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Is poisoning the well acceptable if a Christian does it to God's glory?.
This is a great example:
To justifiably believe a biblical tale of a miracle requires more than mere human testimony. Just think of what it would take to believe someone who told you...
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You mean to tell me 'divine inspiration' didn't carry the day until the invention of the printing press? I'm shocked! ;)
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One man's heresy is another man's self-evident truth, and around and around we go.
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Sure, but it doesn't beat: "Once upon a time..." which it should have.
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I have this nearly sub-conscious 'belief' that I won't die until I finish reading all my books - conditional immortality.
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I'll raise ya one: Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος ... OK, I'll go away now.
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My father claimed that he received visions that revealed things from God. If he'd been more clever, bless his heart, he could have parlayed them into real money.
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But your first example doesn't seem to be talking about the norms and methods in that discipline. Sure, folk can be bias, and their peers are usually the ones calling out that bias. They are...
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Well, that's where he says he got it, "visions". 11 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. 12 I did not receive it from any...
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And not just in antiquity - antiquarian thinking persists to this day.
Absolutely. I guess what is meant, is the demarcation lines today are less blurred. Belief in ghosts,...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
A concoction need not be deliberate, but a lie does.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
I suspect Paul got his information from the voices in his head.
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Relevant to the claim "more than any other group in present day academia". That should read "more than any other group in present day academia that I happen to think of",...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago
Well, the concoction need not be deliberate. We understand this from the concept of social construction. The English language, for example, is clearly a social construct. It didn't exist...
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In antiquity, distinctions were not even routinely made between hallucinations and dreams. Both would be described as “seeing” the god, as the god “appearing” to them, as “revelations”...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago
ISWYDT
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Or you you could read his free online version (link).
I could. But that still suffers from other impediments. Such as:- Lack of Time: Many adults report...
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Docetists apparently were comfortable with a Jesus who lied, by falsifying the evidence of what he was.
The term Docetistism, like Gnosticism and Christianity, is an...
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which makes Jesusology basically a word game
Well, in the beginning was the Logos/Word. Heh heh. /s
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Interesting stuff. Goes to show that at the end of the day, Jesusology's a word game because the only evidence for early Christianity is words. Not even original words but words copied over...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago
Right.
Whataboutery is interesting, but relevant because?
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago
That's true, but other factors come into play. For example, I'd not heard of Hyndman's book until here. Now that I have, am I going to splash out £23 on a deconversion...
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"Jesus Versus Christianity" by Alfred Reynolds (1993)
“Docetists [...] maintained that since Christ was fully divine, he could not have been fully...
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" [...] Because of this, he maintains that, more than any other group in present day academia, biblical historians are under immense pressure to theologize their historical work...
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Well, "concocted a lie" or "grief induced hallucinations", both have their places. Religious leaders, aka cult leaders, concoct lies all the time. They also believe they see...
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