Is that sort of like in Britain some laws today have maritime references ..like being in the dock?
Do you believe everything that you read or hear or see for that matter?How do you prove that the Bible is a Lie?
OK, apologies for not seeing that before it makes sense now. My way of seeing it is that the religious elite avoided the injured man due to religious laws of impurity while the hated Samaritan who would also obey there religious laws looked more at the spirit of there religious laws than the letter. Just like the pharisees focused on the letter of the mosaic law rather than the spirit and also like how Catholic missionaries focused on not using condoms over not having sex with everything you see.I'm saying that the laws and social mores of ANY country are dictated by the conditions prevailing at the time that they were made or introduced.
The parable of the Good Samaritan was told against a backdrop where the social mores of the time were such that he made himself liable for ALL of the injured man's responsibilities. In modern parlance "That took balls!"
Sounds new age to me or just other.I've gone to vote, and can't see the option for Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism?
It's not a lie, it's a collection of ancient stories the earliest of which have been passed down in oral tradition until writing became available. Then there's the history of an ancient people, probably embellished , and the development of an idea of "God". I would suggest that the notion of a creator God was a postulate of what passed for "science" in prehistoric times when it was perfectly acceptable to propose a supernatural cause to a phenomenon in the natural order.How do you prove that the Bible is a Lie?
Really? You never watched The Matrix? (not suggesting it's real, it just asks the right questions) Never heard of acid and other psychotropic / hallucinogenic substances? How do we know that we experience reality when we apprehend our surroundings?Who said Bible? (I said it's hogwash), the only truth is the existence around us.
Gunge has been cast into the darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.I agree and i was going to delete it for that reason, a word of warning Gunge has been removed from the Snug due to breaking the rules and being reported for doing so, be careful out there. :thumba:
"The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate it owns." - Frank Zappa
A cult isn't necessarily a bad thing. A group of people led by one man, like Jesus and his disciples.
Strictly speaking wouldn't Paganism be old age?Sounds new age to me or just other.
You don't think that John was the so called "beloved disciple" then. What do you think about the Gnostic influences in John, especially the prologue?