"The Bible" Leads ALL SHOWS in Sunday Night's Ratings

Just barely....

 

Please provide proof that a soul exists at all.

 

I will upon the moment of my death.

However, if you wish to believe yourself to be nothing more than a soul-less monkey spawn...feel free.

 

I don't wish to believe, I believe we dot have a soul because there is no evidence for one. People have been positing the soul for thousands of years and still we have no evidence.

 

Ok...you're a soul-less monkey spawn; I'm not arging the point.. I agree; you ARE.


And, as such, you should not be offended if another, STRONGER soul-less monkey spawn decides to KILL/ENSLAVE YOU, and TAKE YOUR MATE AS HIS OWN,it is his NATURAL RIGHT, no his NATURAL DUTY to do so.

The weak must be eliminated to strengthen the species; it is the NATURAL IMPERATIVE, of ALL SOUL-LES CREATURES, such as you declare yourself to be.

I, on the other hand, am of Divine Design, thank God.

You don't get to define me; as a matter of fact, I have DOMINION OVER ALL SOUL-LESS CREATURES, including MONKEY SPAWN(s).

 

Cosmos was pretty popular. How the Earth was Made was pretty good... There are really a whole lot of deity excluded popular series. Pretty much... anything at all scientific or observable.

The story of atheism isn't terribly interesting. Throughout time, people have said to themselves... "Well that just sounds ridiculous."

I find Star Wars very entertaining... but I do not assume that its popularity has something to do with facts. I will watch the bible, because it is of interest to me. Because I find your book interesting does not mean by any stretch that I support it as truth. You seem to be very proud of the ratings of a show when little else is on about the most influential book of all time... I would expect that to be the case. You seem to be taking it as a victory for Christianity... which is... interesting.

 

More people being made aware of the Bible IS a "victory for Christianity"....

 

The only people who seem unaware of the bible are the Christians who do not read it.

Will the series be covering the fun stuff, like dragons and the behemoth? We get to see the Leviathan? God I hope they do revelations... all the crazy sauce is there... The multi-headed beasts that rise from the sea... the lion headed horses of the two hundred million horsemen that spit fire and brimstone...

Will they be covering the Nephilim? How about the Cherubims or the Seraphim?

I don't see how they can avoid the cockatrices. The Lord shall set them upon you after all... and they cannot be charmed and they will bite you... after all.

 

Interestingly, from the standard biblical perspective, SOUL is used interchangeably with mind, will, and emotions - i.e. all that embodies brain function. It is the SPIRIT that is identified as the eternal essence of man, capable of interaction with God, since the essential nature of God is described as "Spirit". The word translated as spirit means air - that invisible force that affects the visible physical realm, much like the invisible wind animates the visible leaves of the trees.

Man is therefore viewed in the Bible as composed of three essential parts - BODY (physical), SOUL (mental), and SPIRIT (God-connection - invisible animating force).

Theologically speaking, the bible paints man's spirit as dysfunctional or even dead, as far as being capable of communion with the life-giving God. This is seen as a direct result of "The Fall" as depicted in Genesis - man's spiritual separation from God - i.e. death. It paints the soul and body as alive but especially vulnerable and even subject to the forces of evil and what we normally mean by death, due once again to the Fall's affect on the spirit. It also paints these three components of human beings as inverted from their intended functional order. Supposedly, man was designed by God as a functional hierarchy consisting of Spirit first and foremost, being linked in a communion or intermingling with God's Spirit; then Soul, the mind under the influence of the God-linked Spirit; then Body, as the physical members under the direction of the Soul.

The Fall of Man supposedly inverted this hierarchy. We are now primarily physical bodies with stunted souls that are subject to the rule of sensual physical impulses, and lastly, dysfunctional or dead spirits. Salvation is essentially seen as the bringing to life of the spirit by faith in God, thus re-establishing the spirit connection with God. Sanctification is the process by which the originally intended order of three parts of man, Spirit - Soul - Body, as described above, are once again re-established through both faith in and obedience to God.

For what it's worth to anyone...

 

Sorry, are you saying that societies can't exist without the belief of a soul? People are too stupid to have morals if they don't believe souls exist? You need a man in the sky to tell you not to enslave or rape people? That sounds like sociopathy.

 

Enslaving and rape are ok as per the big guy.

 

Doesnt matter that the bible is a 'religious text'. I find it redicolous that this 'god' can create this vast universe, but yet cannot even get his creation in the right order for modern man. Omniscient. Think about it.

Keep saying its a religious text. All you are doing is tryng to fit a square peg in a round hole.

 

Sounds like a cool concept, I'll have to check it out. The Bible has always been interesting to me, even as an Atheist. Hell, it wasn't Hitchens or Dawkins that changed my mind away from Christianity, it was the Bible.

That said, it's a pretty awesome book and I'd enjoy a TV series.

Will watch tomorrow.

 

And what if they ACTUALLY start to read it and start finding contradictions, even absurdities?

 

Apparently some folks are just chomping at the bit to rape and kill....but are "held back" by the promise of the "candy" of "Heaven"....and the "gun to your head" of "Hell".

Without it, I guess they'd just go Mad Max Thunderdome....which is why they get so upset when people start to question the "candy" or the "gun"...or "the Guy whose supposedly holding them."

 

Yes, that's exactly what you're doing by trying to read the order of creation from a religious text. It was intended to tell you why you're here, not how you're here.

 

It fails to tell us WHY we are here because I disguard what is says because HOW we got here is NOT CORRECT. As should everyone. Why? Because it just shows that man from 2,000 years ago didnt know what they were talking about and that they knew nothing of the universe. So they invented god(s) to explain away HOW and WHY we are here.

Again this is pretty simple:

Day 1: Created the heavens
Day 2: Created the Sun and stars
Day 3: Created the Earth
Day 4: Created the oceans and the life in them
Day 5: Created the trees and animals.
Day 6: Created Man
Day 7: Rested

Simple easy to understand correct chronological order so all generations of man can understand. IF this 'god' truly existed, he/she/it could have easily "imspired man' to write this. But since he doesn't, I can see why the chronolgical order is wrong.

 

You write so well Darc, are you by chance a writer? You delve deeply into explanations, it's very nice.

 

Too bad God didn't just get the whole thing done in one day and rest for six. I could dig 6 day weekends!

 

Actaully I can end this whole thing right now.

God is prefect. In order for god to be prefect, his inspirations must also be perfect. Since creation is out of order, then the written creation is not perfect, hence god's inspiration is not perfect. Since god's inspiration is not perfect, then he is not god.

Thanks for playing.

 

No - see my last one - LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I would personally like to thank Christians for holding back astronomy for 1500 years by killing anyone who disagreed with Ptolemetic geocentric explanations of the cosmos.


If we get killed by an asteroid... it's your fault.

 

Wait a second, you're saying man from 2,000 years ago didn't know that plants needed sunlight??? Do you have any idea how long man has been growing food out of the ground? Way longer than 2,000 years! It sounds like you're suggesting the creation account in Genesis is incorrect because the author didn't understand plants needed sunlight. But man figured that out way before they knew how to write!

 

Just because you CAN grow food, figured out HOW to grow food, doesn't mean you know WHY you can grow food. But that is not the point.

 

What does this silly rant have to do with how to read the Bible?