Is Jesus's "this generation will certainly not pass" valid grounds for scepticism?

[Roger Ramjets]

No it doesn't. I agree. But there is also no reason to believe they didn't.

The only thing we know for sure is that theprestige claims that 'our contemporaries struggle to find meaning and connection in a culture that shatters generational family ties", and that 'classical' communities might not have had the same problem.

OTOH the Bible claims that Jesus said:-
Matthew 10:34-36 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."

 

[acbytesla]

The only thing we know for sure is that theprestige claims that 'our contemporaries struggle to find meaning and connection in a culture that shatters generational family ties", and that 'classical' communities might not have had the same problem.

OTOH the Bible claims that Jesus said:-
Matthew 10:34-36 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."

That's about right. Especially when LGBTQ children are disenfranchised from their families because of being gay or tran.

 

[Poem]

I think we know it beyond a reasonable doubt.

I don't think so.

 

[acbytesla]

I don't think so.

Then you don't understand what constitutes reasonable doubt.

 

[Poem]

Then you don't understand what constitutes reasonable doubt.

The subject in question would require another thread.

 

[arthwollipot]

I don't think so.

Have you ever even heard of Biblical exegesis?

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Biblical exegesis

I had to look it up.. I think we have been seeing a lot of eisegesis.

 

[Poem]

Have you ever even heard of Biblical exegesis?

I have.

 

[arthwollipot]

I have.

Good. Then you know that scholars have intensively studied the text and language of the Epistles and determined pretty conclusively that they weren't all written by the same person.

Pauline epistles - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Poem]

Good. Then you know that scholars have intensively studied the text and language of the Epistles and determined pretty conclusively that they weren't all written by the same person.

Pauline epistles - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thanks but wrong thread.

 

[arthwollipot]

Thanks but wrong thread.

Then you shouldn't have brought it up.

 

[acbytesla]

Then you shouldn't have brought it up.

Yep. You would think that someone who says that you don't have something would at least, know what it means.

 

[Poem]

Then you shouldn't have brought it up.

More accurately - I responded to a poster that brought it up. Needs a dedicated thread.

 

[Skeptical Greg]

You should browse through some of the other threads in Religion.

There's probably at least one dedicated to Paul.

 

[arthwollipot]

There's probably at least a dozen.

 

[Lithrael]

I'll go read them next time I'm in a mood and want to be very grumpy

 

[acbytesla]

Then you shouldn't have brought it up.

More accurately - I responded to a poster that brought it up. Needs a dedicated thread.

So what? You said he didn't have "reasonable doubt." If you know what that is enoughnto say someone is lying, you damn well shouldn't be a pansy and dodge the question. A simple definition of what is and isn't reasonable doubt seems, excuse the irony, "reasonable."