Originally posted by FetchmyjunkNo. I have been reading books for almost fifty years. I am not going to start suggesting books for you to read and people for you to talk to etc. Believe what you want. If you don't accept my take on it, don't worry about it.
Yes, are you going to share your references or not?
What is this "atheist Bible" you asked me about?
01 May 17
Originally posted by FMFYou made this claim:
No. I have been reading books for almost fifty years. I am not going to start suggesting book for you to read and people for you to talks to etc. Believe what you want. If you don't accept my take on it, don't worry about it.
What is this "atheist Bible" you asked me about?
"Nothing was written about Jesus during the time of Jesus. What was written was written decades later by people trying to establish a post-Jewish cult of personality and that is what your "many historians" have written about."
I am asking you for a reference to back it up. Do you have one? Yes or No?
01 May 17
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Originally posted by BigDoggProblemHere are two questions for you to answer: First, do you know the combined weight of all the sand on all the beaches of Hawaii?
Where'd you get that number in the first place? (Other than pulling it from your own arse...)
We can safely assume that you don't. This brings us to the second question: Do you know how many hairs are on the back of a fully-grown male Tibetan yak?
Probably not. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that there are some things that you don't know. It is important to ask these questions because there are some people who think they know everything.
Let's say that you know an incredible one percent of all the knowledge in the universe. To know 100 percent, you would have to know everything. There wouldn't be a rock in the universe that you would not be intimately familiar with, or a grain of sand that you would not be aware of. You would know everything that has happened in history, from that which is common knowledge to the minor details of the secret love life of Napoleon's great-grandmother's black cat's fleas. You would know every hair of every head, and every thought of every heart. All history would be laid out before you, because you would be omniscient (all-knowing).
Bear in mind that one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Thomas Edison, said, "We do not know a millionth of one percent about anything." Let me repeat: Let's say that you have an incredible one percent of all the knowledge in the universe. Would it be possible, in the ninety-nine percent of the knowledge that you haven't yet come across, that there might be ample evidence to prove the existence of God?
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01 May 17
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkI am not going to go off and find one no. I don't think what I have said is particularly controversial but if you don't like it, that's OK.
You made this claim:
"Nothing was written about Jesus during the time of Jesus. What was written was written decades later by people trying to establish a post-Jewish cult of personality and that is what your "many historians" have written about."
I am asking you for a reference to back it up. Do you have one? Yes or No?
So you believe that the gospels were written by people who attended the crucifixion?
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkOk, that gets you to 1 million. Still three orders of magnitude to go. Better keep Googling!
Here are two questions for you to answer: First, do you know the combined weight of all the sand on all the beaches of Hawaii?
We can safely assume that you don't. This brings us to the second question: Do you know how many hairs are on the back of a fully-grown male Tibetan yak?
Probably not. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that there are some ...[text shortened]...
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