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I wonder what will happen to the site on may 22, 2011 Obviously, it is going to end with the world. Duh! ABE: Do you smell a moose?
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frako Member Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
ABE: Do you smell a moose? Ok im not trying to be offtopic but i realy would like to know what abe stands for. I googled abe definition and i got 140 results A few im guessing are not what you mean. Adult Basic EducationAnybody But England Adult Banner Exchange Accidental Blood Exposure Americans for Better Education To not stray to fare from topic How can they say a prophecy is furfilled if it is in both pars of the bible. Its like saying it was told that harry potter will slay that evil dude in book 1 and he slayed him in the last book (or so i think i did not read it or watch the movie yet). So the prophecy came true harry must be a real person and the best wizard ever.
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jar Member (Idle past 99 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined:
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One point I would like to make sure is clear to all, in this thread I am not attacking the Bible, but rather the misuse and perversion of the Bible.
Efforts like those seen in this thread, taking things out of context, misrepresentations of what is actually in the Bible to support dogma and attempts to make it appear as one book with one subject simply diminishes and devalues the Bible and what can be learned from it. It is not the Bible I oppose, just the falsehoods attributed to it. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped! |
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jar Member (Idle past 99 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Added By Edit.
AbE: I forgot to address your question.
frako writes: How can they say a prophecy is furfilled if it is in both pars of the bible. Its like saying it was told that harry potter will slay that evil dude in book 1 and he slayed him in the last book (or so i think i did not read it or watch the movie yet). So the prophecy came true harry must be a real person and the best wizard ever. Yes, if that happened it would just be fiction, and unfortunately in the case of most claimed prophecy that is EXACTLY what happens. The problem is that most Christians at least seem to be clueless about prophecy was all about. In the Bible, prophecy was a message from God to his people, the people living at the time of the utterance, a celestial dope slap. It was God saying "If you keep doing what you are doing then all hell will break lose." It was not always immediate, but the message was meant to be acted on right then. An example is the story of Joseph and the seven year cycle; Joseph telling Pharaoh that "hey, we are having good times now but they may not last, and unless you put stuff aside now you gonna be hurting then." The idea that God had to leave clues in obscure language with a people that have been dead for thousands and thousands of years for folk today or even in our future is just plain silly. God is perfectly capable of reaching folk today in our own media and those living in the future in theirs. Again, the problem is not the Bible or its contents, it is the readers misunderstanding. Edited by jar, : add answer to his question. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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ICdesign Member (Idle past 5058 days) Posts: 360 From: Phoenix Arizona USA Joined:
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Yeah that's right Crashfrog. I am sick of
listening to all of you big mouths mocking God and the Lord Jesus Christ. I have never once seen jar get even one single scripture right. He twists everything he speaks about acting like he is a big authority on the bible. He consistantly calls God a liar and tries to act like he knows God when he doesn't have the slightest clue about the true and living God. ...so yeah, long after jar and the rest of usare long gone the truth of God will go marching on changing lives and saving souls. 100 years from now not one thing any of you have said will be remembered but not even one word of God will pass away and none of you can do anything about it. over & out
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anglagard Member (Idle past 1097 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined: |
ICDESIGN writes: Yeah that's right Crashfrog. I am sick oflistening to all of you big mouths mocking God and the Lord Jesus Christ. I have never once seen jar get even one single scripture right. He twists everything he speaks about acting like he is a big authority on the bible. He consistantly calls God a liar and tries to act like he knows God when he doesn't have the slightest clue about the true and living God. ...so yeah, long after jar and the rest of usare long gone the truth of God will go marching on changing lives and saving souls. 100 years from now not one thing any of you have said will be remembered but not even one word of God will pass away and none of you can do anything about it. over & out 1) Are you proclaiming yourself God? If not why do you presume to speak for God? 2) Any literate and reasonably neutral party to this debate can obviously see that your knowledge of the contents of the Bible is vastly inferior to jar's (and Purpledawn, Ringo, and Dr Bill). Have you even read it once, cover to cover? And if indeed even so, did you read it for understanding or to validate preconceived notions? 3) You do realize that placing yourself as speaking for God, over the Bible, places you in violation of the commandment against having other gods before me. 4) You do realize that misrepresenting what the Bible actually states, places you in violation of the commandment against bearing false witness. 5) You do realize that your gargantuan personal ego is a direct affront to the very Jesus you so proclaim to follow. Nothing but common self-righteous authoritarianism, pwned by your own tantrum. I will give jar a POTM for the whole thread as soon as I can figure out to which month it belongs. In the meantime it is the high 5 all the way. {ABE} except for a few low content ones, I personally prefer honesty to being the lackey of some ignorant authoritarian preacher. {/ABE}
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Granny Magda Member (Idle past 298 days) Posts: 2462 From: UK Joined: |
Hi ICDESIGN,
I really think you need to calm down some. Jar has offered you his opinion on the scripture quotes you chose to bring up. His view differs from yours and he has been good enough to expound upon why this is. You have not even tried to tell us what is supposed to be wrong with jar's interpretations. All you have done is shout and offer vague threats of violence. That is extremely poor form and all the worse because I happen to know that you are capable of better.
I am sick of listening to all of you big mouths mocking God and the Lord Jesus Christ. a) Why the short line-breaks? Quit hitting enter! b) If you don't like it here, no-one is forcing you to stay, but this is a debate site. Confronting opposing opinions is what it's all about. If you can't handle that, you really are wasting your time here. Feel free to go back to surrounding yourself with people who will never challenge your beliefs.
I have never once seen jar get even one single scripture right. Great. It should be easy then, to explain to us where jar is getting it wrong. Simply shouting that he is wrong or a liar is pointless, childish and pathetic. Of course, if your true aim is to discredit Christianity by making its adherents seem like petty, petulant fools, who are unable to back up their beliefs with reasoned arguments, go right ahead, You're on the right track. Mutate and Survive
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jar Member (Idle past 99 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: |
So here is where we stand as of this point.
ICDESIGN has presented six examples that he claimed were prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, and also six other quote mines that I think he thought somehow refuted either what I was saying or what I was doing. I have tried to examine each in context and also to explain some of the background that lead to their creation. None of the former seem to be prophecies about Jesus and the only one that might actually be said to have been fulfilled by Jesus even says right in the quote he used as support, that it was contrived, done simply to match what was in the record. If the New Testament event even really happened it was not an example of fulfilling prophecy but rather creating a false prophecy. Of the latter group, when his quotes were examined in context it seems that instead of refuting my position that each and every one actually supported my position. In particular, the last one is very important because it pointed to a failed prophecy that forced a total change in the Christian message and practice. I know that there are many, many claims of fulfilled prophecy that are used as marketing tools in Christianity, and I am happy to continue to examine them one at a time. If anyone disagrees with what I have presented I hope that they will post the best support for their argument. If anyone has a Biblical prophecy they believe was fulfilled, then I hope they will bring it up; but please, no nonsense like a link to some site that claims hundreds of such critters, let's deal with one at a time. I, as a devout Christian, am not attacking GOD or Jesus or Christianity, only the misuse of the Bible and those practices that devalue and diminish its messages. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 99 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The Jeremiah quote is also another example of quote mining.
quote: Again, let's look at the background. Jeremiah like Micah and Isaiah lived during the period when the Great Power was shifting to the North. Judah, the nation where Jeremiah lived and preached is the setting, and the events of Israel (remember it is a separate Nation) and Judah are the subject matter. The writings of Jeremiah span a period that covers five different Kings of Judah and revolves around the power plays between the North and South, between Egypt and Babylon. The saga begins likely around the ascendancy of Josiah to the throne of Judah. Josiah's father and grandfather, Amon and Manasseh had opened Judah to multiple religions, religious freedom and allowed the worship and practices of other gods. The period when Jeremiah is preaching is one of great turmoil both internally and externally, of reform within Judah and the creation of an exclusive Jewish state. Jeremiah 23 is from a later stage, Assyria is waning, Babylon on the rise and Egypt also recovering and once again becoming a Great Power. Now let's look at the passage in context.
quote: Here as in the other examples folk have cited, when seen in context it is speaking of contemporary issues, not of things 500 and more years in the future. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1604 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
ICDESIGN writes: 2 Peter 2:1 ....there will be false teachers among you,who will secretly bring in destructive heresies.... and bring upon themselves swift destruction. Colossians 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to thetradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. Hebrews 13:9 Do not be carried about with variousand strange doctrines. Ephesians 4:14 ...we are no longer to be children,tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of of doctrine, by the trickery of men by craftiness in deceitful scheming... 2Timothy 3:16 ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED BYGOD and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness... Matthew 24:35 Jesus said: Heaven and earth willpass away, but my words will not pass away. yes, the bible has quite a lot to say about false prophets. for instance, how to tell whether a prophet is false, and what the punishment is for pretending to be a prophet.
quote: and contrary to your point, it encourages viewing prophecy -- all prophecy -- with a high degree of skepticism. the test is not the fact that someone said something, or that it was written somewhere, but that the thing prophesied actually comes to pass. unfortunately, many of these claimed christ prophecies simply aren't. most have to do with other things. for instance, the cited one from isaiah 7 was indeed fulfilled: roughly six hundred years before the birth of christ. it simply can't have been about jesus in way, shape, or form. context doesn't fit, literal grammar doesn't fit, and jesus was named yehoshua, not imanuel. stretching prophecy in this way is highly dishonest, to the degree that it should fail that skeptical view encouraged by the old testament. if the prophet elijah said, "yahweh will send a holy fire down on mount carmel to consume the offering", and 2 years later, he rubbed some sticks together, none of the priests of baal would have taken him seriously. nor would anyone else. god does not weasel. his proof leaves no doubt.
ICDESIGN writes: The bible is by far the number one sellingbook in all of history and by far the most loved and the most read of any book ever written. and sadly, by far the least understood. but keep trying, one day you will get it.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1604 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
jar writes: frako writes: How can they say a prophecy is furfilled if it is in both pars of the bible. Its like saying it was told that harry potter will slay that evil dude in book 1 and he slayed him in the last book (or so i think i did not read it or watch the movie yet). So the prophecy came true harry must be a real person and the best wizard ever. Yes, if that happened it would just be fiction, and unfortunately in the case of most claimed prophecy that is EXACTLY what happens. well, the thing is that it's possible for neatly tied prophetic story arcs in singular works of fiction. all (legitimate) harry potter books have a single author: jk rowling. so she can write that harry will defeat voldemort in the first book, have him do it in the 7th, and everything ties up nice and tightly. these books were all written by one person, and within a short period of time. but even if we extend the period of time, we start to run into problems. for instance, george lucas couldn't even keep historical data straight in the star wars series. of course, even the highest degree of internal consistency doesn't say much about the historical accuracy of the text, does it? fiction can be internally consistent. but it's not always. perfectly consistent might even be a hint that something is fiction -- but so would a certain degree of inconsistency. ...and stretching context beyond belief? well. who knows what to make of that.
jar writes: It was not always immediate, but the message was meant to be acted on right then.... The idea that God had to leave clues in obscure language with a people that have been dead for thousands and thousands of years for folk today or even in our future is just plain silly. God is perfectly capable of reaching folk today in our own media and those living in the future in theirs. and it's important to remember this. prophecy is meaningless outside of its historical context: the people it was given to. and reading that makes it nonsense to the person listening to the prophet speak is nonsense itself.
jar writes: Again, the problem is not the Bible or its contents, it is the readers misunderstanding. the problem is that some of the readers of the bible also added to it. clearly, matthew reads isaiah 7 as applying to christ, when clearly it should not.
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cavediver Member (Idle past 3903 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: |
OMG - Arach !!! Welcome back Please please stick around - I have seriously missed your posts.
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