Can you stump the bible thumper?

I submit, however, that the metaphysical belief system to which you subscribe, for all its good intentions and noble, even needful precepts, violates the standards of logic, reason, and consistency, is incompatible with history, archaeology, paleontology, and geology alike, to say nothing of physics and astronomy (though there is, by historical and archaeological study, indisputable evidence of the antiquity of said belief system) and science alike, and that it is but a superstition wrapped in a self-applied cloak of authority. It is my contention that religion is neither more nor less than that aspect of humankind's social consciousness which attempts to resolve answers to questions unsatisfied by contemporary technology, expand kinship or clan relationships to encompass a larger social tructure and thereby provide basis for soco-political authority, and, ultimately, that religion, particularly as exampled through Western tradition, serves primarily to provide job protection for its shamans.

Hey Craven,
Wrong religion. Judaism, not Christianity.

Wrong time frame.

The earliest writings were around 300 CE.

But, gotta love those primitive belief systems.

Sorry to be so transparent.
(We'll have to reorganize the conspiracy now that you've found us out.
Nuts!

Craven, the Catholics receive enough deserved criticism, don't blame them for Bishop Ussher, who was Anglican.

Can you stump the bible thumper?

Here's your chance. I believe in Christ and I read the bible, if you wish to ask me of any question concerning God and bible, please do so. If you ask a serious question, you'll get a serious answer. If you are asking a question based on derision, you'll receive an answer based on derision. And if you ask a ridiculous question, you'll get a ridiculous answer.

All I am asking is this, if you want me to take the time to read your question, then please take the time to read my answer. I'm hoping that all you agnostics can be liberal minded, especially if you claim to be a liberal.

How do you justify the Christian God's disdain for pagan scarifices when, according to your twisted moral system, your God had to make his only son into a human sacrifice to save humanity from his own self-decreed moral laws? That is not a kind gesture in my books. Maybe we differ in that regard.

1) The [subject of] forbidden relations may not be expounded in the presence of three, nor the work of creation in the presence of two, nor [the work of] the chariot in the presence of one, unless he is a sage and understands of his own knowledge.

You prevaricate, no, at that time nobody was claiming the world was around 600 years old. Some basic reading skills would help as you are batting 0 for 3 on elementary reading ability so far.

The Tannaim (sages of the late Second Temple Period and the century after the destruction) calculated the date of Creation. They did so by basing their work upon the Bible's account of lifetimes and kingdoms, thereby determining the period of time from Creation to a known date, in this case, the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E.

Many rabbis attempted this task, but the method attributed to Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a second century C.E. sage, is the one which gained popularity. He calculated "molad tohu"--"birth from nothing"--to be in the fourth hour of Monday, October 7, 3761 B.C.E. (according to the Gregorian calendar used in the secular world today).

The Seleucid and Mundane Eras coexisted for numerous centuries. Most often, Rav Sherira Gaon--the last Gaon, the head of the academies in Babylonia in the centuries following the editing of the Talmud--is given the credit for suggesting the use of BeHaRD as the basis for a chronological system, in the 10th century C.E.

Yoda,

I am shocked and disappointed. You make a bold statement/question such as "Can you Stump the Bible Thumper" then proceed to not answer all the stump questions posted here.

Are you stumped on the questions you didn't answer?

"NOBODY expects the A2K Inquisition!"