Archaeology of the New Testament

Cypress said:
Albert Einstein rejected the atheist label
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Albert Einstein's label preference is immaterial. When he used the term "God", he was simply referring to the forces of Nature that are beyond our control.

Cypress said:
... and is widely considered a Pantheist.
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Nope. You are gullible.

Cypress said:
He definitely aligned himself with Spinoza's god.
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You have no idea what you just copy-pasted.

Cypress said:
A Pantheist is a type of theist, so atheists cannot claim Einstein as one of their own.
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Nobody gets to claim Albert Einstein as one of his own. Yours was the stupidest comment I've read this week.

Albert Einstein did not have any gods or any theism; he was an atheist. Of course, you don't know what any words mean so your comments are ignored.
 
Cypress said:
Earth's rock record contains observable geologic, geochemical, and isotopic data rendering a picture of conditions on Earth hundreds of millions to billions of years before present.
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Translation: you can see how a rational adult could reasonably speculate that particular age of the earth, but that you still don't have a time machine with which you can travel into the past as verify any such speculation.
 
Cypress said:
Paul explicitly referred to women he knew and collaborated with who were deacons, leaders of house churches, even a female apostle.
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What woman are you claiming Jesus declared to be an apostle?



Cypress said:
I believe the misogynistic language added in one of the Epistles is a later addition to Paul's letter written by people who came after Paul.
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So you believe that Paul had 21st century enlightenment and treated women as equals. Interesting. Do you have any support for this?
 
Cypress said:
You and the militant atheists are insisting the entire Bible must be treated as literal historical biography.
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Thanks for tacitly admitting that your only intention is to babble contradictions and to waste everyone's time with nonsense.

Cypress said:
It's remarkable how much atheists and fundamentalists have in common.
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I can't recall anyone referring to "none" as remarkable.

Cypress said:
I am allowed to make reference to Christian pastors and theologians who agree with me in saying you don't have to treat the entire Bible as a literally accurate historical report.
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Don't you think you should check with your thought-masters first?
 
Cypress said:
The evidence is unequivocal that many Christians leaders, clergy, and members of the laity believe the Job and Noah are stories not historical biographies, and that Genesis 1 is a poem, not a scientific report.

Paul explicitly referred to women he knew and collaborated with who were deacons, leaders of house churches, even a female apostle.
I believe the misogynistic language added in one of the Epistles is a later addition to Paul's letter written by people who came after Paul.
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Jesus genealogy goes back to Adam
 
Cypress said:
The evidence is unequivocal that many Christians leaders, clergy, and members of the laity believe the Job and Noah are stories not historical biographies, and that Genesis 1 is a poem, not a scientific report.

Paul explicitly referred to women he knew and collaborated with who were deacons, leaders of house churches, even a female apostle.
I believe the misogynistic language added in one of the Epistles is a later addition to Paul's letter written by people who came after Paul.
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What makes you think that?
 
Cypress said:
Thanks for tacitly admitting that something can't come from nothing.
Something coming from nothing is logically incoherent. Which is precisely why I use it as a premise in the abstractive deduction I presented.

Rationally intelligible, mathematically and lawfully organized; aka the visible universe.
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You aren't making a deduction of any sort. You are just mindlessly chanting your buzzwords...without meaning.

Go learn what 'rational' means and where you would use this word.
The Universe is not sentient.
The Universe is not mathematics.
The Universe is not a law.
The Universe is unorganized.
 
Into the Night said:
Go learn what 'rational' means and where you would use this word.
The Universe is not sentient.
The Universe is not mathematics.
The Universe is not a law.
The Universe is unorganized.
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"I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I’m concerned with this time—here and now."

~Albert Einstein​
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"I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. Man has infinite dimensions and finds God in his conscience. [A cosmic religion] has no dogma other than teaching man that the universe is rational and that his highest destiny is to ponder it and co-create with its laws."
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~Albert Einstein​
 
Cypress said:
"I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I’m concerned with this time—here and now."

~Albert Einstein​
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"I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. Man has infinite dimensions and finds God in his conscience. [A cosmic religion] has no dogma other than teaching man that the universe is rational and that his highest destiny is to ponder it and co-create with its laws."
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~Albert Einstein​
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Go look up 'rational' and find out what it means and where you use it.
Blaming your illiteracy on Einstein won't work.
 
Cypress said:
Me and Albert Einstein = the universe is rational.

versus​

Obscure poster IntoTheNight = the universe is irrational!
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Go learn what 'rational' means and where the word is used.
Go learn what 'irrational' means and where the word is used.

Lie. Synthesis. I never said, "the Universe is irrational".
 
Into the Night said:
Lie!
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"The overwhelming impression is one of order. The more we discover about the universe, the more we find that it is governed by rational laws."
~Stephen Hawking​

"I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I’m concerned with this time—here and now."
~Albert Einstein​
Into the Night said:
I never said, "the Universe is irrational"!
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You didn't have to. There are only two choices, the universe is either rational or it's irrational. There is no in between choice.
One can't be just partly pregnant.

When you claimed the universe isn't rational, you tacitly and unequivocally indicated it is irrational.
 
Melchizedek=Tecumseh said:
What makes you think that?
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Any responsible reading of the epistles of Paul will develop an impression of what Paul was like from the entire body of his writings, not just a couple of passages.

Taken as a whole, it's clear that by first century standards Paul is fairly enlightened about gender relations, maybe even radical compared to his Greek and Roman contemporaries. It is widely reported in his letters that he works closely with and collaborates with women, some of who he freely identifies as female apostles, deacons, and leaders of house churches.

Now in those passages where it seems Paul is misogynist and domineering over women, it can be explained either as an independent insertion by another writer, or that Paul had a multiple personality disorder. The only thing we can do is decide which one sounds more likely.
 
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