@OG_DrC 8/ Jeremiah 29:7 - Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the CITY to which I have carried you into exile. It does not say nation Charlie. In any case God bless Charlie’s family and I pray he is with his saviour.
@OG_DrC 7/ Jesus is not saying “on this rock I will build my “government structure”, that does not make sense. Charlie was aware the questioner would answer “church” and hit him with a “gotcha”. That’s not how Christians normally communicate with one another.
@OG_DrC 6/ the questioner is right about the New Testament. The NT fulfills the Old Testament, bringing to completion the promises and foreshadowing of the old covenant. Charlie specifically tries to use Gen 1.1 to debunk the guy, but that’s not what he was saying
@OG_DrC 5/ Love Charlie but Deutoronomy is not a guide to how to set up a government, it is a covenant given to a chosen people at a chosen time whom experienced God within their midst and who were given certain tasks to fulfil
@OG_DrC 4/ Or Procrustean thinking – A more literary term. It refers to forcing facts to fit a preconceived framework rather than adapting the framework to fit the facts.
@OG_DrC 3/ How about Paradigm lock (or paradigm blindness) – An informal term for being so committed to an existing framework that alternative explanations are overlooked.
@OG_DrC 2/ Also Motivated reasoning – He doesn’t just notice confirming evidence; he actively reasons toward the conclusion he already wants to reach. He reinterprets ambiguous evidence, applies different standards of proof and explains away conflicting information.
@OG_DrC 1/ Love Charlie but he’s displaying a lot of Confirmation bias here – The tendency to seek out, interpret, and remember information in ways that confirm existing beliefs while discounting contradictory evidence.
Christ is risen.
This is the single most significant event in history. Today is the day Christ was vindicated as the one whom the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms testified about.
He took a small group of men and women, many of whom had just abandoned him and were terrified for their lives, and transformed them into bold proclaimers of his resurrection—the very message that took over the Roman Empire and spread throughout the entire world. If they could do this as a small, persecuted group, then all 2 billion+ of us can do it today. Go proclaim Christ every day of your life.
The cosmos is playful, beautiful, and endlessly mysterious. It never ceases to amaze me how many people bypass all of that to believe in a single resurrection fairytale from 2,000 years ago.
Imagine being blown away by an incredible design but too committed to a naturalist viewpoint to acknowledge a designer. Ever see a Lamborghini and think, “it’s incredible that this piece of engineering appeared out of nothing … it just took a long time”.
The cosmos is playful, beautiful, and endlessly mysterious. It never ceases to amaze me how many people bypass all of that to believe in a single resurrection fairytale from 2,000 years ago.
The cosmos is playful, beautiful, and endlessly mysterious. It never ceases to amaze me how many people bypass all of that to believe in a single resurrection fairytale from 2,000 years ago.
This post seems a little premature in its celebration of mystery in one breath while dismissing, outright, metaphysical explanations that attempt to engage with it.
The cosmos is playful, beautiful, and endlessly mysterious. It never ceases to amaze me how many people bypass all of that to believe in a single resurrection fairytale from 2,000 years ago.
It’s interesting to celebrate the mystery of the cosmos while dismissing, outright, one of the oldest and most deeply examined metaphysical claims in human history. If mystery is the point, why is one kind of mystery embraced and another reduced to a fairytale?
The cosmos is playful, beautiful, and endlessly mysterious. It never ceases to amaze me how many people bypass all of that to believe in a single resurrection fairytale from 2,000 years ago.
@Yung_klemzy@j_k011@ScottBr99543437@JoeyMannarino There is no biblical text stating Mary’s age. The claim she was 11 comes from a 2nd-century non-canonical text that is not historically reliable FACT.
As for Jesus, he directly quotes the Old Testament over 60 times in the New Testament and refers to it over 100 times. Go read