Evolution, Genesis and Original Sin: A debate continued...

Joseph wasn't Jesus's father. If he had a father then his mother couldn't be a virgin and there couldn't be a virgin birth.

so does Jesus look like his father?? (i've always been wondering about that)

As I was replying to the Catholic Church thread it was closed, so I'm continuing it as I have made several time consuming replies to points which I felt displayed bad logic, or were just plain wrong. This post is written from henceforth as a reply on the last topic.

Arghhh no!!!! God is merciful, he just does not interfere day-in-day-out. God is merciful because he sacrificed his only son in order to liberate every single other person every from their sins. Thats pretty merciful if you ask me.

Well Christianity obviously isn't for you. The objective is not divine intervention, but human self improvement.

No, he gives a damn about what will happen to the people. Without pain, what is joy? Without suffering, what is contentment? The key here is that suffering presented to us in our lifetime provides a contrast to the bliss that Christians assume they will have after death.

Did God create man in his image, or does man create God in his image? Is man the mistake of God, or God the mistake of man?

Answers* on postcards to...


* blessed idiots like yawn1 need not apply

Pre-Darwin Christian worldview

God did not create man, man evolved from amino acids via billions of years of random mutation > no original sin > no salvation needed = Christianity collapses

Can you believe in God and Christ without believing in Christianity?

Jesus was Jewish and was only trying to modernise and revitalise Jewish religious practices, which had become too obsessed with dogma, ritual and bureaucracy.

Since Jesus, as depicted in the gospels, was simply an ordinary Jewish human, trying to make his religion better, you can believe in God and Christ without believing in Christianity - a religion made up by Peter and Paul.

The moseic law is no longer in effect. Leviticus was part of the law, but when Jesus rose again the law was no longer needed because all it did was point to the coming of Jesus. But nearly everything that was said in the old testament is again repeated in the new testament, besides the law. There are no women priest and I don't see how you derived that there were?

You're having a laugh. You have actually gotta be kidding me.

What am I kidding about? In old testament times there was an outer courtyard for women. The women stayed in the outside and the men went farther in.
Now, women are allowed to teach other women and boys until they become mature.


p.s. I just got the funniest neg rep. "Jesus told me I should give you a negative rating" LMAO

I'm slighty confused by just one point of this argument -

there are no women priests? That's true of the Roman Catholic Church, but not of other Christian denominations - Anglican priests/vicars can be women - i personally know two! Baptist ministers can be female - again, I know one.

Apart from that, keep going - this is very interesting and, yes, amusing.

(N.B - should probably let it slip - my dad is a Baptist minister! )

Where does this happen? Does it not strike you as remotely absurd? Wherever this happens, have they heard of gender equality at all? If I lived there I'd go mad...

Yeah, sorry but that is quite a funny neg rep though mean! I do wish people wouldn't neg rep for differing opinions...

I don't know if this still happens but I don't think so. It was at the temple in Jerusalem. If you look at a map of it there were courtyards. One for Jewish men, jewish women, and gentiles. Since the temple is no longer standing I don't know if this is still in practice.
And I laughed at the neg rep. They should have signed it because they are a comic genius.

Since when was Anglicanism not a scriptual church? How amusing....

Could you describe the beliefs of the Anglican church?