"VATICAN CITY, June 23 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Tuesday reaffirmed a long-standing rule that only an ordained priest or ​deacon can give a sermon at a Catholic mass, ‌rejecting a request from German bishops to broaden the practice and allow sermons by women or other laypeople."

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    You can't prove a negative. You're the one that claims god exists, where's your empirical evidence? Where's your proof? Repeatable, testable proof? As it is there's no evidence whatsoever of any deity of any kind so there's no reason to believe they'd exist. You say they do, that's your claim, now prove it. Maybe learn some rhetoric and logic first so you can actually have a legitimate good faith discussion.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became.

    how did the Apostle John and the author of Genesis know thay light can be created from matter more than a thousand years before it was proven via colliders?

    John 1:4 Life was in Him, and Life was the light of men.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    how did the Apostle John and the author of Genesis know thay light can be created from matter more than a thousand years before it was proven via colliders?

    They didn't? Nothing in that passage implies anything scientific or anything even about the nature of light and the relationship between matter and energy.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    the Bible is in parables

    and yes, it does? Light can create, and God is the light of all men, God is the creator of all men, and God also illuminates our lives in a special way

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The new testament isn't in parables at all. Some of the characters in the new testament use parables, but that's not the same. And if the bible is parables, nothing in it is meant to be taken in any way literally which clearly isn't the case. You're taking contradictory positions. And nothing about the passage implies anything about light or physics whatsoever.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    MOST of it is in parables, the parts about Jesus and his life are personal testimonies of the disciples

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Or not: https://factually.co/fact-checks/religion/gospels-where-written-by-whom-88e1e4

    Contemporary historians and biblical scholars tend to treat the canonical Gospels as works produced in specific first‑century Christian contexts rather than straightforward eyewitness memoirs: many scholars judge the Gospels anonymous, composed in Greek for communities across the Roman Empire, with Mark likely written first and serving as a source for Matthew and Luke (the Synoptic Problem), while John’s Gospel is notably different in style and theology.

    Are the gospels even considered part of the catholic canon?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    they are different in styles because they are different people

    Yes, they are

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    they are different in styles because they are different people Yes, they are

    That does not answer these discrepancies:

    Contemporary historians and biblical scholars tend to treat the canonical Gospels as works produced in specific first‑century Christian contexts rather than straightforward eyewitness memoirs: many scholars judge the Gospels anonymous, composed in Greek for communities across the Roman Empire, with Mark likely written first and serving as a source for Matthew and Luke (the Synoptic Problem), while John’s Gospel is notably different in style and theology.

    They were written miles and years apart from each other.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Ok if that's your proof then I can use quotes from the Hobbit to prove dragons are real.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    if tolkien predicted particle physics 2000+ years ago before modern colliders I would say he has a point

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The Bible didn't predict particle physics and I'm genuinely confused as to how you get that interpretation.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    it implies that light can possibly create matter

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