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Posted on 2/11/14 at 8:51 pm to AlaTiger
Posted on 2/11/14 at 8:51 pm to AlaTiger
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Yeah, this thread again about how irrelevant Christianity is! Has there been anything in Western history more projected to be in demise than Christianity?
One of my favorite Chesterton quotes:
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Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
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Posted on 2/11/14 at 8:57 pm to the808bass
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What's amazing is that there's probably around 100,000,000 Christians in China. Amazing that they've been able to do that without the God of the Bible.
There are 1.3 billion people in China and christianity wasnt practiced by a tangible number of people until the 19th century.
So fine, 5900 years . Thats a lot of Chinemen who lived and died never even knowing about the Hebrew God, Jesus, etc.
This post was edited on 2/11/14 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 2/11/14 at 9:03 pm to AlaTiger
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Just stop. You don't know what you are talking about. Not everyone on here is ignorant and just waiting breathlessly for you to tell us how the Bible is full of fairy tales and the inventions of men.
Sorry you feel that way.
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On your chapter of Mark thing, the longer ending of Mark 16 was present by the second century and it was in oral traditions present in the early church within decades of the resurrection of Jesus.
It was still up for debate at the first council of Nicea in 325 and a large number of those present were opposed to them being included in the canon.
In addition, the fourth-century church fathers Eusebius and Jerome noted that almost all Greek manuscripts available to them lacked verses 9-20.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 9:04 pm to AlaTiger
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Yeah, this thread again about how irrelevant Christianity is!
Has there been anything in Western history more projected to be in demise than Christianity?
Who here called it irrelevant? Who here has predicted its demise?
Take your persecution complex elsewhere.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 11:28 pm to Roger Klarvin
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It was still up for debate at the first council of Nicea in 325 and a large number of those present were opposed to them being included in the canon. In addition, the fourth-century church fathers Eusebius and Jerome noted that almost all Greek manuscripts available to them lacked verses 9-20.
Jerome was so certain that it didn't belong that he left it in the Vulgate. Justin Martyr cited the passage 4 times. Irenaeus, Tatian, Hippolytus and Dionysius of Alexandria all reference the passage. So, pretending that it's a settled issue and it's "definitively" inauthentic is a bit too much.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 12:14 am to AlaTiger
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Has there been anything in Western history more projected to be in demise than Christianity?
Posted on 2/12/14 at 12:18 am to sorantable
EOT 
Posted on 2/12/14 at 12:29 am to sorantable
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