The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions 1, FAIR Conference

Scholar Blake Ostler discusses many controversial topics in his 2005 FAIR conference talk
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[smpf38]

It is interesting how the top scholars from Harvard, Oxford, etc. describe the way the Biblical scriptures were written. They include the cultural understanding, the history, the CONTEXT.

Often, it is entirely different than Christian fundamentalists would like, as they impose a neo-Hellenistic point of view (a newer and different view of God) onto the texts thus usurping the previous and original views of God that the ancients held.

[skyaglow]

View: : Realistic Book of Mormon Evidences & DNA

I can full heartedly testify, I have a "sure knowledge" that the Book of Mormon is true.

I know it is a true account & divine history of the ancient people here on the Americas.

The LDS Church belongs to Christ.

Jesus Christ governs it!

The Book of Mormon is about Christ.

The Book of Mormon testifies of Christ and his dealings with this ancient people.

The Book is true.

Read it, pray about it & you will know it too!

[fairldsorg]

@shcannon97 Yes, he is LDS. He is an speaker and author of several books.

[fudley2003]

Logos and mythos / oil and water

[omiolo]

Elder Patrick Kearon, 48, had been serving as a member of the Third Quorum of the Seventy in the Europe Area when called to serve in the First Quorum of the Seventy.

[PennnSmith]

I love the work that FAIR is doing.

[omiolo]

Wisdom found

Elder Nelson emphasized that learning, light and wisdom are blessings available to all humanity through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

[omiolo]

"My young brothers and sisters," he said, "to build a house straight and strong, you do not choose crooked boards. So to build your eternal destiny, you cannot — you must not — limit your lessons only to those lessons that are warped by the world to exclude the truth from God."

[canadianbacon007]

Cosmology (worldview) from God's (well pleased) perspective, would seem to be eternal life. The egyptian ankh comes to mind in symbolic relation to this. The fundamentalist perfunctory worldview is lost in translation. New wine in old vessels = destruction.

[SuperHodja]

skyaglow...no one can "Know" what you say you know that is why religion is based on faith i.e., because it cannot be proven and is not based on fact. Morons with limited life perspective within many faiths testify they believe and know their faiths are true...have you taken that into account then used your God given reason to seek out existing truth thereby to judge your own religion? I can answer for you because you haven't or wouldn't have posted what you did. Wake up and do something more.