Doctor Frank Turek from Digging Up The Bible explains.
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The leaps of faith required to get around the Christian account make those demanded of Christianity shrink to insignificance to me. The fact that those who prefer any alternative to a Christian account demand that others accept their conclusion, but either hide the data and methodology or use coercion suggests to me that they lack any sincerity whatsoever. Throw in the abject immorality of the alternatives and combine them with efforts to project the failings whenever they get an opportunity to impose their worldview on others onto people who hold Christian and I’m not skeptical that they are motivated by anything other than malicious intent, I flat out reject it as even plausible.
As a nondenominational, non-fundamentalist Christian, I find this kind of thing embarassing. Just because the Bible refers to SOME events that actually happened does not in any way prove the accuracy of histories of those events — which were written by people many years, often centuries, later.
It’s like claiming that if five thousand years from now, archaeologists uncover the city of Washington, DC, this proves that it’s true that when George was a kid, he chopped down a cherry tree, then admitted it, and never told a lie. We live now in an almost fully literate instantaneous “information age” and can’t now even get current events accurate.
Most of the Old Testament stories are much-later writings by political and religious scribes incorporating an amalgam of oral mythologies from multiple primitive peoples, centuries of conflicting oral histories, and morality tales. See, e.g., Bible scholar Gary Greenberg’s 101 Bible Myths.
I see God in every blade of grass and every leaf on a tree.
A childhood friend, who has spent most of his adult life as a Christian missionary in Kyrgyzstan, published a book recently that I found fascinating. He points to signs in nearly every civilization around the globe that trace to biblical roots. In the Old Testament, God said that the children of Israel would build nations around the world. And much of the practices and even the names referenced in what we tend to consider as pagan religions around the world have their roots in Judaism – and an expectation of a Messiah as well.
The premise of the book is to discuss some of these connections in various civilizations – but also to recognize that people everywhere are looking for the Messiah, the same one we recognize, Jesus. But also to recognize that when we try to spread Christianity we tend to spread ‘our version’ of it, rather than recognize that the crucial thing is to accept Jesus and His Way, as described in the Bible. In other words, by respecting and understanding local culture, as my friend has done, we better understand that they are already most of the way there, and that we can guide them to Him using what they already know.
I know I worded that poorly, but it is an excellent book. Here’s the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1959466011/
The Bible has a beginning and an end. It is symmetrical… “As it was in the beginning…”
God’s Will dominates each successive revelation culminating in how and why God loves and relates to His creation. We each are both central and insignificant to the story but relevant to how it ends.
God desires a relationship to his creation and if part of that creation rejects him then it is his right to allow the consequences of that decision to become binding.
Hell is not hell because God punishes – Hell becomes that way because God removes any aspect of Himself from it.
Anyone who abandons God will be abandoned by God…the stood News says all we have to do is enter into a trusting and submissive relationship that embraces His Will.
Read the book – it needs no proof but reveals its own historical evidence.
2 things: There is NO proof of “evolution”. Sure there is adaptation and variation. But evolution of species! That is a whole different impossibility.
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Utah: Some evidence that the original Mormons “found” hundreds of vacant homes when they arrived. The supposed time line is literally impossible. for fun, look at what they ‘found’ when attempting to repair the original temple. It was all they could do to repair the thing with every modern heavy equipment. But somehow built it from scratch in 1853 by a few settlers with horse and wagon. Years before the 1st train.
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Point is, our History is fake, our science is fake.
Did God create man?
Or did man invent God?
God created everything – with a single thought.
Ever heard of the Big Bang? All the matter and energy of the Universe in one infinitesimal point and then – BANG – the Universe expanded from that infinitesimal point to what you see today over some Billions of years.
Physics can describe the Universe 1 micro-nano-second AFTER that bang – but cannot describe it 1 micro-nano-second BEFORE.
That “Big Bang” was God saying (thinking, deciding, whatever He did) “Light!”
Claiming that man invented God is nihilistic hubris – the Universe most certainly exists and man didn’t invent it.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,'” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”
“But,” says Man, “The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.”
“Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
“Oh, that was easy,” says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”
John 20:24-29
I always wonder if God is kicking the can down the road: that is, the more we learn from science, the more mysteries we unearth. It could be that simple.
OR much more likely we are in a simulation. That as we explore the ‘backdrop’, it comes into existence, or gets filled in enough.
Scott Adams already asked if we are nearing the computation limits of our sim?
I see God every time my daughter looks at me.