I don't care whether it is a disease or not. I just want to know whether it's true or not. That's the only thing that is important. All your other jibberish about whether you've caught it or just got inoculated and how would you know BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.......that's all irrelevant. All that has to do with you and your post modern culture which doesn't believe in truth anymore. If christianity is true than christianity is a disease that I WANT to catch since it has vital information about living a fulfilled life here on earth and where I'm going to spend eternity. If it's not true then I don't want to be bothered.
Let's not waste our time on silly notions like christianity is a disease like leprosy. Let's look at the evidence for christianity. Like I said, if the evidence for christianity is there then christianity is a disease I want to have. Here's a tiny amount of evidence for christianity. There's much more. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Bible has the signature of God attached to it in many ways. One of those ways is Bible prophecy. The old testament has 333 prophecies about the first coming of Jesus Christ and 456 specific details about his life(all written between 400 and 200 years before he was born). The 4 gospels in the new testament(Mathew, Mark, Luke & John) tell the story of jesus. Had those 4 gospel writers chosen to not write their gospels, we could still have re-created the whole life of Christ just from the old testament(all written before he was born). In fact, that is how the christians preached the gospel in the first 20-30 years after the death of Christ. They preached it from the old testament because the new testament had not yet been written. Man sees history like a person sees the Rose Parade sitting in the stands. The floats that have already gone by him are like the past. The floats in front of him are like the present. The floats still coming are like the future. These prophets in the old testament who wrote about Jesus Christ seemed to be able to see history the way you would see the Rose Parade from a helicopter. They seemed to be able to see the end from the beginning. That tells me that though they were writing these things down the info was not ultimately coming from them but from a higher source because man simply doesn't see history that way. Also, the bible has amazing knowledge about many scientific principals long before these principals were discovered.
Let me just give you some prophecies that were given in the bible about scientifc facts we know today, long before those facts were known(all 66 books in the bible were written between 2000 & 4000 years ago).
1)The earth floats free in space(Job 26:7)---Job was written 4000 years ago. No one knew this fact 4000 years ago.
2)Creation is made of particle, indiscernible to our eyes(atoms, molecules, electrons,.......)(Hebrews 11:3)--- Not until the 19th century was that known.
3)There are mountains on the bottom of the ocean(Jonah 2:5,6)---This was discovered in the last century.
4)Blood is the source of life and health(Leviticus 17:11,14)---Up until 120 years ago, sick people were "bled" and many died as a result(e.g. George Washington). Today we know that healthy blood is necessary to bring life giving nutrients to every cell in the body. God declared that "the life of the flesh is in the blood" long before science understood it's function.
5)Our bodies are made of the dust of the ground(Genesis 2:7;3:19)----Scientists have discovered that the human body is comprised of 28 trace elements, all of which are found in the earth.
6) The universe had a beginning(Genesis 1:1; Hebrews 1:10-12)---Starting with the studies of Albert Einstein in the early 1900's, science has confirmed the biblical view that the universe had a beginning. When the bible was written most people believed that the universe was eternal. Science has proven them wrong but the bible was correct.
7) The earth is a sphere(Isaiah 40:22)---At the time when many thought the earth was flat, the bible told us that the earth is spherical. Incidently, for those who call christians 'flat earthers', that verse is 2700 years old.
8)Scripture assumes a revolving spherical earth(Luke 17:34-36)----Jesus said that at his return some would be asleep at night while others would be working at daytime activities in the field. This is a clear indication of a revolving earth with day and night occurring simultaneously.
9)Light can be divided(Job 38:24)---Sir Isaac Newton studied light and discovered that white light is made of 7 colors, which can be parted and then recombined. Science confirmed this 400 years ago, The Bible declared this 4000 years ago.
10)The continents were created as one large land mass(Genesis 1:9,10)---Many geologists agree that the earth was originally one super continent.
11)Hydrological cycle described(Job 36:27,28)---About4000 years ago the bible declared that God "draws up drops of water which distills as rain from the mist which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly on man". The ancients observed mighty rivers flowing into the ocean, but they could not conceive why the sea level never rose.. Though they observed rainfall they had only quaint theories as to it's origin. Meteorologists now understand that the hydrological cycle consists of evaporation, atmospheric transportation,distillation and precipitation.
12)Circumcision on the 8th day is ideal(Genesis 17:12)---Medical science has discovered that the blood clotting chemical Prothrombin peaks in a newborn on the 8th day. This is therefore, the safest day to circumcise a baby. If you do it before that he'll bleed to death. How did Moses know that?
13)The universe is expanding(Job9:8,Isaiah42:5,Je... 51:15,Zechariah12:1 and other verses)---Seventeen times in the Old Testament it says that "God is stretching the heavens". During the 20th century most scientists(including Einstein) believed the universe was static. Others believed it should have collapsed due to gravity. Then in 1929 astronomer Edwin Hubble showed distant galaxies were receding from the earth and the further away they were, the faster they were moving. This discovery revolutionized the field of astronomy. Einstein admitted his mistake and today most astronomers agree with what the creator told us thousands of years ago--the universe is expanding.
14)Light travels in a path(Job 38:19)--- Light is said to have a "way"{Hebrew:derek, literally a traveled path or road]. Until the 17th century it was believed that light was transmitted instantaneously. We now know that light is a form of energy that travel at 186,000 miles per second in a straight line. Indeed, there is a way of light.
15)Air has weight(Job 28:25)--- It was once thought that air was weightless. Yet 4000 years ago Job declared that God established "a weight for the wind".
16)Ocean currents anticipated(Psalms 8:8)----About 3000 years ago the bible describles the "paths of the sea". In the 19th century Mathew Maury...the father of oceanography, after reading Psalms chapter 8, researched and discovered ocean currents that follow specific paths through the seas.
I could go on and on but it's late.
No other religion or Holy Book has this king of knowledge. All this tells me that these prophets in both the old and new testament were not nutcases but true prophets of God.
Contrary to all the jibberish you hear in todays secular humanist public schools about how we used to believe a lot of myths in the bible and then science came along and proved the bible wrong.....on the contrary, the bible was way ahead of science. Even though the bible is not a scientific book, when it does speak on science it is accurate. To quote Robert Jastrow:
"This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always accepted the word of the Bible: In the beginning God created heaven and earth... [But] for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; [and] as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
- Robert Jastrow
(God and the Astronomers [New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978], 116. Professor Jastrow was the founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute, now director of the Mount Wilson Institute and its observatory.)
PS---Robert Jastrow is not a christian.
Also, since you seem to be toying with the idea that christians are mentally diseased or have some kind of neuralogical brain damage, let me give you a small list of some of the people in this world who were also similarly brain damaged with this disease called christianity. This is a list of all of the original founders of the scientific disciplines and many of the great inventors. Everyone of these guys was a creationists and all were christians
with the possible exception of the founder of hydraulic, which was Leonardo DaVinci. I'm not sure what his religious affiliations were. With guys like this in my corner, I'm not worried about whether I've got a brain disease like christianity. I'm in good company.
TABLE I
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES ESTABLISHED
BY CREATIONIST SCIENTISTS
DISCIPLINE-- SCIENTIST
ANTISEPTIC SURGERY-- JOSEPH LISTER (1827-1912)
BACTERIOLOGY-- LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895)
CALCULUS-- ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)
CELESTIAL MECHANICS --JOHANN KEPLER (1571-1630)
CHEMISTRY-- ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691)
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY-- GEORGES CUVIER (1769-1832)
COMPUTER SCIENCE-- CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871)
DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS-- LORD RAYLEIGH (1842-1919)
DYNAMICS-- ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)
ELECTRONICS--JOHN AMBROSE FLEMING (1849-1945)
ELECTRODYNAMICS-- JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831-1879)
ELECTRO-MAGNETICS-- MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867)
ENERGETICS-- LORD KELVIN (1824-1907)
ENTOMOLOGY OF LIVING INSECTS-- HENRI FABRE (1823-1915)
FIELD THEORY-- MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867)
FLUID MECHANICS-- GEORGE STOKES (1819-1903)
GALACTIC ASTRONOMY-- WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1738-1822)
GAS DYNAMICS-- ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691)
GENETICS-- GREGOR MENDEL (1822-1884)
GLACIAL GEOLOGY-- LOUIS AGASSIZ (1807-1873)
GYNECOLOGY-- JAMES SIMPSON (1811-1870)
HYDRAULICS-- LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)
HYDROGRAPHY-- MATTHEW MAURY (1806-1873)
HYDROSTATICS-- BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662)
ICHTHYOLOGY-- LOUIS AGASSIZ (1807-1873)
ISOTOPIC CHEMISTRY-- WILLIAM RAMSAY (1852-1916)
MODEL ANALYSIS-- LORD RAYLEIGH (1842-1919)
NATURAL HISTORY-- JOHN RAY (1627-1705)
NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY-- BERNHARD RIEMANN (1826- 1866)
OCEANOGRAPHY-- MATTHEW MAURY (1806-1873)
OPTICAL MINERALOGY-- DAVID BREWSTER (1781-1868)
PALEONTOLOGY-- JOHN WOODWARD (1665-1728)
PATHOLOGY-- RUDOLPH VIRCHOW (1821-1902)
PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY-- JOHANN KEPLER (1571-1630)
REVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMIC-- JAMES JOULE (1818-1889)
STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICSS-- JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831-1879)
STRATIGRAPHY-- NICHOLAS STENO (1631-1686)
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY-- CAROLUS LINNAEUS (1707-1778)
THERMODYNAMICS-- LORD KELVIN (1824-1907)
THERMOKINETICS-- HUMPHREY DAVY (1778-1829)
VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY-- GEORGES CUVIER (1769-1832)
TABLE II
NOTABLE INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES
OR DEVELOPMENTS BY CREATIONIST SCIENTISTS
CONTRIBUTION-- SCIENTIST
ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURE SCALE-- LORD KELVIN (1824-1907)
ACTUARIAL TABLES-- CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871)
BAROMETER-- BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662)
BIOGENESIS LAW-- LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895)
CALCULATING MACHINE-- CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871)
CHLOROFORM-- JAMES SIMPSON (1811-1870)
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM-- CAROLUS LINNAEUS (1707-1778)
DOUBLE STARS-- WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1738-1822)
ELECTRIC GENERATOR-- MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867)
ELECTRIC MOTOR-- JOSEPH HENRY (1797-1878)
EPHEMERIS TABLES-- JOHANN KEPLER (1571-1630)
FERMENTATION CONTROL-- LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895)
GALVANOMETER-- JOSEPH HENRY (1797-1878)
GLOBAL STAR CATALOG-- JOHN HERSCHEL (1792-1871)
INERT GASES-- WILLIAM RAMSAY (1852-1916)
KALEIDOSCOPE-- DAVID BREWSTER (1781-1868)
LAW OF GRAVITY-- ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)
MINE SAFETY LAMP-- HUMPHREY DAVY (1778-1829)
PASTEURIZATION-- LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895)
REFLECTING TELESCOPE-- ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)
SCIENTIFIC METHOD-- FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626)
SELF-INDUCTION-- JOSEPH HENRY (1797-1878)
TELEGRAPH-- SAMUEL F.B. MORSE (1791-1872)
THERMIONIC VALVE-- AMBROSE FLEMING (1849-1945)
TRANS-ATLANTIC CABLE-- LORD KELVIN (1824-1907)
VACCINATION & IMMUNIZATION-- LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895)
http://www.ankerberg.com/
http://www.icr.org/
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/home.php
http://www.reasons.org/index.shtml
http://www.tektonics.org/
http://www.livingwaters.com/listenwatch.shtml
2006-10-14 18:38:08
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Hmmm, well I had a bad case of chrisitanity a few years ago. Fortunately lot's of strong liquids got me over it! It must be like chicken pox....once you have had it..you aren't likely to get it again...it can leave scars too.
2006-10-15 00:41:19
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