Strange how the words of Muhammad and the words of the Qur'an are ignored so often by the very people who pledge allegiance to them. How can such tolerance be twisted right around?
Seems a lot like the words of Jesus and the words of the Bible to me, actually.
Of course. Imperfect men preach to imperfect men. They preach the perfect message, but since a man cannot be perfect, they can only preach it imperfectly.
Yes, they could be better, but who's to say that they weren't the best available at that time and place?
No, you're right, you're right. We can't know why this is, but we have to make the best of it and it's imperative that we remember that we're students, too. Students learning from students.
What we have from the Apostles is the memory. What we do with it is now up to us. Now that we have been...
I wouldn't say that they're the "ultimate pillars of truth". That title belongs to Christ only.
However, the Apostles did have the best first-hand experience of Jesus' teachings. You can sit on RF all day trying to debate their interpretations, but you can't deny that they had the absolute best...
No. But only because there is no "me" to begin with; the distinction between "me" and "everything else" is entirely artificial. I'm a series of ill-defined chemical reactions called Bob Dixon, but it wasn't always so, and at one point it'll cease to be so. For the Universe, there's no such thing...
Thanks, Bruce! I appreciate it.
No, the problem with Hell is that there's no evidence of it in our lives, and there's no real evidence of it in the Bible, either.
Well, there've been Christians since the beginning who didn't believe in a literal resurrection. Basically any Christian views you can come up with (well, not ANY, but a lot of them) were around in the early days, before an orthodoxy was established.
I'm requesting a quote! Post!
Are there any justifications for the temporariness of Hell that reference other religious texts (as the Baha'is often do), too?
Maybe you should take a class on this.
I'm not joking around with you, or being funny or anything like that. I think a class on evolutionary biology could explain everything for you.