I don't think when a reader reads symbols "they necessarily mean something". I've read plenty of sentences, purportedly in English and had no idea what was intended. You can use the word "dust" to mean fine particulate matter, as verb to mean to remove some fine particulate matter from an object, as a verb to mead to *_add_* fine particulate matter to an object, Even when used "correctly" dust can be its own antonym, and people use words in confusing ways all the time. "Literally" now often means "figuratively" and is used that was so much that recently that definition has begun creeping into dictionaries. And what's the "necessary meaning " of, say, "braithin"? It's a word, I've heard it used on Tik Tok in in dealing with teens, but I have yet to decipher what it means (even Google and Urban Dictionary have failed mehas failed me. Google tells me its a name, but that doesn't fit the context.
I respect Dan for trying to understand the truth in manuscripts and not allowing his religious dogmas to cloud his judgement (apart from his reluctance to pronounce Jhvh). I don't see anything wrong with keeping his Mormon culture as long as he keeps it as religious mythology. Many scientific minds were religious due to duty rather than belief.
God's response to you: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
The last sentence is purely based in naturalist dogma and cope lmfao, and the previous one denies the importance of truth. All around a ridiculous reply
Does that include Jesus’ lifestyle? He shunned wealth and power. And yet a vast majority of Christians strive greatly to achieve wealth and power. Does that make them practicing Christians? If christians really want to follow Jesus’ teaching AND life they should meet the same standards that Jesus himself met in order to be a “true” Christian. If a person can pick and choose like at a buffet what to believe then they’re not Christian if they also don’t model the life of Jesus. So how many Christian’s are willing to abandon their pursuit of profit and power? Abandon their homes, all their modern-day conveniences, TV, centralized clean water, motorized vehicles, computers, and a superstore chock full of consumer Junk? What Christian is willing to abandon “worldly” possessions? I strongly suspect there’s not one Christian that’s willing to abandon all the things that science has brought.
" If christians really want to follow Jesus’ teaching AND life they should meet the same standards that Jesus himself met in order to be a “true” Christian." God disagrees: Let each one live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches. Was anyone already circumcised when he was called? He should not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised. Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter. Keeping God’s commands is what matters. Let each of you remain in the situation in which he was called. Were you called while a slave? Don’t let it concern you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity. For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of people. Brothers and sisters, each person is to remain with God in the situation in which he was called. (1Cor7:17-24)
@18:30 No, it was not. If you say that Early Christianity was preserved for decades and centuries, then you need to prove it because there is a lot of evidence that it was not. There were many divisions in early Christianity. Plain and simple.
If you believe in Jesus, and that he was a true prophet at the very least you must believe the church he established is indefectible and remains to this day. I will make that case: Jesus prophecies that the “gates of hell will not prevail against the church” and that “I will be with you, even until the end of the age” (an eschatological reference), and he also says “when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth”. So combining these facts with the test of a prophet of Deuteronomy, if Jesus was wrong about any of these things, the Old Testament condemns him as a false prophet, and we ought to reject him as such, and become Jewish or agnostic. That is the biblical standard: being wrong about even a single prophecy, makes a false prophet: “when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him.” You, in your error of claiming “the great apostasy” call Christ a false prophet. Please repent of this demonic lie. I will pray for you. To point to confusion and divisions in the church even very early on does not prove that the church fell away, it only proves that the church faced many threats, (as it would because Satan would obviously attack it) and many fell away from the church as the scriptures predicted. Even the Acts of the Apostles and the epistles of Paul are filled with controversies that must be addressed. The Church being indefectible does not mean it is impeccable, as the church contains both weed and wheat.
It’s like Dr. David Falk says, Mr. McClellan is woke in his ideology. He brings that as his filter for the Bible.
I don't think when a reader reads symbols "they necessarily mean something". I've read plenty of sentences, purportedly in English and had no idea what was intended. You can use the word "dust" to mean fine particulate matter, as verb to mean to remove some fine particulate matter from an object, as a verb to mead to *_add_* fine particulate matter to an object, Even when used "correctly" dust can be its own antonym, and people use words in confusing ways all the time. "Literally" now often means "figuratively" and is used that was so much that recently that definition has begun creeping into dictionaries. And what's the "necessary meaning " of, say, "braithin"? It's a word, I've heard it used on Tik Tok in in dealing with teens, but I have yet to decipher what it means (even Google and Urban Dictionary have failed mehas failed me. Google tells me its a name, but that doesn't fit the context.
I respect Dan for trying to understand the truth in manuscripts and not allowing his religious dogmas to cloud his judgement (apart from his reluctance to pronounce Jhvh). I don't see anything wrong with keeping his Mormon culture as long as he keeps it as religious mythology. Many scientific minds were religious due to duty rather than belief.
God's response to you:
Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
The last sentence is purely based in naturalist dogma and cope lmfao, and the previous one denies the importance of truth. All around a ridiculous reply
Does that include Jesus’ lifestyle? He shunned wealth and power. And yet a vast majority of Christians strive greatly to achieve wealth and power. Does that make them practicing Christians? If christians really want to follow Jesus’ teaching AND life they should meet the same standards that Jesus himself met in order to be a “true” Christian. If a person can pick and choose like at a buffet what to believe then they’re not Christian if they also don’t model the life of Jesus.
So how many Christian’s are willing to abandon their pursuit of profit and power? Abandon their homes, all their modern-day conveniences, TV, centralized clean water, motorized vehicles, computers, and a superstore chock full of consumer Junk? What Christian is willing to abandon “worldly” possessions? I strongly suspect there’s not one Christian that’s willing to abandon all the things that science has brought.
" If christians really want to follow Jesus’ teaching AND life they should meet the same standards that Jesus himself met in order to be a “true” Christian."
God disagrees:
Let each one live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches. Was anyone already circumcised when he was called? He should not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised. Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter. Keeping God’s commands is what matters. Let each of you remain in the situation in which he was called. Were you called while a slave? Don’t let it concern you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity. For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of people. Brothers and sisters, each person is to remain with God in the situation in which he was called. (1Cor7:17-24)
@18:30 No, it was not. If you say that Early Christianity was preserved for decades and centuries, then you need to prove it because there is a lot of evidence that it was not. There were many divisions in early Christianity. Plain and simple.
If you believe in Jesus, and that he was a true prophet at the very least you must believe the church he established is indefectible and remains to this day. I will make that case:
Jesus prophecies that the “gates of hell will not prevail against the church” and that “I will be with you, even until the end of the age” (an eschatological reference), and he also says “when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth”. So combining these facts with the test of a prophet of Deuteronomy, if Jesus was wrong about any of these things, the Old Testament condemns him as a false prophet, and we ought to reject him as such, and become Jewish or agnostic.
That is the biblical standard: being wrong about even a single prophecy, makes a false prophet:
“when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him.”
You, in your error of claiming “the great apostasy” call Christ a false prophet. Please repent of this demonic lie. I will pray for you.
To point to confusion and divisions in the church even very early on does not prove that the church fell away, it only proves that the church faced many threats, (as it would because Satan would obviously attack it) and many fell away from the church as the scriptures predicted. Even the Acts of the Apostles and the epistles of Paul are filled with controversies that must be addressed. The Church being indefectible does not mean it is impeccable, as the church contains both weed and wheat.