Atheists Say
Christianity; an athiests perspective.
Christianity; The popular belief that a celestial Jewish baby who is also his own father, born from a virgin mother, died for three days so that he could ascend to heaven on a cloud and then make you live forever only if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically tell him you accept him as your lord & master so he can remove an evil force from your spiritual being that is present in all humanity because an immoral woman made from a man's rib was hoodwinked by a talking reptile possessed by an malicious angel to secretly eat forbidden fruit from a magical tree.
7) and then make you live forever
We're already eternal beings.
He doesn't make us live forever. He created us eternal, so we already have the ability to live forever. The eternity is here on earth where we can live without aging or death. He has already given us that.
He also controls the power of death. It's up to us to avoid that, and we are all accountable for ourselves. Only God has the ability to extinguish life, and to blot it from everyone's memory. We won't miss people in heaven. It's as if that person was never there. Otherwise there would be eternal sadness. There isn't a pit or lake in heaven where we all stand around and mock the people who didn't make it. That would be terrible to their loved ones who did make it. When someone is blotted out it's like they never existed. We simply will not remember that soul. That may sound sad for some today because you can remember, but it's a huge relief for a lot of souls who saw the darker side of humanity and can't forget. Besides, if they are blotted, how would you know?
None of us remember the dinosaurs, but that's only because in the flesh our memory is restricted. That's how blotting works. But just because we can't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen. He left hints of a past time. A time before this flesh age. Here's a dinosaur in Job. Simply get a pencil and paper and follow along… amazing it is.
Job 40: 15
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; He eats grass as an ox.
The word behemoth means "the greatest of God" or the biggest. So we are talking about the biggest animal God made. This animal was a grazer as indicated by eating grass as an ox. That means a vegetarian. There are no carnivore candidates for this description. It also gives a qualifier by stating that he made it when he made us. Don't let that slip by… He made the behemoth when he made us. That was the first earth age. That was when the behemoth lived. That was when Satan drew 1/3 of the stars, or should I say 1/3 of us.
Job 40: 16
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
His legs (loins) are strong and powerful to hold up his structure. The abdominal area is the feature that drives his girth.
Job 40: 17
He moveth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
The cedars of Lebanon are many feet in diameter. Imagine one fallen and you would see the same tail connected to thighs are wrapped with muscle. Elephant's have small tails like a hog. But the brontosaur had a tail like a cedar tree.
Job 40: 18
His bones are as strong as pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
This would be required to support the mass tonnage. Plus being a vegetarian he would need to be huge enough to discourage the scheming carnivores. He is stronger than any flesh we've seen.
Job 40: 19
He is the chief of the ways of God; He that made him can make His sword to approach unto him.
That means he is God's biggest creation on earth. Only God himself can address him and get respect. He would flick us off like flies.
Job 40: 20
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
He eats in the trees at the edge of the mountains where the tall vegetation is lush. He stays openly in the field with the other beasts. He fears nothing.
Job 40: 21
He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
He is at rest in spite of the magnitude of their reality (dino survival).
Job 40: 22
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
It takes a whole tree to give him shade. That's huge. When he lies down he covers all the ground between the fingers of the streams.
Job 40: 23
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan in his mouth.
Nothing around him looks intimidating. The confidence is internal. He is not afraid of anything because he was the chief of all.
Job 40: 24
He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
You can't trap him. He would just break it up and move on. The behemoth is a brontosaur. For those that think God was describing something different lets take a look at some of the common candidates. A hippo (or river horse) has a small tail and can't reach the taller vegetation. The crocodile doesn't have those legs and isn't really known as your typical vegetarian. The giraffe has legs too agile, a tail too small, and is simply too delicate to support the physical requirements. Only a brontosaurus would it fit the description in Job.
The first age had to end because if we were made in the flesh with the same animal kingdom as then we would have been destroyed. Our spiritual body has mass, but it isn't flesh. That means we were off the menu back then. The bones we have are from real animals. They were alive in the flesh here on earth. It's my personal opinion that their souls are the souls that are in the animal kingdom today. Only now the tables are turned.
All souls were reclaimed to God when the meteor crashed through. It pulled the upper water down (creating our oceans). The impact knocked our earth 15 degrees off true north. That created a wobble which over time pulled the water toward the poles forming the caps. None of that was exposed to space before, because the waters above that kept the earth illuminated like a light bulb. That's why we have palm wood in the Tundra. It used to be lush.
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