>>90431581>>90431699(me) Now that i have time to answer you properly:
Your perversion of the Bible is disgusting, you take things out of context and use that to spin a narrative
In those 2 Thessalonians verses it talks about what will happen after the birth of the antichrist
The 2 Corinthians 11 verse you quoted was talking about people that preach a different gospel
That's enough to discard what you teach
You don't know what you are talking about
Now, i will show you why the bible is reliable and why it's not been twisted or changed
To prove such a thing, we need to first move away from the bible, and turn to reality
A big opposition to the bible is the problem of evolution, so to answer that we need to look at the evidence for each case, that being the evolutionary vs creationist theory, which holds more ground?
Well, let's start with the ages given to the world: evolution tells us that the earth must be old, otherwise evolution doesn't work because it wouldn't have enough time to get us where we are-- but this is circular logic: "given this theory the planet must be this old, otherwise this theory doesn't work"! This logic is also why we affirm and use carbon dating methods, because they give us an age that fits in well with the old earth paradigm, despite carbon dating being widely inconsistent and very inaccurate when it comes to new or young rocks, giving us a reading of thousands of years all the way to hundreds of millions of years on a less than one century old rock. On the other hand, the Bible tells us that not only the planet, but the whole of existence was created in 6 days by an all powerful and all good and personal being, which we know as God. Now, we're not given an age to the earth in the bible, but we are given the genealogies of Jesus all the way from Adam, and we also get the ages of the people listed(as well as when they die and the age of their parents when they had them), thus we get a number that's around 4000, so adding the time since Jesus's birth onto that we get the world being around 6000 years old
>inb4 but, what if the creation process wasn't literally a week?Well then it wouldn't make sense for Moses and all other people of the Bible to treat it as literally a week and as historic fact, plus, like i already said, the ages we get from carbon dating are not trustworthy.
So, between the two paradigms-- old and young earth--, we see that the young earth one is more likely, given it's more in line with the observable reality
To further demonstrate the validity of the Bible, we can look at what it says about God and we can try to figure out if what is says is observable or in line with reality
>how do we do that? You'd need to prove God firstNot only can you prove God through logical sequences, but also God's character and attributes
>how?Glad you asked(no one did), we can figure out God's existence and character with the help of the principle of cause and effect, also known as the principle of causality, which states that every cause has an effect, everything observable was caused, and that the effect can't be greater than its cause
Given this universal and observable principle, we can figure out the following:
>there was a cause to the big bang>that cause had to be timeless, since time started with the big bang, hence it is also eternal, because it can't be subjected to the passage of time>because the cause of the big bang is eternal, it must also be the first cause, the uncaused cause of the world, this is because to be eternal means that you always have existed, so you can't have been caused by something else>also because the big bang was the beginning of reality(all that we can and can't see) that means that the eternal uncaused cause needed to have been powerful enough to cause all of reality, thus being all powerful>because we can observe at the very least our own existence and because we can think, that must mean that the uncaused cause had to be living and consciousThis is God: eternal, uncreated, all powerful and alive; but this is not quite the same God as the one of Christianity just yet
We can find out God's character like this:
>we were caused, so the uncaused cause must have our attributes as well, but to a greater degreeSo then, God must:
>have emotions>be capable of forming relationships>be personalCont.
