Indeed, and one more: Did nobody ever tell inerrantists that the techniques used in the NT are characteristic of crafted literature rather than raw historical chronicle?
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
I would argue that in light of passages like Hosea 13:16, Isaiah 10 and 13:15-17, Turek's notion that god doesn't want powerful corrupt pagan leaders to engage in mass slaughter of the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
‘I just have a personal policy. If somebody predicts and accomplishes His own resurrection from the dead, I just trust whatever the guy says.’
What Turek overlooks is that...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
The reply from apologists like Frank Turek is that the reason God does not do more to correct people's errant views of Christianity is because of the ripple-effect: god knows that by allowing...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
If you want to kick an inerrantist's ass real good, demand from them an error or contradiction in the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha or the Dead Sea Scrolls. Then ask them how likely the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
That conservative Christians and fundamentalists are Pharisees is clear from a) Jesus never expressed or implied his followers' salvation or sanctification depended on them affirming that...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 5 hours ago
‘I have no positive belief in God, but technically, I cannot know for sure.’
Technically, I cannot know for sure that the Sun will rise tomorrow. But that's how...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 10 hours ago
Turek of course is famous for saying that one can resist the Nazis by hiding Jews under his floorboards, and that he can even lie to the Nazis so as to resist them. It is a whole shtick in his...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 12 hours ago
Obviously, I think that the Scripture teaches that thou shalt not murder and that an unborn child is a human being. In fact, maybe the clearest place it says that, that your unborn...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 13 hours ago
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. - Carl Sagan THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD.
And each year we can tell that science gets...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 14 hours ago
Probably for the same reason he sat out the Holocaust, and never intervened to prevent a member of the clergy from raping a child. He doesn't exist.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 15 hours ago
I remember Jim the Scott, he was a tit.
He would cite Kenneth Kitchen, an evangelical Egyptologist, as an authority.
He would, wouldn't he? Kenneth Kitchen was a...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 17 hours ago
And this wasn't supposed to have been a problem in the first place, given that Jesus promised he'd return to rule in power before all of his original followers were dead....
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 17 hours ago
Turek's position on women's reproductive rights is in the gutter, and he thinks he has the Buybull on his side. Obviously, I think that the Scripture teaches that thou shalt...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 18 hours ago
That reminds me of a Dara Ó Briain skit. "Science doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop".
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 19 hours ago
My home made theology holds that the kingdom of heaven awaits the people who rejected magic books and thought for themselves.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 19 hours ago
What the RCC should know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sVzWOYaM9w
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 19 hours ago
If Christianity true so confused why God doesn't just correct all 40000 denoms and religions and say HEY THIS IS THE TRUTH! LOOK HERE! I AM PUTTING IT IN 8 BILLION PEOPLE'S MINDS. But...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 20 hours ago
Increasing knowledge through the sciences, and the march of time, is the undoing of Buybull inerrancy.
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 20 hours ago
Theologians & apologists are like Terminator 2 robot that morphs into whatever the fuck it wants at the time to suits its own purpose. Innerancy is this, no it’s that, no it’s this other bloody...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 20 hours ago
However, especially today, ‘agnostic’ very often means: ‘I have no positive belief in God, but technically, I cannot know for sure.’ I think that a lot of atheists wanted to annex the agnostics...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 21 hours ago
Love it. lol Note, I did not say their post hoc rationalizations make much sense, it's just that they're good at dreaming them up.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 23 hours ago
It is like what Aron Ra says: science converges whereas religions diverge. The divergent nature of religions; their shivering and splintering into countless sects, seems to prove to me that there...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago
"I've begun to suspect that a major division in American life, perhaps the major division, is the one between carnies and non-carnies; that is, between those who understand...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago
Right on! This is in line with those posts where an Ex-C would say, I broke up with Jesus because he ghosted me.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago