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    do you beleave in judgement day?

    I don't believe in hell. I believe that when we die, our souls become close to G-D. One need not be jewish for this to occur. If needed, I believe the soul may return to the earth in a body to correct some wrongs.
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    The sick concept of Eternal hell suffering.

    The concept of Satan as a being that rebelled against God seems silly to me. Satan is simply doing his job, exactly what God created him to do. There is no battle between God and Satan. Satan, like all other angels, is a being devoid of free will.
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    How does monotheism differ from polytheism?

    As far as the story with Elijah is concerned, the whole point was to prove that Baal was not actually a god (as proven by that fact that nothing happened when baal's priests made sacrifices to him). As far as God being jealous, that doesn't prove that here are other gods. Someone in a...
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    Are you really a monotheist if you believe in angels?

    No, at least as far as judiasm is concerned. In judiasm, angels are seen as beings that are "supernatural", but they have no free will. They can do nothing but carry out the express will of God. So angels are not God-like at all.
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    Does one need to know the original language?

    No, many jews in Yeshiva don't speak modern Hebrew, but for thousands of years they have studied the Bible in its original Hebrew, meaning ancient Hebrew was never a dead language. I am not at all fluent in modern Hebrew, but was taught ancient Hebrew at a very young age to learn the Bible
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    Does one need to know the original language?

    AS someone who understands Hebrew, and has read both the Hebrew Bible and many English translations, I feel like there is no comparison between the original language and translations. In the original language there is a lot of subtle meaning in things like word choice, word placement, and...
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    The sick concept of Eternal hell suffering.

    As I stated earlier I don't believe in eternal hell, but even if one did, I don't think it would be anything like you described. What you are describing is physical torture and physical pain, things that would effect us in thetas world, but how would fire and drowning and stuff like that harm...
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    Who created God?

    How is it not the same? Has science determined where thte singularity came from? Or is it still simply accepted as an unknown or something that was always there? And action as we know it in our universe requires Time, but that does not by any means mean that all action requires time.
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    Omnipotence vs Free Will

    Again, you are making assumptions of some sort of permanent hell, which I do not believe in. Everyone goes to heaven. Period. It's simply a matter of how long it takes you to fully enjoy heaven. And if you believe in a religion that dictates specific morals, then that is what you must ascribe...
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    Prophets--quality control. Especially for Muslims, LDS

    I agree, the prophecy would have to be both specific and un-obvious.
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    Prophets--quality control. Especially for Muslims, LDS

    Your points on my previous statement were valid. If someone told me he was a prophet and I did not already know him to be one (not that I currently know anyone to be one) whether or not I believed what they said would depend on what they said. If they were to say that the sun will rise tomorrow...
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    Religion, gender & death penalty, part 2

    I'm unsure of what this poll is asking. Conceptually, I'm for a religious death penalty, where a religion can sentence you to death for what you have done (i.e. if you are a jew and you kill, the Bible says the punishment is death (although technically the courts would often not kill anyway...
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    Prophets--quality control. Especially for Muslims, LDS

    I would say that as far as Judaism is concerned, for someone to be considered a Prophet of God, firstly his prophecy must come true (if he says repent or God will punish you, and the people repent and therefore get no punishment, that is not a contradiction to his prophecy) and secondly he can't...
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    Omnipotence vs Free Will

    Even if you do believe in eternal damnation though, this isn't a problem. God is giving you free choice to do what you want. This means that you can choose actions that are harmful to you. God tells you whats harmful to you, tells you not to do it, and then leaves it up to. If you listen to him...
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    Omnipotence vs Free Will

    Well I don't believe in eternal damnation, so there is that...
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    Omnipotence vs Free Will

    but at the time that you originally made the choice it was entirely yours to make. The future doesn't already exist, it exists at the same time. Your action is a step in a series of actions that occur in sequence from you, but also at the same moment. Therefore you have free will the entire...
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    Omnipotence vs Free Will

    Imagine I have a time machine. If I watch you do something, then go back in time and watch you do it again, I know exactly what you will do the second time around. Does this interfere with your ability to choose what you will do? Not at all. You chose what you will do, but I already saw it...
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    The sick concept of Eternal hell suffering.

    There are many different people and many different religions with many different interpretations of God. All I can say is that the God that I believe in does not have concepts such as eternal damnation for sinners and unbelievers. The God that I believe in seeks only bestow good, in fact...
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    Who created God?

    We think that matter and energy exist. It is impossible to truly prove that anything REALLY exists at all. Skepticism, if applied at all, must be applied to everything equally. It goes further then DesCartes "I think therefore I am", but that is a big part of it. The only thing you can KNOW is...
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    Who created God?

    Well, to flip the question, to those who believe in the big bang (and to be clear I believe in both god and the big bang) where did the singularity that kicked off the universe come from? In every creation theory there is something that must have been there in the beginning with no explanation...
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