[dbcooper]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

LOL Practice makes perfect. A 3 minute exhibition is not really going to be considered the "Best" he can offer. You can hope you're first time out of the gate is going to be this spectacular triumph of sexual prowess... but it's spectacularly unlikely.

You seem to put forth the idea that once you've had sex... you are no longer at your best. How so?

I won't buy a car without a test drive and I'm only gonna keep it a few years at most, just sayin.

[muscogee]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

All you have to do to be saved is accept Christ as your personal savior. That is the current view of the majority of Christians in this nation. You think you know better? You're a better Christian than they? That's what they think of you too.

That's just the Salvation by Grace crowd. IIRC, Catholics believe you have to be baptised. Then you go to Purgatory until you atone for your unforgiven sins. That may be a very long or very short time depending on how you lived your life. After that you go to Heaven.

[Glock36shooter]

Originally Posted by muscogee

That's just the Salvation by Grace crowd. IIRC, Catholics believe you have to be baptised. Then you go to Purgatory until you atone for your unforgiven sins. That may be a very long or very short time depending on how you lived your life. After that you go to Heaven.

See... mainstream Christianity is easier.

[Glock36shooter]

Originally Posted by Schabesbert

No, it is not. You'd better re-assess your sources of information.

Yes it is.

But never the less... prove Christ isn't in league with the Devil. That he is giving people a different path other than what God intended in the original covenant.

[SPIN2010]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

LOL Practice makes perfect. A 3 minute exhibition is not really going to be considered the "Best" he can offer. You can hope you're first time out of the gate is going to be this spectacular triumph of sexual prowess... but it's spectacularly unlikely.

You seem to put forth the idea that once you've had sex... you are no longer at your best. How so?

Well, think of it like this:

How many diseases out there in the sexual realm are ones that you cannot give back? Quite a few.

What a nice wedding gift?

[Glock36shooter]

Originally Posted by SPIN2010

Well, think of it like this:

How many diseases out there in the sexual realm are ones that you cannot give back? Quite a few.

What a nice wedding gift?

And you're guaranteed to get them if you have sex before marriage? You can't be smart and safe and avoid them? Am I the only lucky one? Oh Lawdy Lawdy!

[Geko45]

Originally Posted by bowtie454

"proof" is a far too strong of a statement. Read up a little more on this "find". There is a lot of skepticism among religious and archaelogical experts that this is authentic. Also, this "document" (for lack of a better description) is said to be dated 200 years after Jesus' death. All it "proves" is that someone 200 years later stated that Jesus was married. If I write an article about George Washington stating he was homosexual and someone finds a scrap of it 1000 years from now, does that "prove" that George Washington was gay?

This is exactly the point that we (atheists) have been trying to make about the bible since day one on this forum. Even Paul's earliest work was only about 50AD.

[Schabesbert]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

Yes it is.

I understand. Ignorance is bliss, and you are determined to remain blissful.

[SPIN2010]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

And you're guaranteed to get them if you have sex before marriage? You can't be smart and safe and avoid them? Am I the only lucky one? Oh Lawdy Lawdy!

I think that logic states it all.

[Glock36shooter]

Originally Posted by Schabesbert

I understand. Ignorance is bliss, and you are determined to remain blissful.

So nothing to offer other than "You don't know!". LOL. I accept you're surrender. Run along now.

[Glock36shooter]

Originally Posted by SPIN2010

I think that logic states it all.

It actually does. Your premise is that if you have premarital sex you're bound to get diseases. This is incorrect. There are ways of being safely promiscuous... trust me... I practice them regularly.

[muscogee]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

See... mainstream Christianity is easier.

The Southern Baptists take it a step farther. They believe that once you're saved, you're always saved. Just publicly say you're a Christian and you're in.

[muscogee]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

LOL Practice makes perfect. A 3 minute exhibition is not really going to be considered the "Best" he can offer. You can hope you're first time out of the gate is going to be this spectacular triumph of sexual prowess... but it's spectacularly unlikely.

You seem to put forth the idea that once you've had sex... you are no longer at your best. How so?

If you get in a 747 to fly across the ocean and you ask your pilot, "How many times have you done this?", do you want him to say, This is my first time to fly anything", or do you want him to say, "I don't remember, I do it all the time."?

[ArrowJ]

Originally Posted by muscogee

The Southern Baptists take it a step farther. They believe that once you're saved, you're always saved. Just publicly say you're a Christian and you're in.

That is an oversimplification, but it has been a problem: http://highcaliberguns.com/2007/05/02/the-magic-prayer/


http://highcaliberguns.com
http://thesitterdowners.com

[Glock36shooter]

Originally Posted by muscogee

The Southern Baptists take it a step farther. They believe that once you're saved, you're always saved. Just publicly say you're a Christian and you're in.

LOL yeah, I have a friend that told me I'm still going to heaven because I was saved before I stopped believing. Once saved always saved. Even though I reject the faith completely. So I guess I'm golden if that's true. I get to have my cake and eat it too.

[bowtie454]

Originally Posted by Animal Mother

Are we discarding everything written after Jesus' death? Because that doesn't leave a whole lot to work with.

"after Jesus' death" is a pretty large time span. My point is that this is a single, uncorroborated document written over 100 years after anyone who ever lived during Jesus' lifetime had died. On its own, it is "proof" of nothing.

[Schabesbert]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

So nothing to offer other than "You don't know!". LOL. I accept you're surrender. Run along now.

What I've said is that you're wrong, and that you're determined to stay that way, reason and facts notwithstanding. You want to consider that a surrender, then feel free. Stay in your blissful (i.e., ignorance is bliss) state if you find it necessary for your mental well-being.

[Glock36shooter]

Originally Posted by Schabesbert

What I've said is that you're wrong, and that you're determined to stay that way, reason and facts notwithstanding. You want to consider that a surrender, then feel free. Stay in your blissful (i.e., ignorance is bliss) state if you find it necessary for your mental well-being.

Saying I'm wrong proves nothing. In fact it is tantamount to sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming la la la la la la la. If you have something to offer up please do. Otherwise your childish... "Nah Uh" is noted and rejected.

I have to say that you and that green manischewitz guy are the two hardest people with whom to have a discussion I've met so far in here. You just proclaim yourselves to be correct and offer up very little to nothing in evidence of it. And you both seem to prefer the "I know you are but what am I?" approach.

[Tilley]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

Saying I'm wrong proves nothing. In fact it is tantamount to sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming la la la la la la la. If you have something to offer up please do. Otherwise your childish... "Nah Uh" is noted and rejected.

Funny you should mention that. Do something none of the other little resident zombies do here: research. Look back on the last 100 remarks from Animal Mother, and you will see the essence of your above quote as AM's typical answer in at least 85% of the time.


Scary...

[Schabesbert]

Originally Posted by Glock36shooter

Saying I'm wrong proves nothing. In fact it is tantamount to sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming la la la la la la la. If you have something to offer up please do. Otherwise your childish... "Nah Uh" is noted and rejected.

Actually, it proves at least as much as your assertion.
You asserted something without any evidence to back it up. I'm saying that you're wrong. Please provide some evidence that you are correct.

I have to say that you and that green manischewitz guy are the two hardest people with whom to have a discussion I've met so far in here.

Yeah, I guess you're used to discussing things in an echo chamber. When your assertions are challenged, you have a difficult time. Noted.

[Schabesbert]

I'll do what you're unable to ... provide some evidence.


In the US, the various protestant denominations’ populations are:


Baptist 38,662,005
Pentecostal 13,673,149
Lutheran 7,860,683
Presbyterian 5,844,855
Methodist 5,473,129
Anglican 2,323,100
Adventist 2,203,600
Holiness 2,123,602
Other 1,366,678

According to that same article, there are over 67million Catholics

In the list above, Baptists, Pentecostals (most), Presbyterians, Holiness (maybe), and “Other” (maybe) believe as you claim Christians believe.
See, for instance, various beliefs compared on “Can Salvation Be Lost?”
… which is an even more stringent belief than you’re proposing doesn’t exist, since if salvation can be lost then it isn’t quite the easy salvation that you wrongly claim Christians believe.

That means that, being generous, 55,825,434 protestants support your theory, and 17,860,512 do not. However, add to that the 67million Catholics, and we show that you are wrong by quite a large margin: 84,860,512 to 55,825,434.

If you want to talk about Christians Worldwide, you are even more wrong.

[Animal Mother]

Originally Posted by bowtie454

"after Jesus' death" is a pretty large time span.

About 2000 years at this point.

My point is that this is a single, uncorroborated document written over 100 years after anyone who ever lived during Jesus' lifetime had died. On its own, it is "proof" of nothing.

My point is that we don't have any examples of any works about Jesus that are older than this fragment, so if you object to it shouldn't you also object to all the other works?

[Animal Mother]

Originally Posted by Schabesbert

I'll do what you're unable to ... provide some evidence.


In the US, the various protestant denominations’ populations are:


Baptist 38,662,005
Pentecostal 13,673,149
Lutheran 7,860,683
Presbyterian 5,844,855
Methodist 5,473,129
Anglican 2,323,100
Adventist 2,203,600
Holiness 2,123,602
Other 1,366,678

According to that same article, there are over 67million Catholics

In the list above, Baptists, Pentecostals (most), Presbyterians, Holiness (maybe), and “Other” (maybe) believe as you claim Christians believe.
See, for instance, various beliefs compared on “Can Salvation Be Lost?”
… which is an even more stringent belief than you’re proposing doesn’t exist, since if salvation can be lost then it isn’t quite the easy salvation that you wrongly claim Christians believe.

That means that, being generous, 55,825,434 protestants support your theory, and 17,860,512 do not. However, add to that the 67million Catholics, and we show that you are wrong by quite a large margin: 84,860,512 to 55,825,434.

If you want to talk about Christians Worldwide, you are even more wrong.

Is Biblical and religious truth based on popularity of the dogma?

[Geko45]

Originally Posted by bowtie454

"after Jesus' death" is a pretty large time span. My point is that this is a single, uncorroborated document written over 100 years after anyone who ever lived during Jesus' lifetime had died. On its own, it is "proof" of nothing.

Yeah, but there is quite a bit in the new testament written later than that which is considered cannon.

[Animal Mother]

Originally Posted by Tilley

Funny you should mention that. Do something none of the other little resident zombies do here: research. Look back on the last 100 remarks from Animal Mother, and you will see the essence of your above quote as AM's typical answer in at least 85% of the time.


Scary...

Also, False.