You can't be free of past sins as long as it is a fact that you actually commited those sins. No magic can erase that. You did it, and whether Jesus or Joe takes the punishment doesn't change that. How could it--facts of your past are fact. Give up the magical thinking and face your past.
And while we're at it, you might consider not constructing arguments based upon what you read in an old Madalyn Murray O' Hair article in The Humanist and, for a change, engage in some serious philosophical thinking regarding serious philosophical issues.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
You can't be free of past sins as long as it is a fact that you actually commited those sins. No magic can erase that. You did it, and whether Jesus or Joe takes the punishment doesn't change that. How could it--facts of your past are fact. Give up the magical thinking and face your past.
And while we're at it, you might consider not constructing arguments based upon what you read in an old Madalyn Murray O' Hair article in The Humanist and, for a change, engage in some serious philosophical thinking regarding serious philosophical issues.
This thread is about physics, not philosophy, Droop. Or at least most of it is.
When I was speaking, I do not mean a literal Jesus, I mean that through confusion and interpretation IT COULD BE POSSIBLE that what was originally pure Physics had become Theology and Religion. In that it has been changed so much that only parralels are left.
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When I was speaking, I do not mean a literal Jesus, I mean that through confusion and interpretation IT COULD BE POSSIBLE that what was originally pure Physics had become Theology and Religion. In that it has been changed so much that only parralels are left.
It is indeed possible that references to modern physical theories (or indeed to physical theories yet to be discovered) once existed in (say) ancient Hebrew tradition, written or oral, and that distorted or incomplete versions of those references exist in current Biblical texts.
But the important question is whether this is likely. And to that the answer is surely "no, and in fact it is very unlikely".
Over the last couple of centuries bibilcal scholars have constructed perfectly good rational and historical accounts of how the present texts of the Old and New Testaments came to be written down. Those accounts do of course have some gaps, but they are complete enough to make it clear that biblical texts are simply products of the circumstances and times from which they came; there is no need at all to look for a supernatural explanation, nor is there any reason to expect them to contain information that was not part of the intellectual environment of their times, which to a very high degree of certainty did not include modern physics.
Home Teacher wrote:Now, you are probably wondering about Venus and Mars and Jupiter, where do they get their light? We are not sure how they get their light, the prophets have not spoken on that, and I dare not speculate.
It's pretty obvious that these planets get their light by reflecting back at us light that originally came from the Sun. And since the Sun's light comes from Jesus, it's literally true that, in a way not nearly as dumb as this one, Uranus really does testify of Christ.
Thanks for sharing this one, I read it before.
It is by far dumbest.
