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  1. VoidoftheSun

    The Baha'is

    Lol And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
  2. VoidoftheSun

    What scriptures was Paul referring to in 1st Corinthians 15:3-4?

    By disobeying God, very obviously. Deuteronomy 28:15-68 goes quite in depth with this.
  3. VoidoftheSun

    What scriptures was Paul referring to in 1st Corinthians 15:3-4?

    Again, it's in past tense not future tense, it's not a prophecy.
  4. VoidoftheSun

    What scriptures was Paul referring to in 1st Corinthians 15:3-4?

    Nope, as I said, it is explained by surrounding chapters. Stop taking small parts out of context to fit your agenda: He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.” But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is...
  5. VoidoftheSun

    What scriptures was Paul referring to in 1st Corinthians 15:3-4?

    Depending on the phrasing of the actual greek it could mean two things; "according to the scriptures" as in, he did things according to them, not breaking their laws. It wouldn't be referring to Matthew Mark Luke or John yet because they were written and compiled from oral tradition much later.
  6. VoidoftheSun

    What scriptures was Paul referring to in 1st Corinthians 15:3-4?

    Israel actually, as all the surrounding chapters show with the "servant" which is a motif in that book.
  7. VoidoftheSun

    Concerning the Islamic Conception of Jesus

    You speak the truth because it absolutely is. The Nazarenes and Gnostics (both the real Christians) were killed by the sword.
  8. VoidoftheSun

    Reconciling Revelation's Lake of Fire and a Loving God

    How do you get that conclusion?
  9. VoidoftheSun

    Your Stuff

    Stuff Chicken
  10. VoidoftheSun

    Theosophical Thelema

    Well things can definitely get blurry in places. For Blavatsky we have more of a closer connection to the traditional Dharmic cyclical view of time, where things go back and forth between ages of a certain manner - yet we have the three Thelemic aeons which have a more progressive view of...
  11. VoidoftheSun

    spin offs

    Well I don't disagree with you on that point, no. (I don't view animal sacrifice as innately "severe" though, any more or less than killing animals for food - but as a non-Jew and non-Christian, I strongly disagree that there are any objective theological aspects to it) You have a nice day too :)
  12. VoidoftheSun

    Re: my sister got saved last night

    Do you know what it's called?
  13. VoidoftheSun

    spin offs

    Lol that was not a sin offering, it was just an offering (which connotates praise and worship, as ancient people thought). Also you may want to look into this: Animal sacrifice - Wikipedia It's not at all exclusive to Judaism. You ignore how commonplace animal offerings are in all ancient cultures.
  14. VoidoftheSun

    Nihilism vs Existentialism

    Though the Epicureans were really some of the first true "nihilists" though they were of a very very different nature and style to the modern post-Enlightenment Atheistic Nihilists.
  15. VoidoftheSun

    Nihilism vs Existentialism

    I think there is an irony that modern Nihilism itself came out of Christianity, which itself is already Nihilistic. While I'll leave why I see Christianity itself overall as Nihilistic out of the picture, I will say that it's view of the material world definitely is - and falls in line with...
  16. VoidoftheSun

    Why is religion correlated with birthplace and birth time?

    Yep I agree. That topic is part of what I see as the age old irony in the Abrahamic religions - but it's very much strongly part of the continuity of narrative itself - where the religion comes along with it's founding Prophet(s) to stop various forms of oppression, then at some point the wrong...
  17. VoidoftheSun

    Theosophical Thelema

    Another is Blavatsky tended to be more favorable towards Buddhism than Crowley ended up. Crowley liked aspects of Buddhism, especially in it's practice but felt it fell under the same repressive poisons as Christianity, within it's philosophy and worldview. Blavatsky also tended to emphasize...
  18. VoidoftheSun

    Theosophical Thelema

    One of the very obvious things is that they both draw on a lot of the same esoteric traditions; whether it be western occultism (usually Christian and Jewish, though Crowley drew on Islam a bit whereas Blavatsky only vaguely mentioned it in passing), Rosicrucianism, Hermeticism, Freemasonry...
  19. VoidoftheSun

    Theosophical Thelema

    Very interesting subject and I have contemplated this myself before as well. I will get back to you on this shortly, but what instantly comes to mind is the work of Paul Joseph Rovelli (who runs the Gnostic Church of LVX), who has written on this subject in some interesting ways (though he...
  20. VoidoftheSun

    Why is religion correlated with birthplace and birth time?

    It can't be, because "apostasy laws" are antithetical to the Qur'an and Sunnah. It's a political issue not an Islamic one.
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