Recent content by larens

Read what someone says before you run off and claim what they are saying is false! I said that a few prophecies were not attributable to rewriting. You are just presenting one of those of which I was thinking. Your details are disputable. Most of them depend on the New Testament, so fall under...

Nearly all great cultural heroes have their biographies rewritten by later generations to be more supernatural. For the New Testament this is understood to have occurred by the late first century. Thus most of the "prophecies" there based on the Old Testament can be explained by authors having...

If you are correct, it is sad to hear that "most" people on a forum will not read an original post that is one and a half screens long. I set that as my normal limit. It is long enough to give a detailed enough picture for people to picture an appropriate response. It is not so long, however...

ev4989, I asked several questions and made several statements. The response "no" can often be interpreted in two different ways. Since you did not append any statement to your "no", I have little idea what you are trying to say.

no... What? Please offer some reasons for your opinion. I am trying to elicit a discussion, not take a poll.

There has been more than one Christian view on creation. The Roman Catholic Church has had a dual view on the nature of the universe. There is both a non-geocentric and a geocentric view. The non-geocentric view has evolved into Big Bang cosmology with a distinct starting point. The geocentric...

After I got an uncomfortable feeling of an impasse in understanding, I reread the posts. I was drawn to your statement, "if news is all that is watched and discussed fear can easily enter. Just my thoughts." I strongly agreed with your statement. I think that fear is counteracted by knowledge...

I apologize for not making it clear that my statements about confusion, negativity, and inaction were not personally directed at you. They were a philosophical statement directed at the entire world. I thought I had made it clear by talking about broader events that happened outside of even the...

Science is following a set of scientific principles. It is not about having a credential. When people print credentials, claim that anything scientific said by someone who does not have one of their credentials is nonsense, and fail to follow scientific principles, that is scientism. It's part...

Well, the proponents of anti-religious scientism that I mentioned in the first paragraph of my OP are quite strong, aren't they? Do you wish to be an ally of theirs in keeping science and religion separate by censoring scientific truth? How do you feel about the fact that they are out to crush...

I have discontinued my conversation with posthuman, because he is just wasting my time with straw man and other fallacious arguments. I am also going to act on my complaint in the chat proper that he has just been nitpicking and presenting nonsense, and will stop responding to him here. I...

I never said they were pagan. Please stop making me respond to you by insinuating that I said something that I did not.

That is not a very friendly statement! I am sure, however, that I will never experience what you experienced because I am a different person.

Judaism really became defined when the Israelite kingdom split to become Judea and Samaria. Earlier when Ramesses the Great came to power and asserted greater control over Canaan many, e.g., Moses, moved to trans-Jordan. Yet earlier Abraham came from Mesopotamia. Judaism developed over a long...