Thats not true, Ive seen many of these contradictions, and there is a reasonable explanation for all of them. There are claims of contradictions, but its all just twisted words or out of context statements. If there were any real proven contradictions, it would be pretty obvious, and you wouldnt have to disect the bible to find it, as most do. All of the so called contradictions are not contradictions at all when you look at the Greek or Hebrew words and definitions or meanings.
... and right there is a wonderful example of hate mongering, and I bet the poster wasn't even aware of it. Calling them false gods engenders a hate of those who don't believe in your so called belief, and engenders hate from those who don't believe as you... all in the name of a religion that claims to foster peace and love of thy brother. Much akin to George Carlin's bigger dick in religion theory: Do you believe in God? No? BLAM!!! Dead. Do you belive in God? Yes. Do you believe in my God? No? BLAM!!! dead. My God has a bigger dick than your god. Millions of dead mother-***** all because they answered wrong on the God question. Though if you are going to proclaim the falsehood of other religions, you might at least want to not show so much ignorance about them: Mohammad and Budda are not gods in their religions - one was a prophet, the other was 'enlightened'... and since Islam and Christianity BOTH sprung from judaism, in the most technical sense all three religions worship the same God, even when they have different names for he/she/it. Hitler was not an atheist, though if you are looking for an atheist that killed millions, try Stalin. I'm reminded of the anti-book nutjobs in the game Postal 2 - one of them at a protest walking around holding up a sign "Hitler wrote a book" Let's look at some Atheists, shall we? Albert Einstein (despite people's claims to the contrary), Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur C. Clarke, Ann Rand, Dave Matthews, Billy Joel, Voltaire, John Lennon, Robert Heinlen, H.P. Lovecraft, Samuel Clemens, Sigmund Freud, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Robert Frost, Vincent Van Gogh, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Oscar Wilde, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and Steve Wozniak Men and women of destruction and evil to the last, right? Let's look at some better known christians: Tomás de Torquemada, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Raimundo de Penafort, Ferrant Martinez, Marquis de Sade, George W. Bush, Ted Haggard, Louis XVI, and the entirety of the Ku Klux Klan. (and I bet most of you have no idea who the first four of those are - more's the shame) The more intelligent of you will recognize the original post, and the technique used in this post as one and the same - card stacking. Stating some facts while omitting others... or even better, the words of the great bird: "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek (1921-1991). Faith - gah, what a bunch of chuckle headed nonsense almost entirely generated by fear of the unknown. As HPL wrote: "The oldest kind of emotion is fear, the oldest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" ... and 90% of faith is sticking one's head in the sand over the unknown and blindly following the most nonsenical rheotoric no matter how often it's been disproven or abused to promote hate and distrust all in the name of preaching peace and love. (and yes, I realize that this too is hate mongering, though I do oft feel the position is more one of pity for the intellectually challenged) Does the term snake oil ring a bell? Bait and switch?
... and that thinking right there is akin to the flaw in Socratic logic leading to the notion that objects fell faster based on weight - not density as later proven by Galileo two-thousand years later... though being science they actually CHANGED their opinion of that. Fiction is written every day that takes place in real places - just because New York City is real that doesn't make "Men in Black" real... Just because there's a San Francisco that doesn't mean Starfleet exists... Just because there may actually have been the cities of Sodom, Gamorrah and Har Megido doesn't work as 'proof' of the bible's validity any more than the existance of London makes the Sherlock Holmes novels true. OMFG! Cities written about in a two thousand to five-thousand year old book (old tes vs. new) might actually have existed at the time the book was written! That means the entire book MUST be a work of fact! NOT
The main reason why I don't agree in it is because it is stupid to try and predict the effects of carbon as there is not proven method to test it. One of the reason why evolutionists are wrong on many fossils because its impossible to prove the age of carbon material.
Yeh Lincoln was an atheist - I think not. Although religion has been the cause of much evil - it has also been the cause of much good - much art has been inspired by religion, great music, literature, philosophy and thinking, also many of the largest humanitarian organizations are started and run by Christians. I think if you study Hitler you will find he was an occultist, as are many have a garb of Christianity to appeal to the masses but at their true heart are occultists, pagans and worshipers of old gods. I think if you study more about Stalin you will find he trained to be a priest but later rejected it, only to at the hour of Russia's darkest time - demand that a religious icon be taken up and flown 3 times around the capital Moscow and freed the priests from Siberia to encourage the people to fight against the Nazi's - Stalin claimed to be an atheist - yet he knew for the Russians to defeat the Nazi's they needed the hope only the church could give them. Atheism gives no hope, only a pointless existential being.
Hitler wasn't an occultist - Himmler, and much of the S.S. elite, were. Hitler claimed to be a catholic but was an atheist, for all intents and purposes. Atheism, like Buddhism, says "let go." When there is no lifeline out there, in some afterlife event, then every moment of life here and now deserves to be lived at its fullest. It is far from a purposeless existence. Quite the opposite. When this life is all there is, life itself becomes a purpose-filled existence. This is existentialist freedom.
Existentialist freedom - there is therefore logically no Right or Wrong Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were all just doing what they saw was right - morality does not exist in an evolutionist world.
I partially agree with you, in that the existentialists (Camus, Sartre and Co.) didn't take it far enough. It isn't enough to say we choose life, all others be damned. We choose life, moment by moment, cognizant of the fact we're all in the boat together. A social existentialism, if you will. This is what I aspire to. Disagree entirely with the line that morality doesn't exist among evolutionists, by which I am guessing you are saying it doesn't exist among atheists. Speaking for myself, I take morality very seriously in a life that is finite and a world that is troubled. I wish to leave the world better for my having been here.
(Grey) rep: "Its never the end, it never ends! What is your purpose? Dont you ever ask yourself where you came from? Evolution, big band, but where did they come from? Energy created itself and then created matter? I think not." To which I answer, yes, I do ask these questions. All the time.
Evolution is just another religion masqurading as science. All religion requires faith to believe in. Same thing with evolution many of things in it cannot be proven still and it requires faith to believe it. Take for instance that National Geographic came out with the report earlier this year that contrary to popular opinion that the grand canyon took millions of years to form. New reseach has found that it was formed very quickly from water running through it.
True, the evolution religion even has a God that makes all things happen. they call it TIME. Or Millions of years. With out it Evolution would be impossible.
I've heard about this also, I believe it's true. Lots of evolutionists say that they don't believe in something that they can not see or touch yet they believe in the big bang and that we evolved over millions of years. No one can prove that the big bang ever happened any more than we can prove that the universe was created by God. No one really has any tangable proof of what happened at the very beginning. Yet there is lots of proof that we didn't evolve(and I'm going to get jumped on for saying it). I don't see any REAL proof of evolution.
You are exactly right. I believe that animals adapt to their surroundings, but, as clinton said, their isn't any proof of one animal evolving into a completely different creature. The scriptures say man has been here for about six thousand years. They don't say how long the earth has been around. God, being the "great scientist," created the earth in six periods (not days) using scientific means. He doesn't just wave a majic wand and make things happen; He controls the elements. The earth just might have been millions of years in the making! In other words, we don't have answers to everything, but if we did, science and God would fit together perfectly.