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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't really mean you, I was venting about the general gist of the thread.
Nevertheless your comments imply that Larson didn't take those things into account. He certainly had in mind, and said, that some phenomena could have happened frequently enough to make any single event suspect so he wasn't ignoring such things. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: On what grounds do you make this claim ?
quote: That is more than a bit dubious. Even assuming that they could get an exact time, how do they get from that to a location ? And why would Matthew describe it in a way that seems to indicate that the star was going ahead of them and stopped at a particular place ?
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I don't know, but casting an astrological chart takes both time and place into account, so place figures into the calculations somehow.
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ringo Member (Idle past 438 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Faith writes:
What is meant is that it was not a natural phenomenon - because no such natural phenomenon exists. Yes it would have moved, but the question is what is meant by the star stopping since of course the sky continues to move. You really should consider the possibility that your god can do miracles.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
In other words you can't figure out how Larson's ideas fit with the scripture it is supposed to be explaining. Isn't that a pretty serious deficiency in Larson's argument ? Isn't that precisely what he should be explaining ?
Add to this the fact that the evidence still favours a 4BC date of death for Herod (yes, I am familiar with various arguments pro and con) The idea of a particular conjunction specifically indicating the birth of a King of the Jews also seems to be dubious. I would also suggest that defending Larson's video tooth and nail before seeing how it stands up to criticism is unwise. Making excuses for Larson is not a good idea.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9509 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Faith writes: Observation may not be the key to the stopping of the star, it could have been based on the Magis' own calculations since they had spent their lives at that sort of thing. I think this is an implication, though Larson doesn't say this. And neither does the bible. You don't even know who these guys are, how many there were or where they came from. Nor even when they came. And it's only Matthew (whoever he was) that bothers to mention this important event at all. I dunno Faith, you're prepared to swallow any old bollox if it fits your model, but if we show you hard facts that don't, you find a dozen bizarre reasons why it doesn't work.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Yes he should have taken all that into account.
There's so much that is compelling in this video showing how various scripture passages are reflected in the celestial movements, I hate to get all caught up in one point like this.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Faith writes: The star would not have appeared in the east if it announced the birth of a King of the Jews. Perhaps it is time to cite some text.
quote: Perhaps I misunderstood your meaning. Could you clarify where you think the star appeared?
Faith writes: Observation may not be the key to the stopping of the star, it could have been based on the Magis' own calculations since they had spent their lives at that sort of thing. I think this is an implication, though Larson doesn't say this. Small wonder that he wouldn't say any such thing, but instead is trying to explain how the star stood in one place:
quote: Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: But that is the central point, is it not ? All his astrology doesn't help explain the Star of Bethlehem as described by the Gospel. If you want to believe that the passage in Matthew 2 is a distorted version of Larson's ideas that is up to you, but I don't think that is what you want to argue for.
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jar Member (Idle past 420 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Faith writes: The star would not have appeared in the east if it announced the birth of a King of the Jews. Too funny Faith; once again reality shows you are wrong. If the star was seen from the Earth it rose in the East. Sorry Faith but it's simple facts like this that everyone over the age of eight or nine should know that makes it so clear that no honest person could do anything but laugh at such nonsense.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9197 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
But of course none of it ever happened. The only "evidence" is your book of fables. None of the gospel fables agree on much of anything.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9197 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
Thanks for continuing not to answer me. Has any star or planet maintained the same position night after night throughout the whole night?
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9197 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
Bullshit. Watching the night sky once completely destroys what he claims.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9197 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
Please explain or show how a star or planet could rise in the west.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 310 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
David, you will be pleased to know that I have been assiduously studying your teachings about MATH and GEOMETRY. I notice that back in 2008 you used MATH and GEOMETRY to identify 2012 as the date which would mark the beginning of the reign of the Antichrist and the Great Tribulation.
(Your prophecy). So my question, again, is ... why did no-one notice? Also, why does your math so completely reverse the order of events given in the Book of Revelation?
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