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1. I am aware that there was not an organized church per-say. These churches that you are talking about were the same ones planted by many of the...
I agree with everything you just said... but the fact is these letters and Christians were around for a couple of hundred years before Constantine...
Your theory hinges on the fact that there were not books already being circulated in the church. Once again you are depending on an outstanding...
Thank you for your post and time. That is definitely some interesting information. However, I must confess I do not have the background knowledge...
Thank you for your kind words! I am sorry that you find my view troubling. The way biblical scholars deal with textual differences is that they...
Ok... it appears this argument has run its course. We obviously have irreconcilable differences in how the New Testament came to us. I disagree...
I am saying that these differences were not the kind of differences that you are implying they were. They were copyist errors, and because of the...
Everything you just said sounds like it is biased in some sort as well. So because different sects emerged out of differing interpretations of the...
Ok well here are three offhand... 1) Jesus affirmed Peter's claim that he was the Messiah. 2) Jesus told the woman at the well that was the...
Could you elaborate please? Because there appear to be several instances of Jesus claiming to be the Messiah. Or at least leading His followers to...
For what it is worth, here is a somewhat long interview (about 16 min) from an agnostic Bible critic. It hopefully will help shed some light on...
To answer your question, zero times. The Gospel of Thomas was written much later than the Gospels that are actually in the Bible. The early church...
That is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. I love how it shows Jesus' human side, and the fact that when bad things happen, God isn't sitting...
Do you by chance have any proof of anything you just said other than the fact that it was written by men? Which parts were edited? And exactly...
Well thank you for the kind words. I always appreciate talking with someone who is knowledgeable and who doesn't resort to personal attacks and...
If the determination that there has to be a cause is an assumption of the human perspective, so what? What other perspective do we have to go on?...
I don't mean to say that it proves that there God caused the universe. What I am saying is that drawing "God" as a conclusion to the beginning of...
This is what I don't understand. What I am saying is that the universe has a beginning, and that everything that has a beginning has a cause,...
No God would be eternal because whatever caused the universe would have to be outside of time... Which is another way of saying eternal. What...
When I say nothingness, I literally mean nothing: no space, or time, or energy, or laws of nature... nothing. From what I understand, before the...
