Originally posted by Beliver
Did it die out through being found to be worthless, pointless, disproven or because all the followers were killed or converted?Extinction or eradication?
Evolution uses all of the above. However, I would guess that the people found a better religion, and left the old one behind. In some ways that is what is happening to Christianity today.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
In time it will fade away and die. It will be replaced by another religion.
I dont think it will fade away totally. Something that has affected humaninty so deep at its core would still be there but not in any important way.
Kind of like the chewing gum on your show, to start with it was tasty but then its just some annoy piece of junk stuck to your shoe you just want to scrape off.
Originally posted by Beliver
I dont think it will fade away totally. Something that has affected humaninty so deep at its core would still be there but not in any important way.Kind of like the chewing gum on your show, to start with it was tasty but then its just some annoy piece of junk stuck to your shoe you just want to scrape off.
Just like we still have a descendant of dinosaurs with us today. 😉
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
From time to time you will interject statements like this one. Does this mean our discussion is over and you have given up and resorted to play? 😕
Not at all. From time to time these threads get a bit heavy and a bit of humor never hurts.
Do you not think that all Religion (in the sense of globally spanning) will pass in the halls of time as man evolves and grows in his understanding of himself and his understanding?
Originally posted by Beliver
Not at all. From time to time these threads get a bit heavy and a bit of humor never hurts.Do you not think that all Religion (in the sense of globally spanning) will pass in the halls of time as man evolves and grows in his understanding of himself and his understanding?
No, I do not believe that. There are huge social and economic advantages to being a member of a religion.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
No, I do not believe that. There are huge social and economic advantages to being a member of a religion.
Not as much today as maybe in the past. Mass education, advent of world wide communication and the commercialisation of many of the religions holidays have contributed to the eventual fall of organised religion on the global scale that it used to enjoy.
Originally posted by Beliver
Not as much today as maybe in the past. Mass education, advent of world wide communication and the commercialisation of many of the religions holidays have contributed to the eventual fall of organised religion on the global scale that it used to enjoy.
😆 I would like to see proof of that.
Originally posted by Beliverwhen it comes to understanding...I think our tendency to go in circles is stronger than our tendency to change. Special emphasis on the word 'tendency' as opposed to 'ability' of course.
Do you not think that all Religion (in the sense of globally spanning) will pass in the halls of time as man evolves and grows in his understanding of himself and his understanding?
Originally posted by Beliver
And how do you think Europe colonzied the world? By asking nicely and by having a flag? (Eddie Izzard joke for the unenlightened)Europe colonized the world by being at the cutting edge of technology at the time, in other words the gun (well more accuratly the black powder musket but you get the idea.)
So at that time Christianity was spread by the gun and those who wielded them.
*sigh* By that poor logic ANYTHING could be spread by the gun...from bananas to syphalis.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Great job at totally missing what I was saying. 😛
Rule 89. Once is a coincidence...two is a trend.
Originally posted by -=Urot=-
In Jonah It says it was a fish:1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
But in Matthew Jesus stated that it was a whale:
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
On the surface it looks like a contradiction, I guess I’ll do a lil research to find the truth.
Odd are it was a whale and not a fish.
I think a better question would be how did Jonah survive in the belly of a whale with all of that stomach acid. 😘
EDIT:
Jonah was still alive so the whale could not digest him.
* just an added note:
in Jonah 1:17, the Hebrew word "dag" means fish...
in Matthew 12:40, the Greek word "kētos" means a sea monster, whale, huge fish...
* i think it's a huge fish... i have read somewhere that the whale's stomach/belly is small that it cannot contain a thing a big as a human being... so it's probably a fish, a very huge fish... 🙂