Averroes wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:45 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:54 am
The Christians never claimed their Gospel is perfect and not corrupted.
That's not true. You are stupid and ignorant. One must be able to differentiate between lay Christians and knowledgeable Christians. Of the two categories, only the knowledgeable Christians acknowledge that the Gospels (and the OT as well) are currupted and contain errors. For example, the Vatican did acknowledge that not so long ago. But the overwhelming majority of lay Christians have been taught up until the 1950s at least that the Gospels (and Bible in general) are error free and perfect. Many nowadays are shocked when the contradictions in the Bible are shown to them. Not so long ago, I was conversing with a Protestant Christian on the forum and I casually happened to tell him of the many contradictions in his book, thinking that he already knew about it. I was astonished by his refusal to accept such a now well known fact. It seemed to me that he didn't know of the many errors and contradictions in his book. He was clearly an ignorant Christian but like him there are many.
Repeat: Your desperate, OCD and delusional accusation of me as stupid is because you are really stupid.
Talking of spoon feeding when I am the one who need to spoon feed you.
Read my point again.
I stated;
Christians
NEVER claimed the following;
1. The Gospels are perfect
2. The Gospels are not-corrupted.
Yes, the knowledgeable Christians admit and accept the Gospels are corrupted because they had been translated by human via many languages.
As such what they relied upon are the divine principles and cross-checking via the various verses.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:54 am
Re Jeremiah 8:8 here is the counter from Al Fadi, David Wood and Sam Shamoun;
I watched that. These people are clowns. They have not presented any argument; Trinitarian Christians are very bad at logic; I recently witnessed that on the forum itself. That is because the moment someone embraces the Trinity, it's bye bye logic for them until they realize that they have been fooled and reject it.
The following is an argument that conclusively settles the matter. It's obvious that one cannot both, on the one hand, accept that the Bible is corrupted (as Christians scholars do) and on the other hand counter Jeremiah 8:8, which is saying the Jewish scriptures are corrupted! I am not surprised though that you didn't see that contradiction as we all now know you are stupid. Anyway, I now will present the evidence from true Bible scholars on Jeremiah 8:8.
There is a scholarly book which is a collection of academic papers of around 18 recognized Bible scholars (most of them Christians) which addresses the corruption of the Jewish scriptures:
Changes in Scripture,
Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period, Edited by Hanne von Weissenberg, Juha Pakkala and Marko Marttila.
Knowledge of Hebrew is recommended for one to be able to read all the chapters of the book as the numerous examples of corruption shown in the book are in Hebrew, the original language.
An excerpt from a chapter of the book written by biblical scholar
John J Collins on Jeremiah 8:8 on page 23:
- “How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us,’ when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie” (Jer 8:8)
We do not know precisely what Jeremiah had in mind in his scathing denunciation of scribal activity on the Torah. Many scholars think that the prophet was opposed to any written Torah.1 He was certainly concerned that the authority of the prophet to speak for God was being usurped by the scribes, as indeed it was. But it is also established beyond doubt that scribes frequently changed the supposedly revealed texts that they transmitted. Ironically, the book of Jeremiah is itself a prime example of scribal composition, where the original oracles of the prophet are now overshadowed by the accretions, often ideological, of scribal transmission.2 Of course, Jeremiah’s judgment on such accretions reflects a particular perspective, which is not inevitable. Religious traditions sometimes value the contributions of the editors, who gave the material its canonical shape, more than those of the prophets. It is often assumed that these editors were attempting to preserve and explicate the true meaning of their sources, and undoubtedly this was often so. But Jeremiah’s outburst should warn us that a “hermeneutic of suspicion” towards the ideological underpinnings of scribal activity is not entirely anachronistic. Claims to speak with divine authority were especially fraught with implications for power in ancient society, and were inevitably, and properly, contested.
That you derogate them as clowns is a sign you are admitting you are a loser subconsciously. You should research more on psychology on such a principle.
In principle the only authority a Christian is obligated-to is the 4 Gospels. Jeremiah of the OT is secondary.
Logic?
We have already discussed, [for theists] the principles of the Trinity are analogous to what is going on in the empirical world of 'unity in diversity' substance and forms.
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Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:54 am
Re Luke 19:27
Here is the counter Al Fadi, David Wood and Sam Shamoun;
I watched the David Wood monologue till the end. And he is in fact saying that biblical Jesus did indeed refer to himself in the verse Luke 19:27! This is how stupid some people can be; in trying to refute Luke 19:27, they ended confirming their belief in it!
And don't forget Luke 14:26, where biblical Jesus is clearly commanding hate towards family and community members:
- “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.(Luke 14:26)
As you entertained me with that video, I too will like to do the same for you, God willing. The following YT link will no doubt not fail to entertain you as well:
https://youtu.be/Y0_iluq6uus
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Your video is changing the subject.
As I had I stated, I am not an expert on Christianity, I am confident Al Fadi, Wood and Shamoun will have a counter to your point re Luke 14:26 if they are presented with that counter.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:54 am
I am not an expert with Christianity. [... I am an expert with Islam and Quran].
It's good that you acknowledge that you are ignorant on Christianity and indeed you are.
It is integrity and honesty that I am not an EXPERT on Christianity,
but I am not ignorant of Christianity. If expert is >90/100 mine is 75/100. This is why your stupidity comes in when you are desperate in jumping to conclusion as you always do.
Stop fooling yourself about being an expert on Islam. I exchanged with you numerous times on the forum before, and you are very far from being an expert on anything. Each time I tell you that you are ignorant and stupid. In saying that I am not trying to be mean to you. I tell you that because you really are stupid and ignorant. And I tell you that so that you get opportunities to realize the truth about yourself and not keep fooling yourself like that. Most other members just ignore you(and I don't blame them), while I, on the other hand, take the time to educate you for free when I get the patience and the time. However, I know you, as a Buddhist, have grown accustomed to taking charity to the point that you now think that it's us who owe you something!
I have done enough research on the Quran to be an expert on the Quran, i.e. the core of Islam.
Show me when have you ever overcame any of my points with regards to the Quran and Islam.
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Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:54 am
Before you throw any counters re Christianity and the Gospel, check the internet, Youtube and elsewhere to make sure there are no solid counters from the experts of Christianity which I will end up referring to.
Stop taking the lazy way each time as your religious founder. Be prepared to do the legwork when you discuss with me. By the way, why are you so lazy? Buddhism has corrupted you to that degree? It's so disgraceful to be so lazy.
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Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:54 am
Christians who killed did it on their personal basis that has nothing to do with their obligation within their contract with Jesus/God.
I don't think those countless pagans(aka polytheists) who were killed by Constantine and all those Christian rulers after him, would agree. Galileo was sentenced to death by the Church itself just for proving scientifically that the Bible was wrong. You already acknowledged your ignorance, but you still have to acknowledge your stupidity. You know you are stupid, don't you? Go and do your research and see the fate of Christian heretics throughout history. Start with a sample of the list of person burned as Christian heretics (both Protestants and Catholics included) on Wikipedia;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... s_heretics
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A Christian [like a Muslim] is one who had entered into a contract with God/Allah.
Do you dispute this?
The contractual terms the Christian is obligated to is only in the Gospels and other related texts are merely the appendix to the contract.
If the terms of the contract within the Gospels imposed an overriding pacifist maxim of love all-even enemies, how can any Christian as contracted harm any non-Christians?
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:54 am
In a way you as a Muslim [& any other] is a potential
contracted-killer and if you kill non-Muslims there is NO moral issue for you since you will be highly rewarded with eternal life and 72 virgins in paradise.
As a Muslim, I am commanded by God, the Almighty to be kind and just to everyone who does not fight me in religion and who does not expel me from my land and my home. The "72 virgins in paradise" is not mentioned in the Holy Quran.
Agree, the quantity "72" re virgins is not stated in the Quran. However Allah does promise unspecified number 'virgins' [houris] in paradise. It could more or less than 72.
As a Muslim you have entered into a contract with Allah to comply with the terms of the contract stipulated within the Quran in exchange of promises of eternal life and various rewards in paradise.
Do you dispute this?
The terms of the contract of the Muslim is that you are slave to Allah and thus has to carry out all his commands as contracted.
In Quran 5:33 all Muslims are exhorted to kill non-Muslims if they are any threat 'fasadin' [even the slightest] to the religion of Islam. E.g. the drawings of cartoons of Muhammad is one such threat and even discussing the cartoons of Muhammad is a threat to the religion of Islam, thus the non-Muslims ought to be killed with such a threat.
Paris: Teacher Beheaded for Using Cartoons for Discussion
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=30680
Where is the kindness show to those who merely draw cartoons of Muhammad?
Btw, fasadin [threats to Islam] include being a non-believers of Islam since if more people become disbelievers, they are a threat [fasadin] to Islam.
In Buddhism, however, according to Buddhist scriptures it is commanded to kill people who have mocked the religion. For example in the Nirvana sutra it is said:
- In just the same way, the Bodhisattva-mahasattva acts likewise for reasons of protecting Wonderful Dharma. Should beings slander Mahayana, he applies kindly lashings, in order to cure them. Or he may take life in order that what obtained in the past could be mended, thus seeing to it that the law [Dharma] could be accorded with. The Bodhisattva always thinks: "How might I best make beings aspire to faith? I shall always act as is best fitted to the occasion."[Nirvana Sutra]
You as a Buddhist are now in an obligation under pervert Sidhartha's commands to kill me as I am telling the truth here and elsewhere that Buddhism is horrible and despicable. Can you resist obeying the lazy parasite who was Sidhartha?
What is also clear, moreover, is that in Buddhism, sex orgies with many young virgin girls have been prescribed by pervert Sidhartha as a way to Enlightenment! As Siddhartha said to Ananda:
- “Ananda, do not conceive of a holy person, someone practicing the Greater Vehicle correctly, as being faulty. Ananda, this is how you should understand it: A person of the vehicle of the auditors, in order to be absolutely peerless in maintaining meditative calm, will seek uninterruptedly to exhaust the outflows. In the same way, Ananda, the Bodhisattva great hero who is skilled in means, who is endowed with the thought of omniscience, will seek uninterruptedly for omniscience, even to the point of abiding among a holy retinue of women and enjoying, playing with, and taking pleasure in it. [The Skill in Means (Upayakausalya) Sutra]
In the 20th century there have been many detailed testimonies from young western women whose virginity were preyed by Buddhist monks in Tibet "strictly" complying with the perversion of Sidhartha. What is more disgusting is that these Tibetan monks were after the vaginal fluids of these virgin girls (known as darkinis); these vaginal fluids they would drink and collect for their followers after their sexual orgies. You as a Buddhist must have been given such vaginal fluids to drink. Anyway, I addressed all this in greater detail on this thread:
viewtopic.php?t=25127
As you had mentioned above there are different believers with different competence in their religion, e.g. you refer to Christians.
It is the same with Buddhism, there are the lay-Buddhists and the 'PhD' Buddhists.
What is most critical to Buddhists is Buddhism-proper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa#cite_note-evpc-2
The overriding maxim of Buddhism-proper is to be compassionate and be kind to all sentient beings and all living things.
All humans and thus all Buddhists comprised of the very good to the very evil humans.
The very evil humans will commit all sorts of evil acts and that has nothing to do with Buddhism-proper with its overriding pacifist maxims that prohibit all evil acts.
So yes there are many Buddhists who had committed evil acts but there is no way they can insist they did those evil acts in the name of Buddhism-proper.
On the other hand, evil prone Muslims commit terrible evil with the sanction and authority of Allah as stipulated in the Quran.
Virgins are highly valued in the Bible as well.
- 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people, 15 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.”[Leviticus 21:13-15]
- 20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.[Deuteronomy 22:20-21]
And still according to the Bible, biblical Solomon loved many foreign women and it is said in the Bible that he had 700 wives and 300 concubines.(see 1 Kings 11:1-3)
As for Hinduism, let us just mention that Krishna had 16,108 wives. For now, we won't need to go into tantra or kamasutra to describe the style!
You are so stupid, ignorant and lazy that each time I have to spoon feed you like that. You haven't answered my previous question though: why are you so stupid and ignorant? Were you born like that or is it later that you acquired your stupidity?
You reference to verses in the OT has not significance to Christians.
As I had stated the only authority to the contracted Christians are the contractual terms in the Gospels [injeel] only.
As for Hinduism, it is said Hinduism is a merely a placeholder for the ">1000" of different religions and spiritual practices within India [old and new].
Therefore to infer Hinduism is either good or bad without reference to the specific religion or spirituality is stupidity - hasty generalization.
Isn't this the spoon-feeding-to-you that you are complaining about others.
What is the essence of Hinduism is spirituality like Advaita Vedanta which promote Ahimsa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa
Ahimsa (also spelled Ahinsa) (Sanskrit: अहिंसा IAST: ahiṃsā, Pāli:[1] avihiṃsā) ("nonviolence") is an ancient Indian principle of nonviolence which applies to all living beings. It is
a key virtue in
Hinduism,
Buddhism and
Jainism.
The above is the many sort of spoon-feeding I have to do to you.