IlBeBauck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Jan 15, 5:10 am, "Bill M" <wm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> The 'subjective' evidence for most popular religions are ancient texts
of
>> questionable veracity such as;
>>
>> Baha'i Sacrid writtings
>>
>> Life of Buddha - Dhammapada - Pali cannon
>>
>> The Bible - Christian religious do***ents - 20 English versions alone.
>>
>> No originals of the old or new testaments exist.
>>
>> The Book of Mormon - Church of Latter Day Saints
>>
>> The Analects - Confuscianism
>>
>> The Eddas and Sagas - Icelandic beliefs
>>
>> Wicca - Neo paganism of Greece and Rome
>>
>> Bhagavgita and Rig Veda - Hinduism
>>
>> Qur'an - Islam
>>
>> Adi Granth and Dasam Granth - canonical scripture of the Sikhs
>>
>> Ta****h - Jewism
>>
>> Tao-Te-Ching - Taoism
>>
>> Nag Hammadi - Gnostics
>>
>> Zhuan Falun - Falun Gong
>>
>> These are only the major do***ents. There are many more.
>>
>> These do***ents are largely made up of myths, fables and opinions of
ancient
>> humans of limited knowledge and questionable veracity.
>>
>> There are hundreds of different God beliefs and thousands of different
>> religious
>>
>> beliefs. With so many different Gods and religions how is anyone to
know
>> which god and religion is the real one and which are fakes???
>>
>> If there was a real God, why would he permit his flock to be misled by
so
>> many fakes and religions of infinitely varied beliefs and claims?
>>
>> Why does any real God do his communicating through thousands of
preachers,
>> priests, imams, gurus, mufti, rabbis, patriarchs, etc. of variable
levels of
>> honesty and conformity?
>>
>> The evidence is overwhelming that religious beliefs are based on
peoples
>> imaginations and desires to relieve them from the panic fear of the
finality
>> of death!
>
> REPLY: So many 'gods'....but only ONE REAL one ; Heres the test :
> Look for someone who lived , confirmed by historical evidence from
> many different sources, who CLAIMED to be God the Creator, who was
> found to have no sin in him, who performed many real bonified miracles
> as attested to by eye witnesses , who recieved praise and wor****p from
> many publicly, who fulfilled hundreds of predictions about himself
> written down some 600+ years earlier, who said himself he would die a
> certain way but will come back to life from the grave 3 days later,
> then did it and showed himself to over 500 people and allowed himself
> to be touched and examined by them as proof. Now..if Chris Angel or
> David Copperfield does something equal to or greater than this, then
> THEY are the one(s) to follow. Otherwise, make Jesus Christ your God
> and Saviour.
You are comfortable with him, he's yours. Doesn't work for me. There
are no valid prophesies, he abrogated my ethics and covenant, and went
off on his own. He created his own religion, which you choose to
follow. Enjoy it, but don't deny me, or anyone else, their own faith.
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