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    Why does it matter if Christianity is a sun worshiping religion?

    Again, if you are looking for parallels, you will find them. It isn't that hard. That still doesn't speak to the differences in the deeper meanings of the message. But even on a simpler level, the Son of God is a being like as we are (or... we were made in His image). The sun is an object in...
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    Christian: Denominations?

    That's not quite accurate. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is not a protestant spin off. It is a restoration of that which was lost. At least one thing is true... on the issue of authority, it has to be either that that authority continued from Peter as Catholics claim or it...
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    Whats stopping Christ from ruling the Earth? Oh My God!

    Narcissists of the world unite!
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    Why does it matter if Christianity is a sun worshiping religion?

    This phrase is important: "are more than apparent to any who look for them". You went looking for parallels and surprise, surprise, you found them. Even if you wish to call the story of the "Son" of God a superstition and equate it (and I'm sure you do) with a worship of the "sun" (silly...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    When I took a logic course in college, one exercise was to take a truth claim (proposition "p")and break it down into symbols such as are indicated at this web site. The point is that it was a kind of shorthand with an algebraic structure to it and which was supposed to allow the logician to...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    The title of this thread is: "Freaking out about what we really can "know" here..." With this, I was under the impression that the topic was about how we know things... as in epistemology. Since we cannot "know" the operations of how so called miracles are manifest, I'm not sure how a...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    My own answers to these are a bit more simplistic. Angels are simply messengers sent from God to reveal something to man. Their appearance is only secondary to their mission and to give it primary significance seeks to ignore the message. Angels do not have wings and that they have the...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    This should be interesting.
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    I'm assuming that by saying testing anthropology "mathematically"... what is meant is using the rules of logic which follows formulaic like rules.
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    All that I would be able to do is to tell you what I believe and why I believe it... my "reasons". But we have a saying in my church that no amount of proselytizing will convert anyone. All we can do is provide information, it is the Holy Ghost that converts. But briefly: The preponderance...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    Yes, I understand and agree. Thanks friend :)
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    I have had enough of this. It's going nowhere.
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    Cute labels. And from your perspective I'm sure you think they apply and no doubt they were meant as an insult (duh). It's ok. It doesn't matter.
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    There is no proof I can offer you.
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    That's rich coming from an atheist. As if that were your motive. You know nothing of me or my level of education or what I understand in terms of the plan of salvation. Just fyi... I majored in philosophy and religion. I found most of what was taught at university as humorous at best and...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    All I need to know is the net result of these "scholarly" endeavors. You, yourself are an indication. It is the desire to discredit the scriptures and therefore the gospel. But, it matters not. As one prophet has said: You may as well attempt to stop the flow of the Missouri River with your...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    . Since there is almost no historical record of these events other than what is recorded in scripture, what scholars are studying is their own opinion and rhetoric . The scriptures indicate otherwise. . Peter wrote, James wrote... Paul wrote. These were apostles. It does not matter to me if...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    Where did you get the idea that my faith is based on miracles? I have never witnessed what I would call a miracle and my faith would not be based on that if I had. It is based on the atonement of Jesus Christ. I believe (contrary to what academia wishes assert) that there were some who were...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    If you really believe that all the beliefs of Christendom for the last two thousand years are the result of an ongoing, consecutive and never ending hallucination from one generation to the next and that there is no rational thought that has ever entered into it for that two thousand years, then...
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    Freaking out about what we really can "know" here...

    For one prophet to be substantiated (or my term... "corroborated") would require another prophet. And that is what has happened. When you say unsubstantiated, I take it that you are referring to academicians as being authoritative. Such men are merely providing their own interpretation of...
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