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- Mimio0
They just copied each other(or another document) and elaborated.
It's quite obvious.
- flagellum0
You haven't done your homework regarding when they were penned, mimio. Your assumption is unwarranted.
- Nairn0
Switch to Tea.
- Mimio0
It's not my assumption, it's the observations of many biblical scholars that some of the biblical authors used each others writings, and obviously borrowed quite literally and liberally from them.
- Nairn0
Oh Fuck. Flagellum/Discipler's back? Awwwwww Man.
* Washes hands of NT.
- flagellum0
You have only read one side of the issue. I'll now refer you to the articles I just linked up. If you are intellectually honest, you'll read them... carefully.
- Nairn0
Where's that 'Arguing over the internet / retard* running' picture?
* After the rcent retard conversation, perhaps I should state that, at this juncture, I cannot think of a more apt term. I apologise in advance.
- Nairn0
Bloody Religion.
All I ever do is think about the nigh-on infinite range of realities across the multiverse where religion doesn't exist.
Poor me, I ended up here.
*shakes fist at sky.. appreciates irony, weeps inwardly.
- flagellum0
It's Ok, Nairn. Nobody needs religion.
Just Jesus. :)
- kelpie0
this is a really philosophical thread when you can only see 30odd of the posts. poor existential Nairn :'(
- Nairn0
The sound of one hand clapping? :)
- pavlovs_dog0
I read the other day that 15 percent of all known pregnancies end in miscarriage. About half of all conceptions are also believed to be lost, normally before the mother knows she's pregant.
This makes Jesus the number one abortionist...
Either he's not such a swell guy after all, or maybe the right to lifers are missing the call to get their coat hanger on...
- flagellum0
...or it testifies to the fact that we live in a fallen world which has been subject to the ravages of sin and entropy. Bad things happen. People get hurt. The death rate is 1 for 1. We're all going to make it.
But that's just part of the message of the Bible. The good news is that Christ redeems us from this fallen world. It doesn't mean that the ravages of original sin go away, but it means that we are restored spiritually and can live abundantly now and eternally, after our flawed creaturely bodies return to the ground.
- determinedmoth0
So, God created everything
God created Evil.
God created Man.
Man does Evil.
God punishes Man.God = Evil.
- flagellum0
more like this, determinedmoth:
God created everything.
God created man in a state of perfect fellowship with his creator.
Man, in the free will he was given, chose to disobey the one command God gave.
Man falls out of perfect fellowship with his creator.
God provides a savior for Man, in his free will, to choose or deny.God = Good.
- Mimio0
Interesting article discipler, not one of them directly addresses the observation I have mentioned but thanks anyway. The point I was making was summed up in the link to ther Rutgers site, you can look at those three gospels, and make your own mind up as to the intent of the authors for yourself, it's really that simple.
- flagellum0
You were referring to the Synoptic similarities. Probably should have added this one:
- determinedmoth0
No. God has by his very nature allowed evil to flourish.
- determinedmoth0
What's all this to do with coffee anyway?