is that you are a MAN! This revealing proposition of yours can only prelude that you had a SEX CHANGE from a woman to a man which is ungodly as Jesus so states: "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."Therefore, as Biblically shown above, do you actually think that you can show yourself as an ungodly TRANSGENDER person when Jesus created you as an image of Himself, male and female he created them? NOT! As if this isn't embarrassing enough for Jesus as He watches you (Hebrews 4:13), you slap Him in the face by obviously not accepting His chosen gender as a female for you at birth! BLASPHEME!NEXT PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN WOMAN LIKE MISS TRADESECRET THAT HAD AN UNGODLY SEX CHANGE IN GOING AGAINST JESUS IN GIVING YOU THE WOMAN GENDER AT BIRTH, WILL BE ...?
As I said above my dear ignorant fake creepy stalker, my profile is none of your business. And it is all of mine. I can change it at my discretion - especially if I believe that creepy old white men like you and Stephen will attempt to stalk me and use it for whatever "sick" reason you can think of.
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@Stephen
Nope. It shows you to be the contradictory, self aggrandising, narcissistic, compulsive lying bible dunce that you truly are. Reverend Munchausen.And when or If you keep giving me genuine cause to remind you of what you are; I will, at every opportunity. So, keep em'coming.
I love how you think you are my keeper and brother. It must really get up your nose that a bible believer is so much more talented and skilled and educated than you. You are a real little leftie - trying to cut all the tall poppies down. Of course, everyone knows that this is really envy. Almost the same thing as jealousy. You want it - but you can't get it - so you try and stop anyone else from having it. Oh well. Oh that's right - Jacob's well.
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@Stephen
You are just a glutton for punishment aren't you Reverend Munchausen.I'm really NOT sure what your problem is.I have never understood why after me only being here for just a few weeks you decided I was "the slime of Satan, disgusting and ugly#24 and dumb as fuck#161", either.I was taught to memorize the Bible from a young age.Yes you have told us enough times. But you must have forgotten that you had.I started to learn different languages in school - French, German, etc and then NT Greek. After school I attended at seminary where I studied OT Hebrew and Aramaic and NT Greek.French too! That's a new addition to your ever increasing foreign language tool box. This comes on top of your recently disclosed capabilities to " conduct and prosecute court cases in the Bengali language of Bangladesh".As for knowing my bible frontwards and backwards, so what? Many people do. It doesn't mean that I can remember every verse.You see this is where your bullshit fails you and often. If I was to make the claim that "was taught to memorise the bible from an early age and I knew the bible backwards" as you have often done Here> #52 here> #190 & here>#191, I would, at the very least, be able to recall a verse when prompted. You on the other hand fail this simple memory recall and often. Would you like an example? Do you remember forgetting that "Lot was righteous in the eyes of god, do you remember that you said:Tradesecret wrote: I can't seem to recall anywhere in the Bible where Lot was ever held up as a paragon of virtue or righteousness. Can you[Stephen] think of anywhere in the Scriptures where Lot is help up as being a model for Jews or for Christians? I can't and I would never hold him up as so. #4THIS ^^^^^^^^ from the man the makes all those claims about his wonderful amazing memory. The whole of that thread and conversation was about LOT, and should have been enough to prompt your amazing memory.But who was it that had to remind you what Lot's standing was in the eyes of god? LOT, one of the most famous biblical characters in the whole of the Old Testament and that children never forget once they hear the story of the total destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah! LOT who's was the only family was saved BY GOD from the total annihilation? Well it was me , wasn't it you bible dunce; HERE>>Stephen wrote: 2 Peter 2:7 "and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless" .You see Reverend Munchausen, this is where your memory should never had failed you. Especially after the very clear prompt that should have served your memory well. But failed you and miserably.There are a lot of verses and ideas in the bible. It doesn't mean literally that I can say it from my memory.But you should be able to when give such blatant prompts as shown in my example above.You are a bible illiterate dunce. And you have shown to be so on a regular basis. Recently you told us that "god doesn't order the killing of anyone#306". That is a profound claim for one of your claimed academic standing and status to make about the bible. But who was it that had to remind you again that god does in fact tell others to kill others and often? Well it was me again wasn't it , you bible dunceThen there is another recent claim of you telling us that "god has no favourite" #39? Again, your amazing and extraordinary memory of the bible let you down once more didn't it. Who was it that had to show you how wrong again you were, well, Reverend Munchausen, it was me ... again.But it means I have a pretty good gist of the narrative and where things are and how to find them. I do read my NT twice every year. I do read my OT once every year. So what?Even more reason to have a better recall than most people. THAT'S WHAT, you bible dunce.I never said a Russian gave me information about The Garden of Eden.Neither did I . I asked you if you spoke Russian.I said a Greek Orthodox academic in Moscow did.Nope you didn't , you didn't mention the word Greek. stop trying to backpedal. This is what you wrote, exactly:Tradesecret wrote: Nevertheless, there was an Eastern Orthodox Academic in Moscow - (one of my mentors)#311And you mentioned "Moscow". And there are RUSSIAN orthodox academics too. But you didn't think of that did you, thicky?I never said I knew Russian.You just a little middle aged white man -That won't be the first time that I have been called EXACTLY that on this forum. And it was by your other persona, Ethang5.. Your mask is slipping Reverend Munchausen.
Stephen, do you think I am Ethang? LOL @ you. What if I am? Prove it. You are so lame. Let's say for the sake of your own speculations it is true. How are you going to prove such a thing? I'm not by the way. But you never care what I say - unless it is in accord with your agenda.
Did I think about a greek orthodox academic in Russia making you think I spoke Russian? Why? I use the internet. Gee lo and behold - you live in UK. That means I must speak English. Dum Dum.
I've never bragged about my memory. You do all the bragging for me. My dear little creepy white stalker. When my memory fails me - which it does invariably, I am happy to admit it. Not like you. I remind you of things - because you forget and then you lie about it. LOL! And then you try and say - it was all ok in the first place.
All your repetition of my words - merely confirms that I speak the truth. I don't hide from it. I admit it when I get it wrong. I even apologize.
You on the other hand - well that is another matter.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
You are not a man. If you were you would ACTUALLY address the text of the scriptures rather than just repeating rubbish that has well and truly been discredited over and over again.
You are not a man. I am not a woman. You are a deluded person who has somehow come to the conclusion that pretending to be a fake persona gives you rights that ordinary people do not have.
I can put into my profile whatever I want. I can choose to change it IF I think deluded creepy stalkers will try and use my profile against me. And I will continue to change it whenever I want. You and Stephen have both demonstrated that you are creepy and stalkers.
You fail to understand Biblical language and theology. Hence why you continue to repeat the garbage you do. It has been suggested by some that I block you and not respond to you anymore. I am seriously considering that since you do not have the intellectual capacity to ACTUALLY put forward a half decent argument.
Did I intentionally not address your question about alleged innocent children? Absolutely. It was a question that was intentionally provocative and perverse. Jesus does not kill innocent children. You have yet to provide a biblical definition of innocence in the first place. You have yet to show Jesus was in the OT. You have yet to prove any of the things you throw out. Assertion is not proof. Repetition is not proof. Blustering like a buffoon is not proof. Discrediting me is not proof.
There is an interesting dilemma between chs 1 and chp 2. I brought this to the attention of Stephen probably about 3 years ago. Yet if he knew about it - he never mentioned with me. (He fumbled over a hundred different ways of trying to answer my question - but never go there. He was too focused on attacking me as a person rather than the passage -he really hasn't changed very much - if at all) But what you fail to address is my interpretation. Ch 1 is talking about earth. Animals made first and humans next. Ch 2 is talking about heaven. Humans first and animals second. Chapter 2 also begins with a very interesting change in word order of heaven and earth to earth and heavens. Clues in the text itself - that ask us to consider why the change. But I suppose if you don't know Hebrew, you could not be expected to pick this up. Tweedle dee and twiddle dum. Or is that twiddle dum and tweedle dee. OR does that sound too much like Ethang5?
Remember dear Brother that being ruled over by the man is a curse. Just like the text in Timothy talks about females being naïve. But what you fail to draw out of that text is something that is much more profound. Eve might have been deceived. Yet Adam ate the fruit - fully knowing what he did. Adam did know better. Eve asked her husband - and Adam intentionally ate.
As I said above Brother you are not a MAN. A man would understand these verses and respond appropriately. You are a bully. And a creepy perverted stalker. You fail to address any biblical text with even the capacity of a half-witted person - demonstrating over and over again - your fakeness. And your hurt.
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@Stephen
Stephen I NEVER said I have memorized the whole bible. And you can't produce any thing else.Oh FFS stop with your bullshite.It is clear in the extreme that you have claimed to know the bible "backwards and forwards in many languages from a very young age". NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU ATTEMPT TO SCRABBLE FOR A GET OUT AND PACKPEDAL ON SUCH RIDICLOUSE AND ASTOUNDING CLAIMS THAT YOU HAVE MADE.HERE> This is what you have claimed, you bible dunce:[A]Tradesecret wrote:"I have been taught to memorise the bible from very young. I have read the bible numerous times. I try and read the OT once every year and the NT twice a year. "#52So your attempts to play on words doesn't work.You then pressed home YOUR point of YOUR amazing memory of the bible by adding this:HERE>[B]Tradesecret wrote: I know my bible backwards.While further adding:HERE>[C]Tradesecret wrote: I know the bible backwards - and frontwards - in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic"backwards!" ? That takes a special and extraordinary memory in anyone's book.The fkn truth is that you do not know the bible AT ALL! I truly feel for those poor students of yours that you have the audacity to charge(rob) their Universities to lecture them on all things theological.Tradesecret wrote: No, I don't charge students, I charge universities when they request me to lecture to them. #20The Brother asked me a question. I gave my opinion - which I based on some material that someone provided.Who, your imaginary "Russian Academic mentor"? What was the material he provided that convinced you he was correct as to the location of The Eden and all other scholars and arachnologist were wrong?
I'm really NOT sure what your problem is. I was taught to memorize the Bible from a young age. It started in school. I was given three selected passages each term in order to pass the semester. That was 12 passages of the Bible every year I memorized just for school over a large part of my schooling. I started to learn different languages in school - French, German, etc and then NT Greek. After school I attended at seminary where I studied OT Hebrew and Aramaic and NT Greek.
As for knowing my bible frontwards and backwards, so what? Many people do. It doesn't mean that I can remember every verse. There are a lot of verses and ideas in the bible. It doesn't mean literally that I can say it from my memory. But it means I have a pretty good gist of the narrative and where things are and how to find them. I do read my NT twice every year. I do read my OT once every year. So what? It is you who are playing with words and spin. It is you who is trying to make my say things which I have not done. As I said above - you keep repeating stuff. It's not the repeating my words I care about. It is always the spin and the lies you comment from there. I tell you what I said - and you just dismiss that - because somehow you know me better than I know myself. You are deluded Stephen.
I never said a Russian gave me information about The Garden of Eden. I said a Greek Orthodox academic in Moscow did. I never said I knew Russian. You just make things up as you go. No wonder you believe all the lies in your little secret book of Mark and other well discredited books you cut and paste your unoriginal ideas. You are interestingly, both naïve and intentionally dumb. It is no wonder that no one on this site respects you. Little wonder you are considered a troll and that people have encouraged me to not interact with you. You are creepy. A little middle aged white man - who is pretending to be wokey left and is a fraud in everything you do.
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@Stephen
Stephen I NEVER said I have memorized the whole bible. And since you have misinterpreted my words, I am sorry, but my intention is what I have now said on numerous occasions despite your persistent nonsense. I have never said anything else. And you can't produce any thing else. Yes you can repeat what you have again - but it does not say I have memorized the entire bible. You know it and I know and everyone else knows it. And yes I know you are just stirring me up. But would you please at least try and stay on topic.
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@Stephen
MY best bet for the location of the Garden of Eden is the Ukraine - around the Black Sea.So for all of your years of being "tutored under all of those biblical scholars and church fathers" they didn't tell you that, for few centuries now, The Eden has been accepted to have been located in Iraq, once known as Mesopotamia,(the land between two rivers) and the birth place of civilisation according to scholars? Or has your extraordinary power memory let you down again?
If you actually read and COMPREHENDED my remarks above - you would see I said " I have seen many people attempt to locate it and honesty none have been very convincing." So yes, many people have regurgitated your position - but just because some accept it as in Iraq does not mean that all do. Nor even most. I don't have extraordinary memory. And I have never said that I have. But thanks for praising me up again. Mr Creepy.
Tradesecret wrote:"I have been taught to memorise the bible from very young. I have read the bible numerous times. I try and read the OT once every year and the NT twice a year. "#52the floodIt was a localised flood-as devastating as it was. You need to read your bible more often than the three times a year that you tell us that you do.
LOL! firstly, memorizing parts of the bible is not the same as memorizing the TOTAL of it. Please stop lying. The flood for some is localized for others a total worldwide flood. And the flood is part of the OT narrative, so again stop exaggerating my words. I indicated that I read the OT once a year. And the interesting thing dear Stevie Blunder is that flood whether localized or global - would still have taken place in the Middle Eastern Regions where even those disposed towards thinking the Garden of Eden to be planted - is located.
Tradesecret wrote:"I have been taught to memorise the bible from very young. I have read the bible numerous times. I try and read the OT once every year and the NT twice a year. "#52.....I know the bible backwards - and frontwards - in Hebrew, Greek and AramaicNevertheless, there was an Eastern Orthodox Academic in Moscow - (one of my mentors)🤣🤣🤣 Speak Russian now do you or are you really Russian? You just cannot help yourself can you Reverend Munchausen.🤣🤣🤣
hmm I have not said I speak Russian. Why are you telling lies - once again? O I know because you are a serial liar. A creepy stalking serial liar.
I have seen many people attempt to locate it and honesty none have been very convincing.So what evidence did your "Eastern Orthodox Academic in Moscow mentor" tell you that caused you to believe his account?
That is for me Stephen. You are not my student. And besides - you can just go and find out in one of your little secret books that you get all of your material from.
The Brother asked me a question. I gave my opinion - which I based on some material that someone provided.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Miss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!YOUR LYING QUOTE THAT YOU ARE NOT A WOMAN AGAIN IN POST #306!!!: "I tell you what Brother - I am not a woman"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, STOP!!! GOD DAMN IT, STOP!1. Your profile page was first shown as you being a WOMAN herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy2. The actual FACT that you identified yourself as a WOMAN FIRST as you said in this post herewith: https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/7337/post-links/3193463. The mere FACT that you comically now say your gender is "other" in your recent update of your ever so weak profile still digresses to you being a WOMAN, unless you had an ungodly sex change! https://www.debateart.com/profiles/Tradesecret4. You substantiate yourself in being a WOMAN in your removal of an image that you had before as a MALE, giving credence of you being the only thing left which is you being a WOMAN! Dear, which pictured woman on your NEW moniker is you? LOLMiss Tradesecret, Jesus and I are truly sorry that your inept mental capacity doesn't comprehend that you cannot remove your ungodly womanly status, no matter how much you throw your girly toys around the room, and hold your breath, because of the FACT that you are logically a woman as shown above, understood Bible fool?! ENOUGH of your cry-baby tactics!NEXT 2ND CLASS PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN WOMAN LIKE MISS TRADESECRET IN DENYING THEIR GENDER AS SHOWN IN BEING A WOMAN, WILL BE...?
I can honestly say that when I first signed up to this forum - that in my profile I identified myself as a male. There is no question in that. However if you look now - it will say something different to that. And tomorrow it will say something different again. I figure your profile page is the biggest lie and charade on this forum - so anything less than yours is still more honest than you.
Also - as you are well aware - if I use the phrase "Let us concede for a moment for the sake of the argument" - it is not an admission of anything. It is a intentional moving past a point of dispute in the midst of an discussion in order to try and resolve a dispute. To somehow turn that into me conceding anything outside of the debate is simply nonsense but a trick that a fraudster would attempt to make.
I did notice you DELIBERATELY failed to apply v. 8 to yourself. Therefore - due to intentional omission you have conceded that I am correct and you once again as is so often the case - way out of your league. Lift some holy hands brothers - Do it without anger and without dispute. Come on Brother be the man. That is of course if you truly to do think that this is what Paul is teaching.
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Miss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!YOUR ONCE AGAIN DUMBFOUNDED OF THE BIBLE QUOTE IN POST #305: “Surely you can read. Go and read it yourself. Genesis 2. What is the purpose of the Garden of Eden if the earth is a perfectly suitable place for humanity? It is God's home on earth. … Where did Jesus tell the thief he was going to meet him after he died? In Paradise. What is the Garden of Paradise? Heaven.”ROFLOL!!!!!!!! OMG, Miss Tradesecret, you did it again in making the forum laugh loudly at your perceived knowledge of allegedly the Garden of Eden is Heaven!!! LOL!!!! Seriously, you should be a comedy writer for Saturday Night Live here in the USA!If your Bible stupidity says that Eden was Heaven, then where were the other "heavens" located as Genesis 2:1 specifically states? “Thus the heavenS and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” (Genesis 2:1). BEGIN:YOUR QUOTE OF LAUGHTER ONCE AGAIN OF WHERE THE GARDEN OF EDEN IS LOCATED NOW: "I put it somewhere in Ukraine. Perhaps that is why Putin wants Ukraine."STOP IT, PLEASE, STOP, please understand that we can only take so much comedy laughter from your complete Bible Stupidity at one time, okay? No one knows where the Garden of Eden is located on earth, NO ONE! This is includes searching the headwater area of the 4 rivers, where Eden was allegedly located nearby in Genesis 2!Let Jesus and I address your outright Bible stupidity AGAIN herewith upon where heaven is ACTUALLY located:The location of heaven mentioned in the Bible IS ABOVE! When the people built the tower of Babel, Jesus said, "Let us go down" (Gen. 11:7). After our serial killer Jesus spoke to Abraham, "he left off talking with him, and Jesus went up from Abraham" (Gen. 17:22). Jesus said to Moses, "And I am come down to deliver them..." (Exodus. 3:8). David in praising Jesus said, "He bowed the heavens down, and descended" (Psalm . 18:9). Isaiah’s prayer said, "Oh that You would rend the heavens, that You would come down..." (Isa. 64:1). The Lord Jesus Himself said, "And no one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven" (John 3:13), "for I have come down from heaven" (6:38, 42).When the Lord Jesus ascended, the Bible says, "A cloud took Him away....And while they were looking intently into heaven as He went..." (Acts 1:9-10). Stephen, when he was about to die, saw the Son of Man standing to welcome the first martyred servant. He "looked up steadfastly into heaven" (7:55 KJV) and saw the Lord Jesus. The apostle John saw a door opened in heaven, and he heard the voice like a trumpet speaking with him, saying, "Come up here" (Rev. 4:1). When the Lord descends from heaven, all those believers who love Him "will be caught up together with them...to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thes. 4:17).There are many more verses that can be quoted, but these few are enough to prove your ungodly stupidity of the Bible where you comically say Jesus' heaven is earth bound, NOT! LOL!Miss Tradesecret, heaven is ABOVE, and not land based upon earth as you DECEIVINGLY want others to accept, understood Bible ignorant and stupid fool! Yeah, you do at your embarrassing expense once AGAIN! LOLNEXT TOTALLY BIBLE IGNORANT PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN WOMAN LIKE MISS TRADESECRET IN LYING WHERE HEAVEN IS LOCATED WILL BE …?
You do realize that you conceded the point as you soon as you referred to other heavens? I don't know where Eden is located on our planet. The flood most likely destroyed it - but then again - the flood destroyed the earth - it doesn't say it destroyed heaven. Perhaps you can be a good boy and find the verse where God says the flood destroyed heaven.
MY best bet for the location of the Garden of Eden is the Ukraine - around the Black Sea. I have seen many people attempt to locate it and honesty none have been very convincing. Nevertheless, there was an Eastern Orthodox Academic in Moscow - (one of my mentors) who provided me a reasonably good basis for his view which is that it was in the Ukraine. Honestly, I can take it or leave it. But it was quite soundly based as I recall.
I can also see that you do not understand Greek. Or you would have noticed that some translations say heaven in passages like Acts 1 and 1 Thessalonians and others say air or sky. Why the difference? Because the greek word for air and heaven and sky can mean the same thing. You yourself notices "heavens". But what does that mean? It is one thing to try and ridicule me by its use - it is entirely another to try and figure out what it means.
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@Stephen
I don't tell lies.
And your spin is nothing to those who value the truth.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Miss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!
I tell you what Brother - I am not a woman - but let's say that woman should be silent - what about v. 8? Are you going to raise hands in prayer and do so without anger or disputing?
When you stop with your vile attacks and your disputing, then perhaps you might get some credence. Yet while you carry on in your most unholy manner - this is unlikely to stop.
1. “And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.” (Jeremiah 19:9)YOUR OUTRIGHT DECEIVING QUOTE #285 TO JESUS MAKING HIS CREATION EAT THEIR CHILDREN SHOWN ABOVE!!!: "When people choose to be evil - you know - things like eating their own children ...."
It is not deceit. Those people were evil. They did eat their own children. Do you think that is a good thing to do? Because by advocating that God should not judge them, you are saying that cannabalism of children is a good thing.
Your deceiving and conniving 2nd class woman in LYING towards Jeremiah 19:9 in that it was JESUS that caused them to eat their children, and not the people in question like you stated! You are a sickening LIAR!!!
Well no lying. Jeremiah 19:9 is clearly a prophecy. It had not happened at the time and like all prophecies it's purpose was to provoke an ethical response in the person hearing it - so that they might turn from their sins and embrace God. In other words, stop eating your own children.
2. “And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.” (Exodus 12:29)YOUR QUOTE TO THE ABOVE WHERE JESUS KILLED INNOCENT CHILDREN OF THE FIRST BORN, EVEN OF CATTLE!!!: "Yet God did exactly what he said he would do. He delivered his people from slavery. And whatever happened to the Egyptians is on the king's head - not on God or Israel. "Barring the FACT that Jesus is a serial killer, because the end result is Jesus KILLED the innocent first born, Jesus has many powers as being our Hebrew Yahweh God incarnate (2 Peter 1:3), therefore He could have accomplished taking His Jewish creation away from Herod in another peaceful way, but He didn't because Jesus loves to be a brutal KILLER as shown throughout our Bible, period!
Funny how you twist words. God is a truth teller. Would you prefer God was a liar? That God cannot be trusted. Egypt's king was a madman who had been warned over and over again. His decision had implications. Everyone knew what would result if they disobeyed God. Their choice.
3. “Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.” Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children. (Isaiah 13:15-16,18)YOUR DISGUSTING QUOTE TO THE ABOVE JESUS' KILLING NATURE OF INNOCENT CHILDREN IN HAVING THEM DASHED TO PIECES!!!: The third passage doesn't mention innocent children. You might mention it because you want to believe that children are innocent. That however is an assumption."Miss Tradesecret, tell the membership in how a child that knows not from their parents Jesus' killing revenge is not innocent, and a zygote or fetus of a pregnant woman is not being innocent when Jesus commanded the BRUTAL murder of this life within the womb and children as shown in the passage above!Besides, you conveniently forgot to answer my simple question herewith: "have you ever wondered in what an innocent child sounds like when Jesus says they are to be DASHED to pieces? Maybe it is like a watermelon being thrown upon a large rock in a SQUISH THUMP sound? Yes? What is your opinion in how this sounds? Dear, are you once again too SCARED to address Jesus' outcomes in killing His creation? LOL!
The bible says - no one is innocent. All have fallen short of God's glory. Who was doing the killing? It was not God. He did not order anyone to do it. The people were killed because of their own evilness - and an evil nation came in and did what they themselves had been doing.. God says - he will not be mocked. He carries out his promises. That is the God of the Bible. A person who ALWAYS keeps his word and his promises.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
FIRSTLY; show the membership in the JUDEO-Christian Bible where it says that the Garden of Eden is "HEAVEN"as you comically propose! BEGIN:
Surely you can read. Go and read it yourself. Genesis 2. What is the purpose of the Garden of Eden if the earth is a perfectly suitable place for humanity? It is God's home on earth. The fact that you misunderstand this is just more evidence of your lack of theological knowledge. Where did Jesus tell the thief he was going to meet him after he died? In Paradise. What is the Garden of Paradise? Heaven.
SECONDLY; where is the Garden of Eden located today since it existed in the first place? BEGIN:
I put it somewhere in Ukraine. Perhaps that is why Putin wants Ukraine.
THIRDLY; yes, the woman was in the Garden of Eden, BUT, it was an afterthought of Jesus to put her there, remember Bible fool? Jesus created animals first as a helpmate to Adam (Genesis 2: 18-19). Subsequently, Jesus saw that a helpmate for Adam was not found in animals, therefore, Jesus put Adam in a deep sleep and took one of His ribs and then created woman for a helpmate! (Genesis 2:20-21) When Jesus performed this act for a help mate for Adam, this is the beginning of the woman being second class to man, as if Eve as a woman creating the "Original Sin" wasn't bad enough!
So you are conceding the point. Thanks Brother. Obviously even the buffoon can have a sense of conscience. But Eve was not an afterthought. Great Artists always make a draft copy before they make the real deal. Nevertheless, Genesis 1 indicates God has already made males and females. In the Garden - God wanted Adam to realize that he is not an island - and that he is a social being - he needs others apart from himself. Eve came from the side - not from his feet nor from his head. Eve was a partner - equal in status. Equal in importance.
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@Stephen
See [ A ] & [B] above.
Repeating something does suddenly give it any more substance than before. It was bollocks then and it is still bollacks.
You are having a loopy moment when you can't identify what you are. Atheist or not. You are simply a bit wokey and fluid.
Redefine words because you wanted to lie about it.
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@Stephen
Compulsive lying narcissist have no conscience and care not if the lie is believed or not, Brother D.I have said many times: To People with narcissistic personality problems the believability of the fantasy seems to be of no consequence. All that seems to count with the narcissist is whether his tall tales about himself helps him rebuild the façade of his greatness while struggling to be relevant. #186
Talking about yourself Stephen. I don't lie. You still have not shown any evidence that suggests I memorized the entire bible. I never said that. I said I started memorizing the bible when I was younger. Saying I have memorized the bible is not the same as saying I have memorized the entire bible. Yes, probably I could have said - parts of the bible, but I didn't think anyone would consider what I said - to be ALL of the Bible. I didn't think people were that dense. Seems I was wrong. You are that dense.
DO I know the bible inside and out? Yes. Does that mean I know everything about it? Nope. But at least I read it and attempt to read it properly and not putting my magic and secret rituals into it. At least the manner in which I read it is in accord with how most people would read it.
I explained what I meant about favoritism above - and even conceded that perhaps there was perhaps another way of looking at it. But surprise, surprise, rather than you manning up - you acted like a coward. And invited your Brother to join in. Well that speaks volumes.
I can honestly say I have never lied on this site. Yes, I have made mistakes. I have said things I regret now. But not once have I ever lied. You on the other hand, are a serial liar. And a creepy stalker. And you don't have a care how people perceive you.
I find it ironic you call me a narcissist. Nevertheless, life goes on. And I will continue to remain on this site - exposing your lies and your bad theology.
Unlike you, I don't crying to someone everytime someone says something nasty about me. I wonder how many times you have reported me. I suspect every opportunity you get, you do. That is what I mean by coward. Stevie Blunder the creepy stalker from GB.
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@Stephen
Firstly, I HAVE NEVER said I have memorized the ENTIRE BIBLE. You can go back and check your notes. I have never said it. Yes, I have memorized lots of different scriptures. And yes I have read the bible many times. I told you that I make a habit of reading the NT twice every year and the OT at least once. I use that method due to the inspiration from a very famous English / Welsh preacher - the Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
So stop with the lies.
Secondly, I said God does not show favorites. I would rely upon verses such as Deuteronomy 10:17; Romans 2:11; and Colossians 3:25 amongst others. My meaning and intent was directed towards the notion of God being impartial because of his character not based on some whimsical position of his people.
Yet I also stand corrected for you are also correct. Although I would not use the term favorite in the verses you quote (even as the translation does not use the term) but accept some translations do use the term. I think peculiar is a better term. And special does not necessarily mean favorite. Nevertheless, I will rephrase my usage of language and state that God does not judge impartially - but rather does so according to his character which is just.
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@Incel-chud
That's not very helpful. Why not try and understand the world from the position that everything is real rather than an illusion?Because typically the word real is associated with materialism, and thinking of things in a physical fashion.
Why is that a problem? The real world and materialism are both solid objects that I can touch and taste and smell and observe and hear if necessary. I am a physical being. I'm not sure why thinking I am not is a better option.
I don't understand. Is the mind real or an illusion? How can something be both real and an illusion? I thought that a thought was just an idea not a reality.That's why when talking about any concept touching on the concept of non duality, it is often better to just call things an illusion. Thoughts are real. The universe is God's thoughts.
I can't see how thinking anything is an illusion is helpful especially if it is actually not an illusion. Thoughts are real I agree. So why would we call them illusions? What do you mean the universe is God's thoughts? Doesn't that put the cart before the horse?
Why would a divine want to hide any reality? I don't understand "made up of mind". And again - non-material masquerading - sounds negative and deceptive. Not positive and enlightening.Things being "made up of mind", is a hard concept to explain, as it is to understand. For practical purposes, living in a non physical reality does require the perception of a physical universe, so it is easy to manipulate out environment. Just Google "all is mind" or something and see if you can get a better explanation. If you don't, I will find a better way to explain it later.
I googled it - not very helpful. It led me to mindfulness. I don't agree that everything is mind. Even if it supposed to be the mind of God. My computer is not my mind. My beer that I am drinking is real. It is not in my mind. I take the view that God is distinct from his creation. Surely it is better to consider that everything is real? That my thoughts are real. But so is my computer. Please give me a better understanding?
In a bizarre way it sounds like you are recommending we embrace the negative to pass through the negative or illusion to get to something positive which is coming from a divine mind that is itself negative and deceptive.I would say embrace any pain or suffering you feel, so that way you don't repress it. Repressed negativity has a way of staying with people and feeding into more negativity.
If I was being attacked by a murderer I would resist the murderer. I would not embrace the pain that comes from being murdered. Is this what you are talking about? Or are you suggesting that while I am being murdered, that the pain I am feeling, I ought to embrace- in order to rectify the situation?
I don't disagree with you about repressed negativity. But isn't the idea of illusion negative? Isn't the idea of divine thoughts masquerading as reality negative and deceptive? Why can't the divine express things positively - not as an illusion but as reality - as something transparent?
Thank you for your thoughts.
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@Stephen
Stephen,
what you are is entirely your business. I am not going to lose sleep over you.
You have confused the issue by redefining words - that is on you.
You can ask me a 1000 more times. I know you are not a Christian. Your behavior and attitude betray you well and beyond any words you say. Are you an atheist or a theist? I don't know. You change from one day to the next.
I understood the quotes I posted of you. They are very easy to read - .everyone else can read them too and see what a liar you are . And how you change your definitions depending upon how bad you are getting your butt kicked.
But you said it -do you deny you called yourself a theist and not an atheist? Or will you tell the truth this time?
Go and get your secret book of Mark. Go and tell it on a mountain. Sad and pathetic. What else is there to say?
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@Incel-chud
It's a tough concept to explain. This is why this esoteric wisdom is often given through imagery, particularly through understanding the qabbalistic tree of life.
That's not very helpful. Why not try and understand the world from the position that everything is real rather than an illusion?
It almost sounds as though you take the view that deception is a good thing. Or that the powers that be think it is a good thing.
All is mind. This means that the world though an illusion is still real. Reality is the thoughts of God pouring out.
I don't understand. Is the mind real or an illusion? How can something be both real and an illusion? I thought that a thought was just an idea not a reality.
It is both real and non physical. To call it an illusion is to reveal that it both hides the divine reality and that it is made up of mind. Non material, masquerading as material existence.
How can something be both real and non-physical? Do you mean like love or hate or an emotion or perhaps the laws of physics? Or even the laws of logic and reason? They are certainly real - even though they are non-physical. Indeed I would go further and say they are non-material.
Why would a divine want to hide any reality? I don't understand "made up of mind". And again - non-material masquerading - sounds negative and deceptive. Not positive and enlightening.
In a bizarre way it sounds like you are recommending we embrace the negative to pass through the negative or illusion to get to something positive which is coming from a divine mind that is itself negative and deceptive.
Or have I missed something?
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@Incel-chud
When you mean the world is an illusion - does that include EVERYTHING or just material things? For instance - is enlightenment an illusion or even the idea that "I am a god"? Or are these concepts things that are excluded from being an illusion?
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@Stephen
I will agree it all sound very contradictory out of context,Of course it sounds very contradictory. IT IS CONTRADICTORY! You are running around in circles.Ok. But disagree. Now what bible dunce?
Why should there be anything else, Creepy one? The forum will make up its mind. Are you a liar? Or are you a liar?
I don't believe I have ever denied being an atheist.https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/7417/post-links/319370And yet"I am not an atheist" https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/811/post-links/36386OF course the context helps.That's correct. Do my beliefs make me an atheist or a theist/believer?READ THIS AGAIN YOU CTRETIN!I was christened as a baby, I had no say in the matter. This would make me a Christian in anyone's terms and language. But I do not have a religious bone in my body I am not what is called a ' practicing Christian '. I am not religious. I believe the Old Testament to be an historic record of sorts of the Israelites. I believe the Old Testamant to be much more honest and truthful than the New Testamant.The New Testament to my mind is on the surface a collection of ambiguous half stories about a man that believed himself to be the rightful heir to the throne of Jerusalem and had attempted to reunite the" lost" tribes of Israel i.e. those that had fell away and of which many were now Hellenised in attempt to free 'god's chosen people' from the Roman yoke. He failed miserably and was put to death for crimes against Rome.And all this has been my own personal stance from the day I came to this forum.I have also said many times, I find it impossible to dismiss the bible and many biblical accounts out outright and out of hand, as I have attempted to put across in many of my of my threads. <<<<< CUT OUT AND KEEP.#29
Do you think it if you post it enough times that people will say - O Stephen how could we have got sucked into your words which on one hand say I have never said I was not an atheist and on the other hand I say I am an atheist.
Blah blah Blah. You said you were a theist. You said you were not an atheist. You accuse me of redefining words - and yet here you are Mr chief creepy man - our forums' no 1 stalker doing exactly what you accuse me of. You redefine words. And expect to be let off.
Indeed I believe that what Christians today call god/s were very much human. As the above explains. The ancient Mesopotamians (from where the Israelites lifted much of their history) referred to these beings only as "lords" not gods of which there were many. You see thicko, the word god is a relatively new word in the scheme of things.I am an atheist although many thicko's such as your self believe atheism is a religion on its own.
Atheism is a religion according to the USA supreme court. I assume you think it is full of thickos.
Do my beliefs make me an atheist or a theist/believer? Its one or the other.
I will let you continue your charade. You are a fake, We all know it. I don't have to draw conclusions - you do it for us all the time. And then you dump us with the same material over and over again - hoping we miss or forget those hypocritical matters you so often thrust upon the forum. It's time for you to grow up.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Yes, you are correct.
I did indicate I was not going to discuss my personal profile. And yet here I am doing exactly the opposite. Thanks for reminding me.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Well the interesting thing dear fake Brother is " assumptions" are assumptions. They are not facts. And that is something you are sadly lacking.
I am male. You are a fake. Stephen is creepy.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
The verse of men and woman and Christ is irrelevant to any person being a second class woman.
Face it fake brother. You don't have a clue.
In the Christian Kingdom, men and woman are equal. Both go to heaven. Jesus says in John 3:16 "whosoever believes". It does not say that only men who believe.
In fact the story of Genesis and the Garden of Eden which is God's home on earth - heaven - God placed both male and female in it. So even in the very first story of humanity - as placed into Heaven - the Garden of Eden - woman exist.
No woman is second class. Or can be second class unless you are a bigot. And that of course is a truism about the fake brother, isn't?
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Nonsense. Telling a parable is telling a story. No one would charge Jesus for anything - you fraud.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Nope. You are a true fraud. Fake big brother.
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@TheUnderdog
Revelation 7:9This indicates how many people go to heaven. It does not state how many go to hell.
That's correct. It indicates that so many people go to heaven that their number can't be counted. It never says anything like this for the people who end up judged. So at least I have a figure. You are just pulling an idea out of their air.
Nonsense. Bootlicking is sucking up.Like sucking up to God.
Why is there a need to suck up to a God? The bible tells us that God has no favorites. This means it would be pointless sucking up to God.
If Hell is God's idea by the way - it is just.Just because someone comes up with an idea does not make it just. Satan is also one of God's ideas. I'm assuming you don't call Satan just. If God does something I like, I praise him for it. He does this with abortion, immigration, and sex and I praise him for it. But if he does something I don't like, "like burn ANYONE in hell forever", then I'm going to criticize him for it.
That is mixing apples with pears. If God judges someone as a perfect judge then it is perfectly fair and just. God made Satan too. Making Satan was just and fair. Yet Satan is not just an idea. He is someone who his responsible for his own actions. I praise God for whatever he does. He ALWAYS does things worthy of praise.
There is a difference between spiritual and non-spiritual offences. The fact that you don't see sin against God as a particularly severe thing is emblematic of what you think about sin.The only offenses that should exist are those that cause a victim. Anything victimless ought to be legal in a free society. Many sins are victimless (like not going to church on Sundays and using God's name in vain).
Says you. Why should your view of what sin is and how it should be judged - be one that God must adhere too? I have a view about reducing taxes which seems ultimately fair and just to me - however that doesn't change the facts of the powers that exist and how they exercise them. In other words, just cos I have a subjective view about taxes - won't stop the taxman coming after me if I don't comply. In a similar way - God determines what sin is and why it ought to be punished and with what it ought to be punished. We can all whine about it - it doesn't change the facts.
God does not punish people in Hell for rape or murder. Rape and murder are fruits of a much worse situation. Rebellion against God.God punishes in hell for rape and murder. How does not going to church on Sundays lead to rape and murder 100% of the time?
Sorry, the God of the Bible sends people to Hell for treason and rebellion. Rape and murder are fruits of such rebellion. Going to church or not going to church is irrelevant to punishment. Going to church is about deepening your faith in Christ, learning to love others better and becoming more like Jesus. It stands to reason that if one is not doing these thing, then they will become more and more like Satan in his rebelliousness.
It stands to reason that an eternally perfect and just God has his own standards which are going to be very different from ours.It's not justice to burn someone in hell forever under any circumstances. Punishments must be proportional.
Yes, proportionality is important. If people reject God as King, their judgment is proportional. Rejecting the eternal authority of God has eternal consequences.
But any offense against an infinitely powerful entity is worthy of infinite punishment.This is false. Biden and Trump have a lot of power. Insulting either one of these figures should be unpunished, even if you say it to their face. Insulting God should also be unpunishable.
Neither Biden or Trump are eternal. Nor are the perfect. Insulting God - the one who gives you life - is punishable and will be punished. Treason and Rebellion is more than just a slight.
Bootlicking is about trying to win the superior person's gratitude.Bootlicking is letting entities in power get away with whatever they want.
So how do you propose to bring the almighty God of the universe to account? Which court will hold him to account? You seem to have a very small and puny image of god in your mind. The God of the Bible is the one who determines what is right and wrong. There is no law above him. He is above the law - in the sense that he is the law. His law reflects his holy character.
No I did not contradict myself. I said most people wont burn in Hell. To contradict this - would mean that I would say that most people will burn in Hell. I did not say that. To claim that Hell is justified by God does not contradict that most people go to Heaven. Do you understand logic?Maybe I misunderstood your argument here.
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@Stephen
I will agree it all sound very contradictory out of context,
Of course it sounds very contradictory. IT IS CONTRADICTORY! You are running around in circles.
You are the laughing stock of this site.
I don't believe I have ever denied being an atheist.https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/7417/post-links/319370
And yet
"I am not an atheist" https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/811/post-links/36386
OF course the context helps. But only when Stephen refers to the context.
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Just when you thought Nicola (wee cranky) Sturgeon First Minister of Scotland couldn't get more stupid and creations, she offers this to Witches from days of yore."Today on International Women's Day, as first minister on behalf of the Scottish government, I am choosing to acknowledge that egregious historic injustice and extend a formal posthumous apology to all of those accused, convicted, vilified or executed under the Witchcraft Act of 1563."So it appears that there aren't more pressing and immediate problems for a first minister of a country to be concerned about when the last Witch murdered in that part of Britain was over some 350 years ago.Will it now follow that the ancestors of Scottish Witches murdered by renown witch-pricker John Kincaid be looking for reparations from Kincaid's descendants?You couldn't make this bollocks up!
While I hold no love for witches and I think in our century we have a false view of history and ACTUALLY of what occurred back then. In other words, I think most of the history we talk about now is exaggerated and nonsense.
Now the next is personal. I acknowledge this because I know Stephen you are creepy and a stalker. And the fact that this particular topic gets up your nose and so distracts you from stalking me is in some ways a happy thing for me. Nevertheless,
I have a "to do" list, like many others I am sure. It contains all the things I need to do - in a day, week or month or life. Some of these matters are important and some less important. Some are urgent and some less urgent. Yet on my list of 1000 things, I want all of them to be done. No matter how urgent and no matter how important. At the top is the urgent and Very important. And down at the bottom are the less important and certainly not urgent, Yet I want to get down to the bottom of the list at some stage.
I imagine Nicola Sturgeon has a list. And on that list are important and urgent matters and some which are not so urgent. Nuclear War and Ukraine is pretty important. As was Brexit etc. Yet - even in the midst of these important and urgent things - I suspect dear Nicola would like to get some other things done as well.
So despite the fact that I wish she did not have this on her list - since it is very likely it has come about because of some dodgy history lessons, I don't take the view that she ought to wait until all of the important and urgent issues have been concluded. Since then very likely, it would never arise. (In my view that would not be a bad thing) yet for me - the ends don't justify the means.
What I am saying to you is - the only one who is making bollacks up is you.
Get over it dear boy. Suck it up. I can only imagine how you sleep at night. I fear for your wife, your children and your grandchildren.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
OUR QUOTE ABOUT THE FAMILY: “Do you deny that the family unit is valuable? Are you ever going to answer that question?”Of course I do! I didn’t answer at first because I didn’t want to embarrass you even further with your Satanic spin doctoring to literal passages. Since I did address your question now, then the following is brought forth herewith relative to one’s family and what JESUS SAYS to do if they try and take you away from Christianity, to wit:JESUS' INSPIRED WORDS STATE: "If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12)I love Jesus as a “mans man” in the fact that we have to accept Him telling us to KILL our family members if need be, praise His ever loving and forgiving nature!
So I take it then that you don't value family.
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Tell us Miss Tradesecret, are the following biblical axioms “idioms,” or your laughable “covenantal deaths” like you say other passages are at your wish, where Jesus did the following brutal and disgusting acts which are only a FEW OF MANY shown below in having INNOCENT CHILDREN KILLED IN BRUTAL WAYS?!“And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.” (Jeremiah 19:9)“And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.” (Exodus 12:29)“Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.” Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children. (Isaiah 13:15-16,18)Miss Tradesecret, have you ever wondered in what an innocent child sounds like when Jesus says they are to be DASHED to pieces? Maybe it is like a watermelon being thrown upon a large rock in a SQUISH THUMP sound? Yes? What is your opinion in how this sounds? BEGIN:
As all of these various verses indicates, God judges the evil and brings judgment upon them. Sometimes he does this directly and sometimes he does this indirectly. When people choose to be evil - you know - things like eating their own children, giving their kids away as sex slaves etc, then they will eventually reap the judgment of God. And so they should.
God didn't order anyone to do these things though. Did he? In the first instance - this was simply the result of living according their own standards and rejecting God. This curse is one that they brought on themselves - even though he told them they would do it if they did not repent of their sins. Still, just like you, they ignored God, continued on their merry way - and ultimately eating their own children. How sad and pathetic.
In the second one - this was God delivering his people from slavery. Surely that's a good thing. Or would you prefer people remain slaves? Perhaps you do. I don't. God used Moses to talk to Pharaoh and asked him to let the people leave. The king of Egypt heard that if he did not let people out of slavery that God would not be happy. Pharaoh thumbed his nose at God. Told him and Moses to stop being jerks and enjoy being slaves. Moses warned him - and warned his own people what God would do - if his people were not let free. God then did what he said he was going to do. The king had been warned and thought God would not do this. God is too weak or God is to loving or God doesn't have the balls or God is not real. Yet God did exactly what he said he would do. He delivered his people from slavery. And whatever happened to the Egyptians is on the king's head - not on God or Israel.
The third passage doesn't mention innocent children. You might mention it because you want to believe that children are innocent. That however is an assumption. But it too is a prophecy - as a warning - of what will happen if people don't listen to God. When people don't want to listen to God - he always gives them a warning of what is likely to happen. Especially if the people who might come in and hurt you are non-god fearing people. God fearing people would not cause his harm. But God fearing people do not generally attack other nations. God fearing people tend to be at home - defending themselves. In this case - it was a warning about the Babylonians or the Chaldeans coming in - to hurt and harm. And God was warning the nation of Israel to remain faithful to God - otherwise - this attack would come.
The Israelites of course - didn't care about what God said. They thumbed their nose at him - if they believed in him. They thought - this would never happen to us - and if it does happen - it's got nothing to do with God anyway. It's a coincidence. That's what people would do today. Repent - or you might get attacked. Repent or a disease might rip through your world. Repent or crime will increase. Repent or your governments will become more corrupt. We would laugh. We would say - leave religion out of it. Irrelevant. It happens today - it happened then. Yet God is simply warning people that evil will be judged. That sin is judged inevitably.
You might see it differently. Good for you.
But the God of the Bible is perfect and just and good.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Miss Tradesecret,Addressing your severely wanting post #268 AGAIN.Jesus’ inspired words in offspring cursing their parents are as such: “For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.” (Leviticus 20:9)YOUR ONCE AGAIN IN REWRITING THE BIBLE RELATIVE TO JESUS’ LITERAL WORDS ABOVE: “Again you seem to be having trouble distinguishing between literal language and genre. That's ok but you do need to go and learn the difference. Literally an idiom. Go and ask Jesus. He will tell you that "must surely die" in Hebrew is an idiom. Translated literally from the Hebrew it is "dying you shall die".Firstly and foremost, where do YOU get the authority in your Satanic gobbledygook shown above to rewrite the scriptures to your own liking and taking them away from their actual PROVISIONAL forms for the Bible times? Tell us! BEGIN:Once again you slap Jesus in the face when He proffered: “Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.” (2 Peter 1:20). GET IT BIBLE FOOL?What you are essentially and Satanically saying, is that for thousands of years what Christians have read LITERALLY within the Bible is wrong! Whereas to YOU, they need a decoder book or a crystal ball as you have shown to read the Bible correctly in your Satanic way of thinking, NOT!NEXT BIBLE IGNORANT FOOL LIKE MISS TRADESECRET THAT SATANICALLY CHANGES LITERAL DISGUSTING BIBLE NARRATIVES, BUT NOT NICE LITERAL BIBLE NARRATIVES FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, WILL BE ...?
I have not changed the words of the Bible. In fact UNLIKE you I am actually reading the HEBREW. It is you who has misinterpreted the meaning.
In any event - as was shown on this forum recently, you only take things literally when you suit and call verses that contradict you visions. It is you who does not have a system of interpretation that is not solidly based. It is you who is contradicting Peter's words.
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YOUR MISCONSTRUED AND LYING QUOTE IN POST #268 !!!!: “Again - I am not a female. I identify as male.”1. WRONG!, you first identified yourself as a FEMALE: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy2. Secondly, then you embarrassingly identified yourself as an “UNKNOWN!”: https://www.debateart.com/profiles/Tradesecret3. Thirdly, you now address yourself as a MALE in your quote above! WTF?As shown with the above FACTS, you don’t know what the hell you are in your gender at any given time which is blaspheme to Jesus the Christ in His initial creation of you as a WOMAN first!
Let's assume for the sake of your argument that I did first identify as a woman. So what? Let's assume that I then changed my profile to say unknown? And then let's assume that I changed it back to male? So what?
In Australia I am allowed to identify however I like. Right now I identify as a male even though my profile actually says "unknown". So please address me as male.
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Uh, we all can see that you did not have the nerve to address my post listing all of your “current excuses" to RUN AWAY from questions that you cannot refute and remain intelligent looking in the aftermath, nor biblical axioms as well that you have to spin doctor or re-interpret through your ungodly Devil speak in your Satanic apologetic books.Would you like to include an excuse #11 to your ever growing list in why you RAN AWAY from your revealing excuses post by me as shown in this link: https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/7337-how-do-you-know-the-bible-is-true?page=11&post_number=265
Yep - please read very slowly - I am not running away. I won't answer personal questions. You are a dunce.
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Miss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!YOUR EMBARRASSING UNINFORMED QUOTE ONCE AGAIN: “BTW - there is no such thing as a second class woman. In fact I am not even sure what that is.”I have already addressed this question with you before, therefore, how many times am I to take the time to do it again, and again, and again?LAST TIME WOMAN, MAN is first class, woMAN is second class to man as shown herewith: “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is man.” For the man is not of the women; but the woman of the man.” (1Corinthians 11: 3,8)Now, if you are still having a hard time in understanding this biblical axiomatic verse above, I can get my 1st grader neighbor named Timmy to come over and post to you at a grade-school level to possibly help you finally comprehend this proposition, understood Bible fool?Miss Tradesecret, seriously, just how embarrassed about your complete Bible ignorance are you willing to take within this forum? LOL!NEXT BIBLE IGNORANT PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN WOMAN LIKE MISS TRADESECRET THAT IS CONFUSED UPON 1ST AND 2ND CLASS GENDERS WITHIN THE BIBLE WILL BE ...?
Is that really your response? Pathetic. You do realize that you are saying second class woman. Not second class human. Or has that part missed your huge lump of a brain?
To be a second class woman - means that there must be a first class woman. If man is first class and woman is second class, then you must call it what it is - a second class human. LOL! your logic is delightfully silly.
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YOUR COMICAL QUOTE: “literally a vision.???? I love that Brother. Whatever does that mean? Let's apply it to "literally a parable". If a parable talks of killing people - does that make the person telling the parable a murderer?“Jesus and I are truly sorry that you can’t understand such a simple proposition, but what did we expect as you being a woman! Again, John saw a VISION (Revelation verses 1, 3, and 7) that was in heaven of a woman first, and then said women was upon earth with a dragon. John DID NOT see any woman whatsoever that is heaven full time! Why, because as Jesus’ inspired words so state, there will NEVER be women in heaven subsequent to their demise, but only MEN! I am sorry that your inept Bible knowledge doesn’t know of this biblical axiom, but as usual, your Bible ignorance is without bounds as I and many others have shown ad infinitum upon this Religion Forum!Addressing your question if a parable talks about killing people, and does that make the person telling the parable a murderer, YES, as an accomplice that aided and abetted and commanded the murder to be done, as Jesus did herewith: “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” (Luke 19:27). Therefore today, Jesus would be charged with First Degree Felony Murder!I thank you for reminding us of this Jesus FACT above, good girl Miss Tradesecret!
LOL @ you. Did you notice the way you ran away from the question? I did and so has everyone else.
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Miss Tradesecret, as a woman shown herewith: https://ibb.co/NFcsLgy that goes directly against Jesus’ words in 1 Timothy 2:12, whereas she is not to teach and in being SILENT towards men!You keep telling us that I am an Atheist, that I am a fraud, a fake Christian and such, whereas this purports that you have NEVER in your life met a TRUE Christian like myself that follows and accepts ALL of the Bible!It scares the bejesus out of you that anyone could actually follow the entire Bible as written, without ungodly rewriting it like you do (2 Peter 1:20), and mostly because I accept that Jesus as Yahweh God incarnate was a brutal serial killer as shown in the Old and New Testaments, so be it!In turn, I can support my FACTS that you are still the #1 Bible stupid and ignorant runaway fool from biblical axioms within this forum!NEXT PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN 2ND CLASS WOMAN LIKE MISS TRADESECRET THAT HAS TO CALL ANOTHER A WRONGFUL POSITION TO HELP THEM TRY AND CHANGE COURSE TO THE DISCUSSION TO REMOVE THEIR BIBLE STUPIDITY WILL BE ...?
You are a fake and a fraud. Your profile is tolerated because it is a charade and adding some alleged comedy here. If it weren't for that parody rule, you would have been booted out a long time ago. You are not a Christian. Any one with half a brain understands that.
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@Stephen
If I produce any evidence that you told people on this site you were a theist, You are prepared to apologize.....I am an atheist, you clown. I have nothing to apologise for. I don't believe in god and I don't believe Jesus was a god. But you can make up your own mind. I personally don't care.Did you miss this?>>#29Stephen wrote: I was christened as a baby, I had no say in the matter. This would make me a Christian in anyone's terms and language. But I do not have a religious bone in my body I am not what is called a ' practicing Christian '. I am not religious. I believe the Old Testament to be an historic record of sorts of the Israelites. I believe the Old Testamant to be much more honest and truthful than the New Testamant.The New Testament to my mind is on the surface a collection of ambiguous half stories about a man that believed himself to be the rightful heir to the throne of Jerusalem and had attempted to reunite the" lost" tribes of Israel i.e. those that had fell away and of which many were now Hellenised in attempt to free 'god's chosen people' from the Roman yoke. He failed miserably and was put to death for crimes against Rome.And all this has been my own personal stance from the day I came to this forum.I have also said many times, I find it impossible to dismiss the bible and many biblical accounts out outright and out of hand, as I have attempted to put across in many of my of my threads. <<<<< CUT OUT AND KEEP.#29
I don't know why you needed to throw in that last paragraph. It really is irrelevant. SO pleased you finally admit to being an atheist. Of course you have said on at least one occasion that you are a theist. Let me remind you.
"I am not an atheist , ploy. I believe , just like you, that there was more than one. I believe in gods plural as you do." https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/811/post-links/36386But I do believe these beings - "lords" / gods existed. So I would say that actually makes me a theist. https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/927/post-links/41322
So just to be clear, despite your lies above that you are an atheist, here you claim firstly, not be to an atheist. And why do you say that? because you believe in more than one god. Plural in fact. And then not only do you deny being an atheist, but you actually claim to be a "theist". Again why? because you believe that lords / gods existed.
Now the ironic thing is - this here just proves once again that "you don't have a clue". It is not me suffering an identity crisis. It is you. Or perhaps you are suffering old man's senility. In either event I thank you for your apology which I fear will never be forthcoming. Even indeed as I can guarantee you won't stop being a jerk.
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@TheUnderdog
My position as many people in the church is that most people in history will end up in Heaven and that only a minority of people will end up being judged in Hell.What biblical verse proves this?The Book of Revelation tells us that the number of people in Heaven is number without count.Where? What verse?
Revelation 7:9
and it was speaking in general terms to those people in Jesus' time and more or less to a time prior to the incarnationThis interpretation requires evidence. Jesus did a lot of future predicting.
Yes Jesus did do a lot of prophecy. But even the verse I provided above is evidence that supports my view that more people go to heaven than to Hell.
Yes, I have seen the numbers in the West suggesting christians are reducing in number. But have you seen the numbers in Africa, and China, and Asia, and South America? Exponential growth is still occurring.How is the popularity of christainity (which I think is decreasing) relevant to the proportion that burn in hell forever?
The relevancy is that since Jesus' time - there were 12 or so people who believed in Jesus. Now there are billions. As a percentage of the world in Jesus time is was less than .000001 of a percent of a much smaller population. Now there are over 1/3 of the world's population who are Christians. And since this number is increasing it stands to reason that the number of people going to Heaven is in the long run be far more than those who don't. I think Jesus won't return for many many years. I think 1000's really.
I think you will find that Christians generally say - that EVERYONE - christian or non-christian deserves judgment from God - for all have sinned and fallen short of his requirements. That's why Jesus is significant. Because he is the only one who did not deserve judgment because he alone did not sin. Since Christians hold to the view that God is good and just - we take the view that since we know the punishment for our sin and do it anyway that - we have no excuse. And we have no defense. Noone forces us to sin - we choose to do it ourselves - knowing full well it will have consequences.Agreeing with God's horrible view of burning in hell forever for a sin is bootlicking.
Nonsense. Bootlicking is sucking up. That's the intent of it - in order to not get bullied or to get somewhere higher in the ranks of whatever organisation you are in. In the church - the opposite is true. In order to be saved we have stop bootlicking - since that is trying to acquire some kind of merit in God's eyes. Agreeing with truth is not bootlicking - it is opening your eyes and being realistic to what is actually happening, whether we like it or not. If Hell is God's idea by the way - it is just.
If Hellfire is the punishment - why is it so severe and harsh? In normal legal systems - the more severe and heavy the punishment - the greater the value of what is being protected.In our legal system, even the worst of the worst of murderers (if your country/state has the death penalty) is a relatively painless death and torture violates the 8th amendment. If we don't burn murderers at the stake for murder (when they die after a few hours), then it is even more horrible to burn someone forever for not keeping the sabbath day holy.
God never signed the UN HR charter. There is a difference between spiritual and non-spiritual offences. The fact that you don't see sin against God as a particularly severe thing is emblematic of what you think about sin. On the other hand - God's view of sin is such that only Jesus' death on the cross was able to resolve it. This is death of the messiah. Hardly a small thing. Personally I think your understanding of sin - is shallow.
We value life as a rule so someone who takes away someone else's life is given a punishment appropriate to that - which is mitigated only by circumstances and intent. We value the sanctity of the marriage which is why rape, and adultery and other forms of sexual offences are given heavy sentences (at least historically). Incidentally, one way to show marriage is not valued anymore in the west is the fact we don't in many countries have punishment for adultery.Rape and adultery should not be punished with an eternity in hell. Rapists and murderers deserve to be shot, but this is less severe than an eternity in hell. Adultery committers should be whipped 30x in the presence of their spouse, but not burn in hell forever.
God does not punish people in Hell for rape or murder. Rape and murder are fruits of a much worse situation. Rebellion against God.
And the answer is interestingly, even on most legal books the most serious offence- treason. Go and have a look at the various legal systems around the world. One of the few offences which still carries the death penalty in most cases is treason.Our justice system doesn't burn people alive who commit treason. However, God burns people forever for even trivial sins if they are unrepentant.
So what? Each legal system has its own rules and laws and methods of punishment. It stands to reason that an eternally perfect and just God has his own standards which are going to be very different from ours. So different in fact - that our very flawed and imperfect methods will think his perfect and just systems are severe and evil. Your position is one of a flawed human being - not of a perfect one.
In Thailand - treason is expressed simply saying something negative about the king.Do you really want the justice system to emulate anti first amendment Thailand?
My point was that in our world - there is a legal system which does do that. Is it good or bad? That is another question.
I suggest to you that sin - is treason against God.God is as thin skinned as the monarch of Thailand; not someone to be emulated.
You have no conception about sin. That you suggest it is not worth such severe punishment missed the point that God sent Jesus to die for such a matter.
Nope. It is not bootlicking. God can do anything he chooses to do.Letting God burn your relatives in hell forever once they die is bootlicking. Otherwise, what is bootlicking?
Bootlicking is about trying to win the superior person's gratitude. Christianity is EXACTLY the opposite. We can't win his approval. That is why Jesus had to die. Because it is impossible for us to win God's approval. Hence there is NO POINT to boot licking. To suggest so - simply demonstrates a misunderstanding about God's grace.
How about you go and create your own world and make the rules.It is impossible for a human to create a world. But if God is going to create us just to torture the majority of our species, then that's an evil god.I also noticed that you contradicted yourself. First you said that most people aren't burning in hell forever. Then you claimed that burning in hell was justified if Mr. Sky Wizard deems that you should burn in hell forever.
No I did not contradict myself. I said most people wont burn in Hell. To contradict this - would mean that I would say that most people will burn in Hell. I did not say that. To claim that Hell is justified by God does not contradict that most people go to Heaven. Do you understand logic?
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@Double_R
I suggest to you that sin - is treason against God. It is the most vile and offensive thing. And we do it knowing the consequences - and still sinning anyway.Treason is held in such high regard in terms of seriousness not because it is vile or immoral, but rather because it threatens the state itself. Nothing can threaten God, so this analogy does not work.
It is not an analogy. It is treason. And as for whether anything can threaten God misses the point. God created a world to love and worship Him. What was threatened was not so much God as the world he created to love and worship Him. It is the world created by God which if it lived according to the way God intended which has been damaged and continues to be destroyed because of the treason committed against God.
I reject your assertion that there is no offence that deserves judgment in Hell. The bible clearly indicates there there is an offence and that all of us have broken it. You might not like the rules - that is a different matter altogether. How about you go and create your own world and make the rules.Hell is eternal torture for a finite crime. That makes it infinitely unjust. Logic 101.If I created your own world I would create far more just rules, which is the point here. If I can see the imbalance here why can’t God?
What makes the offence finite? That it is committed once or by one person? Or that it is committed within time and not eternity? In other words - you prove too much by that logic which in effect refutes it. See below in relation to love and to mercy.
I think you miss the point here as well. It is committed against an eternal being. That is the point. And one who put people on notice prior to their decision to commit the offence.
The problem about you making the world is that you didn't. I also suggest your notions of justice are out of whack with 90% of the world - so silly to even make that point.
An eternal being loves eternally. Why? For a finite person. An eternal being gives mercy eternally? Why? For a finite act of repentance. Your logic 101 is flawed since it does not take into account everything to with eternals. Unless you can explain why eternal mercy is justified for a finite act, you prove to much in your logic 101.
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@Stephen
So that's a NO, then. You cannot explain your own bullshite.Ok . Off you trot.
I did explain my position.
Go back and read it again. Or for the first time perhaps. LOL!
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@Stephen
So just to be sure then.
If I produce any evidence that you told people on this site you were a theist, then you would admit you were lying and then would stop being a jerk?
A simple yes or no would suffice.
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