Y2.1K - the end of the world?

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Castor Troy:
However, if people want to do that, that's their choice and I will respect that. How strange then that you, as a Christian, cannot accept other people's points of view.</font>

HAaaaahaaahaaaa, I am a Catholic, but only because it was imposed on me when i had no comprehension of.....well anything other than sleeping.(Baptism).
But since when do Catholics accept other peoples point of view??!? As a religion, it was imposed on people when they were too dumb to question it and too afraid of "THE WRATH OF GOD" (old testament described God as the wrong supreme being to **** off).

Pffff, respect other peoples points of view.
Fnark.

Excelsior

castor- you've never talked to me.
you've written to me. i wouldn't appear to be so defensive otherwise.
manach i am a huge stephen jay gould fan. arguably the finest esayist i have come across.
though i do have a book by montaigne now and he is pretty hot too.
i will buy some chesterton as soon as my student bank account allows it.

C B

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by neuro-praxis:

Remember too, that the men who wrote the gospels were labourers and fisherman - uneducated, ordinary guys who Christ chose to hang out with. And everything they wrote (which were written in four different parts of the world with gaps as much as 40 years between them) fulfils these prophesies - as do books written by other new testament authors.

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For somebody who claims to have engaged in exhaustive research of the Bible this is a preetty whavcky comments.
Neither Matthew, Mark or Luke ever met Christ and he certainly did not choose to hang out with them. They were all professional men. Luke for instance was a doctor, hardly uneducated.
These three gospels are refered to as the synoptic gospels and are so similar because the were all copied from each other as well as John's.
The life of Christ, according to the synoptic gospels, matches the prophesies of Issiah because they were written by men trying to prove that Christ was the Messiah.

So please do not follow in the footsteps of these con artists and hope dealers. If you choose to have faith thats wonderful, but please stop trying to justify it in a logical and scientific fashion because it can't be done.