isn't the burden on them to prove "first causes" as well? i'e causality. To have causuality you'd need a first cause. And for that you would need time. Not sure how time can exist if eternity exists. the void gets hit thinking of these things, so the normal narratives of time and space can vanish, or at least be put aside. it's up to meditator i guess to find out whats left.i think the materialist has to prove there are seperate objects, no?
which there is of course in our awareness. the appearance of objects, of course. but even then the "knower" of the object can never truly be known. it does all fall down in my view. but teh hard core rationalist starts from different premises i guess, such as there are definitely seperate objects, and all of reality is just a coming together of them to bring life, and that those objects make up the knower.i think the materialist has to prove there are seperate objects, no?
I've just done a short wee blogpost with cool pictures which relate to Puritanism,
I've refreshed the link. The connection might not be clear, but those diagrams show the psychology of Reformed Puritan faith.The link doesn't seem to work, it connects to a completely different blog post.
That was what the first sermon of Jesus was all about. When he went to the synagogue, and Luke explains that he unrolled the scroll of Isaiah the prophet and said, “I’ve come to proclaim the year of the Lord,” which was the debt cancellation — the Jubilee year — that was brought in from Babylonia into Judaism, as it was done all through the Near East.
Assyria had it when it conquered Judea. Babylonia had it when it conquered Judea and took the exiles to Babylonia, and the exiles, picked up, literally the same word used in Babylonian for a clean slate (debt cancellation), brought it back to Israel, and word for word had the same conditions of a clean slate: when a new ruler took the throne, or when there was other reasons — a war was over, or there was any reason for a debt cancellation — you’d cancel the debts, you’d liberate the debt servants to go back to their families, you’d give them back the pledges that they’d made. If they pledged a slave girl, they’d get the slave girl back. If they pledged their land, they’d redistribute the land.
Oh, I dunno. Oxford-educated, self-published authors know all kinds of shit about Jesus and stuff.I struggle to believe that a book published in 2018 proved 'beyond a reasonable doubt' that Jesus of Nazareth 'never existed'.
Oh ye of little faithI struggle to believe that a book published in 2018 proved 'beyond a reasonable doubt' that Jesus of Nazareth 'never existed'.
book of Isiah?Oh ye of little faith
No idea, not read it in forty yearsbook of Isiah?
I struggle to believe that a book published in 2018 proved 'beyond a reasonable doubt' that Jesus of Nazareth 'never existed'.
No it's Isaiah. Was a gentle dig at click bait failingsNo idea, not read it in forty years
Although it would seem more likely accurate than a book a couple of thousand years older.
Numerically speaking, I agree that the number of Jesuses was most likely higher than zero.
I read a short book by this Indian author a while back and his whole deal was that christ was actually one of the deva/devi.
Jesus Christ SuperstarOoh, like Beyonce.
you mean walking on water of course. The sea parting bit was Moses, being chased by Yul Brynner as RamesesI struggle to understand how someone that turned water into wine, parted the seas etc can be thought of as anything but a myth. The old Testament is even worse.
Yep, I’m mixing stories up. Not difficult to do.you mean walking on water of course. The sea parting bit was Moses.
I struggle to understand how someone that turned water into wine, parted the seas etc can be thought of as anything but a myth. The old Testament is even worse.
My limited understanding on him (or Him) is that he was an ordinary bloke who did and said some good things and it all got blown out of proportion. The myth mattered more than the man or the message, eventually.I struggle to understand how someone that turned water into wine, parted the seas etc can be thought of as anything but a myth. The old Testament is even worse.
Like Santa you mean? Or something else that doesn’t exist?It's not particularly unlikely if you're omnipotent?
Although it would seem more likely accurate than a book a couple of thousand years older.
Numerically speaking, I agree that the number of Jesuses was most likely higher than zero.
It does exist, Santa doesn't come into it. You didn't create yourself.Like Santa you mean? Or something else that doesn’t exist?