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by theterminator
Fri Nov 28, 2014 5:01 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: How to understand a verse in Isaiah?
Replies: 5
Views: 9314

Re: How to understand a verse in Isaiah?

This is obviously sarcastic - 1:10-17 puts it in context. Hear the word of the LORD, You chieftains of Sodom; Give ear to our God's instruction, You folk of Gomorrah! 11 "What need have I of all your sacrifices?" Says the LORD. "I am sated with burnt offerings of rams, And suet of fa...
by theterminator
Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:16 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: How to understand a verse in Isaiah?
Replies: 5
Views: 9314

How to understand a verse in Isaiah?

Hello “I am fed up with olah-offerings of rams and the offals of fattened calves, and the blood of oxen, lambs and goats does not give Me pleasure” Am I correct in assuming that if something does not please yhwh then yhwh does not need it? If animal blood does not give yhwh pleasure then animal bloo...
by theterminator
Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:50 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Acts as fiction by Richard Carrier
Replies: 135
Views: 93350

Re: Acts as fiction by Richard Carrier

So John T ducks the question of why Paul does not mention any miracles of Jesus, while insisting that if an author does not mention something it is ONLY because it has not happened yet . The reason for that (according to John 21:24) is they could not list them all. if luke could drop the epic event...
by theterminator
Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:54 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Acts as fiction by Richard Carrier
Replies: 135
Views: 93350

Re: Acts as fiction by Richard Carrier

stevencarrwork wrote:John T continues to duck the question of why Paul never mentions any miracles of Jesus, or why Luke never mentions Lazarus being raised from the .
maybe they weren't epic events
by theterminator
Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:08 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: yhwh
Replies: 5
Views: 10247

yhwh

Genesis 28:20-21: 20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, 21so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then Yahweh shall be my God. is yhwh understood here as a proper name for god ...
by theterminator
Sat Oct 11, 2014 4:46 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Can Richard Carrier be trusted to write the truth?
Replies: 161
Views: 96454

Re: Can Richard Carrier be trusted to write the truth?

"e argument is; Christians did not get their model of the messiah based on pagan myths but from within the Hebrew religion." i will quote from james tabor's recent article http://jamestabor.com/2014/10/04/two-hairy-goats-and-yom-kippur/ Early Christians were able to find in the slain goat...
by theterminator
Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:53 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Can Richard Carrier be trusted to write the truth?
Replies: 161
Views: 96454

Re: Can Richard Carrier be trusted to write the truth?

"e argument is; Christians did not get their model of the messiah based on pagan myths but from within the Hebrew religion."

Can you explain how you see your lamb god in animal sacrifices?
by theterminator
Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:20 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Can Richard Carrier be trusted to write the truth?
Replies: 161
Views: 96454

Re: Can Richard Carrier be trusted to write the truth?

"Once again the mythicists are seeing things that just aren't there from specific to generalization. There is no there, there, only a hope based on a delusion." How come christians can see jesus in ancient hebrew animal sacrifices? If u don't believe your pagan flesh god was murdered for l...
by theterminator
Mon Sep 29, 2014 12:49 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: dead bodies
Replies: 5
Views: 9781

Re: dead bodies

Where did you hear about this? http://contradictionsinthebible.com/dead-impure-or-not/ Anyone who has contact with a corpse of any human being will be impure for seven days. He must purify himself with the ashes…. (Num 19:11) Anyone who has touched the corpse of any human being who had died and does...