Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

ericneyman.wordpress.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–210 of 649 posts

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

#201

Post by dragonwriter »

teachrdan wrote: post #178
ivape wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think anything is weird anymore. The ultimate reality of free will is that you will always have the option to do right and wrong. If you don’t have faith, this privilege will be difficult. The human left to their own devices will always have a shifting sense of morality (turning a ship by 1 degree at a time). Faith was a gift to help. In terms of Christ, let me put it this way. Imagine your high school, and o…

> You may not directly see him, but the whole school would know about it, even if he was just there for 5 minutes. My question would be: If the Bible was written by an omniscient and all-powerful God, then why does it have so many inaccuracies in it? Easy ones include a global flood that killed every animal on Earth. (Except for the two of each animal on Noah's ark, which would have overheated with so many animals in…

> If the Bible was written by an omniscient and all-powerful God, then why does it have so many inaccuracies in it?

This would be a very good gotcha for a religion that believed the Bible was written by God (or at least dictated verbatim) and that it was intended to be a purely literal factual account, neither of which are majority positions within Christian theology (Fundamentalism, in which close approximations of both are important defining beliefs, being a relatively new movement within Protestantism and not the mainstream of Christianity.)

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

#202

Post by mettamage »

JohnMakin wrote: post #140

I can shed some light on this, maybe - In the year before the 2020 election, a market opened on predictit called "Will Hillary run for president? Yes/No" First this was a reasonable market, but quickly it became obvious she wasn't running (because she repeatedly said she wasn't, there was no campaign created at all, absolutely zero indicators she was running because she wasn't). Predictit allowed a comment section wh…

Sounds similar in theme with what happened to Hertz. I think at some point it was bankrupt but speculation still had the share price way above what it was worth (nothing).

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

#203

Post by cozyman »

hatradiowigwam wrote: post #162
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

"Religion" doesn't have the slightest thing to do with Jesus coming. Religion human thing. Jesus didn't say "go and spread religion to every man"...he said "go and spread the GOOD NEWS to every man". Religion is the word we use to describe how us human's have managed to twist and warp and misunderstand that good news. We use it for gate keeping: "sorry this event is for church members only". We use it to put down peo…

Jesus founded a church in Matthew 16. He literally said go forth and make disciples of all nations. I could go through scripture and demonstrate why almost every claim you said here is false, but you don't care about scripture, just emotion.

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

#204

Post by arp242 »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #152
arp242 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With modern technology you can probably liquefy a camel sufficiently that you force it through the needle. Jesus ain't said nothing 'bout no hydrochloric acid and pneumatic presses.

Probably easier to just make a really big needle

Yes, but that would be less entertaining :-)

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

#205

Post by wat10000 »

zchrykng wrote: post #117
wat10000 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s “science doesn’t adequately explain the origins of the universe,” and then there’s “this particular middle eastern tribe had the right answers thousands of years ago.” I can see the former but the latter makes no sense.

Unless God actually exists and revealed himself to them. Obviously, you are free to not believe that, but believing that goes along with believing what you are dismissing.

Sure, but in that case the supposed fact that God revealed himself to this particular tribe is the key thing supporting the belief, not "reality is unexplainable, it must be something else."

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

#206

Post by cozyman »

HexDecOctBin wrote: post #67
recursivedoubts wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

religion (that is, an objective morality) has always been the only thing the masses have when confronted with the great pagan principle: "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"

So pagans don't have a religion or morality? That is interesting to hear, as a Hindu. The more things change, the more they remain the same!

what is hindu morality? where does it come from?

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

#208

Post by mullingitover »

klipt wrote: post #192
api wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Is that how the rich men are squeezing into heaven these days? "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" There's a theory that the eye of the needle was a narrow gate in Jerusalem's city wall that was notoriously hard for camels to squeeze through. But seems the hard evidence for that is limited.

> There's a theory that the eye of the needle was a narrow gate in Jerusalem's city wall

This is a very debunked myth, brought to you by people who are desperate to avoid Christianity's clear proscription on hoarding wealth.

Re: The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return

#209

Post by guywithahat »

delfinom wrote: post #64

[flagged]

Yes you, presumably someone who is not a christian and has never read the bible, know better than billions of christians and the millions of people who've actually read the bible.

I'm not religious, but this is a bad take.

Post reply on HN