Thanks again peacefulpete
Very interesting and informative.
Touchofgrey
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Ezra...Son of God.
by peacefulpete inbriefly said, the various/diverse ancient stories present ezra as directed by a persian king to establish religious/national law and order in judea.
he is said to have re-introduced the locals and returnees to the law of moses.
he and five others present this law to the people with mixed and brutal results.
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Probability of Earth and life being how it is
by ballistic inthere are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.
but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.
the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.
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Touchofgrey
The earth was not created or designed for life, it came about from a solar nebula around 4.5 billion years ago, massive cloud of dust and gas colliding together eventually forming the earth over billions of years and many impact events helped with the formation of the earth eg water, look at the surface of the moon for evidence of that.
Even after that there have been 5 massive extinctions events in earth's history, so not designed for life, and even earthquakes volcanic eruptions etc provide evidence that the earth was not designed for life.
So no evidence of a master designer, as humans we are very fortunate to have progressed to where we are now.
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Probability of Earth and life being how it is
by ballistic inthere are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.
but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.
the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.
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Touchofgrey
https://www.gcrr.org/post/minimalfactsapologetics
facts presented are not his, but representative of between 75 to 95 % of all scholars (including atheists, Jewish, and otherwise) who publish in the area of 1 st century Christianity.
Sea breeze please read the link gary habermas did not get his paper properly peer reviewed.
These minimal facts argument has been debunked many times, yet you keep reverting to them rather than doing some independent research into the subject, by experts with PhDs and their peer reviewed articles.
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Seabreeze
That's based on dogma and not factual evidence.
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Is anyone watching The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu?
by Biahi inafter finishing season 6, episode 5, it occurred to me that, if the jws were right, (they’re not), the “new system” would end up being very much like this.
picture the commanders as the elders.. it’s a riveting series.
i wanted to see it, because i read the book when it first came out.
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Touchofgrey
Enjoyed watching it ,not yet watched season 6 yet .
Oppressive controlling religious government especially the control of women .
The double standards of the commanders and the dominance of some of them over other commanders.
Certainly not limited to jws ,all religions exercise control over its followers.
The film heretic with hugh grant is worth the watch as well, involved two mormon girls but could include other religions as well.
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Touchofgrey
Happy spring equinox to any pagans and their godesses Eostre who came up with the origins of this pagan celebration now adopted by Christian and others.
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Bible Study Approaching Its End
by Fallen_Winter ini have been engaging in bible study with my bible study conductor for the past two years.
i am on lesson 48 of enjoy life forever book and it is only a matter of time before i complete lesson 60 which is the final lesson.
my bible study conductor informed me today that once i complete lesson 60, i won’t be receiving any more studies as i have been given all of the information that i need to make a decision.
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Fallen winter
Please do some independent research into the bible and the clear evidence is that the bible is the uninspired word of man.
Many of the events and individuals are fictional and often based on older legends and myths and adapted to fit the narrative of the author's of the particular story's.
Eg the Noah flood legend is very similar to the epic tales of galgermesh.
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Why worship a God that does not help!
by Witness 007 inso god let 10 million people die in world war 2 but was too busy to help....what kind of diety does this!
if i was god i would have done something .
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Touchofgrey
If you believe that the bible is true, god did intervene in human history, the flood story because man was wicked, the exodus story freeing his people from oppression of the Egyptians, and many other times to help his chosen people.
Then for some reason he stopped or these events are myths and fables made up by humans to make their god seem to be real .
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Why worship a God that does not help!
by Witness 007 inso god let 10 million people die in world war 2 but was too busy to help....what kind of diety does this!
if i was god i would have done something .
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Touchofgrey
Very true, I recently visited Auschwitz and birkenau, where more than 1.1 million men women and children were exterminated just because they were Jewish, gay, gypsies and even some jws and no god came to their assistance it was other humans who came to their assistance.
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The point of existence and how it refutes the Trinity
by slimboyfat inrowan williams, the former archbishop of canterbury gave an interesting answer to the somewhat stark question, what’s the point of us existing?
as a christian, my starting point is that we exist because the most fundamental form of activity, energy, call it what you like, that is there, is love.
that is, it’s a willingness that the other should be.
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Seabreeze
Existence comes from non-existence
2. Order comes from Chaos
3. Life comes from non-life
4. Personal comes from the non-personal
5. Reason comes from non-reason
6. Morality comes from matter.
If you take off your god glasses and do some independent research into these statements you will be able to find experts with PhDs in the the subjects that will fill in or give honest information and evidence, rather than relying on the god of the gaps excuses.