Does "the scripture" actually say this at all,.... anywhere?

Yes  I know. here it is again; 

You only posted the question.

I posted much more.

Stop lying. 

That is correct.

You did. Pages of unnecessary and irrelevant bullshit.

...questions about religious matters, ones that I know that  - especially YOU -  cannot answer. 

It appears that the claim by Jesus appears to be false. 

That is correct.

Then you lied when you claimed that I said nothing else.

You were so dumb, you thought Jesus had made a "false" claim.

I have seen no proof that says otherwise, especially from YOU Popoff.

I had a warning for calling you stupid but you can refer to me as dumb, I have to wonder why that is, are you a secret mod?

That is because you stupidly think "scripture" means bible.

No. 

...that is why I clearly separated the two by asking " which scripture".

I knew, and have said that it wasn't in the bible. 

you stretched this thread out with your pages of unnecessary and irrelevant bullshit just for the hell of it. 

That is why you searched the bible, ......You meant, which scripture in the bible.

I'll burn you.

You lie, and I'll burn you.

And I can keep burning 

First, two of every kind or two of every animal? Would you consider a dog a kind or a poodle, a wolf, an Alsatian, Doberman a kind? Second, would the size make a difference to space? If so, the young would reduce space...Second, who is to say what conditions existed that increased longevity or even if God designed that in humanity until the point where He reduced the lifespan. Some, like Henry Morris, have suggested the ultraviolet rays were blocked by the water in the atmosphere since the Bible explains it had not rained until the time of the Flood which could possibly affect their lifespan. Whether it was through supernatural means or natural means that they lived so long, we are not told. But God's existence grants the supernatural. You would try to explain everything through the natural if you did not believe in God. 

As for animals talking, if God decided to make an animal talk how would that be hard for an almighty God?

Sure it makes sense. He wanted His people to trust Him and His word. He wanted them to understand His power working in and with them. 

First, two of every kind or two of every animal? Would you consider a dog a kind or a poodle, a wolf, an Alsatian, Doberman a kind? Second, would the size make a difference to space? If so, the young would reduce space...Second, who is to say what conditions existed that increased longevity or even if God designed that in humanity until the point where He reduced the lifespan. Some, like Henry Morris, have suggested the ultraviolet rays were blocked by the water in the atmosphere since the Bible explains it had not rained until the time of the Flood which could possibly affect their lifespan. Whether it was through supernatural means or natural means that they lived so long, we are not told. But God's existence grants the supernatural. You would try to explain everything through the natural if you did not believe in God. 

I'd ask you how many animals "two of every kind" means in your view, because you'd still be talking well into the thousands, and what they ate, how they didn't blow the boat up with a thousand animal farts, etc, but I've highlighted the problem with your argument: you invoke magic as essentially the most probable explanation.

You haven't proven magic exists (in fact you seem pretty sure Harry Potter isn't real).

You see, you're essentially getting to an impossible position to hold based on what we know about the world around us, and then saying "Well, magic could be involved, you can't prove it isn't, which means it is likely." You even do it in the next section, where you talk about how god 'shortens' man's lifespan by a factor of 90%. And people live to more than eighty years, so...I guess that part's wrong? Or let me guess, it means "eighty and then whatever else you live to"?

As for animals talking, if God decided to make an animal talk how would that be hard for an almighty God?

Not hard at all, nor is it hard to do it by magic! I'd point out that your position here is unfalsifiable, that we've never seen an animal that communicates in to humans in human language without human training (ASL for apes, etc), but you somehow think that makes your argument stronger, not weaker. If you can't test it, it can be dismissed. Watch, I'll make you do it: "A trillion years ago, Xenu the Great forged the universe from a pile of his own hair." If you can't prove it wrong, it's probably right?

Sure it makes sense. He wanted His people to trust Him and His word. He wanted them to understand His power working in and with them. 

So, making talking animals is super easy and likely happened. Making people trust him and his word requires those people, the ones he wants to understand him as the basis of all law and morality, to commit mass murder. WHY DIDN"T HE JUST MAGIC THEM SOME TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING? 

Prophecy is not evidence, not when it isn't what was prophesized. 

The Old Testament was the first place I looked simply because the bible is also "scripture" . Are you saying that I shouldn't have even looked to the Old Testament scripture for something that was said by the Christ in the New Testament scripture.?

Are you saying I was silly to even have look there in the OT?

Anyone with an ounce of sense would have also looked to the Old Testament for the reference Christ makes in the New Testament 

The fact remains you didn't fkn know the answer to my question but instead preferred argument and conflict and are now simply posting even more unnecessary and irrelevant bullshite

I do not believe in magic; I believe in the supernatural God.

Just as your position is unfalsifiable. Yet the biblical evidence forms a reasonable and logical faith, the atheist faith does not.  

I claim hands down the Christian position is the one that has the ability to make sense of life's ultimate questions. 

 "a god did this" is exactly as explicable saying "magic did this," or " a god did this using magic."

...it just punctuates them and provides no real information. 

To me they're the same:

No not at all, you're aware of the processes that occur in creation/universe correct? if you are aware of those processes why are you calling them magic?

We are correlating what takes place within the universe with the intelligence of the Creator, no magic needed. Processes are not magic my friend.

How do you then explain 2 billion living people and billions more now passed on finding answers in it?

The Old Testament was the first place I looked simply because the bible is also "scripture" . Are you saying that I shouldn't have even looked to the Old Testament scripture for something that was said by the Christ in the New Testament scripture.?

I'm saying you were ignorant and didn't know it was not in the OT. 

The fact remains you didn't fkn know the answer to my question but instead preferred argument and conflict and are now simply posting even more unnecessary and irrelevant bullshite

I knew the answer shemp.

That's how you now know the answer. I told you. 

Yeah, I understand the processes broadly, sure. What I don't understand is if there's a process we can demonstrate in some way, like say the way gravity works on particles to form accretion disks and eventually planets, or stars form, I don't understand where you see the creator, definitively, as in why you're convinced besides "I just am." I'm not. There's no evidence for it.

you are correct.

The scripture referred to by Jesus is not the OT. How do I know this? 

And I still don't know and neither do you what scripture Jesus was referring to, Popoff.

How do you explain the majority of people alive today not believing in what you believe,

..and the dozens of billions who've passed on never believing it?

I'd explain it kind of the same way as a baby wants a pacifier when mom's breast isn't available. A baby wants comfort, wants to feel like things are okay. The pacifier sates that section of the child's brain, provided you're not talking about legitimate hunger. You can comfort a child this way, but that doesn't make a pacifier a real breast.

And I still don't know and neither do you what scripture Jesus was referring to, Popoff.

But now you know that not all scripture is in the bible,

you are correct.

Thank you. Welcome amoung those who know

You only posted the question.

That is correct. The WHOLE FKN purpose of this thread was to ask a question.  And you couldn't answer it. You finally said " it was from a scripture lost to history". Yeh,  as if you'd fkn know, Popoff.  You are full of shite that no one is really interested in only another fawning religious sycophant like yourself.

I'll burn you.

 and I'll burn you.

And I can keep burning 

I do not believe in magic; I believe in the supernatural God.

Explain the difference exactly. To me they're the same: anything that can be explained by "a god did this" is exactly as explicable saying "magic did this," or " a god did this using magic." You touch on it a little further down in your response: "Well, we don't see it as magic, we see it as God and he reveals the answers," to roughly paraphrase. 

You say the magical ingredient is billions and billions of years, like that's magic...but we have evidence that this amount of time has passed. Unlike evidence for a supernatural being living outside of space and time and being totally undetectable.

Just as your position is unfalsifiable. Yet the biblical evidence forms a reasonable and logical faith, the atheist faith does not.  

So you cannot prove Xenu didn't do this? Must be true then.

I'm not going into the weird math conversion you do to make that one prophesy sort of work, we've had a long discussion on that already and you simply don't see it my way, which is based on facts and numbers being numbers, and Idon't see it your way, which is based on some weird conversion chart that isn't in the bible and a bunch of hebrew scholars making a mythological text seem like it worked in retrospect.

It's not compelling and never will be.

And you never explained why the Astros 2017 prediction was somehow less impressive in spite of being super specific and totally indepedenetly verifable, so I don't think you really have any interest in that discussion. Neither do I.  This one though:

I claim hands down the Christian position is the one that has the ability to make sense of life's ultimate questions. 

I am interested in. Please make sense of one of life's ultimate questions, whatever that is, without saying "because God is here." I have never understood how that 'makes sense' of life's ultimate questions, it just punctuates them and provides no real information. 

Either we are ultimately a creation of a personal God (who in the biblical case has revealed Himself that we can know) or are here because of random mindless chance. Thus, to make sense of life you have to do so using one or the other particular worldview

There is no reason why our common ancestor or we would exist if life is materialistic and solely naturalistic. Thus, our existence is ultimately meaningless too. There is no ultimate purpose to it yet we invent purpose to give the meaningless meaning. When we die we return to the cosmic void where everything is once again meaningless. 

The reason we exist is that God chose to create us, in His likeness, for a purpose to know Him and enjoy Him forever or to reject Him and live apart from Him forevermore. Thus, we have an ultimate purpose and meaningfulness that we can know and enjoy, not only in this lifetime but in eternity to

come. From a living, loving, logical, reasoning, personal Creator comes other living, loving,  personal, logical, reasoning, creative beings. This is what we witness and experience. We derive our existence and attributes from our parents who are such beings. 

Now, does it make more sense that we come from a necessary Being or from random chance happenstance?

Either we are ultimately a creation of a personal God (who in the biblical case has revealed Himself that we can know) or are here because of random mindless chance. Thus, to make sense of life you have to do so using one or the other particular worldview

You haven't gotten from a god / superbeing who's just really into creating universes to biblical god.

I know you don't do that by design, you simply shrug your shoulders and say "I presuppose him because everyone presupposes something" which isn't exactly true either.

But you don't then "make sense" of life in any of what you state after this. Or maybe I misunderstand what you mean by 'make sense of': I thought you were going to say there was some useful knowledge or some unlocked level or something that only Christians or more broadly only the religious can access.

What you seem to be saying in your paragraph about atheism (which doesn't deal with any of the stuff you then pin to it, really it's one answer to one question, and doesn't try to be more) is that since you think God's real, then that's why life is here.

Not the PURPOSE of life, more the cause of it. I wouldn't say that's 'making sense' in the way I understood it. I thought you were talking more about the MEANING of life. Not how it got started.

Proverbs 4:23

"Keep your heart with all vigilance,

for from it flow the springs of life."

I intended to establish a starting point for reasoning and claim the biblical God is the One who meets the criterion. I'm curious as to how any other worldview makes sense of starting points or first causes.  

We just invent purposes to cope. We derive our existence from a mindless, meaningless universe that is without purpose and meaning.

What is the sufficient reason for the first cause? You don't have one. You can't say why something should exist. All you can say is that it does exist. 

 But, everywhere you look, you see meaning and purpose.

It's the scripture Jesus referenced from the old testament. It is from proverbs.

You know, the topic of this thread.

John 7:38 King James Version has Jesus saying: 

38 "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+7%3A38&version=KJV