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  1. halbhh

    The Greatest Commandments

    The 2nd, in that everyone really is unique, and even loves in at least a somewhat unique way. If you just picked 10 people at random, you are very likely to get not just 10 distinctly different ways of loving, but 10 very different ways. So, the wording helps us about this question...
  2. halbhh

    Studying Mathew

    :) heh, my wording didn't say what I meant. By 'listening' I did not mean audio or spoken words aloud. I meant as I read silently, I don't think about doctrine, ideas, arguments from the past, theories, etc..... I don't let all those other voices talk over the text. I silence all of that...
  3. halbhh

    Studying Mathew

    Based on having read Matthew in all of the different ways written about above... Commentaries, prayer, hearing it read aloud (and reading it aloud myself), looking up every cross reference (and from more than one listing of cross references), getting extensive information from study guides and...
  4. halbhh

    Memories Vs Experience of God

    That's precisely what I do also. :) I wonder if you notice the prejudicial word 'magical' -- which merely implies whoever thinks something even slightly similar is (already) understood to to be believing in a falsehood....but notice, this chacterization is really an assertion itself, without...
  5. halbhh

    Desire for more out of life

    Yes, better to be fired or to find a new place than to suffer under a foolish 'authority'.
  6. halbhh

    Is religion really involved?

    Well, in the NT, we read that for some, God will intentionally block them from finding Him, for example, such as the arrogant: “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (for instance James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5; Psalm 138:6) And we read He will send delusion to some that they may be...
  7. halbhh

    Is religion really involved?

    It was a surprising speech, right? I don't think authentic Christianity is involved in any way other than the basic instruction to us to love our neighbors, which would include such actions as helping protect our neighbors against a dangerous virus in ways that we reasonably can, like...
  8. halbhh

    Could it be?

    As Christ explained, God is a Person. We are basically like God, Christ said. So, I cannot call God 'it' just like I would not call you an 'it'. Would you call Socrates an 'it'? If not, then you could more accurately refer to God in a more normal way, just as 'God' (which is a general...
  9. halbhh

    Could it be?

    Interesting sentence! Also, did you mean 'affect' in particular, instead of 'effect'? (side note that matters to me and many: since we ourselves would take offense if someone called us an 'it', then we would better use the term 'God' or some other term, like "One" or "Eternal" or whatever...
  10. halbhh

    Leaving Your Religion

    In order to stop having faith that the sun shines light, I'd need a lot of proof it doesn't shine light, already having so much proof it does. It would have to go out, itself, and stop shining, basically. That would not go well for life on Earth of course. It's the same for believing in the...
  11. halbhh

    Could it be?

    Interesting side topic: this is radically different from my own understanding and religion which is based on reading the common Bible. In the Bible is pretty clear to me God isn't constantly directing all that happens in nature, though He is of course famously understood to be accomplishing...
  12. halbhh

    TOE

    Ah, I thought "TOE" would be the "Theory of Everything" as physicists often use the acronym, a grand unifying theory that would account for all of physics perfectly and fully. Just evolution, eh? :cry: ..... ;) To me evolution is just a term representing the general idea that species...
  13. halbhh

    Could it be?

    Friendly helpful note: Modern cosmology has a number of speculative theories about how this Universe came about. So, that what we think of as time (or spacetime if you like) itself is only an aspect of this Universe, that itself isn't a barrier or problem for physicists theorizing about how...
  14. halbhh

    Could it be?

    Are you thinking of the 'Oscillating Universe' speculative theory? It's only 1 of many speculative theories, but an interesting one (as are theories that don't imagine a contraction...). So, the correct wording is not "will", but instead 'may' would be more accurate wording in your sentence...
  15. halbhh

    Could it be?

    Indeed. Nothing else would even make logical sense for a believer actually! Here's why: If God is the 'creator' of 'all things', all that is, then logically that can only mean, and must mean, that He is the creator of the design/laws of nature -- physics -- how nature operates. ( If He did...
  16. halbhh

    God: more questions than answers

    Interesting you think you can educate me about what I've read through more than 3 times, and being a rather careful reader and capable enough, and having studied it in many ways. Hmmm...perhaps you just didn't read my post very well, or just assumed it would have to be wrong without...
  17. halbhh

    God: more questions than answers

    Why Israel then? (why is there a chosen people? Just why?) Let's look to context. That's where we learn why there is a chosen individual, and then a people, and their purpose: "to be a light unto all the nations"....(as the famous verse says) Why? Context gives the answer. Before there...
  18. halbhh

    God: more questions than answers

    And Rahab. My favorite. A prostitute Canaanite that became part of the direct line of descent to King David and to Christ.
  19. halbhh

    God: more questions than answers

    I'll address the circumcision issue you pointed out at the end, but first something more important: All of it. Reading the entirety. If you read the entire Old Testament you would see the same conclusion as if you read the New Testament in some key ways: God wants us to stop doing evil...
  20. halbhh

    God: more questions than answers

    I hadn't realized you were Christian when I wrote that answer above, but thought I was responding to @Nimos , since I didn't look closely at your info, and ya'll both have small animal pics ! heh heh So, Nimos, my answer was sorta to you also, if you like.
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