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Theism and Atheism / Re: Committed atheist found!
« Last post by Walt Zingmatilder on Today at 12:01:08 AM »
Says the person who wants atheists to be identifiable in public. Pot and kettle.
No, I'm only joking.
In any case I said committed atheists, not your usual common or garden, bog standard, humdrum, beige atheist.
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Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment / Re: Picture This!
« Last post by Nearly Sane on April 29, 2025, 11:40:43 PM »
Myrna Loy wearing a peasant dress while posing in a cave during her photo session with photographer Nickolas Muray. Image of Myrna from the November 1929 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
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Christian Topic / Re: Searching for GOD...
« Last post by Nearly Sane on April 29, 2025, 11:06:15 PM »
We cannot choose the truth - it needs to be discerned by consciously considering and evaluating the logic and evidence available.
And in order to achieve this we need the freedom to consciously direct our own thought processes to reach verifiable conclusions.
A freedom which is impossible in the fall out from a material brain entirely driven by physical reactions beyond our conscious control.
Is that a no?
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Christian Topic / Re: Searching for GOD...
« Last post by Alan Burns on April 29, 2025, 11:00:38 PM »
Could you choose not to believe?
We cannot choose the truth - it needs to be discerned by consciously considering and evaluating the logic and evidence available.
And in order to achieve this we need the freedom to consciously direct our own thought processes to reach verifiable conclusions.
A freedom which is impossible in the fall out from a material brain entirely driven by physical reactions beyond our conscious control.
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Christian Topic / Re: Who wrote the gospel attributed to Matthew?
« Last post by Gordon on April 29, 2025, 08:44:00 PM »
Just to say, there is no mention of a lamb being bought, prepared or eaten in any of the accounts of the Last Supper. So this suggests that it was the 13th Nisan. The Pulpit commentary agrees with this: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/matthew/26.htm

Perhaps they all went to McDonalds - give it up, Spud.

I doubt that many really care anyway, and unless you have the CCTV to hand it could all be fiction, and you have no way to exclude the risk of fiction.
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Christian Topic / Re: Who wrote the gospel attributed to Matthew?
« Last post by Spud on April 29, 2025, 08:15:03 PM »
Just accept that the author of Matthew referred to the Last Supper as The Passover Meal. Either he was wrong about that or he was wrong about the subsequent events. Either way, He is not a first century Jew who knew Jesus.

Have you got any positive arguments in favour of Matthew having written the gospel?
Just to say, there is no mention of a lamb being bought, prepared or eaten in any of the accounts of the Last Supper. So this suggests that it was the 13th Nisan. The Pulpit commentary agrees with this:
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We may observe in passing that there is no mention of the lamb in the celebration; Peter and John were not enjoined to provide one, nor are they said to have visited the temple - which, indeed, on the 13th would have been useless: and yet to obtain the lamb in any other way would have been a breach of the Law, which we cannot suppose Christ would sanction.
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/matthew/26.htm
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Christian Topic / Re: Searching for GOD...
« Last post by Stranger on April 29, 2025, 08:03:44 PM »
Ultimately, you are free to choose reasons to believe that God exists...

What reasons? Which God?

But your freedom to make that choice may give you a clue as to which reasons are valid.  :)

No. We don't have 'freedom' in the impossible self-contradictory way you believe. I also don't see belief as a choice at all. I'm either convinced or not.
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Marks and Spencer have caused chaos in Heaven.

They forced St Michael to have a sex change operation. Her name now is Emma Ness.
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Christian Topic / Re: Searching for GOD...
« Last post by Nearly Sane on April 29, 2025, 06:30:11 PM »
Ultimately, you are free to choose reasons to believe that God exists, or you are free to choose reasons to believe why God does not exist.  There are a multitude of reasons for both sides - the choice is your to make.  But your freedom to make that choice may give you a clue as to which reasons are valid.  :)
Could you choose not to believe?
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Christian Topic / Re: Searching for GOD...
« Last post by Gordon on April 29, 2025, 06:03:51 PM »
Ultimately, you are free to choose reasons to believe that God exists, or you are free to choose reasons to believe why God does not exist.  There are a multitude of reasons for both sides - the choice is your to make.  But your freedom to make that choice may give you a clue as to which reasons are valid.  :)

Not really: there are no good reasons to think that 'God' exists, so a fairly sound reason to think that 'God' doesn't exist is the absence of good reasons to think otherwise.
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