Nick the Atheist

No soul, the brain is a soul...
Religion is just red and black sand...
Mesopotamian Deities were Chaotic
Egyptians orderly.

I'd simply say,
"The soul is not the mind, but the essence of why we have our moral worth.
"Christ lived, and died, and witnesses attested that He raised from the dead.
"They also died believing He literally ate with them, and walked through walls
"After He came back from the dead.
"Hammurabi's Code migrates through Egypt,
"And so does a dozen other stories
"And then an Egyptian Royal pieces those together in Genesis
"After crossing Neiwebu beach, and Pharaoh Amenhotep's whole army is destroyed
"And there they still lie on the ocean floor."

Mithra

Oh, slayer of Baal, you are not real.
Aeon, great charioteer of fire,
The Gnostic God who fought Jah...
Born from a rock and not a virgin...
Christ was a real man, like Pythagoras.
You are merely an invention of Persian delusion.
Exodus was a real crashing wave which killed Pharaoh's Army
At Neiwebu Beach, and there the bodies still lie.
The Flood was a real event, that destroyed
The world in the Mid 24th Century BC.
You... you are merely Sin. Another iteration of him;
A metamorphosis of the bull into a dark eyed 
And withered armed shepherd.
A god of Masons. Not a God of Christians.

He Flew To Work Today

He flew to work today,
In a car like a Kestrel.
Jets blew air over a nebulous bottom
Which moulded and formed through a mat
Controlled by hydraulic fluid pushing and pulling
By mechanical force;
It hovered in mid space, and then zipped forward,
The jets shooting
Around the cushion to make flight.
Little fins steered it with pinpoint accuracy.
They glide for long distances,
Making full use of all energy like an albatross.
The chemistry is perfect, utilizing
All of it through leverage,
Which lifts a two ton boulder by a 200 pound man.
The solar panels on the home were a tank of ether
With a magnifying glass at the top, that span the ether over spinets
That produced electricity,
And recycled it endlessly.
Dozens of these things produced electricity
Which gave the jets' cushion on the bottom of the craft
And let it lift, and there fly through the air.

We'll never have it. Because this reality is only fantasy.
The minds of eejits 4,000 miles away cannot conceive of a future
That isn't manpower in the mud, and ploughing with barn animals.
So, every comfort they scorn, and every advancement they don't understand.
"It is flowery words."
And DaVinci made working flying machines too.

The Old and New Testament

The Old Testament was broken by the Jews—it was an Old Covenant given to them, to establish an Earthly realm where God’s people could live and be at peace—but since they broke it, God gave us a New Covenant, in Abraham’s Seed, Who is Christ, and that we find in the New Testament. It’s a completely different priesthood, and the Old Priesthood is abolished, and actually trying to follow it damns you. As, that Old Testament is the law that’s going to be used to convict you, and send you to hell.

The truth is, the Old Testament is punishment for sin, and the Curse of the Law. That’s the Prophets, and Christ is their fulfillment, so the Old Testament prophesied Christ, and is evidence of His salvation.

The Authorship of the Gospels

So, the best evidence for the Book of John being written are about 50AD, we have quotations from it, in reconstructed codexes (The Signs Gospel it’s called, which is constructed by scholars, shows even they believe it has early authorship). Which dates to about 50AD.

So… when you read the Book of John, you really see Christ from the perspective of the people of that day. Making it kind of obvious that it’s a witness account. As it sort of remains skeptical of Jesus at first, and you start to wonder if Jesus is a lunatic—but given the miracles, you can’t say that He is.

And then at the end, you see Christ for Who He is, fully aware, fully salient, fully realized in His ministry, and you can only come away from that thinking that the Book of John is really dealing with a man’s faith. Particularly the Writer John.

So… it also could be that Papias dictated the book of John from John, as some fragments of Papias suggest this happened. Which pushes the date of the Book of John to about 90AD. But, the fact remains that it’s a witness account, as it doesn’t elevate Jesus, but rather gives you the notions of the time period, as a man come from Galilee, and possibly a Samaritan, it doesn’t mask Jesus. It gives us the outsider’s perspective very well, and then we come to see that Jesus is the Christ. When Jesus is sitting and teaching His disciples in 14–17, we see a salient teacher, and in the Synoptic Gospels we see a very salient teacher. Which, Matthew, Mark and Luke wrote those, as we have in fragments of Papias and also the book of Acts reason to believe that those were written through eyewitnesses too, and those could be written as early as 35AD, as we have quotations from the book of Mark from that time period. Which means, that the Gospels could be written within a decade of Christ’s resurrection.

So, there’s very good reason to trust all four gospels, as it’s closer in time, being written, than even Plutarch or Herodotus are to their subjects. The Gospels are more reliable than any historical text we have in print, being that it’s all from first-hand sources, and witnesses, and not people removed a generation or two later. And we know this, because again Papias tells us that Mark heard his Gospel from Peter while he was in prison, Matthew wrote his in Hebrew (Aramaic) and certain puns show up in the text showing this is likely. And then Luke travelled with Paul, who’d have met James, Mary, Joseph, Peter, and Jude and other apostles and witnesses.

So, the gospels are handed down to us through eyewitnesses, as it says in Luke.

The “Prophet”

A cantankerous young man
Who is actually not so,
Scorns righteous living
And also what God loves.
He  comes upon your with forced words;
He has no charity or love, but loves to curse.

I dealt with him once, and once was enough.
Next time I talked with him, I saw he had no love.
A boisterous and raucous and unmerciful chap.
I just sent him on his way, with a little pat on his rack.

The Mark of the Beast

The Name of the Beast is Sin. The mark is the spirit removed from the soul and body. Adonikim means "The Lord has raised." And Solomon's gold means he's rich. So, obviously, the Beast will be healed of a mortal wound, and 666 talents is equal to $1,370,461,500. But a rich man who's probably worth a trillion dollars, who dies and gets brought back from the dead. He probably uses a technology to come back to life. The beast will kill himself and implant his consciousness into a robotic vessel. And that will encourage people to get the mark, which will kill their spirit immediately.