No, that wouldn't be natural, that would be stupid. I'm a student of the Bible. I'm not a Jew, I'm not a Christian, I'm not a JW. I would never be one of those things. Modern day Christianity isn't Christ, it's Socrates, Plato and Constantine. Modern day Judaism isn't Abraham or Moses, it's...
I've just told you, I've no interest in Jewish (or Christian for that matter) tradition, but the genealogies are the refutation to the portion of your OP relevant. Those genealogies are the same in the Christian scriptures as the Hebrew. They have the same source, the legal documentation of the...
I'm not sure what sort of bearing Hollyweird, or what's left of it, has on reality without considering what their influence and incentives might be. IO think that it would be an interesting study as long as it wasn't just taken from face value. Not surprisingly, mainstream media is more of an...
Jesus was actually the Son of God and the natural heir to the Kingdom by miraculous birth through the virgin girl Mary, of David's line, and Jesus was also the legal heir in the male line of descent from David and Solomon through his adoptive father Joseph. (Luke 1:32, 35 / Romans 1:1-4) (See...
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Yeah, I don't think I have ever even heard your religion until I came here some time ago. By the sound of it I would have imagined it to be some Eastern religion. Glancing at Wikipedia, I see that it was founded by Ḥusayn-ʻAlí (Baháʼu'lláh) from Persia in 1844? Or 1863? It seems...
Well, from my perspective Enoch was mercifully killed, upon request of Enoch himself, by Jehovah and Elijah was simply transported somewhere else. Later he wrote a letter, so he wasn't "raptured" by god. Also, you shouldn't idolize anyone, not even Jesus.
That doesn't mean anything, and it isn't logical. If there were no religions there would be no God? Which came first, God or religion?
It. It doesn't exist. Science can't say it doesn't exist, so how can you? You can be no surer that God doesn't exist than I can be that he does.
Except for...
Yes and no. What you believe doesn't change anything regarding what is accurate, factual, truth. Your beliefs may be in line with that or they may not be in line with it. I know that I believe wrongly often, and it makes me so mad! But on the other hand, once I get it through my stubborn head, I...
I'm not sure I understand. To better understand your beliefs and why you believe them do you mind if I barrage you with questions? Was Adam a real person, who had real children? What does sin mean? Was the Garden of Eden (a somewhat redundant term) a real place?
An allegorical world? Good and...
Oh, you have to keep moving the goal post to make it look like your contentions are reasonable.
Which one of these are most true: the atheist tells the theist what a god is or the theist tells the atheist what a god is?
[Sigh] Kim Jong-un.
All gods are only theistic in the very broadest...
Which religion? Religion in general? Atheistic religion? Buddhism? Confucianism? Taoism? Shinto? Never really study much religion, have you? I've studied them all and I disagree.
No. Not other than venerated.
That I agree with. The difficulty is due to ideology and error. We've covered that...
Thank you. Would you agree with me that the Bible, for example, when it says the soul that sins dies, applies only in a temporal context? Simply, the Bible isn't necessarily speaking directly to us, but the people in the time and place it was written and useful to us as an example? In other...
It's covered in the post I linked to.
Correct. In part. Christ gave his blood to repay the blood of Adam. Covered in the post I linked to.
Sin came from Adam. We inherited it. The removal of that sin, so that we can live forever on earth without sin, is done through the blood of Christ. We...
He returned three days later. I don't think he will return again. At least not physically. His presence will be known. He will return his attention. And he didn't die on a cross, he died on the Hebrew torture stake. Xylon. But I think I know what you mean.
Okay, elaborate? How do people believe in God because of religion? What exactly does that mean? If there were no religion there would be no belief in God? If there were no God there would be no belief in religion? How does it work?
Anything and anyone can be a god (venerated). Anything and...