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How about you post as CHOOK some more.
Chook was my roommate Chuck...who now lives somewhere else....
Jha'dur...why would i have "pretended" to be Chook? Who would pretend to be their own roommate?
If I am going to "pretend" to be someone else....wouldnt I pretend to be a "complete stranger"?
Anyways....
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Mr.PuckSR shut up. If you dont want to believe in the Bible thats your choice. If we want to its none of your business, you have no rights to call people stupid and idiots. People can believe what they want. If you believe that the bible is not the word of god then thats ok, but you got to stop insulting people. I do believe that the bible has been edited and changed since its creation, probably some cover ups by the Catholic Church.
Sir, your belief in the claims of the bible is ENTIRELY your right.
I do not call people idiots for their beliefs....I call them idiots for the "proof" of their belief.
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Mormons believe a bunch of crazy stuff. One thing that Mormons believe in is the Book of Abraham...which was apparently written by Abraham. Joseph Smith translated an egyptian scroll that he purchased(before we could read egyptian) and claimed to have the book of Abraham.
Later, we learned how to read Egyptian. The result? The scroll was actually a burial scroll; a typical, plain, ordinary scroll that accompanied a mildly wealthy man. Now...I do not attack Mormons for believing the "teachings" of the scroll. Your beliefs are your RIGHT. I attack them for claiming that a "text" supports their beliefs.
If you want to claim that Elvis is still alive, be my guest. It is your RIGHT to believe that. However, dont try to hand me a half-eaten cheeseburger as proof. You have no RIGHT to claim evidence when none exists.
The Bible is a collection of several texts. Many, many, many books were written in the early days of Christendom and only a few are in the present-day bible. The selection process seems completely random and arbitrary. No one EVER claimed that the selection process was divinely inspired.
The books of the "New Testament" were always considered individual works. The claim of divine inspiration for the book of revelations was not considered a claim of divine inspiration for the entirety of the bible until the fundamentalist movement of the mid 19th century. Uneducated, excited, and avid preachers began making what could best be described as scholastically ridiculous claims. While many things can be said against the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church always had a certain academic quality to their claims.
Fundamentalists abandoned this academic quality. IF proof is necessary compare a modern Fundamentalist Christian proof of God against the far more scholarly works of St. Thomas Aquinas.
In closing....I do not attack the beliefs...or the believers. I simply attack that which they hold as evidence. Most people who hold this claim have only the most rudimentary understanding of the bible and its history. Few people who hold to Biblical inerrency have studied the vast number of ancient texts...or bothered to learn Hebrew, Greek, and other early languages.
Thank you...I hope this conversation can remain civilized