so people are always like,
- Locked due to inactivity on Dec 31, '22 3:54am
Thread Topic: so people are always like,
-
"can you prove Christianity is real?"
I hear you, yes, and I raise you,
can you prove it isn't? -
That is the nature of belief, right?
At the end of the day it doesn't really matter because we're all going to die, so just believe what you'd like and don't push it onto others because like you said, we can't prove it one way or another. -
ah.
-
I get what you're saying, however what kind of proof can you really give that something doesn't exist?
For example, pretend I was convinced that unicorns are real. You however, don't believe they are real. How can you prove to me that unicorns don't exist? -
Technically, unicorns ARE real 🤓 They just weren't we expected them to be aka rhinos
-
I just saw something about unicorns and the nerd inside of me awoke
-
the burden of proof falls on the person claiming something is there, not the people that don't believe them
That's an established rule of debate, even on a legal level. For instance, if I'm claiming someone tried to murder me, it's my job to prove that happened, not their job to prove it didn't. -
^ thanks for that. I was going to mention that too lol.
Also, people have spent a lot of time disproving Christianity and showing discrepancies, but that has never made Christians stop believing because they don't want people to change their minds.
When I was in the church I was actively lied to about facts that Christians didn't like. I didn't know the apocrypha even existed until I was an adult because Christians pretended like they didn't exist. They also lied about what other religions believed to make me think they were evil or wrong. They even hid certain parts of the Bible that were considered scandalous and would instead elect to review the same 20 or so books in rotation while ignoring the rest.
What I'm saying is that if you mold your worldview around one thing you're going to just dismiss anything you don't like or that doesn't fit in with what you want to believe. -
what in all that is holy is apocrypha
-
Honestly, the more I learn, the bigger of a question that is to unpack. In short, they are books that have been removed from the Christian Bible in most instances. However, I am coming to learn a lot more about books that have been removed, altered, or that otherwise have unreliable narrators.
There is much to unpack about the evolution of the bible that I am not qualified to speak on. Here is a playlist of videos from a guy with a PhD in religious studies. If you're genuinely interested in learning more about it, I'd recommend all of his videos. -
This one is specific to the apocrypha
This thread is locked, therefore no new posts can be made.
