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  1. amatuerscholar

    Virgin Birth or Virgin of Virginity Birth Occurrence

    Hebrews isn't a good resource when talking about Isaiah. Hebrews was written at a very different time under a different culture. But what Hebrews is talking about isn't about virgins who are married. It's saying don't defile the marriage bed by committing adultery. Now, when looking at Isaiah...
  2. amatuerscholar

    Virgin Birth or Virgin of Virginity Birth Occurrence

    Isaiah doesn't say virgin though. It says young woman. The KJV translates it to virgin only because it's reading Matthew into it. If you look at modern translations, it is translated to young woman or some synonym of that. The sign itself was already fulfilled in the time of Isaiah. But the Old...
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    Virgin Birth or Virgin of Virginity Birth Occurrence

    God isn't factored into that idea. We're looking at figures that are subordinate to God. Neither of those verses play into the birth of Jesus. Nor are they talking about a virgin who is impregnated miraculously. 2 Peters, when speaking of scripture, is talking about the Old Testament. The...
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    Looking for meaningful conversations

    I'm more of a panentheist, which I think helps sum up a lot of problems. With that, I see God as being self-limiting, in that God is all powerful, but in order for humans to have any power, to be humans, God has to take a step back. This is an idea I'm working more through though as it works in...
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    Looking for meaningful conversations

    The typo was just a slip. I do a lot of my web surfacing on a Surface 3 tablet, and I just assume, because I can't always see the screen clearly, that my spelling is top notch. Which I really should know better, as I also don't often proofread what I write, and that was one of the major...
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    Looking for meaningful conversations

    A bit about me. I grew up in a fundamentalist house, where I was groomed to be a minister. At 18, I was ordained, but the church I was at really had fallen a part and new leadership was brought in, so I was out. I rebelled, and converted to Judaism. I also toyed around a bit with Islam, and...
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    "End Times" (Christianity)

    Very difficult question. Part of it is because people generally misunderstand the nature of a few works, specifically Revelations. According to mainstream scholars, the book of Revelations isn't about the end times, but is about things happening at the time in which the book is being written. It...
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    How to investigate a Holy Book?

    What you intention is matters. If you want to grow spiritually, your approach is going to be different than if you are just into the academia of it all. The manner in which you approach a scripture or religious text is going to change the way in which you see it, which will then change how you...
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    Concept of Brahman in Hinduism

    I think an easier way to grasp the idea is to think about panentheism. The idea that God (or Brahman) is both within this world, but also beyond. With that, we can also introduce the idea of Atman. Atman within us, Brahman outside of us. While the terms are different, this is also becoming a...
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    Monkeys passed no mutations to Eve?

    I'm just going to jump over some of this stuff and state that we don't come from monkeys, nor is that what evolution states. So your premise is wrong on that point, and really your question then becomes moot as you're trying to debate something that really isn't there.
  11. amatuerscholar

    The stars shall fall from heaven...

    It's quite plausible that Jesus did say this. However, it is unlikely that he meant this literally as he is using Hebrew scripture here, which was meant to be metaphorical to begin with. He really is looking at Ezekiel 32:7, as well as a few other verses such as Amos 8:9 and Joel 2:10-11. He's...
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    Is God proven in Theism, for there is dogma of His Existence?

    That isn't true. As a theist, the only thing I cannot accept from an atheist is if they say that God certainly doesn't exist. Other than that, I can accept pretty much anything an atheist says.
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    Is God proven in Theism, for there is dogma of His Existence?

    I'm not sure what you consider the most common fallacy, but I can for sure say he wasn't making it. There are also more than two steps into faith. Faith has nothing to do with separating atheism from theism. There really is no reason to do that because atheism simply refers to the lack of...
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    Jesus and Egyptian Influence

    No. It is unlikely that Jesus ever went to Egypt. While Matthew claims he did, Luke never makes a mention of that and seems to contradict such an idea. If we, for argument sake, assume that Jesus was in Egypt, it would have been as a young child, and any such influence would have been minimal as...
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    Unitarian Universalism

    I used to be the educational director at a UU Church in the Midwest United States. The further west you go in the US, the less they are associated with Christianity, while further east you get more of the historical root Christian denominations that made it up, which were the Universalist Church...
  16. amatuerscholar

    Virgin Birth or Virgin of Virginity Birth Occurrence

    1) No, it really wouldn't contradict and law (I'm assuming you mean the Jewish Law). And since God is the creator of that law, then one would assume God could make an exception to that law. So there, it is alright. 2) None of it occurred in the OT. The verse Matthew cites (Luke doesn't cite...
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  18. amatuerscholar

    Is God proven in Theism, for there is dogma of His Existence?

    I'm going back to the beginning because I think there is an easy rebuttal to this. You're argument fails before it ever gets off as you have redefined the terminology, and in so doing, you have created logical fallacy, which is circular reasoning here. You're staring from the conclusion, which...
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    Leviticus 18: stimulation or copulation?

    Two issues. First, Leviticus is 30 verses. It has a similar theme, but there are different ideas being spoken about. So to say Leviticus 18 is all about one thing is rather difficult as it is about a number of things. Second, you're trying to use a confusion about the word sex, in modern...
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