Quote:So what you are suggesting is that God could not positively "inspire" the identification of an individual, because he was constrained by the language of the person he was inspiring?
It was not uncommon in first-century Judea and Galilee for one individual to have two names -- or, one Aramaic name, and a Greek form of the Aramaic name.
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Argy Lacedom |
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Quote:Beautifully put. ________________________________________________________________________
A burning bush that talks was good enough for Moses, and frankly it would goa long way toward convincing me as well. But I haven't even been presented with a warm twig that whistles, so there we have it. - Xenolan (SAB discoussion board) |
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Yark Hutprancer |
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Posts: 3749 08/22/06 00:17:50 |
Yes, WR said that a year ago.
Thank you very much "Limudyah" for resurrecting a year old post. Useful. "[...] if there is an afterlife where justice will be served at last and everyone will get what they deserve, why bother instituting any sort of earthly justice? Why fight an evil dictator or imprison a criminal if he'll eventually get what's coming to him anyway? Why try to help the poor or the disadvantaged if they will be rewarded later for their suffering now? The supposed inescapability of divine justice renders human justice superfluous." - Ebon Musings: The Atheism Pages, The Ineffable Carrot and the Infinite Stick |
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The 12 Apostles all encountered great hardships after Jesus left. The biggest of these hardships was that they preached the spiritual realm. This realm was not considered reality to many and striving for reality is taught to us in the bible. If non believers can not see it or touch it, you must be a freak.
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Yark Hutprancer |
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Posts: 3749 12/29/06 18:24:34 |
Quote:No. What makes you freaks to us nonbelievers is your inability to humble yourselves and consider that your holy books might be wrong. What makes you freaks is that you believers revere a being who would kill people just to show off his power, whether or not that being ever really existed. What makes you freaks is that you believers continue to revere a holy book that has been disproven by reality. Your willingness to jump on the nonsensical religion bandwagon out of nothing but fear of ancient scary stories passed through the generations as tradition is what makes you freaks. "It is my observation and experience that the only thing which is clear about Christianity in general is that it is not clear." - Mez1 on the Skeptics Annotated Bible Message Board |
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