I was hoping that you would be quite serious when you start claiming that some people who disagree with you are delusional and prone to hallucinations. Shouldn't you only response to anything between the covers be "I have no opinion." if you are a true non-believer. As it is you have adopted some version of what a few prophecies mean, that is where your open-minded ends. That is the only version possible if it was even possible, which it isn't so, don't bother trying to explain anything different because your version is coming from a person prone to delusions, etc. Why not sit back and say nothing when it comes to what the verse can mean that is different than your version.That's precisely why I don't take any of this stuff seriously
It was down to 2 yes/no questions and 2 more questions that would have required no more than 1 verse in reply to settle the issue. You didn't answer because you would have been agreeing with my version and that would require you making modifications.and why I rarely respond to your long posts in any detail anymore.
Don't respond to this part. The funeral you attended would have had people with several different versions of where the dead person's 'soul' was during the ceremony. For my version she would have been in a deep sleep, the same one Job knew he was headed for, until the return. That same thing happens to everybody all the way back to Adam. Here is the part I would have been asking. There are several OT verses that deal with mourning the death of a 'loved-one' and it states that one full month is given for mourning the loss. One has to assume that after the 30 days a person should put the mourning away into something that is not painful. Remembrance would qualify as memories without deep grief. In todays world and with our modern view of what is good for the mind and body would 30 days serve as a 'marker' for how a person deals with grief. A person who cannot grieve for a full month might be less than a fully compassionate person and one who cannot let go of grief has dependency problem that are larger than involving just that one person.
No more than I would dedicate to a 'hobby', this one just works out to not cost a dime by itself. Another hobby that would (and has) take more time also costs $1,000's initially and a continual influx of more money to keep it working. The time and effort is helped by my ability to remember what the verses say so when that same 'theme' comes up in another passage it can be meshed into previous words.You've obviously invested a great deal of time and effort into trying to make sense of over five dozen ancient books of varying ages that happen to be between the same covers, on the assumption that it's both possible and necessary to do so in order to understand what some fictitious deity is up to.
It isn't an assumption, this verse below says the information goes that far back, one part that is going to stall a lot of dedicated Bible believers is the reference to Babylon. Jeremiah covers it in many verses and once Revelation was written another Babylon was introduced. Which Scholar has gone over all those references to determine which Babylon is being referenced. Making that task somewhat more complicated is the reference to Neb as being the 'head of gold' and as being a 'king of kings' which is also a reference to Christ on the day He comes from Heaven with authority to sent all sinners to the grave. The ones who pass themselves off as teachers and authorities concerning Bible prophecies should be doing that just because it should be done. Trouble is it would probably mess up most of the current versions of the prophecies that are referenced in most doctrines.
Lu:24:27:
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets,
he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
What does that say about your life where you have nothing better to do than spend time on a subject that 'has no meaning'?If there is no god your exhaustive and exhausting biblical exegesis has neither meaning nor purpose.
Only to the point that having a doctrine that takes questions like those into account is stronger than one that discourages too many questions about specifics that have no clear answer, another verse is where the extra info should come from.The questions you ask are clearly things you believe you've figured out the answers to, your purpose here is didactic and evangelical,
The foundation says there will not be any proof available until a certain point in time, if it hasn't happened yet then that date has not yet been reached, rather than your version which says all the prophecies are in the past and that proves there is no God.and I'm not interested in that because I believe the foundation of it is false.
What makes you assume anything else got left behind?I wonder what you could have accomplished if you'd put that single-minded dedication to work on something useful.