Could all humans begin from just two people?

Why do god botherers rely so much on endless quotes from the scriptures? Don't they have opinions of their own?

 

In my particular case I quote both the Jewish and Christian scriptures and then near death experience accounts that in my opinion have clarified the meaning of the scriptures for me.

 

You're still using your NDEs to refute the three Abrahamic faiths, including the concrete statements of the New Testament that are the very foundation of Christianity. Yet, you take pieces from the Bible when they fit your own very very different religious view.

History is absolutely overflowing with individuals who have made complex and ornate versions of various religions while claiming to be the prophet everyone should be following because after all, they almost died or took a heavy dose of peyote, or sarved themselves to delerium or whatever is proper in the societal context.

 

To me.... near death experience accounts make sense out of all three of the Abrahamic faiths.....
I can see why you might tend to disagree though.....


https://www.near-death.com/religion/islam.html

 

Because if they express an opinion that sounds a little off the ordinary, militant atheists will try to accuse them of inconsistency for not holding to the things in the Bible.
Meanwhile, religious people will be less inclined to believe them if they cannot explain how it is consistent with the Bible.


Also, don't mind Dennis Tate too much. He is kind of bonkers.

 

What do you mean?
What has been found?

 

https://www.goodfight.org/articles/commentaries-teachings/rob-bell-populating-hell/

 

https://jewsforjesus.org/publicatio...g-2009/the-sabbath-a-look-back-a-look-forward

 

A poster on this forum claimed to be a Theoretical Physicist and I believe him.... I so liked his ideas on the relatively new Multiverse Theory that he inspired me to completely revamp my understanding of Ezekiel chapter thirty seven.


The Philosophical implications of Multiverse Theory?

The clearest most easily understood writing on this topic that I ever read though is:


https://www.near-death.com/science/research/future.html#a03

This puts a whole new angle on the many times that the Old Testament Prophets give prophecies that depend on the decisions and behaviour of Israel.

 

Back around 1988 I began to suspect that the doctrines of the Worldwide Church of God were flawed........ but at that time I did not know what was wrong with the doctrines so I prayed and asked for wisdom and to be shown what it was that I was off in my understanding of so that I did not go through this life just repeating myself as my mentor Mr. Garner Ted Armstrong seemed to be doing. I was soon led to near death experience accounts and my understanding of the entire Jewish and Christian Bible was revamped.

I prefer being rather "bonkers" than to be in the place of having so many questions and so few good answers as I did back in 1988 to 1990.

 

Please be careful with your cites. You may have read Mark 2:27, but you didn't read Mark 2.

Your passage in Mark has absolutely nothing at all to do with time.

The issue being discussed has to do with when (or whether) it is ok to break religious law.

Pharisees were questioning Jesus about religious law.

Jesus pointed out that his followers may have been hungry and thus picked corn to eat on the Sabbath. In fact, jesus upped the ante and said that they may have been hungry enough to need to eat the sacrificial offerings reserved by religious law for priests alone! I'm sure that had an impact!

A way to express that is that the Sabbath is there for humans. It provides a focus that is to be taken seriously. But, it's not there as an immutable law of God.

 

There are certainly a lot of questions.

But, the real issue here is what is it that makes an answer an answer.

 

https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-and-the-Law.html

https://www.gotquestions.org/abolish-fulfill-law.html

 

https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-law.html

 

If God created the first human, then God would've had to become human to fully understand humans. In doing so, he would learn what it means to be human.

I chose yes.

 

I'll go with science rather than Edgar Cayce. A con man who claimed the Battle of Armageddon would take place in 1999.

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-populations-pair.html

 

This isn't Heaven?

 

Either there were two humans, which I doubt, or the story is a metaphor. Adam came from dust which is essentially elements of earth and Eve came from his rib which could be the splitting of cells into another creature.

Genesis is only there to begin the story just like Revelations is there to end it, neither of them are fully meant to be understood.

 

An astute observation.

 

Because our opinions are all based on what the Bible teaches?

 

In other words you are told what your opinion is.

 

No, of course not, biologically impossible.

Who would they reproduce with? Each other?

Best estimate I've seen is about 98 people

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-many-humans-would-it-take-keep-our-species-alive-ncna900151.

I've seen other estimates that go from 80 to 160. There is evidence in the genetic record that humans were once reduced to just about that around 10,000 years ago possibly by a world-class volcanic eruption

 

There are MANY religious stories with a man/woman start, they're metaphors. These same copies of each other also have god look, oddly enough, just like us. This is a projection of our own traits onto a deity.

We have plenty of fossil records showing where modern man evolved.

 

Men were not created by god.
God was created by men.