Yes. But we did follow his example so what does that tell you?
Well I think it would be pertinent to state we
didn't follow his example. Even back then, after he had specifically told people not to do anything on the sabbath, they still did- and got fried for it aswell. Even nowadays the local jewish community tried to get big poles put up in certain areas. Within the pole boundary they could do things; go shopping, drive etc. I mean really, you have non-religious people who don't care, those who don't believe in a god who have no reason to listen to an old book and then you have the religious people of the world who more often than not treat god in rubber band fashion. What I mean by this, is they stretch, bend and twist everything to suit their own ideals, and the things they don't mind upholding, whilst completely ignoring everything else he said.
Here we are discussing the day of rest, which is upheld even to this day, and many would have us believe we have this day of rest because god told us to. And yet, god also told us to sacrifice cows, to stone our children to death if they're bad, and to kill any homosexuals that we find. Now, it's ok to uphold the day of rest because nobody gets hurt, but to uphold the majority of gods other laws would have pretty much wiped out humanity long ago. Yet nobody cares, god the rubber band is twisted and distorted to whatever the religious people of the world "want" to listen to. The rest is completely ignored, because anyone in their right mind would not consider listening to the rest of his commands.
The bible becomes nothing more than a giant pick & mix, and god becomes nothing more than a dissected animal- where you can choose what parts to remove, what parts to pay attention to, and what parts to add.
I got pissed off one day, and drowned them all in the great toilet flood.
That Satan exists but Santa doesn’t. But neither of us can prove either one right or wrong so this is futile.
I agree, and that's where the whole problem lies. You have to appreciate it from my point of view, that god has no more credibilty than bigfoot, banshees, mothmen etc. I can't just accept something because someone says it's real, I see no way in which say a christian can deny the hindu faith, or for that matter any other faith - even that daft webpage of 'black jesus'.
From the moment of birth, children are bought up on fantasy and belief in beings that have no discernible validity whatsoever. The easter bunny, tooth fairy, santa claus and so on. At least these fantasy beings are of a 'kind' nature, and so many do not see the harm it would do to actually deceive their children in this manner. When they grow up a bit and see the evil in the world vs all the beauty in the world - they envision two specific comic book beings: god the superhero of good, and satan the arch nemesis.
The only problem is, they have just as much supporting evidence as spiderman and the green goblin {?}
Everything is seen at it's two extremes, as opposed to the infinite number of branches in between.
Fear and love, right and wrong, good and evil, tall and short, fat and thin, black and white, yin and yang.
This is what so many people pass off as life, but life is vastly more complex than that.
Now, you might 'feel' god within you, or you might have seen him or heard him, but you wouldn't just 'believe' if I said I saw leprechauns, so you need to see it from the 'outside' perspective.
While I wont sit down and call you a blatant liar, I have to debate and question it. I used to talk to a lot of alien abductees, and I never called them blatant liars either- but I still questioned what they said, as perhaps you would too.
I'm just saying this to ensure you don't mistake me as attacking you or anything of that nature, but just to make sure you know why I question things
what type of doctor are you, if you don’t mind me asking?
I'm not a doctor, I'm just qualified. It was an essential part of my work dealing with unexplained phenomena, and the 'witnesses'. Nowadays I don't do much, thanks to an inheritance.
The New Testament sees the birth of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
Yes it does. What's your point?
god’s in ancient time can mean statues or people of authority, like the pharaoh for example. One God is responsible, but Angels know the difference between right and wrong.
Well the Hindu gods for example.. Are they just important people or statues? As I said, the overwhelming majority of historical religions are polytheistic instead of monotheistic. I see nothing that gives any less credibility to the belief in many gods over one god.
Neither could the Egyptians
The bible says they did. Does that mean the bible is lying?
I am impressed with the pyramids too. I think your point about Ra is valid, as in giving power to the Egyptians. Do you know if Ra was worshipped before the plagues or after?
Hmmm gimme a sec, need to figure this out..
I managed to *yoink* this from a webpage:
"The first thing the scholars determined was the time frame. They agreed on 1260 BC, about a thousand years after the pyramids were built."
If it's 1000 years after the pyramids were built, it's pertinent to state Ra would have been worshipped before the plague era.
