The evangelical theologian Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry listed certain criteria for divine revelation in his book “God, Revelation and Authority” including:
-          Godʼs revelation is rational communication conveyed in intelligible ideas and meaningful words, that is, in conceptual-verbal form.
-          The Holy Spirit superintends the communication of divine revelation, first, by inspiring the prophetic-apostolic writings, and second, by illuminating and interpreting the scripturally given Word of God.”

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26)

Christianity gives us as many interpretations of the bible as there are preachers. We have Mormons who say their book is divinely inspired, Catholics who say sacred tradition is equal to the bible. We have thousands of prophets, presidential candidates, and quarterbacks who claim they alone are chosen by god. We have total confusion and disagreement between denominations about theology; what is right and wrong. Some say homosexuals should be killed others perform wedding services for them. Almost every denomination at one time claims every other denomination was heretical. Warren Jeffs is held to be as prophet by his people the Westburro Baptist wacko is a Christian prophet??

It’s impossible to know whose interpretation of the bible is correct, which denomination is right, which prophet is false, and, after yesterday, which is god’s anointed quarterback. This is divine revelation???

Has the Holy Ghost successfully taught us all things, illuminated the sacred text??? Is this “rational communication conveyed in intelligible ideas and meaningful words?” Total confusion reigns with Christian divine revelation. There cannot possible be a god in charge of this unholy mess.

 

I gotta quote Mark Twain here...

“It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”

But then, what's to understand, it's a comic book on par with "Archie and Jughead"...

LC >;-}>

More like a primitive Brothers Grimm. I say primitive because the writing styles and composition in holy books could be bested by a grade school student.

No not even on par with Archie and Jughead. Archie and Jughead were peaceful and intended to be funny, and never sold blind obedience through threats or had story lines about genocide and incest. No sane person is going to walk down the street threatening you with Archie and Jughead.

I'd say the best the bible can be is on par with a B-horror movie.

The bible isn't easy to understand unless you've spent WAY too much time watching b movies and reading gossip magazines. The writing level in the bible is seriously lacking.

I never heard of Plan 9 before today. And seeing as how I'm big into both reading and sci fi, I should have if it were particularly popular.

You make a good point though. I've more and more started likening theists to fanboys. Their arguments are similarly illogical and blind. Their ability to discuss pure fiction in a real world context is uncanny. Their willingness to do anything to support their chosen product is immeasurable, and the speed at which they revert to cussing is extraordinary. Just like a fanboy.

Rod Serling the man who turned even the most upbeat stories dystopic.

 

 

                                                         I like it.  Sounds like a good project for director Quinton Tarantino.  Lot's of blood and boob cleavage...

 

Yeah.. plan 9 from outer space is like an amazing movie to watch... it's so bad it's good.

And yeah... Ed Wood is a god. He made horrible movies but he never let that stop him.

 

I would love to have an original movie poster for Plan 9. They are worth around $4000-5000.

I can find no reason to believe the Septuagint was read as other then entertainment when it first appeared -- the OT being a later translation. I can demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt Josephus did not take it as factual. We sort of like to say the ancients actually believed their myths and the stories of strange people and things in far away lands. By the same reasoning people in the future could look at Stephen King and similar writers and declare we really believed.

But if you look at as Battle of the Titans material it can be entertaining. And if you look at how easy it is make into fiction and realize real history is not easy to make into fiction it is hard to escape the idea it was intended as fiction because of the story teller style.

Some time around the 5th c. the Septuagint was declared scripture and sacred and people started taking it seriously. Consider it something like people starting to say they are Jedi.

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BTW: I intended the original as clever observation hoping for a chuckle. I did not expect any response to it.

 

Opie,

Isn't Gott german for God? How convenient.

anyway, he's partially right.

Credo Ut Intellgum as seen in I Corinthians 1:14;16.

Also, according to anything else, it is impossible to know anything. Logically speaking, since Christianity gives the only means for a working actualy epistemology that corresponds to reality, only through the knowledge of faith can one know.

Thus, you don't know if you have a pair of toes on your feet, let alone how to understand the word "THE" in the synatax of John 1:1.

Respectfully,

Jean Chauvin (Jude 3).

Yes, Gott is German for God, an irony which has become worn with age. And you are probably right. I couldn't tell you with certainty what the meaning of "is" is.