Archaeology of the New Testament

[James]

luckily the point of religion is to create high trust thriving societies.

Jesus encapsulated that perfectly in his golden rule.

the golden rule is the proper take-away from Christianity.

any other takeaway is probably a Zionist malignancy.

What's that Golden Rule IS?

You lost me here

 

[Ichabod Stain]

What's that Golden Rule IS?

You lost me here

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The Golden Rule, as stated by Jesus in Matthew 7:12, is: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." This verse encapsulates the essence of Jesus' teachings on how to treat others, emphasizing love and respect.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Just another assumption! Like Indians all came here across the Bering Strait! When it was the opposite!

Disagreed but if you want to believe the Garden of Eden was in the US, I think the MAGAts would agree with you.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I didn't say anything about an afterlife, Christianity, or Islam. I asked if you thought if it's reasonable to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.

I'm not asking if you believe in anthropomorphic gods like Zeus or Odin. I asked if you thought if it's a great explanation to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.

So? Are you saying Earth is extremely rare and precious?

None of those explain gravity at it's most fundamental level. There are some questions science doesn't answer, and probably never will. That's the point I made. You are trapped in a paradigm thinking that science provides, or can provide, the answer to absolutely everything.

Mathematics implies a mind, a rational agency, or an underlying organizing principle. You still haven't convinced me that lawful organization and an underlying universal mathematical scaffolding somehow just appears from inanimate, irrational, material causes.

I remember a George Carlin bit about being in Catholic school and asking the Priest/teacher difficult questions and getting the answer "Well, it's a mystery". That's the same answer ardent atheists are giving about the Big Bang. LOL

 

[Cypress]

I remember a George Carlin bit about being in Catholic school and asking the Priest/teacher difficult questions and getting the answer "Well, it's a mystery". That's the same answer ardent atheists are giving about the Big Bang. LOL

HaHa!
Yeah, but they say "we don't know," but then they clearly insinuate that they know with 100 percent confidence that a rational and material universe was somehow caused by the irrational, inanimate, and immaterial.

Agnostics at least recognize we don't know whether or not there is some higher rational agency, or whether everything is somehow just an inanimate random chance accident.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

HaHa!
Yeah, but they say "we don't know," but then they clearly insinuate that they know with 100 percent confidence that a rational and material universe was somehow caused by the irrational, inanimate, and immaterial.

Agnostics at least recognize we don't know whether or not there is some higher rational agency, or whether everything is somehow just an inanimate random chance accident.

Exactly. They declare they know what the origin is not without any evidence backing up their position. It also explains why they backpedal a bit just like Richard Dawkins in denying they are a full-blown 7 on the belief scale.

Spectrum of theistic probability - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Cypress]

Exactly. They declare they know what the origin is not without any evidence backing up their position. It also explains why they backpedal a bit just like Richard Dawkins in denying they are a full-blown 7 on the belief scale.

Spectrum of theistic probability - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I always think if you make atheists take the logical conclusions of their worldview seriously, they start moonwalking backwards towards a marginally more agnostic position.

The religious fundamentalists are hopeless, they are stuck in a paradigm of fundamentalism.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

I didn't say anything about an afterlife, Christianity, or Islam. I asked if you thought if it's reasonable to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.

I'm not asking if you believe in anthropomorphic gods like Zeus or Odin. I asked if you thought if it's a great explanation to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.

So? Are you saying Earth is extremely rare and precious?

None of those explain gravity at it's most fundamental level. There are some questions science doesn't answer, and probably never will. That's the point I made. You are trapped in a paradigm thinking that science provides, or can provide, the answer to absolutely everything.

Mathematics implies a mind, a rational agency, or an underlying organizing principle. You still haven't convinced me that lawful organization and an underlying universal mathematical scaffolding somehow just appears from inanimate, irrational, material causes.

you're a fucking idiot.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

I remember a George Carlin bit about being in Catholic school and asking the Priest/teacher difficult questions and getting the answer "Well, it's a mystery". That's the same answer ardent atheists are giving about the Big Bang. LOL

right.

and only imbeciles like theocrats, you, and cypress claim to have all the answers,

 

[Ichabod Stain]

Disagreed but if you want to believe the Garden of Eden was in the US, I think the MAGAts would agree with you.

smug condescension doesn't work anymore, prick.

 

[Melchizedek=Tecumseh]

these people are brainwashed fools.

They go with the assumption flow!

 

[Melchizedek=Tecumseh]

Disagreed but if you want to believe the Garden of Eden was in the US, I think the MAGAts would agree with you.

 

[James]

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The Golden Rule, as stated by Jesus in Matthew 7:12, is: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." This verse encapsulates the essence of Jesus' teachings on how to treat others, emphasizing love and respect.

Meanwhile those Psychopathic Spawn of Talmudic Hell on Earth, who oppose these words above, believe just the opposite...."Do unto others before they do unto you" ...

This is literally out of their vile criminal Slavic Talmud....go read it some time.. There's a temporary English version of it online, that will go bye-bye by the Isreali AI/ algorithms in about 3 minutes after I posted this

 

[Ichabod Stain]

Meanwhile those Psychopathic Spawn of Talmudic Hell on Earth, who oppose these words above, believe just the opposite...."Do unto others before they do unto you" ...

This is literally out of their vile criminal Slavic Talmud....go read it some time.. There's a temporary English version of it online, that will go bye-bye by the Isreali AI/ algorithms in about 3 minutes after I posted this

yes.

they shamelessly personify evil.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

I always think if you make atheists take the logical conclusions of their worldview seriously, they start moonwalking backwards towards a marginally more agnostic position.

The religious fundamentalists are hopeless, they are stuck in a paradigm of fundamentalism.

meanwhile, you think "biblical archaelogy" is meaningful.

you're a "deistic" mason Satan worshipper, so nobody cares what issues forth from your demon maw.

 

[Into the Night]

selection can both incease and decrease variation, depending on factors.

So what is the equation, NoName?

You cannot both increase and decrease variation at the same time. You are being irrational.

 

[Into the Night]

You have no idea what I've seen. Claiming you know makes you the liar.

YARP. Try to stay on topic at least.

 

[Into the Night]

Neither evolution nor natural selection cares which theory man created first.

The Theory of Evolution is not sentient.
The Theory of Natural Selection is not sentient.

YOU made the erroneous statement, moron.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

So what is the equation, NoName?

You cannot both increase and decrease variation at the same time. You are being irrational.

it happens.

it depends on environment.

 

[Into the Night]

I didn't say anything about an afterlife, Christianity, or Islam. I asked if you thought if it's reasonable to believe the rational and the material can somehow spontaneously come from the irrational and immaterial.

The Universe is a random dust cloud. How do you know it came from anything?

So? Are you saying Earth is extremely rare and precious?

It certainly is. There is only one planet called Earth.

None of those explain gravity at it's most fundamental level.

F = G(m1*m2)/r^2, where F is force in Newtons, G is the gravitational constant, m1 and m2 are two masses, and 'r' is the distance between them.

Force can be a result of gravity. The closer the two masses are, the more force. The larger the masses are, the more force.
G = 6.574 * 10^-11 Newtons. The purpose of any natural constant is to convert the relation to our units of measurement.

This results in an acceleration of 32ft/sec/sec for objects near the surface of the Earth.

There are some questions science doesn't answer,

Science is neither questions nor answers. Science is a set of falsifiable theories.

and probably never will. That's the point I made. You are trapped in a paradigm thinking that science provides, or can provide, the answer to absolutely everything.

It doesn't. Science is neither questions nor answers.

Mathematics implies a mind, a rational agency, or an underlying organizing principle.

Man created mathematics.

You still haven't convinced me that lawful organization and an underlying universal mathematical scaffolding somehow just appears from inanimate, irrational, material causes.

The Universe is a random dust cloud. There is no 'scaffolding'. There is no math required. It is completely unorganized. It has no known boundary.