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@RhakimAs I was saying cognitive dissonance.
We live in a secularist liberal society here in the west where Christianity is only claimed as a cultural heritage and certainly not a lifestyle.
As for Christian scholars, Bart D. Ehrman you won't find a bigger and respectable scholar of the new testament and early Christian history then him.
He states he did his very best to hold onto his faith and believe in the reality that the Bible we have today is the word of God. After his in depth studies he came to see that from the 5000 manuscripts of the new testament no two of them are exactly the same. Scribes were constantly changing them in significant ways and less thus the contradictory nature of the book.
Like many others he no longer is Christian.
This isn't profound info, most western. Countries Christianity is on a downward spiral and was actually blamed for Europe's ills prior to the enlightenment period when state was separated from religion. It was only then Europe came to become the technological power it is today.
im not familiar with him
TheColi hates him!
One less black person worshiping the slave masters god
From now on if anyone wants to speak to me about God, Jesus, or any of it; I’ll say I don’t speak to middle management. I talk to the boss.The Universe is at it's essence made of consciousness. Quantum physics dabbles in this idea so this is not some purely metaphysical concept. There's science to support it.
This consciousness in not Human. It existed a dozen billion years plus before Humans. Before physical life forms period.
The reason you can tell that this Universe is not random activity is because "something" comes from "nothing" here. The physical Universe itself, the different elements came into existence in an order, DNA formed itself out of "nowhere".
This increase in complexity is the simplest evidence that there is an active force doing things purposefully.
This consciousness is what we call G-d. But G-d is not strictly your friend.
G-d IS your best friend and most powerful ally, but also your greatest challenge and your worst threat. Cause G-d is literally everything. You're inside of it though, it does not travel from here to there because it is here and it is there. The physical space is also made of the same stuff as the energy and matter .
Consciousness.
The issue with religion is they boil it down to a sort of childlike simplistic view, and they add a bunch of straight up fantasies.. which might metaphorically be useful, but these days the religious portray their fantasies as literally real.
And they will murder whole continents full of people over that shyt.
you know, i have touched on reading this as another frame of reference when considering the Bible (and any holy text for that matter)The Universe is at it's essence made of consciousness. Quantum physics dabbles in this idea so this is not some purely metaphysical concept. There's science to support it.
This consciousness in not Human. It existed a dozen billion years plus before Humans. Before physical life forms period.
The reason you can tell that this Universe is not random activity is because "something" comes from "nothing" here. The physical Universe itself, the different elements came into existence in an order, DNA formed itself out of "nowhere".
This increase in complexity is the simplest evidence that there is an active force doing things purposefully.
This consciousness is what we call G-d. But G-d is not strictly your friend.
G-d IS your best friend and most powerful ally, but also your greatest challenge and your worst threat. Cause G-d is literally everything. You're inside of it though, it does not travel from here to there because it is here and it is there. The physical space is also made of the same stuff as the energy and matter .
Consciousness.
The issue with religion is they boil it down to a sort of childlike simplistic view, and they add a bunch of straight up fantasies.. which might metaphorically be useful, but these days the religious portray their fantasies as literally real.
And they will murder whole continents full of people over that shyt.
Why would an all powerful perfect God allow his Word, the most vital representation of himself, to be imperfect? He can create the universe but he can’t will essays to be written without errors? Even Spell check in Microsoft Word could’ve done that.Personally, I believe that God has always used humans to transmit his message, and he doesn't treat humans like puppets or unthinking robots. Bart Ehrman's original critique of Christianity relies on the claim that a real God would have forced every single scribe in history to copy every single Biblical manuscript with the exact same wordings and spellings or else....what? Would God strike them dead if they started to write something differently? Would he make their pen stop working? Would they lose control of their hand and feel it forced to copy the "right" words, rather than the words they were going to write? Of course there are going to be different manuscripts, that's part of being human. Has Ehrman ever proven that the existence of different Biblical manuscripts has completely distorted the Christian faith and destroyed Jesus's original intent? I haven't seen him be successful in that at all, which is why he leans so heavily into the weak "5,000 different manuscripts!" argument, which is more of a debate point than a serious theological concern.
“Misquoting” Jesus?, Answering Bart Ehrman | Bible.org
Christian Apologetics takes a look at claims against the trustworthiness of the Bible we have today.bible.org
@Ghost Utmost any books you recommend that talk about the universe being made if consciousness?The Universe is at it's essence made of consciousness. Quantum physics dabbles in this idea so this is not some purely metaphysical concept. There's science to support it.
This consciousness in not Human. It existed a dozen billion years plus before Humans. Before physical life forms period.
The reason you can tell that this Universe is not random activity is because "something" comes from "nothing" here. The physical Universe itself, the different elements came into existence in an order, DNA formed itself out of "nowhere".
This increase in complexity is the simplest evidence that there is an active force doing things purposefully.
This consciousness is what we call G-d. But G-d is not strictly your friend.
G-d IS your best friend and most powerful ally, but also your greatest challenge and your worst threat. Cause G-d is literally everything. You're inside of it though, it does not travel from here to there because it is here and it is there. The physical space is also made of the same stuff as the energy and matter .
Consciousness.
The issue with religion is they boil it down to a sort of childlike simplistic view, and they add a bunch of straight up fantasies.. which might metaphorically be useful, but these days the religious portray their fantasies as literally real.
And they will murder whole continents full of people over that shyt.
@Ghost Utmost any books you recommend that talk about the universe being made if consciousness?
you're assuming "sola scriptura" which is a protestant doctrineWhy would an all powerful perfect God allow his Word, the most vital representation of himself, to be imperfect? He can create the universe but he can’t will essays to be written without errors? Even Spell check in Microsoft Word could’ve done that.
It seems you accept that there are grammatical errors in the Bible, why stop there? If those aren’t free from corruption, then why wouldn’t the actual content also be subject to it? Whose to say the people, events, and timelines mentioned in the scriptures are 100% accurate?
one of the interesting things about the double slit experiment is that if the researchers attempted to measure the light/electron source of either beam it would distort and collapse the wave pattern. It's the basis for the "quantum decision field" theories that hold up Heisenbergs uncertainty principleStart with the quantum physics angle. The double blind experiment. The effect of the researchers expectations changing the outcome of experiments.
String theory. Brane theory.
Fukc with a book eventually if you get the bug, but to start.. just get off into a YouTube rabbit hole.