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  1. Ajax

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    Most believers are convinced because they have been indoctrinated for centuries, that a good person will have his prayers fulfilled, plus a bonus of an afterlife in paradise... Read my signature... So, there is no spirit guiding them with the truth, as you and other theists claim.... Also...
  2. Ajax

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    I disagree. Human understanding of the world comes from our collective intelligence, the sharing of knowledge based on evidence and peer review, whilst the knowledge and understanding of God comes from a 2,500 years old primitive book containing falsehoods, contradictions, fictitious stories...
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    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    The differences between Abrahamic religions and denominations are not simply viewing a mountain from different sides. It's a different mountain altogether, despite most fervent theists (and all fundamentalists) claiming that the Spirit guides them. Also by the same token about truth, there is...
  4. Ajax

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    What you really mean is that the more faith one has, the more "light" will receive to comprehend things that can not understand. In other words, when one reaches full faith (and deeds) then will see the full light. I personally believe that someone who has full faith, is more likely to try find...
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    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    I don't judge you. Of course you follow what seems good to you and if it pleases you, that's fine, but I can not understand this "opened my eyes". All Christian and Muslim denominations claim the opened eyes excuse, but they see things differently, they argue with each other, even to the point...
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    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    If you are lacking full knowledge and try to comprehend, am I right to think that some of his rules (and actions) you can not really explain? But you you are following them, because he supposedly "said" so? In other words how can you say that you have 100% faith, if you are unable to determine...
  7. Ajax

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    I am 100% agnostic, I don't know if God exists and therefore I can not come up with a percentage. But I would like to ask the 100% theists; Do you judge/evaluate the rules of God which you follow, or you think you can not have a judgement on them?
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    Morality of the Old Testament

    It can mean both either murder or kill. In the Septuagint the verb used is "φονεύω" which can be used for taking any life. The point is, can the "you shall not kill/murder" be used against people in wars? It seems to me that the reason "murder" was preferred later, was because we do not...
  9. Ajax

    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    Thank you too.
  10. Ajax

    Understanding the holy scriptures is impossible unless God gives you the interpretation

    I couldn't disagree more. There are good and righteous people who are atheists. And there are religious people who fully accept the Bible and are horrid. Also there is nothing to understand beyond what is written in the Bible. After all Christianity teaches that “Blessed are the poor in spirit...
  11. Ajax

    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    The verse you quoted before does not say the same... In other words salvation is a gift of God, if you have faith only (sola fide); works are not needed. This is contrary to the words of Jesus, James and Revelation, as I showed you in message #309
  12. Ajax

    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    And aren't the good, righteous people who never heard of Jesus, going to be saved? Of course they will. So in my view, faith alone does not save. Paul was 100% wrong. He only wanted to bring as many people as possible to Christianity, not caring of what he wrote, hence his contradictions...
  13. Ajax

    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    Doesn't Satan believe that Jesus is god? Yes he does. Will his faith save him? No, because his works let him down....
  14. Ajax

    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    This is the sad parody of Christianity because what you quoted in Ephesians 2:8-9, fully contradicts Jesus instructions and teachings as well as other books of the Bible. And it's a shame that all these contradictions do not bother the vast majority of Christians. Matthew 5:20 "For I say to you...
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    Noah's Ark

    Ken Ham build in USA what he considers a replica of the ark. He claims it is the same size as in the bible. It cost over $100 million dollars. It required heavy machinery, modern equipment, electric power and 3.1 million board feet of timber to finish it. Piece of cake for 4 men, 4000 years...
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    Understanding the holy scriptures is impossible unless God gives you the interpretation

    No, the brain and consequently its energy the mind, never stops thinking. Thoughts and mental processes are constantly occurring, even during sleep and even in unconscious states. However, some meditation and mindfulness practices aim to quiet the mind and reduce the constant stream of...
  17. Ajax

    Understanding the holy scriptures is impossible unless God gives you the interpretation

    Dualism is the belief that the human body and human mind are separate entities. But Descartes was wrong on this..and others. We now know that the mind is considered the "energy" of brain. There is no mind as such and neither there is soul.
  18. Ajax

    Understanding the holy scriptures is impossible unless God gives you the interpretation

    Again you avoid to explain how can one be certain that Spiritual discernment from God exists/intervenes and how does one know that spiritual discernment has actually happen to him.
  19. Ajax

    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    The vast majority of Biblical scholars would agree that the illiteracy rates in Jesus's world were somewhere around 98 percent. 98 percent of Jesus's fellow Jews could neither read nor write. I didn't say they were ignorant business wise. But the Acts describe them as ignorant regarding reading...
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    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    John 1:1 refers to the Word (Λόγος}. Λόγος originate from the verb λέγω, meaning I say/I speak and can mean 1) speech (oral or written) but also 2) fame, tradition 3) the matter spoken of, and other similar meanings. As such, my personal view (as well as most scholars) is that it refers to the...
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