Re: Can you Evolve beyond Belief ?


"Darrell Stec" <darstec@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rogers seems to be under the impression that the bible contains prophecy.
Well, that is easy considering all those verses were written after the
fact, or were so vague as any future event could be made to fit.

He forgets that the gospel authors have Jesus predicting the end of the
world before some of the people he was talking to died. Modern
archaeological studies in the ancient Middle East in and around Israel
during the first century CE the average age of the cemetery resident was
about 22 for men and 24 for women. That means that Jesus was already over
the age of majority at 30 and his followers of the same age were really
pushing the boundaries. In other words the gospel writers expected the
end
of the world in the very near future. So much for prophecy if their god
couldn't predict the future.

--
Later,
Darrell

we shall see what we shall see!


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