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  1. VoidoftheSun

    John's christology and the Dead Sea Scrolls

    Precisely. Christians always either knowingly or unknowingly apply a wholly anachronistic exegetical approach to these things which render them eisegetical. And clearly it shows the opposite is true, the existence of terms like Son of God (as well as other variations like SonS of God, and "The...
  2. VoidoftheSun

    Thomas Jefferson statue toppled in Portland

    What I find hilarious is that people only care now but they didn't care last year, ten years ago, thirty years ago, fifty years ago (the various statues I mean). Kind of weird iconoclasm going on in a way, though it's politically motivated etc
  3. VoidoftheSun

    Looking for a new faith!

    Welcome to the forum, I'm a big lover of Zen (alongside Mahayana and Vajrayana). Your views are fascinating, I tend to believe similar myself although not under the same kind of pretext. God anyway is the All-in-All, the Absolute, the Ineffable, the Ground of All Phenomena. As for salvation...
  4. VoidoftheSun

    Live "Divi-nation" Magic Demon-stration!

    This is a massive correspondence, there is much to unpack but it's very interrelated.
  5. VoidoftheSun

    Never meet your heroes

    Learn to love and hate your heros, hating them is also a way of loving and loving is also a way of hating them. It goes to show that there are many sides to a single person.
  6. VoidoftheSun

    Is God ....White?

    God's not a being, person, entity or any other absurd thing, let alone anything stupidly anthropomorphic :tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy: As Imam Ali (pbuh) said: Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognises His like, and whoever recognises His like regards Him two...
  7. VoidoftheSun

    Heaven is a Police State

    Jannah (paradise, the end attainment) is the absence of Dunya (manifest reality, the material world). Aka, anything that resembles this universe or this state of being is not heaven.
  8. VoidoftheSun

    What is a "Jihad Ideology"?

    Bingo, it's unsurprising.
  9. VoidoftheSun

    What is a "Jihad Ideology"?

    That is far from accurate. Jihad means "Struggle" al-Harb al-Muqaddasa means "Holy War" Dealing with people who have such erroneous misinterpretations are a form of Jihad.
  10. VoidoftheSun

    Surah 3:85 - Who does Muhammad (PBUH) claim to have lost all spiritual good in the hereafter?

    I definitely agree about abolishing institutions, without the Imam/Walaya people have over-intellectualized (placing rationalization over experience) an inward mystical beautiful Deen and turned it into an equivalent to the four Sunni madhhabs, which are merely dogmatic but having complete...
  11. VoidoftheSun

    Surah 3:85 - Who does Muhammad (PBUH) claim to have lost all spiritual good in the hereafter?

    I should mention, that's a bad translation. A proper translation would read "If anyone should follow a Deen other than Submission/acquiescence for/to the Will of God, will never be accepted of him". The concept of Deen is very nuanced and not an equivalent to the word "religion" in english...
  12. VoidoftheSun

    Concerning the Islamic Conception of Jesus

    Generally yes, their perspective comes out of the Muslim conception but they don't agree about Tahrif to the extent we generally do. It's all quite rather subtle.
  13. VoidoftheSun

    No Possibility of God

    This is definitely very close, as God is a singularity to all things (Universe and beyond), it is that meeting point of all existences, the root of all existences, material and immaterial.
  14. VoidoftheSun

    No Possibility of God

    Time is part of "creation/the universe". Time is not part of God, God is eternal (outside time and it's creation). Anything that is part of time/space is categorically Creation and not God. It's very elementary epistemology (and clearly ontology as well), I don't know how someone could screw it...
  15. VoidoftheSun

    Exercise regarding Christian Scriptures

    On this, no it's a literal star. Historically it has had astrological and somewhat "astrotheological" (in it's polytheistic sense) connotations, many pagan traditions had 'myths' about it. The Book of Revelation (as far as Christianity is concerned) seems to be an early pinpoint of where the...
  16. VoidoftheSun

    Exercise regarding Christian Scriptures

    Helel in Hebrew. The notion that people refer to it by a Latin name (a Catholic remnant nonetheless) is damn strange, obviously poor translation/transliteration when the text is not in Latin, lol Also, Isaiah 14:4. "you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon" This taunt towards...
  17. VoidoftheSun

    The Atonement of Jesus Christ and Why It Needed to Happen.

    Cool but the context of the surrounding chapters explicitly explain what and who the subject of Isaiah 53 is here. No amount of anachronistic speculation based up much later ideas can change what the text itself clearly says.
  18. VoidoftheSun

    The Atonement of Jesus Christ and Why It Needed to Happen.

    Isaiah 41:8-9 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend; you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off.” Isaiah 44:1 But now hear, O...
  19. VoidoftheSun

    How do we know the Bible was not written by demons?

    Reminds me of this classic site, oh the nostalgia, lol The “Satan Wrote the Bible” Essay | Satan Wrote the Bible
  20. VoidoftheSun

    Man as god

    Basically all religious traditions imply this on some level, via The Spirit (Nafesh, Rūḥ, Purusha, et al). It's a complex topic because it is the ontology of existence, namely man's(mankind) in relation to God's (or The Absolute, the Eternal, the One, the All, the Most-high, etc). It's very...
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