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  1. Robert Landbeck

    What if Jesus comes tomorrow?

    If Christ comes tomorrow! Among all the evangelical specualtions and exaggerations, there is a more nuanced side to the question. For a start, the scriptural record, canonical and non, contain more than three hundred passages of warnings of false teaching and interpretation. Confronting and...
  2. Robert Landbeck

    The Problem of Theism

    If man was ever 'created in the image and likeness' of God, I have to suppose that I&L was lost in ancient times at the Fall and yet to be recovered. I remains implausible that the very concept of 'image and likeness' defies any clear definition. And if such a state of being was or is possible...
  3. Robert Landbeck

    Does there exist a "chosen" people in the eyes of God

    When I think or imagine a 'Chosen People' I ask my self chosen for what and to what ends? And while many claims exist to be part of that wannabe Chosen humanity, I can see no example among the religious milieu of history, that would meet ends consistent with the ultimate justice of the Biblical God.
  4. Robert Landbeck

    What is Evil?

    What is evil? The intentional deception of what is 'right' for what is wrong, confusing what is true for what is false. Reviewing a study of more than three hundred references among the scriptural record, both canonical and non, the theme most consistent is the moral deception of others. And...
  5. Robert Landbeck

    How can you accept evolution and still have a spiritual reality, and/or a God faith

    Evolution does not preclude God and Spirit, but it might be the road block that stops our 'return' to the grace and favor of God. For it is most unlikely that we have been 'created' in the 'image and likeness' while our species remains the most destructive and self destructive species on earth...
  6. Robert Landbeck

    The Pro-Life Conspiracy

  7. Robert Landbeck

    How do you be a Christian when the Bible is so faulty?

    I agree, the Bible is a confusing read. It is no wonder that the last two thousand years of Christology have been fraught with division, schism, blood and guts over the interpretations of that volume. I have to wonder what God would send His Son to reveal 'something' to mankind, only to have it...
  8. Robert Landbeck

    The Bible Is True...

    Is it not better to ask, "once all the veneer and the strange twisted arguments and reasoning are stripped away' has anything been revealed other than a narrative of events concerning the life of `Jesus. And the conclusion I came to, especially after years of study with the non canonical texts...
  9. Robert Landbeck

    Domestication and the Dream of the Planet

    The 'seed' of that 'Dream' may very well be embedded into the human condition. Unfortunately without sufficient clarity to define the higher aspirations of mankind, the path for the realization of a greater good remains obscured, the seed refuses to grow. And it has never been more self-evident...
  10. Robert Landbeck

    Experiencing God

    This 'altered state' is attained by first changing the definition of the Resurrection to an "individual intervention into the natural world, 'raising' up within a man a newly Enlightened heart infused with a new Holy spirit, realigning his moral compass by correcting human nature with a change...
  11. Robert Landbeck

    How Would You Describe Your Notion of an Ideal Adult Human?

    I don't think that human nature, under the existing evolutionary paradigm, will allow for any moral ideal, that might make for the ideal human being to be realized. That is to say that evolution has limited both the spiritual and moral aspirations of our species. Thus to imagine a notion of an...
  12. Robert Landbeck

    How Would You Describe Your Notion of an Ideal Adult Human?

  13. Robert Landbeck

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    'Assumption' is often the beginning of a thought process and journey. The 'problem' is when any assumption has no where to go. And that is what differentiates science from religion. Science attempts to take assumption as the stepping stone to possible insight and discovery. Religion, contrary to...
  14. Robert Landbeck

    Reasoning On Sin?

    As misused as the term may be in religious tradition, other then the literal meaning, sin as general religious expression for wrong doing, for the moment will have to do!
  15. Robert Landbeck

    In your belief why God created us

    I don't believe that God did create us. . . yet! And while it remains probably the most foundational ideas of mono theism, that we are 'created' in the image and likeness', I find it implausible, given the obvious moral and spiritual limitations of human kind, that while being the most...
  16. Robert Landbeck

    Ask me anything about the science of Evolution :)

  17. Robert Landbeck

    why reject christianity

    I can only speak for myself, but I personally rejected Christianity because I came to the conclusion that it had nothing to do with Christ or God. That it is no more than a theological counterfeit. And yes I do expect a returning Christ to offer an absolute 'proof for faith' that is a one way...
  18. Robert Landbeck

    Problem of Evil Revisited

    While I can appreciate the Father son relationship, I would only suggest that the nature of a true revelation, one that would resolve the question of evil, would be for God to reveal a moral correction that 'raises' human understanding to a greater moral condition. That is my understanding of...
  19. Robert Landbeck

    Are people who claim to know God liars?

    "My position is man knows nothing about God." I agree completely and would even suggest that, in spite of religious claims to the contrary, this is the default position of human nature itself. But I must add a big BUT because something very recent appears to be taking place that could effect...
  20. Robert Landbeck

    How reasonable is monotheism, even hypothetically?

    "It seems to me that there is a core mistake" My take on that mistake: An anomaly of the Judeo/Christian’ tradition is this: If our Fall from grace came from within a spiritual union of a man and woman created and joined by God, by a single disobedience, one might imagine, even expect that our...
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