You haven't even explained what your interpretation is. Just a sentence or two would be a start. Do you have anything - yes or no?
What do you believe and why do you believe it?
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No expositor, but what I believe this means is it’s the faith of no doubt you’ll receive. Not that I have this about everything but resurrection life and what it means has come alive to me recently. I’m gaining success in praying this for others because I know that I know it’s ours through Jesus.
Try me. I've been fair with your postings up to now. I have admitted that I cannot prove a clear contradiction or inconsistency between the 2 accounts discussed. And thinking about it this supports the theory that the synoptic gospels copied from each other to a large extent. I dont expect you to explain every inconsistency charge I have - its a long list. But I am interested in Matthew 16 which is not an inconsistency. It just feels like an outright error.
Are you not able to respond to my post? In terms of brain evolution- evolution is to do with survival of the fittest or luckiest. Maybe religion is the next stage in brain evolution/adaptation. You can now survive death itself. Maybe that's all it is? A cultural viral program in the brain that cannot accept its own demise? Another word for it is "ego".
my take is it means what it says.
life is tough
but you know in your worldview you cant say oh thats bad thats terrible. you got no objective morality without God. we are all just animals and whats right or wrong is just opinion. whatever we do is okay we are animals in atheism worldview.
thats why in all cultures God is present even if its a false pagan god. everyone believes in god or gods because nothing can bring about something thats just common sense.
That’s pretty much the ending to a story IMO about “holding on” among other things, though they seem to have held on to the bitter end. probably a right way and wrong way, killing their children to sustain their own self doesn’t seem quite right, whatcha u think?
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Atheism is not a worldview. It's a single claim about a single issue. You are probably thinking of secular humanism or rational skepticism.
Define what you mean by nothing. All we have is examples of something coming from something. We don't have a "nothing" that we can examine.
How do you know you have the correct objective morality?
Atheism is not a worldview. It's a single claim about a single issue. You are probably thinking of secular humanism or rational skepticism.
Define what you mean by nothing. All we have is examples of something coming from something. We don't have a "nothing" that we can examine.
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Leviticus is one of my least favourite books in the Bible. It is not acceptable to me at any level and is now largely an irrelevance. And yet a supposedly timeless God chose to keep it in his "good" book. Bizarre.
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11 kinds of Bible Verses Christians Try to Ignore @ salon.com
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Skeptics Annotated Bible
Once bitten, twice shy I suppose. It's not just alleged inconsistencies that bother me about the Bible. In fact I would say morality and credibility are more important.
there’s people who starve today and don’t eat their children, and there’s many of things people hold on too to the bitter end. there’s a moral issue in the story not to resort to killing people for food. let the lights go out across the world for a couple of weeks many people will resort to such things. it can happen today or tomorrow or next.
there’s two sides to a coin, cant just read one side.
https://www.gotquestions.org/skeptics-annotated-Bible.html
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-errors.html
God wrote ten sentences and it wasn’t on paper, the rest was inspired to the people using their own language and experiences to convey. Yes many of translations have gone astray by man’s hand. things happen for a reason some are hard to explain for we can’t see tomorrow
Your reply to stonesoffire here tells me you are incapable of understanding Matt 16.
As far as your statement that Matt 16 "just feels like an outright error" ... consider the other two issues which have now been cleared up. These were two relatively simple matters. Yet, all you want to do is "prove a clear contradiction or inconsistency" when it comes to Scripture. What is it about Scripture that makes you "feel" that there is "outright error" or that you have to "prove" contradiction/inconsistency?
God is holding out His Hands to you, calling you to join Him and you resist. You can let go of your resistance to Him. You will find that He is able to provide understanding concerning Scripture. Maybe not on your time frame because first milk then meat. But He will give understanding. The blindness which engulfs the mind is removed as we turn our hearts to the Lord. I know that sounds like foolishness to you, but I am speaking truth to you. Do not harden your heart to truth. Think about it ... ponder it ... don't just automatically reject it in obstinate stubbornness.