so real quick, i know this comes up now and then and i've looked over some of the posts from the past but here's the thing.. when i was a jw i drank all the cool aid, i was 100% and so i have all my own arguments (from the jw's) for why the bible is inspired.
i no longer believe this but i'd really like to read something that is pretty much 100% academic on this subject.
i want to read what scholars have to say about the authenticity of the bible and it's claim at being the inspired word of god.
Perry the article to which you refer talks about radiocarbon dating.
"A radiocarbon study of select camel bones from the Aravah valley in the southern Levant extrapolates that the findings may indicate domesticated camels were not present anywhere in the region until the end of the 10th century BC"
I thought you didn't believe in that science stuff!!
"make for yourself an ark from resinous wood.
you will make compartments in the ark and cover it with tar inside and outside.
" - genesis 6:14. because, you know, that's how you build a giant boat - just wood and tar.
Bloody cynics, using your facts, logic and science to undermine the inspired word of god himself. Who do you think you are?
whilst browsing my local football team's fan forum, i spied this thread.... http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?340338-10-000-expected-at-the-amex.
"Brighton and Jehovah Albion" - Made me laugh. So are the seagulls going reach the Premiership next year? It would be great to have three South Coast teams in the PL........ I miss Pompey (Nah not really ;) )
i think for me in the last year the death of david bowie got to me the most.
not only in the way he handled his demise so classy by even making a song about it and a you tube about dying and sharing it with fans, but just his whole persona i always thought was pretty cool.
plus i enjoyed a good many of his songs.
Also John Entwistle - Bassist extraordinaire ......
and Kieth Moon
i think for me in the last year the death of david bowie got to me the most.
not only in the way he handled his demise so classy by even making a song about it and a you tube about dying and sharing it with fans, but just his whole persona i always thought was pretty cool.
plus i enjoyed a good many of his songs.
I still miss Richard Wright, knowing there could never be a Pink Floyd reunion :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.
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Thanks to the "Sound of Silence" I have discovered Disturbed - I am now listening to their older material and loving it.
...right from a pro-jw site in response to a post about the relative seriousness of homosexuality.
all you can do is reason from the scriptures, which you appear to have done.
homosexuality is as serious as bestiality, or adultery and fornication.
Anyone who takes their morals from an ancient book written by ignorant goat herders should keep their opinions strictly to themselves or face ridicule for the stupidity they promote.
i was asked to view the video “dear believer, why do you believe?” i said i would and i would publish my comments about it.
so here are my comments.
after my post, i hope other believers will post theirs comments about it.
Believer, in your world view, as an atheist who regularly commits the sin blasphemy against, Jesus, Allah, Jehovah, and any other fictitious deity I can think of,,,,am I going to hell?
A famous Historian, Flavius Josephus, had written about the existence of Jesus, Jesus stated that man and women were created. That's good enough for me to still believe in Creation
All I can say to that is your level of critical thinking is lower than the Dead Sea Depression.
i heard today about a former jw/now apostate who is dying in hospital.
this information was accompanied by the comment of "wouldn't be awful to be lying there in hospital,dying as an apostate!
knowing that you have no hope!?
My only deathbed regret will be why it took me until I was 42 to wake up.
