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Quote by: Morality Games I don't have my Bible with me right now, but I sort of remember the dialogue you are referencing, and you are taking it out of context. Jesus' reformist theology was rule-based, not science or history based. He argued against the strictness of the rules of Jewish theological interpretations of the Bible. He never demonstrated doubt for the history or science of the Bible. |
Ya, but the two (laws and history of the Bible) are connected since they both come from the same place, right? It's not much of a stretch.
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Quote by: Morality Games You can use scientific vocabulary (like the term 'fact') and insist you 'know' God exists, but words have no meaning unless they have the objectives to back them up. You don't have the objectives to back up your "fact", so use of the term fact is only nominal (in name, not in form). |
Which is why I don't try and present it as fact to you. I can't support it with anything other then my own eyewitness account, which isn't enough. However, I'm sure of God's existence, so it's a fact to me, but I can't prove it to you. So I'm not blaming you for not believing me, I would do the same. Only ask for your patience (not that I expect it. I probably wouldn't give it either).
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I don't have my Bible with me.
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fair enough, I don't want to rush a response from you.
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What? Of course they thought that was true. Are you kidding? That the lives of humans became increasingly shorter as centuries passed was an important part of their theology, and they dedicated much thought to the problem, pondering the many "why's" of its truth.
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really? where?
(Not rhetorical. This is new to me.)