The Bible, Creationism, and Prophecy (part 2)

philologos wrote: »

That's also not true! The first account we have of the crucifixion and resurrection were written in 55AD in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Impressive since Paul was a convert to Christ. Now we know that the gospel which is mentioned in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John was preached in the early church before Paul. Moreover if you read Paul's conversion account in Galatians you'll see a timeline in years from Paul's conversion to the writing of Galatians.

I'm sorry but this cannot be true.

Firstly, Christianity as we know it today is Paul's codification of the gospel. Therefore we should ask how could Paul's gospel be preached before he even codified it?

Next, it was 'The Rock', Peter, whom Jesus lived with and mentored. Why did he become subservient to Paul? Shouldn't Paul have designed Christianity under direct instruction from Peter.

I mean, how did that first conversation between Paul and Peter go?

"Hey Paul, I'm Peter and the last time I spoke to Jesus he gave me detailed instruction on how the spreading of the word should be achieved."

"Hi Peter, nice to meet you. I've heard so much about you, all good mind. Anyway, I was on my way to Damascus, the festival was on, and I fancied partaking in some Christian bashing but then I bumped into Jesus and He explained everything to me. I had you guys all wrong and the old me is gone now. I even changed my name. To cut a long story short, there's been a change of plan. He wants me to codify the gospel."

"Oh! Er... well. This seems most irregular, I must say. I was a favorite of His and He seemed quite clear and adamant about what he requires of me."

"Well, He did say that you were too clever to be taken in by a charlatan and would need proof so He told me to say, 'Do you remember what you did before the cock crowed?'. He said you'd know what that meant and that you would know I speak with His authority. Is it some kind of private joke perh..."

"Then it is true, you have seen the Master... Sir, I am honoured to be at your service. No sir, not a private joke. It's a bit embarassing actually... rather not talk about it. I must admit that I am a little disappointed to be demoted by history to merely an assistant."

"Well, to be fair, a long career in drunken, loutish, murderous brutishness has given me experience that makes me better equipped than Barabus for negotiating with the San Hedron. You are better suited to dealing with the gentiles. Oh, and don't worry about the Romans."

It's ironic really. Jesus is acknowledged as the founder of a church that collects money in its temples on the Sabbath.

I reckon that Peter was frightened of Paul and allowed himself to be bullied out of his inheritance. Jesus must feel He was denied by Peter even after the cock had crowed.

Anyway, why didn't Jesus remain on earth after His resurrection? Pontious Pilate would have been delighted to see Him again and would be more likely to lend his weight to Christianity.

All I'm saying is that God, Jesus, Peter and Paul all seriously mismanaged the whole event. It could all have been done much more efficiently and could have served as a much better antidote to evil than it currently does.

J C wrote: »

The Sun does increase entropy or disorder ... and all raw energy does the same ... think of fire - and a burning house, to see what I mean.
Entropy is only observed to decrease with the employment of intelligently designed systems to harness raw energy to produce an increase in organised complex functional specific products ... think of a jet engine powering a plane or a living organism taking basic chemicals and turning them into complex products.

Certainly rapid Natural Selection and speciation occurred using pre-existing genetic diversity occurred post the Flood.

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