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  1. J

    Virgin Mary and Islam?

    In my eyes Jesus was indeed the messiah and a man of great wisdom about life and God. I think we can agree on this. We might discuss further though about how we see the coming Day of Judgement and what events we expect to take place. Interpretations of the prophesying texts telling what events...
  2. J

    Virgin Mary and Islam?

    Not everybody agrees on it that Jesus will return to earth. Of course he will be there at the Day of Judgement to witness about what he really taught to the people, but I don't believe he will return to earth in a human body and join the fights. This believe is mostly based on the hadith (of...
  3. J

    Virgin Mary and Islam?

    This is a very selective way to see the history. Even in the Bible it is made clear that there weren't much people who believed in our "imaterialistic" God, but it doesn't mean nobody did. Prophets have come to the people all the time since Adam and Eve. They have tried to teach the people about...
  4. J

    Virgin Mary and Islam?

    Maybe you should say this is nothing new to Roman faith. "gods" impregnating women has nothing to do with Abrahamic religions. The only thing in Abrahamic religions that returns often is that it is only God who decides when a woman gets pregnant, therefore all children are gifts from God. This...
  5. J

    Is God A Bully?

    I'm sorry, but what you are saying now doesn't make sense. The word "yada" is used hundreds if not thousands of times in the Bible and in most cases just means "to know" in the literal meaning of the word "to know someone" or "to know something". In this case I think we agree that it is used in...
  6. J

    Is God A Bully?

    I do agree with you in the point that the Bible contains a lot of metaphors and especially translation are most of the time inaccurate. It makes a lot of things clearer if you take a look at the original Hebrew text. At the end God can only be found within your own soul. God is not a...
  7. J

    Is God A Bully?

    Then apparently we have a problem now, since yada doesn't mean killing and it isn't explained like that. here is a link to the hebrew dictionary: Translation ידע | Morfix Hebrew English Dictionary It means: to know something, to be aware ; to know how to ; to be familiar with, to undergo ...
  8. J

    Is God A Bully?

    I don't know if you can read hebrew, but it's all about this word: וֵַיְּדעוּ it can be pronounced "yadau", meaning "they know" It is used both in context of the man they want to "know" and when they "know" the woman all night until the morning. in the later part the man (who survived by...
  9. J

    Is God A Bully?

    It's nice that you don't quote further Jdg 19:23-25: 23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them: 'Nay, my brethren, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this wanton deed. 24 Behold, here is my daughter a virgin...
  10. J

    Is God A Bully?

    If you have a source/link of this second story that shows my interpretation is false, please give it to me, so I can check it. Of course most Bible texts are open for interpretation, I wouldn't deny that, therefore I like to check it.
  11. J

    Is God A Bully?

    It is not just the scripture, but the truth in it. Prophecies that have come true. Stories about for example the creation of the world that are astonishing coherent with our current status of knowledge about bigbang, evolution theory etc. Is there any prophecy of polytheistic religions over so...
  12. J

    Is God A Bully?

    Even if it is not explicitly prohibited, it is regarded as a bad habit by the Bible. One can find it in the story about the destruction of Sodom in Genesis 19:4-9: But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the...
  13. J

    Is God A Bully?

    Evidence is in the scriptures, in the Bible, in the Quran and in the prophecies that have all be fulfilled. Besides people are able to communicate with God, to get answers from Him. You can see the complexity of this life, how it works. If after having seen all that, you still think that it was...
  14. J

    Is God A Bully?

    It is interesting that you speak about texts that are "inspired" by God (if you allow me to call it like that). In fact there are many different ways in which God communicates with people. It can by via "inspiration" for example. This means that He causes ideas to pop up in our heads. It seems...
  15. J

    Is God A Bully?

    Free will doesn't mean that what I want happens, it means that I can decide myself what I want, but at the end it is God who decides what happens. Still I made my own decision and I showed if I am usefull as a human being or not. Just to give an example, if I decide to steal something, it...
  16. J

    Virgin Mary and Islam?

    Maybe an interesting text to this topic is the apocalypse of Peter that was dated to be written about 200 AD. The Church has condemned this text and tried to distroy it (as they tried with many other early Christian texts in order to establish their own doctrine and interpretation of Jesus), but...
  17. J

    how Muslims make it to paradise?

    Interesting how you call it "my" Bible, as if your Bible would be different of other Bibles, what in fact is true, since there are thousands of transations and almost none of the Christians take the effort to read the "original" text. That said, if you want to compare your christian belief with...
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