I will be starting a whole series of Bible posts [Spirituality & Religion]

@PlumBerries

Well it IS the spirituality ad religion board....

@ISpeakTheTruth



That's where you lost me.
The relative historicity of the bible for claims about influential people or actual places makes it no more believable that there exists a god.

I mean, spider-man is set in a real place and references real people and historical events. That doesn't mean there was a man with the proportional strength of a spider swinging through new york.

@ISpeakTheTruth

lol of course i can tell the difference.
It's just a comparison meant to illustrate that historical accuracy does not necessarily indicate that the story, or the supernatural claims contained therein, are true.

@ISpeakTheTruth Exactly! But it is a heart thing and they need to humble themselves and repent!

@ISpeakTheTruth



Um...that's simply not true.
They're accounts that were years (some of them likely centuries) after the death of jesus.

@PikachuYou do your research cutie-pie!

@Carazaa

It's pretty widely recognized by both secular and christian biblical scholars that the gospels are not first hand accounts and were written well after the fact.
Don't take my word for it. Look it up.

@Pikachu Well you are as stubborn as a mule!

I am going to walk church now (20 blocks)

I will be back later, but you only post an hour so I guess Ill catch you tomorrow! You must be so busy! Please ask God for wisdom of the truth!

@Carazaa

I think if you do a little research you'll see that what i'm telling you is true.
Most scholars don't actually believe that the gospels are first hand accounts.

Have fun at church.

@ISpeakTheTruth


Right...so how would they be first had accounts?
Anyway, like i said to carazaa don't take my word for it. Look it up.

@Pikachu I don't really go to have fun, but thank you! The apostles saw the resurrection even though they had doubted that He was really God. They didn't really completely understand until they saw Him and they all died for witnessing even after they saw people stoned to death for their witness.

They did write it down! But the Bible was gathered into The Holy Scriptures later of course but they DID write it down and their witnessing would hold up in court today!

But this is not about evidence, this is about Pikachus heart being hardened and proud. In order to be wise we have to be humble and meek and repent, realizing we come so miserably short every day to what we want to be, and His standards!

He chooses us because we have faults. He chose Moses because He was humble and stuttered. God has given me my strengths, but I have a visual processing problem and God humbles me so I can be of good service to Him. I always wondered why I am so slow on the computer when it would be better, I thought, for witnessing if I was quicker. But God had a purpose. Rather than being quick he wants me humble. Are you humble? or is God going to have to do that?

You can choose to be humble, or God will humble you!

@Carazaa

The gospels aren't generally considered to have actually been written by the people the books are named for.

Guess i'll have to wait for god to humble me because i don't know how to shut my brain off and pretend i'm convinced by that which i find unconvincing 🤷

@Pikachu Certain maturity happens with age too! You are very young and you'll know what I mean when God does His humbling! It isn't fun! Praise God he changed my heart early in my life.

What is so unconvincing?

@PlumBerries Yaee, more religious threads... was that sarcastic ha ha?

@Carazaa

lol you don't know how old i am. But let's pretend that age or maturity are things which will make a person believe in a god.

What is unconvincing is the bible. I don't believe the story and the whole thing smacks if humanity. It seems to me to be entirely human in scope and content.