Whether it is true as written or not, it is clearly not taught in good faith. It is taught to make people attack anyone who disagrees with the "official narrative" and ostracize, dehumanize, and "other" anyone who asks any question (especially in science, but history too).
And it worked great on entire generations, unfortunately.
Speaking of gun bans, imagine thinking that you can prevent mass shootings by declaring certain areas to be completely free of guns.
Leftists... Truly incredible, the mind of a child is...
That's the thing; if God is real, you can't be a "secular Bible scholar". That'd be like trying to be a physicist and not believing in matter. You can't study or learn about something if you don't believe in the foundation of the thing's existence. And when it comes to God, He is the foundation of the existence of everything. As such, belief in Him is a prerequisite to being able to successfully learn about anything.
It's absurd on it's face to believe that everything is the result of random chaos while simultaneously believing that there exists an innate comprehensibility to the universe that would allow for science and scholarship to be possible.
And as a side note,
"She flat out admits that even if she had eyewitnessed the resurrection she still would not believe Jesus was the Son of God."
That sounds like par for the course for a self-deluded, atheistic "Bible scholar".
The Bible basically tells us to ignore our desires and to instead desire God.
This notion that the Bible and its effect on our cultural identity is what is keeping us from admitting child sacrifice was for Yahweh because it goes against what we want to be true or because it feels icky is frankly absurd. That's the first thing that especially the secular scholars who hate God would want to be true.
Also, look around today. We have people saying that Jesus Christ fine with homosexuality. That God made man woman and woman man. These people flagrantly ignore the book they claim to worship the God of. Nothing is new under the same.
Even if child sacrifice was done in the name of Yahweh, all it proves is that the people weren't listening to what they were told by their holy texts to do. Same as today, same as tomorrow, same as always. There is truly nothing new under the sun.
No, I find it hard to believe that among all the numerous English translations that every single one of those different authors lied about that.
Surely at least one would have created a faithful translation. But the idea that none did? Too big a leap to make and to then still claim that they were good Christians all in pursuit of truth while they were happily breaking one of the 10 commandments.
If they're demons, they most certainly want us dead, God just doesn't allow them that level of control.
The white hats being in direct control of everything is a perfectly fine explanation the way I see it. Then all they have to do is cause events that line up.
Though, it's certainly possible that God is guiding the (true) leaders of our country to see His Will be done. Just don't see how it's the only possibility.
It is 100% factual. I trust God, not the cabal. To believe God allowed the cabal to corrupt the Bible is to trust their ability to corrupt more than God's ability to preserve.
Faith in God must reign supreme over worldly distrust.
And the Dead Sea Scrolls aren't the Bible. That's like saying a library is all one book. It was a collection of manuscripts and in fact did a great job proving the Bible hasn't changed in 2000 years.
I am curious about the Book of Enoch though, and intend to get around to reading it, but it is not the Word of God. Doesn't mean it doesn't have valuable information, but it's not the Word of God and any claims that it is are at this point pulled out of thin air.
And the Vatican edited nothing. God wouldn't allow this. Instead, God guided His Church to ensure they included the right books in the Bible, and not just every work that any random sect decided they liked the sound of. It was authoritative, as scripture must be. It was perfect and infallible, as God ensures. And it was by a council guided by the Holy Spirit, as is evidently needed for authoritative truth.
Remember, before the declaration of what was canon, everyone had their own disjointed collection of books with no authoritative position on what was the Word of God and what was not. If that WAS how it was meant to work, well that's just another argument for the necessity of the recognition of the authority of the Church.
Most "biblical scholars" are far more interested in their secular scholarship than in the Bible. As a result, they are frequently wrong because they discount the obvious, but miraculous, explanations for things.
Finally, from a brief look at the Ethiopian Bible, well, it doesn't exist. Now, I admit this was just a brief look at the shit source that is Wikipedia, but the claim is that they don't even have a compiled version of their own canon.
From the article:
"It is not known to exist at this time as one published compilation. Some books, though considered canonical, are nonetheless difficult to locate and are not even widely available in the churches' home countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea."
If true, that's hardly a good look. They considered it so inspired that they don't even have any copies. Maybe they're all locked up in the Vatican Library and that is why they are hard to find? Alternatively, God didn't preserve those extra-biblical books because they aren't His, and instead preserved the version that became the best-selling book in all of the history of Mankind. I suspect you'll take the former, but I'm obviously going to settle in with the latter.
And I'd appreciate it if you didn't hit me with the "you're just brainwashed by the Vatican" or "do more research" or "you just don't want to accept the truth because it would contradict your beliefs". I don't even agree with the basic logical premises that are required to come to such a conclusion as the Bible being corrupted. This isn't a research issue or an "accept the truth". It just doesn't make sense to me for God to give us a scripture that can be corrupted. It's either all His, or it's all made up.
Saying perfectly reasonable things that have been accepted by every intelligent mind for thousands of years is "dogmatic Christian extremism"? Yea, I think you're the crazy one here, buddy (however I'd agree that doesn't sound like a good reason for you to get a ban, though I don't know the full context or the mod's side of it)
And yes, Mankind are quite clearly and evidently the only beings made by God that have reason. There is no good evidence to the contrary that can't be explained in alternate ways (angels/demons, government experiments/secret tech, etc.)
Some paintings have huge backdrops with no people in them, and only have a subject in the foreground. Why is viewing God's creation like this any more absurd than your view?
Were those understood as different back then? What did the authors intend to convey?
The Bible is quite clearly all about Mankind, not alienkind.
Yes.
Exception could be made for an "alien" that sings the praises of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those ones might be angels.
Belief in the Trinity is a requirement to be a Christian. How can there be a Trinity if there is a savior for every alien species that God supposedly created? Unless of course Jesus Christ goes to every alien world and appears to them as they appear. But then Jesus Christ isn't fully God and fully Man. He's fully God, fully Man, and fully Martian.
It just doesn't work.
The Catholic Church is the True Church.
This is what all early Christians believed and continued to believe for over a thousand years.
It's also just evident that a doctrinal authority is needed. If nobody agrees on doctrine, nobody is worshiping God, but their own interpretations of the Bible and thus of God.
Ironically, most of the problems with our current system are the commie aspects of it.
So of course that's exactly what the commies want more of, because they're oblivious.
and the book of Enoch is factually one of the original Old Testament Books, before the 2nd Council of Nicaea had it and 16 other “gospels” removed in the late 700s
This is in no way a definite fact.
Q posts can be wrong. Military intelligence isn't all knowing. And they could also be right but misattributing real UFOs as belonging to space aliens when it's just demons.
Ah yes, the fruit of the doctrine of "election" is the absurd notion of justified racism.
Truly incredible doctrine you've got there.
If this was true, then whenever two or more people gathered, they would be compelled by the Holy Spirit to agree on doctrine.
This evidently does not happen.
Doctrinal authority matters, otherwise everyone is just worshiping their own interpretation of God, and not the truth of God.
God can't have both predestined us and not predestined us, for example. It has to be one or the other and there should be an authoritative answer on it, or else people aren't worshiping the same God.
And I do not subscribe to the notion that God just left us high-and-dry to figure it out on our own.
The Church of England is Satanist.
Why is the Food and Drug Administration involved in approving or denying from use a machine that operates using sound waves?
Are the sound waves ingestible? kek
CNN: "BREAKING NEWS! Unnamed sources in the know are reporting that the 17,852 invalid ballots were all cast for Trump, meaning the Big Orange Cheeto actually lost the state by an even bigger margin! Don't worry, everything is fine! Biden is your president and your democracy is safe from the Evil Orange Cheeto!"
The worst part I think, other than the lying itself, is that you introduce the risk that the kids assume Jesus is a lie too.
"Well He must just be like that Santa guy!"
As an aside, I find it funny when the militantly anti-Christmas, anti-Christ atheists say that Santa is used to warm kids up to religion/Jesus Christ. Like, huh? Why not just start with Jesus? Santa definitely isn't our guy, lol. He's who the atheists worship until they get too old and move on to his anagram ;)
And I would likely do the same if any kids who already believed asked me. I'm not looking to be the asshole who ruins Santa Claus for a bunch of innocent kids just having fun, but I also refuse to lie. Got to be smart about it.
Feminism infects men, too.
100% this. Unfortunate when the woman is the one who wants to stay home, but the man is more interested in what seems to amount to nothing more than an increased income, or some adherence to a false sense of "equality". And with one significant downside being that the state raises the children because it would have been "lazy" for the mom to raise them and take care of the house.
Apparently my dad was like this. My mom told me the only reason she didn't stay home with me and homeschool me was because my dad wanted her to work.
Does anyone REALLY value the contribution made by a stay-at-home Mom?
I certainly hope to one day, God willing I find a woman to marry.
Even conservatives and traditionalists see a stay-at-home Mom as being a burden, even a "princess" expecting to be catered-to, lazily "sitting around the house" while the man works
And these people are all silly and corrupted by the modern world, the way I see it.
Firstly, the Bible is completely centered on Mankind.
Secondly, It is unreasonable to compare humans and any other created thing, due to the uniqueness of humans.
Following this, it is unreasonable to assert that a comparable species to Mankind exists living on other planets.
There isn't a shred of evidence that there exists a comparable species to us. The angels aren't. Other animals aren't. To discount our uniqueness within the creation is to discount the way the Bible is written.
And to allude to some idea of each species having their own Christ and their own Bible centered on them, while not inherently unreasonable, is completely theoretical and unsubstantiated. There's no reason to think it's true, at least not any more so than to think that "aliens" are just demons.