Do you honestly think that you are the original in raising these questions? If the Bible could be proven false/and or/inaccurate, then Christianity wouldn't have survived 2000 years of persecution. People aren't willling to be burned alive and cut in half for lies. The only way that I see anyone could stand by their beliefs through all this because a loving God changed their lives through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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"I don't need to answer the points you raise, because someone much smarter than me must have already dealt with it. How else could Christianity have survived, unless most Christians were as dumb as me?"
The 'god' of the bible bears no resemblance to a loving god.
St Philomena was stupid. She shunned her greatest opportunity to do Christ's work because she was a prudish little virgin.
As to the persecution, your 'god' has apparently chosen, through his self-righteous minions, to fight fire with fire.
"punkbassist4God". That just sums everything up nicely.
If the Bible could be proven false/and or/inaccurate, then Christianity wouldn't have survived 2000 years of persecution.
You'd think so, but indoctrination from birth and ridiculously thick skulls make a dangerous combination.
18 year old boys flying their aircraft into ships, men, women, strapping explosive round their waists.
If you start indocrinating young enough with enough inducements you can corrupt a child's mind to commit any atrocity in the name of a particular belief.
Except that Christianity has not survived 2,000 years of persecution.
Well, not from the receiving end anyway.
“Do you honestly think that you are the original in raising these questions?”
Don’t need to be original, just haven’t seen a real answer to some problems.
“If the Bible could be proven false/and or/inaccurate, then Christianity wouldn't have survived 2000 years of persecution.”
Hardly.
David is described as having gotten 10,000 Darics for building the Temple, but the king who invented Darics, King Darius, was hundreds of years after David.
‘Defenses’ of this anachronism just say a number of things from ‘it doesn’t matter, the Bible isn’t about gold coins’ to ‘it was right in the original (which we don’t have), must be a translation problem.’
Certainly, no believer will roger up to the fact that it’s not true.
“People aren't willling to be burned alive and cut in half for lies.”
Christains were thrown to the lions for not being pagans in Ancient Rome. When Rome became Christain, they threw pagans to the same lions. For BEING pagans.
Both sides were willing, they can’t both have died for a truthiness.
“The only way that I see anyone could stand by their beliefs through all this because a loving God changed their lives through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”
Or they were deluded. Deluded works just as well.
Unless you’re willing to say that the witches who got burned at the stake died for truths? And the Muslims burned by the Inquisition? And the Jews, same bonfires?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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