What is the thing you think you're absolutely sure of?
For me it has always been death somehow. Too finite. Absolute.
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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
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@MartinTheFirst I respect that thought although I'm not religious.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@SW-User Do you know anything about Jehovah? :)
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@MartinTheFirst Did you always know this? Along the way, did you ever have any doubt... I don't mean in a disrespectful way, but in a... I don't know... in a curiosity way, I guess. Like thinking for a moment if it was possible this might not be true? Have you ever felt being pulled away from the truth?
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@MarkPaul Without questioning something you can't be sure of it. There was one time in particular where I started to doubt. It was when someone on similarworlds gave me this list of contradictions in the Bible and this one situation they spoke of regarding the recorded date of Jesus death, it really seemed like they had won over me.
There were 4 different disciples who wrote about Jesus, and in two of them the time of Jesus death was recorded. One said that it was in the evening, the other one said it was in the morning. I studied for several days to figure out how it could be, until I realized that the disciples were using different calendars. While one was using the jewish calendar, the other one was using roman time. Hence the seeming contradiction.
It proved to me how accurate God's words are and that with a lot of effort we can figure that out.
There were 4 different disciples who wrote about Jesus, and in two of them the time of Jesus death was recorded. One said that it was in the evening, the other one said it was in the morning. I studied for several days to figure out how it could be, until I realized that the disciples were using different calendars. While one was using the jewish calendar, the other one was using roman time. Hence the seeming contradiction.
It proved to me how accurate God's words are and that with a lot of effort we can figure that out.
Dolimyte · 41-45, M
@MartinTheFirst calendars don't indicate time of day, only days as a whole. What passages did you use to determine which one used the jewish calendar and which one was on "roman time"?
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@Dolimyte I know the definition calendar. Night time is one day, morning is the day after. After 00:00 in our calendar you get a new day correct?
Well vaguely from memory, one disciple (Paul) was in rome when writing the scripture and he was dedicating the scriptures to the romans. So instead of using the time of day that was used by the other disciples he used the time appropriate to the romans. Alike how someone in china would say on the news "it happened during the day" people in sweden would say "it happened at night time"
Well vaguely from memory, one disciple (Paul) was in rome when writing the scripture and he was dedicating the scriptures to the romans. So instead of using the time of day that was used by the other disciples he used the time appropriate to the romans. Alike how someone in china would say on the news "it happened during the day" people in sweden would say "it happened at night time"
Dolimyte · 41-45, M
@MartinTheFirst Well first of all Paul wasn't even there. His account is hearsay. He never even met Jesus. Second the concept of it being different times at different locations on the globe was not know at that time. Third there were no clocks 00:00 ment nothing 2000 years ago. And finally you did not sight any passages that you used for referance.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@Dolimyte If you believe in God then you believe in the whole scriptures. What you call paul's account has no relevance to this.
It was a long time ago since I studied this particular issue. I am not going to get into it now, perhaps some other time.
It was a long time ago since I studied this particular issue. I am not going to get into it now, perhaps some other time.
Dolimyte · 41-45, M
@MartinTheFirst thats not true. Many people believe in god without believing the scriptures to be true. If you don't want to get into it now, thats fine. I don't really care what mental gymnastics you do to reconcile the contradictions in your holy book.