so, what you believe is in fact true, and what everyone else believes is false, and the reason is science.
Not that I doubt the assertion of Sinai, but i dont see what the purpose is of sharing a statement such as yours, unless you wanted to encourage a discussion full of “uh huh!” and “nuh uh!”
But if we, ummh, back up from the twelfth century from the time of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to the august, Augustine of Hippo in the fifth century or was it the fourth, it says:
“That, in all times,” says St. Augustine, “is the Christian religion, which to know and follow is the most sure and certain health, called according to that name, but not according to the thing itself, of which it is the name; for the thing itself, which is now called the Christian religion, really was known to the Ancients, nor was wanting at any time from the beginning of the human race, until the time when Christ came in the flesh; from whence the true religion, which had previously existed, began to be called Christian; and this in our days is the Christian religion, not as having been wanting in former times, but as having, in later times, received this name.”
Now why would anyone want to believe that stuff ?
Then, again, it really would be a very good snark if in fact tranversing 800 years.
Of course it is possible for an entire culture to believe in an untrue mythological event supposedly witnessed by many people.
I suspect many of us were raised on the mythological tale of the first thanksgiving, for example, where the Pilgrims and Indians sat together at their harvest festival eating turkey in the first year of Plymouth colony.
It occurred to me recently that religious apologetics really have nothing to do with persuasion and everything to do with giving like-minded people further assurance of what they already believe. The proofs don’t sound as convincing as they may appear at first glance, especially to the outside, and that’s ok, they have a role to inspire and unite the faithful and that is what they are best at.
I look forward to other posts in what I hope is a series.
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so, what you believe is in fact true, and what everyone else believes is false, and the reason is science.
Not that I doubt the assertion of Sinai, but i dont see what the purpose is of sharing a statement such as yours, unless you wanted to encourage a discussion full of “uh huh!” and “nuh uh!”
I am not trying to encourage a discussion. It is simply a resource that I wanted to publish.
Nuh-uh!
That’s cool, naftali.
But if we, ummh, back up from the twelfth century from the time of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to the august, Augustine of Hippo in the fifth century or was it the fourth, it says:
“That, in all times,” says St. Augustine, “is the Christian religion, which to know and follow is the most sure and certain health, called according to that name, but not according to the thing itself, of which it is the name; for the thing itself, which is now called the Christian religion, really was known to the Ancients, nor was wanting at any time from the beginning of the human race, until the time when Christ came in the flesh; from whence the true religion, which had previously existed, began to be called Christian; and this in our days is the Christian religion, not as having been wanting in former times, but as having, in later times, received this name.”
Now why would anyone want to believe that stuff ?
Then, again, it really would be a very good snark if in fact tranversing 800 years.
Right ?
Of course it is possible for an entire culture to believe in an untrue mythological event supposedly witnessed by many people.
I suspect many of us were raised on the mythological tale of the first thanksgiving, for example, where the Pilgrims and Indians sat together at their harvest festival eating turkey in the first year of Plymouth colony.
It occurred to me recently that religious apologetics really have nothing to do with persuasion and everything to do with giving like-minded people further assurance of what they already believe. The proofs don’t sound as convincing as they may appear at first glance, especially to the outside, and that’s ok, they have a role to inspire and unite the faithful and that is what they are best at.
I look forward to other posts in what I hope is a series.
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