JosephAlward
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Honoring Parents
by JosephAlward inthis is my response to a true believer who emailed me about my claims that the gospel stories were plagiarized from scriptural antecedents, and about my claim that jesus showed disrepect for parents--if you can believe the bible:.
do you have proof -- not your insights -- for your claim that the bible is nothing but a mimmic of ancient myth?.
evidence is all i have.
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Timeless Truths in the Bible
by JosephAlward insome of my favorites are:.
"man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: as one dies, so dies the other.
all have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal.
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Bible Contradiction: Whoring and Adultery
by JosephAlward inthe bible writers contradict one another in the matter of adultery and whoring; some of them say that god forbids it, while others claim that god encouraged it in some cases.
here is the evidence: .
god forbids adultery and whoremongering.
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Creation Story Contradiction
by JosephAlward inthe two different creation stories in genesis contradict each other in the matter of the order of the creation of man and vegetation.
in the first story, vegetation was created on the third day, and three days later man was created.
however, in the second creation story, there was no vegetation before man.
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Useful Information
by JosephAlward ina simple way to keep track of threads in which one is active is to create a desktop shortcut for those threads.
just click on "members" in the upper left corner of this screen, then select the letter from the alphabet line corresponding to the first letter of your screen name, find your name, then click on the icon representing your threads.
right mouse-click to create a shortcut.
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Was Noah's Flood Local?
by JosephAlward inachristian believes those who think the bible teaches that the flood was global look foolish.
he wrote, .
i encourage all christians to investigate the possibility that the bible does not really teach that the whole earth was flooded at the time of noah.
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Two Flood Stories Conflict
by JosephAlward in17 i am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it.
19 you are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
20 two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
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Forty Days Motif
by JosephAlward inafter the flood which lasted forty days, it seems that there were an unusual number of bible events lasting exactly forty days.
there are eighteen separate events of duration greater than ten days, and 61% of the time the event lasted exactly forty days.
only seven of eighteen events did not last forty days [1], while the other eleven lasted forty days [2].
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Online Bibles
by JosephAlward ini believe there are many on this forum who are not aware of the many online bibles from which they could almost effortless copy verses to paste into their arguments.
when one refers to a particular verse in a particular book, few readers have the patience to go seach through the whole book.. the online source i use is called "bible gateway.
" it provides several different versions of the bible, and offers word search, which is an indispensible tool for those who take their bible research seriously.. bible gateway is at http://bible.gospelcom.net/.
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Jesus' Sword
by JosephAlward inim reposting here an argument that appeared in november, 2001, which received little in the way of meaningful rebuttal.
perhaps rwc and other die-hard inerrantists on this forum will be able to show why we shouldnt believe that matthews claims are ridiculous.. here it is:.
the author of the matthew gospel was by far the most unreliable of the bibles writers, as evidenced by his appalling lack of understanding of the old testament and his willingness to imagine that it was filled with prophecies of the coming savior.. .