Thanks Bill for your article. Food for thought.

Has anybody on this post read "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis? I'm reading it at the moment, and I think he addresses quite well a lot of the sorts of questions on this forum, like does this universe have any need for the hypothesis of God? Is there any evidence to reasonably support it? Etc.

Poor Numbat, that one single copy of a book written at least 300 years before, is where every NT bible derives from. There is no other origin, all bibles throughout history derive from this one copy, can you understand that reality. No I doubt it.

The OT, is plagiarised from many works, factually recorded throughout history . Can you believe those historical facts as well, no of course not. Psychopathic delusional denial is a very common trait among violently fearful followers of the mythical Yahweh. At least those choosing to be jedi knights, have lots of video's for their evidence, not even plagiarised. I'd change illusions if I were you, to something less bizarre and not out of date. Very fuzzy religious thinking.

Logic, “Christianity also has to be correctly understood “. True, historical fact is understanding, not fuzzy delusional thinking. The jews follow the OT to the letter, they are repeating the violent invasion of the ME they carried out thousands of years ago when directed by Yahweh through their book. No eye for an eye, just look at what they have done since WW2, to see how many extra eyes they've taken in their holy quest to control and destroy a people.

Yet I suppose fools in denial can only accept the fuzzy lies put up by their illusions, rather than verifiable fact and clear thinking. Your logic is so far fetched, it's beyond fuzzy, particularly when you support someone as demonic as Bill. But you, Numbat the hysterical boaz and Co, are right, mine and others years of theological study and preaching, mean nothing against the fully informed knowledge you have. Where did you say you got if from, a copy of King James, or one of the many thousand interpretations and unsubstantiated versions currently available. Maybe even ordination and doctorate, from your knowledge of theological and religious history, I doubt that.

Yng
Yes I did read the book some 40 years back.
As my memory is likely to be faulty I will make no further comment other than to suggest that you google C S Lewis, as he has copped mountains of criticism from many quarters.
Cheers.

Yabby

Excellent point you made, deserves repeating:

>>>>>If I look around me, I notice that religion is about geography.
If you had been born in Iraq, would you be a devout Muslim today?<<<<

Every religious poster should ask themselves this question: 'If I had been born in another country where the domninant religion is different to the one I believe in, what religion would I believe in now?'

I challenge any christian that if they were brought in Iran that they would be christian.

I make the same claim to any Hindu, Muslim or calathumpian.

No doubt about it - there is indeed a lot of fuzzy thinking about religion, especially from those who think that their religion is the superior one.

I'd like to take that point a little further-

It isn't just about the dominant religion of a country - so much of the religious issue is parents imprinting their beliefs on their children.

I guarantee you that upwards of 99 per cent of children who are christian have christian parents.
I don't have any statistics to back that up, but does anyone here assert otherwise?

In the majority of cases, children end up believeing at their parents do, whether it is politics or religion. Sure, there's the whole phase of adolescent rebellion, but that tends to be a pretty shallow rejection.

If parents would hold off convincing children from a young age and waited until they were able to reason for themselves, they might find their religion is rejected - though somehow I don't think many will take up that option.

Poorer The alchemist: So-according to you all comes from this old book ~ cobblers
The O/T is plagiarised from 'many' works "factually?" recorded throughout history ~ again cobblers!
Because I do not believe the nonsense you write I am psychopathic, delusional,violently fearful (have you been reading my mail?) and Yahweh is mythical ~ all backed up by your brilliant learning and fantastic intellect ~ at the risk of being boring ~ cobblers again!
A little anti-Semitic also are we oh learned one? The Jews follow the O/T to the letter, WHAT! without a Temple (their "mythical?" Temple was destroyed chum). Without Temple furniture, The Ark of the Covenant, without an Aaronic Priesthood etc? oh dear ~ it's the blue pills.
Now I am a fool in denial accepting fuzzy lies as well! Then I am supporting demonic Bill? Yahweh is a myth but demons exist ~ and I have fuzzy thinking and beliefs ` Oh dear!
You claim you had years of theological study well you failed eh? Then you "preached?" preached what may I ask? You left those to whom you preached to ~the whole four of them ~ in a bigger mess than you are at present no doubt!
Thing I like about you Al is that you stick to the facts and you do not denigrate those who have the temerity and lunacy to disagree with your noble wonderful self. Don't look now but you are still acting like an "well-educated" conceited preacher, alas I have known many just like you. Regards, numbat