Posted on 02/03/2022 9:38:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I trust what I can prove, I blindly trust very few human beings; no politicians, no CEO’s; noone ever from HR; no lawyer even if he/she works for me; no Priests, Popes or anyone who claims to be Holy or who speaks for God. I only put blind trust in a few family and very, very close friends, were I married I would absolutely put blind trust in my wife.
The question I think you really were asking me is, what do I have faith in?
I have a faithful belief in the concept of God, the Creator, a higher power, call it what you will. I have a faithful belief in the immaculate conception and the resurrection but those are going to be a tough ones to prove to be real thus they’ll have to stay in the realm of faith for now.
I believe Jesus actually did live as there seems to be Roman records of him and others, and events mentioned in the Bible. I believe the crucifiction happened. There is actual physical evidence that these events happened.
I believe story of Noah’s flood is true although the Bible version is likely not completely accurate, more like a conglomeration of all the various cultural evidence from civiliztions around the world who had no contact with each other until thousands of years after their flood stories/mythologies were recorded, and they all speak of a great flood.
Every year geologists around the world are finding the hard geologic evidence of huge floods around the time of the Younger Dryas and shortly there after. The Earth was in a climatic upheaval at the time as it was transitioning from a glacial cycle to and interglacial cycle. And by the way, the Earth is now at the beginning stages of transitioning back into a glacial cycle. Just sayin
I tend to believe Exodus actually happened; not through the Red Sea, but rather, what was called the Reed Sea contemperaneously because it was a very shallow sea area close to the Mediterranean Sea coast. The Jewish slaves escaping Pharo’s bondage made it through the Reed Sea but Pharoh’s Army likely got caught in a tsunami generated from an earthquake in the area of the Greecian Islands. There is ample evidence of the tsunami but more evidence as in maybe charriot wheels or something physical from Pharo’s army that dates to the same time period as the tsunami is needed to prove it actually happened. I’m sorry, but Moses did not raise his hands and part the Red Sea.
Of course if one actually researches and compares the stories in the Bible with the stories from Greek and Roman mythology, one begins to notice some incrdible similarities in many of the stories.
Have you ever read the Epic of Gilgamesh? It was written during the time of the Sumerian civilization about 4100ya, thousands of years before the Bible was written. If you want to see what I’m talking about, it has some striking similarities to the Bible’s stories, you should check it out, one can actually listen to the audiobook version free from Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGaEFPssQ7s
You seem to have faith in some of the words of the Bible, while others you seem to distrust because some men have studied something else and convinced you that some stuff is just too; well too WILD to believe.
This surprises you?
Ever read of the tower of Babel?
Up until that time, all the long ago happenings to humans were in one language.
When the confusion occurred, all the remembered and told again stories had to be reformatted into a multitude of languages; no doubt becoming slightly different in each one.
Heck; we don't even have a 'standard' Greek to English translation today that men are not fussing about.
Likely?
And where are the wheels that you want as evidence?
Then why are you holding back from trusting Jesus completely?
Obviously you simply do not understand anything I’ve been explaining to you because you choose to see the entire world only through one frame of reference. I’ve become bored with this conversation because you choose to remain ignorant and keep asking the same basic question over and over which elicited the same response from me. You’re not going to get the answer you want to hear by asking the same question over and over but in a slightly different way.
How many times do I have to explain this?
Isn’t that what I said, more evidence needs to be found, are you completely effing stupid to ask where the wheels after I acknowledge that that evidence is lacking and has to be found before claiming Exodus was a real event and where it happened. Jeez you fanatics, it’s sad how you keep youselves willfully ignorant of reality.
And nothing else?
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