• m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Dan McClellan is a textbook example of this. He is known to block people whom responds to his videos. which is bad faith.

    I know he blocks people if he decides they are not engaging productively. Like in the video you linked InspiringPhilosphy says that: when Jesus knew the doubters wondered “who can forgive sins but God”… InspiringPhilosphy insists that they were talking about God the father, but trinitarian belief didn’t exist at the time of the composition of the gospel of Mark right? I suspect Dan lost patience with the retrojection of Trinitarianism.

    The Bible hasn’t been heavily edited. There isn’t much proof for this, notably, no original “unedited” documents.

    These are the first three edits that come to mind: Pericope of the women caught in adultery is absent from all early manuscripts if the gospel of John. Johannine comma being absent from all Greek manuscripts (except for the forgery from like 1000 years later), short ending of Mark. Also the pseudepigraphal letters of Paul, are editing in a sense.

    Yahweh was worshipped in a pantheon though, and the Bible records this. But it’s the writings of a monotheistic sect.

    What is monotheism? Is it compatible with belief in the power of rival gods like in 2 Kings 3:27?

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      15 hours ago

      That recording in Mark is Jesus teaching Trinitarian belief.

      I also said “heavily” edited. A story here in there added in isn’t heavy editing. The Johannine Comma existed for a period of time but isn’t in modern bibles except maybe a footnote. Even the woman caught in adultery comes with a disclaimer, as well as the ending in Mark.

      2 Kings 3:27

      Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

      What rival god?