The Foundation of Christianity

[bobabode]

>bullshyte<

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by BigElCat

According to the Book of Revelation, two Prophets will emerge and demonstrate two the entire world that the scripture of the Christian Bible is true, but by then it will be too late for anyone to accept Christ as their savior.

^^^This is because God loves a good 'gotcha!'

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

^^^This is because God loves a good 'gotcha!'

I meant to say, 'endtimes bullshyte'. (grin)

[donquixote99]

Why the urgency, with looming strict deadlines? Answer is simple and obvious. Those preachers wanted money NOW!

Denying this requires faith that can move mountains. Which is apparently no great trick, for faith.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I said religion, so your observation is redundant.

My point was figurative, not literal.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Why the urgency, with looming strict deadlines? Answer is simple and obvious. Those preachers wanted money NOW!

Denying this requires faith that can move mountains. Which is apparently no great trick, for faith.

Many nowadays place great faith in science/technology. Our latest religion/belief system and a great source of money to boot.

[donquixote99]

Michael Gearson has opinion piece in Washington Post lamenting the damage Trump cultists are doing to the faith. Don't share that sentiment, but this is a strong paragraph summing up how looney some evangelicals are getting:

"Just to be clear, Metaxas has publicly committed his life to Donald Trump, claimed that at least two members of the Trinity favor a coup against the constitutional order, endorsed the widespread jailing of Trump’s political enemies for imaginary crimes, claimed Abraham Lincoln's blessing for the advance of authoritarianism and urged Christians to pray to God for the effective death of American democracy. This is seditious and sacrilegious in equal measure."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.was...outputType=amp

[BigElCat]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Why the urgency, with looming strict deadlines? Answer is simple and obvious. Those preachers wanted money NOW!

Denying this requires faith that can move mountains. Which is apparently no great trick, for faith.

If a group of conspirators were to craft a story in order to sell it, don't you think they would have come with something a little more believable ? A little easier to sell ?

[donquixote99]

It was created piecemeal over time. Each storyteller had to work with what came before.

[nailer]

This applies much more to the Old than the New.