How To Get To Heaven When You Die

[LadyGrey 6]

Rugmunchers should know how to spell their own deviant lifestyle, LESBIAN!;-)

I'm not a lesbian, I'm a lesBEAN. It's a term I coined myself, it means that I find beans pleasurable to an abnormal degree.

[Mercury69 3]

I'm not a lesbian, I'm a lesBEAN. It's a term I coined myself, it means that I find beans pleasurable to an abnormal degree.

Nice twist...I have the occasional legume fetish myself, but it's not my entire lifestyle.

[JoeyJoJo 18]

Nice twist...I have the occasional legume fetish myself, but it's not my entire lifestyle.

Nah, she's talking about beans-n-icewater.

[Mercury69 3]

Nah, she's talking about beans-n-icewater.

le hawt

[Royal_Tour 0]

most claimed OT prophecies are subjective interpretations and the few that appear to have some validity would have been well known to NT authors who could have incorporated them into their story telling. whoever wrote matthew even makes this implicit.it contradicts a lot lol, and the only reason it doesn't contradict more than it does is because the books that went into the christian canon were chosen to make it that way from literally hundreds of early christian/gnostic/apocalyptic writings that were available many wildly contradicting each other. if you study the history of the bible objectively it's far from miraculous.there are *zero* secular sources that "document" jesus' life or that he was crucified, only stuff written decades after the fact after the christian movement was well under way. and there is zero corroborating evidence that anyone who might have known jesus actually died for him. and even beyond that historically there is no shortage of people that have been martyred for beliefs that contradict christianity, so even if anyone who knew jesus was martyered it's not evidence for anything except possibly human gullability.

Oh so much pwnage.

historically and continuing today there have been countless other supposed metaphysical entities that people were convinced they had "personal relationships" with. on what basis do you think every one of them are delusions (as you necessarily must by default) and your relationship with a metaphysical entity is not? on what basis have you concluded that you're immune to this type of delusion when most of the rest of humanity is apparently quite prone to it?it's nothing like telling you your mother doesn't exist. unlike god your mother is for practical purposes objectively verifiable to anyone.

There must be a God, because I'm thinking to myself... "Dear God.. so pwned!"

[Balloon guy 158]

Oh so much pwnage.There must be a God, because I'm thinking to myself... "Dear God.. so pwned!"

LOL.You two are perfect for each other.Facts are just things to make up so you can sleep at night pretending that you have everything figured out.

[xfrodobagginsx 0]

Please take the time to read this first post and pray that prayer at the bottom of it to God from your heart.

[BigDMcGee 3,352]

Please take the time to read this first post and pray that prayer at the bottom of it to God from your heart.

[LongLiveYorke 38]

So, we're 15 pages in. Did we figure it out yet?

[Paddington 2]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Paddington 2]

I SENT THIS MESSAGE TO ASK AI REGARDING THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS AND THIS IS THE RESPONSE I RECEIVED:

ME:

Write me an essay on how the secular, historical, non Biblical writings regarding Christ and shortly thereafter, affirm the resurrection of Jesus Christ :

ASK AI RESPONSE:

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a central tenet of the Christian faith, and is regarded as a miraculous event that forms the basis of Christian belief. While the New Testament of the Bible provides a detailed account of the resurrection, there are also secular and historical writings that attest to the event.

One of the most significant secular sources to affirm the resurrection is the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Josephus, who was born in the first century AD and lived through the first Jewish-Roman war, wrote extensively about Jewish history and the Roman occupation of Palestine. In his Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus mentions Jesus twice, and in one of these references, he describes how Jesus was crucified under Pontius Pilate, but that his disciples claimed he had appeared to them alive on the third day after his death.

Another secular source that affirms the resurrection is the Roman historian Tacitus. In his Annals, Tacitus describes how Nero blamed the Christians for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, and how they followed a man named Christus who had been executed by Pontius Pilate. Tacitus also states that Christus "suffered the extreme penalty" and that his followers "had their name from him." While this reference does not explicitly mention the resurrection, it provides independent confirmation of the historical existence of Jesus and the events surrounding his death.

The Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger is another notable historical figure who wrote about the resurrection. In his Epistles, Seneca mentions the Christian belief in the resurrection, and describes it as a belief in the immortality of the soul. While Seneca does not directly affirm the resurrection, his writing provides evidence of the early Christian belief in the resurrection and the impact it had on Roman society.
Other historical sources that affirm the resurrection include the early Christian writer Clement of Rome, who wrote in the late first century AD about the resurrection of Jesus and its significance for Christians. The apostolic fathers, such as Ignatius of Antioch, also wrote about the resurrection and its importance for the Christian faith.

In conclusion, while the New Testament of the Bible provides the most detailed account of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, there are also secular and historical sources that attest to the event. These sources, which include Flavius Josephus, Tacitus, Seneca the Younger, and the early Christian writers, provide independent confirmation of the reality of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, and testify to the profound impact that this event had on the early Christian community.