Christianity is Theology not Mythology
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- What is the difference between Theology and Mythology? The difference is Jesus. Jesus came and walked among us and we beheld Him. He claimed to be God and did things that confirmed His claim. The Apostles then wrote down what they saw and sealed their testimony with their blood. Nobody would die for a lie. A weekly study through the Bible designed for small group discussion.
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Don’t radical suicide bombers die for a lie? They might not know what they believe is a lie but they still believe it and are willing to die for what they believe.
What’s the difference?
The difference is that if Yeshua had not resurrected then they (the disciples) would have known what they believed was a lie. And they would not have been true martyrs.
There is nothing noble about religious suicide. The disciples didn’t commit religious suicide.
Dying for the truth is not suicide. Dying for a lie is suicide and this is why we must understand the difference between mythology and theology.
Thanks for the video! Shalom brother!
Spot on! Just because I or you believe something doesn't make it true. Jesus is real whether we believe Him or not. That is what the Disciples understood. They believed because of what was proven true about Jesus. They were martyred because they would not recant of their testimony. This effectively sealed their testimony in their own blood. Which is a very effective proof of their belief in Christ. They were convinced Jesus is God and were not afraid to stand for Him.
Thanks, Brother!
Special Pleading Fallacy. Xianity is NO DIFFERENT to any other religion. You do realize that all your beliefs stem from uncorroborated claims set forth by anonymous authors in third person treatises whose authors demonstrate absolutely no incredulity and whose sources are not cited? All you're doing is recalling gospels stories in support of your claim. Stop and think: You're using claims as evidence for your claims. Evidence doesn't work that way. For Christianity to be true there needs to be evidence in the historic record, but such evidence is glaringly absent. There exists absolutely NO extra-biblical corroboration for ANY of the events depicted in the gospels, including, and most glaringly, the resurrection. There is no inscription commemorating any event. There are no shrines or holy places that can traces its provenance to the events. There are perhaps a dozen or so near contemporaneous extra biblical references to Christianity in the historic record with only two referencing a Christ or a Chrestus, and those are probably interpolations. The worst part is that where there should be extra-biblical corroboration in the historical record-a mysterious star, a massacre of children, eclipses, earthquakes, even people coming out of their tombs-there exists NONE. In fact science can demonstrate that there was no eclipse during that period in that region. That there was no massive earthquake. That there was no anomalous stellar event. Science also demonstrated how people do not "rise from the dead" because in every instance where that claim is made it is explicable on either a natural medical explanation, or a lie, either outright or based upon hallucination. As a Bible Student you should know that the apostle John, by which I think you mean the author of the Gospel John, categorically DID NOT write Revelations. You should look that up before you continue to spread that misinformation. Moreover, your claim that the apostles died for their beliefs is unsubstantiated in the historical record. Read Sean McDowell's book. Even he, a devout Christian, publicly recanted this apologetic because except for Peter and Paul, and perhaps James, there is no absolutely NO evidence that any apostle died a martyr. This is a terribly fallacious apologetic that Christians repeatedly love to parrot, but it is as fallacious as a wooden nickel. Lastly, your "light" is the darkness. Christianity does not condone nor does it reward skepticism or critical thought. It looks down its sanctimonious nose at academic inquiry and secular philosophy declaring it "humanism" while it cherry picks which hard fought scientific discoveries it chooses accept and which it chooses to reject. "Evolution is a lie," they say, until you get that antibiotic resistant infection or a viral pandemic breaks loose and then it's "thank god for that miracle drug or vaccine." Christianity is an arrogant, harmful and often cruel worldview that is eclipsed only by the violence and sectarianism that often accompanies it. It is a blood magic death cult that can trace its roots to Jewish Messianism, Hellenism and Zoroastrianism. It was not unique or novel when it first originated, and it is not unique or novel now. Christians confuse criticism with persecution and because of that their adherents enjoy special privileges in a society engineered and designed specifically to separate the role of government from the role of religion, which everyone, including you, is free to do, as I am free not to do, as I am free to impugn and impeach and deride for all its lies and hatred. Perhaps you've never been spoken to like this before. Perhaps you believe that preaching like this is doing some good in the world-as if your unoriginal yarn hasn't been spun a million different times in a million different ways before. But i do know this: Christianity, in all its denominational forms, is slowly buy inexorably fading away. The numbers bear that out. And with each scientific discovery, with each medical advancement, with each scandal or overreach into the secular arena roundly rejected by the masses (I'm speaking most recently of the Dobbs decision), the religion reveals itself for what it is: an iron age mythology that's outgrown its usefulness and is destined for obscurity. I really wish the Romans had done a better job of crushing it in its crib. But if you knew anything about history you'd know that the Romans tolerated it much more than they persecuted it. But because of its Platonic belief in dualism and its Persian belief in angels, demons and afterlife, it appealed to the uneducated and the poor and indentured who constituted the vast majority of the populace. So in the end it won out, but its days are numbered. As I'm sure you'll "pray that my heart be changed" know that I truly and sincerely hope that you'll recognize the hopelessness of faith, unshackle yourself from this death cult, and enjoy how ever many years you may have left in this your one and only life. But even more important, I hope that you have the capacity to recognize the harm that holding selfish and self-serving religious beliefs such as your does to the rest of humanity.
Ok So I only have two masters degrees and am not nearly as smart as you. It just seems odd that the Disciples of Jesus would die for a lie. They certainly died for their testimony of all the miracles that you said don’t exist. You weren’t there though were you.
If you are right and I am wrong why are you so passionate about disproving something that according to you is of little consequence? Just wondering. Most people deny God not for lack of evidence but because of disbelief regardless of the evidence. They are passionate because they love sin ( like pride) instead of truth.
The Founding Fathers of our Constitution wrote this in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, endowed by there Creator with certain unalienable rights, which is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” They were smart people. Probably smarter than both of us. I will side with their opinion concerning religion.