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@_OKJ__ @bhenybey Bart Ehrman does know these things. He’s made a career off of picking and choosing which facts he acknowledges. In a debate with Dr James White he admitted we have the Bible today that they had in the first centuries, but in public goes back to claiming it was corrupted

@bhenybey Yeah I’m sure you know more about Jewish culture than a professor of the bible lmao.

I was having a conversation with a Christian friend last night about some of the reasons I do not believe the gospel accounts of the death and resurrection are reliable… one such reason was when Jesus Christ was actually crucified. I told him this isn’t some obscure detail….it’s the central event of the entire story. And yet when you line up the accounts, they don’t just differ slightly, they contradict in a way that cannot be reconciled. I started with the Gospel of Mark. In Mark, Jesus eats the Passover meal with his disciples…that’s the Last Supper. After that, he’s arrested overnight, tried, and then crucified the next mornin at about 9 a.m. (Mark 15:25). So in this account, the crucifixion happens after the Passover meal. Then I showed him the Gospel of John. Here, everything shifts. Jesus is still before Pontius Pilate around noon on the day of Preparation of the Passover ….the very day the Passover lambs are being slaughtered (John 19:14). That means Jesus is crucified before the Passover meal, not after. So in one account, Jesus eats the Passover, in the other, he dies before it even happens. My friend tried to say maybe it’s just a minor timing issue. But it’s not. This completely changes the sequence of events. In Mark, the Last Supper is the Passover meal. In John, it can’t be…because Jesus is already dead before the meal begins. You can’t have both. Then I asked him why John would move it. And that’s where the real issue comes in. John is the only gospel that strongly pushes the idea of Jesus as the “Lamb of God.” So what does the author do? He places Jesus’ death at the exact time the Passover lambs are being slaughtered in Jerusalem. This is not history shaping theology…it’s theology reshaping history. Once you see that, it’s hard to unsee. The timeline isn’t just reported differently…it’s reworked to make a symbolic point. And that raises a bigger question I asked him directly…if the author is willing to change the day of Jesus’ death to fit a theological message, what else in the story has been adjusted for the same reason? At that point, he didn’t realy have a response. Because this isn’t something you can harmonize without doing violence to the texts. Jesus cannot both eat the Passover meal and die before it. He cannot be crucified the morning after and the afternoon before at the same time. This really clearly shows that these accounts are theological narratives written by believers shaping the story to express what they believed. And once that door opens, the reliability of the entire narrative becomes a serious question.

@Lets_b_Cool @_OKJ__ It was night time in a garden area…. Everyone wore the same style of clothes and had beards… the people arresting Jesus may have heard of him but probably never met him in person

@_OKJ__ I need to ask you something. Jesus was famous. He gave so many sarmons and healed do many people. Why he was needed to be identified by Judas before guards?

@LangmanVince Our military is designed from the ground up to wage two concurrent full military conflicts at once.

Watch this British podcaster getting shocked by how dominant Americans military is compared to the other 31 countries of NATO combined! NATO is a paper tiger without America!

@Raintheplug1 He was trying to break down the door. He was warned. That’s how a dad should protect his home. Good job dad!

@ThomasSowell The problem here is while there is better access to education, it’s just become indoctrination. It’s not an improvement in ability to think and reason, we just have more knowledge these days. So why are we producing objectively dumber kids?

"The founding fathers had less access to education than a modern day 12 year old"

@PicturesFoIder Imagine being the guy who has to justify the insane budget of building every high transmission power line pole custom and unique…..

In 2010, Iceland introduced the concept of electrical support structures designed to resemble towering, walking iron giants.

@BostonByBirth All humans have intrinsic value because they are made in the image of God. It’s not about how much they are able to contribute in life.

My son died. I know he didn't contribute anything to mankind — he was only two months old — but I like to believe he was destined to do something good for humanity. It's been a while since his death, and I hate to dwell on it so publicly, but I wanted you to know him.

The “Africans sold Africans” fallacy. 🥱

@beyoncegarden The way she just shifts topics when she can’t get her gotcha…

the way she CLEARED him effortlessly here will forever have me crying😭

@HarlysCorner “There is no such thing as God, and I hate Him!!!” - the Fool

Aurora Borealis is caused by the Sun, not God. Americans are blithering idiots.

@DipshikhaGhosh Women who hate the concept of chastity:

Why are men obsessed with gifting other men women’s virginity? Can they not think of anything else to appease each other? Do men really have nothing at all to offer to other men by themselves? Men like these should never have daughters or get married themselves.

@venom1s @Mutomuto_trades Forgiveness from God does not mean negation of consequences or justice. That’s why when murderers find Jesus in prison, they remain in prison, and if they really repented, they would agree that they deserve it.

@Mutomuto_trades Does the same logic apply to criminals and men who cheat? Can they be forgiven?

She slept with more than 1000 men in just 12 hours. Now she got baptized and became a born-again virgin. Does Christianity forgive such women?

@joeroganhq People have been using psychedelics to contact the demonic for all of human history.

Psychedelics expert Andrew Gallimore tells Joe Rogan: "When you go into the DMT space … you are interacting with some kind of supremely advanced intelligence."

@codym1917 @AuronMacintyre Well to be fair, we are pretty much just killing a certain group of people there. The people at the top

Decimation is a term only 10% know the meaning of.

@DrOaikhena It’s called intellectual honesty. An intelligent and honest person, when arguing against a position or belief, ought to be able to represent it truthfully and accurately. If it’s false you shouldn’t need to lie about it to refute it.

Why should an atheist give an accurate description of what they say doesn't exist? Did you post from the wrong side of your brain? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

@Breaking911 How about for ALL illegal immigrants. It’s actually what we voted for.

🚨 BREAKING: The House of Representatives has passed a bill mandating automatic deportation for illegal aliens who commit welfare fraud, in a 231–186 vote.

@nmeoftheright @_OKJ__ That’s pretty much just clearly reading a straightforward text. It’s the people who don’t want Scripture to hold any authority over them who make excuses that it’s all up to interpretation. Follow it or reject it but stop with the excuse that it’s not clear.

@MGin3D @_OKJ__ "If you aren’t getting your view of God from scripture, then you worship an idol of your own making." Your self knowledge is as miniscule as your pride is massive. You're convinced that your personal understanding of scripture is correct and infallible. Keep polishing that idol.

This reminds me of a fascinating story I read,of when in the 1970s Daniel Everett,a linguist and Christian went to the Amazon jungle to convert a tribe called the piraha people to Christianity and completely failed for one crazy reason 😂😂 When Daniel Everett arrived with his wife and kids at the remote Pirahã village in the Amazon, His mission was clear…learn their language,translate the New Testament,and convert this isolated hunter gatherer group to Christianity. What he encountered instead was one of the most radical cultural and linguistic worldviews ever documented 😂. From his experience,Everett eventually formalized what he called the “Immediacy of Experience Principle”. What this means in essence is the Pirahã culture and grammar strongly constrain what can be meaningfully discussed or believed…to them,knowledge must be anchored in direct,personal observation or at most in the recent testimony of living people you know. Things that happened long ago,that no one alive has seen,or that exist only in abstract or supernatural realms fall into the category of what they called xibipío (“gone out of experience”). They don’t deny it outrightly.. to them, such things simply carry no weight and are not worth serious talk. This principle shapes everything for them… and is why they have No creation myths or origin storis , No numbers beyond rough quantities like “a few” or “many.” , No recursive embedding in grammar (you can’t easily say “kelvin’s brother’s house” … you say two separate sentences). Their Stories and discourse stay tethered to the here and now. Now Christian theology, by contrast, is built on precisely the kind of claims the Pirahã worldview filters out…A distant creation,Miracles and events from thousands of years ago, A savior no living person has met, Salvation and afterlife described in ancient texts. Everett tried …He told them the story of Jesus..his birth,teachings,death,and resurrection. The Pirahã listened politely,then asked the questions their language and culture demanded… “Have you met this man?” “Did you see him?” “Did your father see him?” When Everett admitted he had not , that these events happened 2,000 years earlier and were known only through a book,the conversation effectively ended 😂. “That’s interesting,” some of them would say, treating the Gospel the same way they treated any other distant tale…as something outside lived experience, therefore irrelevant to how they live and what they believe. Notice It wasn’t hostile rejection(like the one you’d get from the people of the sentinel islands in India). It was epistemological incompatibility. The theology couldn’t even gain traction because their entire system of knowledge validation rejected second hand ancient testimony. Everett kept trying for years. He failed to produce a usable Bible translation. Meanwhile, living among people who were profoundly content, generous, and empirically grounded …with no concept of sin, eternal punishment, or a distant deity. By 1982 he himself started havinv serious doubts about his beliefs and by 1985 he had quietly become an atheist. The man who had come to convert the Pirahã had instead been “converted” by their way of seeing reality.😅 As Everett later wrote and said in interviews, the deepest challenge wasn’t an argument against Christianity. It was living inside a culture where the very criteria for what counts as real knowledge made supernatural historical claims feel as weightless as yesterday’s dream. The Pirahã didn’t need to debate theology. Their language and worldview simply had no slot for it and, in the process, they helped a missionary lose his faith without ever raising their voices.😂 Makes you wonder, what would a Christian say the fate of these people is? Eternal torment? We can all see how that would be problematic. Would they somehow make heaven and get judged by how they live their lives? But That would make the whole Christian message irrelevant. 🙂

@StaunchGrimoire @_OKJ__ They still know what theft is, because if another tribe came and took their stuff, they would object to it.

@MGin3D @_OKJ__ Except the concept of theft does not exist for some people therefor scripture saying “do not steal” is not followable or breakable as they don’t know what “stealing” is lmao. How do you violate something if you are unaware of what it means?

@StaunchGrimoire @_OKJ__ Let’s not be obtuse. If two parties mutually agree to hold something in common, then it’s not stealing to use the thing agreed upon. If a tribe agrees to hold all things in common, then it’s not stealing to hold to that agreement. That doesn’t negate the concept of theft.

@chika_vijay @_OKJ__ After all, in Romans 1 it’s pretty clearly laid out that He has created in each of us an inherent knowledge of him that we cannot deny, only suppress. And instead of seeking out God, many will choose to fool themselves and deny Him because they prefer sin and rebellion.

@MGin3D @_OKJ__ Why can't the creator tell them this himself? And how could they be sure that the creator really sent this man? I mean, anybody could walk up to anybody and say they were sent by the creator, are we to believe them all? The best thing would be for the creator to reveal himself.