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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    So are you willing to get rid of absolutely everything you use which has a technological base, including the computer you are right now using? The telephone, indoor heating, plumbing, windows in your house, your very house, the clothes you wear, the medicines you take, the food you eat and go...
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    It is not science per se that has caused this, but human beings misusing science. It's like saying guns kill people. No, people using guns kill people, guns without someone shooting them can't do anything of themselves. Cars can be used as weapons to kill, but that doesn't make cars evil or...
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    I entirely agree, but it never has had its eye on the supernatural, but on the natural. And it has means to guide us through a lot of mazes that we used to fumble through in our ignorance. We have learned far better how to handle natural issues with it than without it. It has nothing to do with...
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    Are you communicating right now using smoke signals from the top of a mountain, or are you using a computer to get your ideas across to many millions who otherwise could not possibly know what you were saying? Machines will never take over humanity, but they certainly do help get rid of the...
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    The Sumerians had this, as did the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, etc., it's always been this way. Humans have been working for humans for eons whether as slaves or partners. Technology didn't all the sudden bring this about.
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    How the Greek Conceptions of Logos can Elucidate John 1:1 Jesus as Logos

    Ah, interesting! So Epicureans were the scientists of their day..... seem pretty skeptical. I know, I know, many are going to say they had their heads on straight. Hey, I watched a You Tube video last night with Michio Kaku on the program "Closer to the Truth." Kaku is definitely a scientist...
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    I think that is quite appropriate, thank you for that clarification.
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    Science may have many flaws, but it has incredible successes also. I believe in giving credit where credit is due, by all means. I am not in the least against science, for I LOVE my technological blessings which indeed bless my life with more ease, more good food, more safety, more warmth, etc...
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    Since the Bible never calls God a cold gas, it is moot. One cannot argue against a text and what it says by arguing what it ought to have said and didn't. Well, I mean one can argue that way, but it's moot and means precious little to the text in question.
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    I don't see science as the arbiter, so this is irrelevant to a person's spirituality. Science is powerful, but it's not all powerful. The Bible, and other scriptures are not meant as scientific texts, so to judge them by that is futile. Of course they will be found lacking, it isn't their base...
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    Yes, very good point amigo! Thanks for pointing that out for us all.
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    I will start my analysis of God in the Bible with the first chapter of Genesis. Here we know God created everything. After creating the heavens and the earth, God created the light, and we read in verse 4 וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָא֖וֹר כִּי־ט֑וֹב - God saw the light that it was good. Then he...
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    How the Greek Conceptions of Logos can Elucidate John 1:1 Jesus as Logos

    Excellent, this is exactly what I was asking for. I appreciate it. Have you written any on the New Testament and Stoic ideas? Also may I ask what you think of Epicurean influences? I have a book about Epicureanism and Jesus that seems to make it very influential, so I am truly curious. I'm not...
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    Jewish Shekhinah, Christian & Mormon Holy Spirit

    Yeah, that's one view all right... others see it differently...
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    Yes, that is one view, yet millions of others don't see it that way, so there is an issue, among many. The Bible has no overall harmony which all things said within its own pages agrees to, since it was composed over quite a long time and written by several different hands during different times...
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    How the Greek Conceptions of Logos can Elucidate John 1:1 Jesus as Logos

    Do you know of any books which have these writings all together in them I might be able to acquire to study? That would be very helpful! Thanks in advance... I honestly never thought about Stoicism as a background basis, so I can see I need to update myself.
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    Theodicy -- Let's Dig Deeper

    @thomas t I have now started our new thread, in the Interfaith Discussion area, comparative religion and it is entitled "A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches" See ya there amigo!
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    A Look at God Only From What the Bible Teaches

    My new found friend Thomas t and I have been having delightful conversations on theodicy and it ended up getting more focused on Bible only type conceptualization. I am intrigued by his meaning of it and we discussed it a bit. He thinks the many churches are wrong about God and what the Bible...
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    Jewish Shekhinah, Christian & Mormon Holy Spirit

    Fundamentally so, which I do. I enjoy reading all around because academics get stuck in their own grooves without realizing there is much valuable and good information outside their own trained way of looking at things. They are good, but not all good. Like Hugh Nibley said in his article so...
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    Theodicy -- Let's Dig Deeper

    OK, I shall start one and give you a heads up on it. And it wasn't about God being wrong I was commenting to you about, but the idea of Bible only. No worries.
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