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A mismatch comparison. Is there a Gotham City like there is a Jerusalem? Who is the Bart Erhman of the sacred DC texts? Perhaps it's you or one our other forum members engaging on this thread.😉

Being told to 'Love your neighbor & love your enemies as yourself' - everyone holding to that idea (& following them) would be quite counter-productive and a problematic threat to dictatorships and gang rackets. Jesus doesn't want your hard earned money or your material possessions. Giving to...

If people are 'dammed in hell' then a choice was made, IOW the threat of damnation didn't phase anyone. It's not just about YOU who's already doing that. Its about every single soul needing to do it also...live happily with each other. I suppose so putting it that way... ...disloyalty is doing...

The oceans are but a mere film of liquid coating the earth in proportion to the earth's solid mass. It shouldn't be that hard to suggest that water could recede fairly easy into a much greater mass being many times deeper in depth. (I used an AI just to get a quick visual gist of the...

Southern, I would have thought 'all' Christians would be that way to you. I was told the same thing as a child. The bible narrative would quite understandably, be told to children in a much simplified 'easy to digest' language! I can go with your statement: 'fairy tales are made for...

I'm not a Christian "guru" as I mention in the post above, but your young Christian friend. Was she a spiritual adviser or something similar to you? I shouldn't think it would be such a problem for an Almighty God - to put a designed system in place - no more a problem than to have a waste...

Reading past history, yes I see, since you like to bring this notion of yours up, I will say then, I'm pretty sure we have had a few debates for a few years, going back-and-forth in the past.. ... when you had a different handle/name? I have never claimed to be a Christian guru especially when...

So I can understand your understanding. Are you saying these geological upheavals "caused' the great volume of water that's covering the earth to appear as they exist now? or Do you mean that the oceans today have always existed at the levels it exists now - and those ruins were once above...

Yeah, pretty much says that about people that refuse to learn.Besides you got to apply that to the actual person who fits the description above because I don't actually think just anything is plausible. I certainly wouldn't want to be one of those who's so sure of his 'professing to be...

Absolutely. What people do affects the generations later down the line.

There are ancient ruins at the bottom of seas, and there is a great volume of water above them. There earth is 71% covered in water, therefore the whole earth being flooded at one point is easier to propose the plausibility.

Great post. There is an irony I have to say with the biblical debate, and the how it relates the bible and the court, given from what we read in your post above. The acceptable option to place your hand on the Bible in court, that is admissable being a serious consideration being part of the...

'Telling the truth' is the object of the testimony! Just because you've never experienced the same thing does not "automatically" make the testimony false, but you could attempt to argue the case that it's all made up, (if you have you own evidence for that). The other attempt for your case...

Yeah sure. Using psychology can reveal a lot in personal statements even if written thousands of years ago. Atheist are right when they argue Christians are emotional about their beliefs, not realising that this is actually crucial to understanding the state of mind of people back then through...

My word... people have been thrown in prison and 'hanged' on the word of other people giving reports,even many years later trying to recollect past events which aren't as fresh as they were the further apart from the time the events were witnessed. These reports, to 'state the obvious' are...