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  1. Aussiescribbler

    Genesis 11:9, Babel & the EU

    I found this : Glenn Beck's Latest Theory: EU Building In France Modeled After Mythical Tower Of Babel That was from 2010. Now lets apply a little logic. If the image had been used on an official poster at that time, it would have been mentioned on the television program, because it would be...
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    Is the God of the OT and the NT the same God?

    I suppose where I see a big difference is between a prediction that God will kill lots of people and God ordering someone to kill people. If God is seen as our source of morality then it is a worry when that being demands such immoral behaviour as torturing people to death and massacring...
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    Is the God of the OT and the NT the same God?

    I've just been reading the Old Testament for the first time and just finished the Book of Job. So far, it seems to me that the God of Moses was an evil being (I assume imaginary) who tried to control people by appealing to their greed (promising to hand over to them lands which belonged to other...
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    Major News Major Glad Tidings Of Imam Mahdi

    There is a long tradition of predictions of apocalypse - the revelation of information which brings an end to the world's power structures. It will be interesting to hear the content of these "good tidings". Sometimes it is unwise for would be prophets to do a big build up to their message...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    Just a clarification. I was not talking about myself. If an atheist runs into a burning building to save a young child and dies saving him, then the atheist, who does not believe he will have any life after death, has given what he believes to be his only life to save the life of another. This...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    It is so hard to be sure what is Jesus' philosophy and what is the twisting of that philosophy by others. I think that everyone can learn to behave more lovingly. I don't like the term "defective". Jesus said we should become "like little children", which suggests that we are not essentially...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    Wow! It definitely sounds like something I need to read.
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    Demystifying Jesus

    As I've said, there is nothing wrong with saying about anything "I don't know..." I'm willing to believe that something could begin to exist without having a cause. I've seen no precedent for that, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. This doesn't mean that things would be coming into...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    I'm not a dualist. I'm a holist. I believe that the soul is simply a function of the body. All spiritual experiences are experiences of the flesh, because we experience them in our body, which is the medium for the experience. What we call a spiritual experience is an experience of the body in...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    Thanks for the recommendation. It sounds amazing. I just ordered a second hand copy. It's always hard to find the time for all these great books.
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    Demystifying Jesus

    If your God still exists then he didn't sacrifice himself. Jesus sacrificed himself. He died. He gave himself entirely. The concept of sacrifice is lessened by belief in a personal life after death. Just as a suicide bomber is giving up nothing, in their own mind, because they feel they are...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    I can see that the problem from your perspective is that I'm concentrating on the beginning of the first point and seemingly ignoring the provision of redemption, which is the essence of the rest. First, let me provide some context. I have no reason to believe that the God you are talking about...
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    Concrete definitions for spiritual words

    This makes me think of the psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, who said : “I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.” Listen, Little Man...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    Fair enough. I'll look at one thing you said and then try to explain my position expressed in the sentence of mine which you highlighted, which arises from that. What do you mean by "if God is to be God"? My assumption is that what you mean by this, given that you talk of God being perfect...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    I'm not demanding certainty for anything. To ask if someone is sure they are not deluded is to ask if someone is sure they are not deluded, it is not to demand that they know the answer.
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    Demystifying Jesus

    If you feel that humans, or any other animals, would be "worthless" if they were not specially created by a supernatural being, I pity you the poverty of your soul.
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    Demystifying Jesus

    Well, it's not something I have any desire for. Eternity is too long for me.
  18. Aussiescribbler

    Demystifying Jesus

    We've been skirting about a bunch of issues, but here I think is the crux. Your explanation of Christianity, as you see it, makes it clear that we have a major sticking point to finding agreement, and that is that your God is my Satan. Perfection has no existence outside the human mind. We can...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    I wasn't talking about the individual level. I'm thinking of evolution. Evolution is a process which can lead to increasingly wonderful entities. It requires death. Each generation has to be replaced by the next. If all humans were to end up living for ever, there would be no new generation and...
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    Demystifying Jesus

    My conclusions are not really "vastly more complex". You needn't find them credible, but they are mostly very simple. I'm suggesting that, in Jesus' presence, the guests felt as intoxicated as if the water were wine. A real-life event which meshes with Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs...
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