So You Believe ... Flashcards
That streaked and speckled goats are conceived because the mom and pop goats viewed tree limbs with some bark stripped off them to look black and white rather than a solid color. Genesis 30:39.
That the Catholic official date for creation of the universe is October 23, 4004 BCE at exactly 0900?
This was determined by church leader, Bishop Usher. Born 1/4/1581 and died 3/21/1656.
That god invented the day, Sunday, and declared it the sabbath day.
Constantine, invented the day, Sunday, and declared it the sabbath to honor his (other) God, the Sun God Sol Ivictus on Monday, March 7th, 321 CE.
By the way, all days of the week are named after pagan gods. Most of the months are also named after pagan gods. And, all the moon missions are named after the pagan god “APOLLO”!
The reason for all the different languages in the world was caused by building the Tower of Babel which was supposed to reach into heaven?
RIGHT. THE BABEL TOWER WAS 5 STORIES TALL. A LONG WAY FROM HEAVEN.
Before steel I-beams and concrete, it was impossible to construct a building more than five stories tall. Steel beams were invented the twentieth century.
That the gospels were written by the disciples of Jesus.
So you think people could recall conversations that took place 50 years plus ago, and quote the conversations verbatim? Can you recall a verbatim conversation from yesterday?
The Gospels were written 45 to 95 years after the birth of Jesus.
The gospels were all written in Koine Greek. Jesus and the disciples all spoke Aramaic.
Jesus and the disciples did not know how to read and write. The disciples were fishermen and goat herders. The Bible even states they were unlearned men.
Illiteracy rates at the time of Jesus was 99%!
That light was created on the first day but the Sun wasn’t created until the fourth day?
That plants and trees (3rd day) were created before the Sun on the fourth day.
What about the frozen atmosphere. No sun equals -400 degrees below zero!
How could plants survive without any sun. The temperature would be -400 degrees. All water and all plants would be frozen solid.
Loc: 636. The sun is not created until the fourth day, which doesn’t make sense since plants that bear grain and fruit need sunlight to grow. However, a human living before photosynthesis was discovered would not know this fact and could therefore make this mistake.
The fact that the sun was created after plants were produced on earth also doesn’t make sense because with no sun everything would be frozen, including the water the plants need.
People will naturally come to the priest with questions and the priest must have answers to questions or they will be replaced by a priest who does.
It is curious to note that neither Jesus nor the Hebrew Christian deity told anyone to correct the Bible errors. This is further evidence that Jesus was not divine and perhaps did not even exist, because he did not correct any of these errors nor even mention them.
Another example is the stars. The Bible says all of creation is 6,000 years old, but we can see, especially with our larger telescopes far away galaxies Billions of light years away. Since we can see galaxies billions of light years away, it proves the universe is billions of years old!
So you believe that god made a borrowed lost iron axe head float to the surface of water, but the same god did nothing to stop the iron and steel Titanic from sinking, and 1,500 people froze to death and drowned.
(Elisha, 2 Kings 6,6.)
You know hundreds of people were begging God to save them.
That the universe is 6,000 years old yet we see the light from stars billions of light years away!
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So you believe that Jesus tells his disciples to spread the good news throughout the world, but makes no mention of the NEW WORLD with millions of people which are not discovered for another 1,500 years?
“And he said unto them, Go ye into ALL the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15.
So you believe that Jesus makes no corrections to the written words of the Bible. If he was divine, he would have acknowledged and corrected the mistakes that science has proven in the modern times of knowledge.
Examples, the moon being a light. That plagues were brought about by witches. That demons made diseases. That epileptic victims were possessed by demon spirits. That god causes lightning to strike houses and set them on fire. That god makes tornados, storms at sea and hurricanes. That god places rainbows in the sky after a storm.
In the 21st century we understand that all these bible beliefs are pure superstition based on ignorance of science.
Fav mountain verses said several times:
Matthew 17:20
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
King James Bible. Matthew 21:21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
Mark 11:23
“Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him.
Psychology today Posted Oct 10, 2018
How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain
Fundamentalist ideologies act like mental parasites.
In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is primarily because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence that challenges its scripture, making it inherently maladaptive.
It is not accurate to call religious fundamentalism a disease, because that term refers to a pathology that physically attacks the biology of a system. But fundamentalist ideologies can be thought of as mental parasites. A parasite does not usually kill the host it inhabits, as it is critically dependent on it for survival. Instead, it feeds off it and changes its behavior in ways that benefit its own existence. By understanding how fundamentalist ideologies function and are represented in the brain using this analogy, we can begin to understand how to inoculate against them, and potentially, how to rehabilitate someone who has undergone ideological brainwashing—in other words, a reduction in one’s ability to think critically or independently.
MN: They cannot be trusted to think logically because they believe in magic!
For example, they THINK that a tragedy happening to a family can be helped by saying a prayer. In reality they are talking to themselves, BELIEVING they are talking to an almighty God, (schizophrenia) who really will reverse or minimize the damage done by said tragedy.
So you believe God created Adam and Eve. Eve being the only woman in the entire world. Cain kills Abel. So How did Cain populate the world with no women in the world except his mother?
Adam and Eve, according to the Bible, were the only created human beings at the time and they produced two sons, Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1-2) so there were then four human beings on earth. Now this is where it gets really interesting! How do they populate the world?
