A thread about Jesus will never be about knowing the truth but about doing it.
Is Jesus A Prophet According To The Old Testament?
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A thread about Jesus will never be about knowing the truth but about doing it.
This makes me think you've been trained by Jesuits, that's certainly sophistry worthy of them. The Bible cannot possibly be infallible because, first, it's not even internally consistent, and second, it contains claims we know to be false. And we know they're false because we have evidence that says so. The tyranny is faith, not evidence. Evidence will show you what's true about the world, faith will simply tell you what's true and ignore evidence to the contrary. Faith is both the argument from authority and the argument from ignorance, well known logical fallacies.
The story of Doubting Thomas does not in the slightest support your position. Thomas insisted on seeing Jesus and inspecting his injuries before he'd believe the other disciples' tale that Jesus had risen from the dead, then he did see Jesus and decided that was good enough. I think that would have convinced even me, but I don't for a second believe the story is true either. Nothing in the New Testament was written by anyone who actually knew Jesus, the earliest date historians put on any of it is around the year 70, about two generations after the crucifixion. The stories have been significantly embellished, by people writing with an agenda.
The Holy Spirit is all that remained after Jesus' death. The Holy Spirit is the just the name of the community of Christians. The people who stayed in love with Jesus even after his violent death have, by their faith and actions, made the truth, that is, they have destroyed the false efficacy of scapegoating.
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Like I said, some do and some don't.Magritte was valuing reality over fantasy:
I prefer reality; stuff like planets revolving around suns, water as H2O rather than some mysterious substance that quenches our thirst, chemical analysis of poisonous substances rather than trial and error by taste test, welcoming the herbology of pagans rather than burning them as witches. etc.
There is an irreconcilable difference in between science and shamanism and it was made possible by Christians.
First half true, second half crap. Science and any form of mysticism are utterly irreconcilable, but Christianity has tried consistently to suppress science from the beginning, and certain elements of it continue to fight a losing rearguard action against evolution.
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Christians have always played fully on the fact that what is forbidden becomes attractive.
The old Christianity's statements about the universe were not revealed from God or said by Jesus Christ; but such statements were adopted by the chruch from the Greek philosophers and scientists at their time, like Aristotle and others.
And this in fact was the mistake; because what is revealed from God is other than what some scientists at some time periods say because the latter is liable to mistakes and alterations and new discoveries that will cancel the old concepts of the old scientists.
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