Recently started watching a Netflix documentary about Mormonism and how (at least up to this point) the church seemed to be going to any and all means to stop documentation from getting out that, they think, would totally uproot their belief system (though I haven't finished it yet).
So, what would it take, for you, to disavow your religion and religious belief?
Documentation from writers of that time period?
Documentation from current high up leaders?
Testimony of how it's a farce from those who spent the majority of their lives in it, finally seeing their own light?
Science?
Data?
Another, more believable religion?
For those of us who are in the 'been-there-done-that-bought-the-t-shirt' crowd, what was it that caused you to change?
What would it take for you?
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Re: What would it take for you?
Post #61I can give you an example from archaeologist Jodi Magness. Her concluding remarks in "The Burial Of Jesus" (pg. 8)...nobspeople wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:10 pmCan you provide examples of science agreeing with scripture?
"Unlike Crossan...I believe that the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ burial are largely consistent with the archaeological evidence. Although archaeology does not prove there was a follower of Jesus named Joseph of Arimathea or that Pontius Pilate granted his request for Jesus’ body, the Gospel accounts describing Jesus’ removal from the cross and burial are consistent with archaeological evidence and with Jewish law."
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Re: What would it take for you?
Post #62What science is involved in removing a body from a cross and burying it?Goose wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:44 pm"Unlike Crossan...I believe that the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ burial are largely consistent with the archaeological evidence. Although archaeology does not prove there was a follower of Jesus named Joseph of Arimathea or that Pontius Pilate granted his request for Jesus’ body, the Gospel accounts describing Jesus’ removal from the cross and burial are consistent with archaeological evidence and with Jewish law."
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Gender ideology is anti-science, anti truth.
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Re: What would it take for you?
Post #63Here's another example.Goose wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:44 pmI can give you an example from archaeologist Jodi Magness. Her concluding remarks in "The Burial Of Jesus" (pg. 8)...nobspeople wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:10 pmCan you provide examples of science agreeing with scripture?
"Unlike Crossan...I believe that the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ burial are largely consistent with the archaeological evidence. Although archaeology does not prove there was a follower of Jesus named Joseph of Arimathea or that Pontius Pilate granted his request for Jesus’ body, the Gospel accounts describing Jesus’ removal from the cross and burial are consistent with archaeological evidence and with Jewish law."
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Re: What would it take for you?
Post #64nobspeople wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:10 pm
Can you provide examples of science agreeing with scripture?
THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE
THE BIBLE : “All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from which the rivers come, to there and from there they return again.”—Ecclesiastes 1:7, The Amplified Bible.
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Re: What would it take for you?
Post #65No. As I said. ...nobspeople wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:10 pm
... can you also provide the scientific counterpoint (where science disagrees with scripture) ....?
JehovahsWitness wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 9:05 am
In my opinion, good (accurate/proven) science always agrees with scripture.
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Re: What would it take for you?
Post #66You forgot to include the biblical schema:JehovahsWitness wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:47 pmnobspeople wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:10 pm
Can you provide examples of science agreeing with scripture?THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE
THE BIBLE : “All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from which the rivers come, to there and from there they return again.”—Ecclesiastes 1:7, The Amplified Bible.
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Re: What would it take for you?
Post #67At very least, this shows that ancient people weren't as ignorant as everyone seems to think.JehovahsWitness wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:47 pmTHE BIBLE : “All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from which the rivers come, to there and from there they return again.”—Ecclesiastes 1:7, The Amplified Bible.
Also, the order in which the five classes* of vertebrate life evolved actually matches the account in Genesis decently well. Only birds are misplaced, coming to be on the same "day" as the fish and not closer to the mammals. I'd call that a hit overall rather than a miss. I would expect someone just talking out of their back end to fill the land before the ocean and have no idea whatsoever that fish were ancient, coming a whole "day" before other vertebrate life.
(*fish aren't a class anymore but they were once accepted as one)
That's someone's drawing based on what they read in Genesis. I don't believe Genesis ever actually places the sun as going round the Earth.
You certainly can read Genesis as saying that outer space is full of water, but one wonders what someone ancient would have called space, not having a word for space, if space had been perfectly divinely revealed to them. Given that limitation I'm not going to call "The Waters Above" (which is what I believe it says) a miss either.
Also, we say the sun moves. We say that, despite knowing full well that it doesn't. The sun rises. The sun sets. The sun disappears below the horizon.
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Re: What would it take for you?
Post #68The graphic, based on the biblical text, refers to Ecclesiastes in this matter not Genesis:Purple Knight wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:33 pm That's someone's drawing based on what they read in Genesis. I don't believe Genesis ever actually places the sun as going round the Earth.
We can pretend it doesn't say this, but it does.
Ecclesiastes 1:
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
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Post #70To be clear: Atheism is not a disbelief in gods or a denial of gods; it is a lack of belief in gods.
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