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  1. Robert Landbeck

    Does God Care What We Believe?

    With apologies I'll rephrase the question. Do we care what we believe about God? And Why? At last count [Pew Research] there were 45,000 competing Christian denominations, not to mention the contradiction of three different mono-theisms, with their own cracks, divisions and subcultures, all in...
  2. Robert Landbeck

    Scientific Proof of a Soul

    I would agree that science provides an exceptionally solid model for the scrutiny of truth claims, which existing religious ideas have yet to counter. But what is rarely discussed is that there is much within the scriptural record to suggest that the teaching Christ revealed two thousand years...
  3. Robert Landbeck

    Spiritual Enlightenment: what is it/what it is.

    Ask who? But for anyone who would go strait to the source of all Enlightenment, here is a definition worthy of further investigation: "Where the reality of God responds directly to an act of 'perfect faith' with a direct, individual intervention into the natural world, 'raising' up and infusing...
  4. Robert Landbeck

    Enlightenment?

    I have to agree with your suspicion. A path to true Enlightenment does not exist from any of the traditions that would pretend otherwise. They are only self deceptions being sold to the gullible. But such aspiration is itself both valuable and important to maintain and to guard carefully. It...
  5. Robert Landbeck

    The ultimate question for theists

    Theism comes with so many serious logical problems it is difficult to know where to begin. Given the limitations of reason and what goes for 'logic' depending upon what rules of philosophy one uses, "It is quite obvious that there is no end to this conundrum," with a single exception, discovery...
  6. Robert Landbeck

    Is God Observable?

    "because actions can be observed by their effects upon other things." and 'effects' can represent direct evidence, also called proof. If the living, invisible God, omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent within his own character and existence wishes to demonstrate his being perfectly and...
  7. Robert Landbeck

    Conscience: Simple, Powerful, Infallible

    "we would have a simple-to-use, cross-cultural, internal moral guidance system. It's very likely that conscience is exactly that." I have to agree completely. Yet there must be something missing necessarily to make conscience more, informed, potent and with more integrity than it is. That would...
  8. Robert Landbeck

    Idea or Reality

    Imagination must first be able to conceive the idea of something, before it can seek to confirm the reality [thing].
  9. Robert Landbeck

    Is There Anyway To Prevent WW3?

    I find the most merit it the last paragraph: "If you knew you were personally responsible because of your beliefs, would you change to avoid world wide destruction?" And knowingly or not we are all part of the problem. Self evidently, the collection of religious ideas and claims that make up...
  10. Robert Landbeck

    What is the default position in the mind-body problem?

    My default is Dualism. Though no longer fashionable, and probably yet to be understood, but my assumption may be easier to explain via the idea of aspiration or utopianism. As a species we appear to be able to 'dream' of a more rational, more just, a greener and peaceful planet but are unable to...
  11. Robert Landbeck

    Video About Problems With Atheism

    I did view the video. But for a start I would deny that 'pure rationality' is even possible for a human nature that comes with 'reason' conflicted and corrupted with vast collections of bias and prejudice of both cultural and religious origin, in the attempt to secure and sustain a sense of...
  12. Robert Landbeck

    Are Atheist Skeptics?

    This is where language gets slippery. And there are certainly hard and soft skeptics as there are hard and soft atheists. Which ever on might be, there is no alternative but to hold to some conception of knowledge. And that ground is shifting all the time. An atheist that holds to scientific...
  13. Robert Landbeck

    The question is what happens if 'something' is revealed and outside the existing religious...

    The question is what happens if 'something' is revealed and outside the existing religious milieu? The final revolution of history will begin.
  14. Robert Landbeck

    What attracts people to the spiritual?

    So what is it that attracts people to the spiritual to begin with? So what is it that attracts people to the spiritual to begin with? In a word, Aspirations. Whether those aspirations provide for an authentic 'spiritual' encounter remains open to question. It's back to definitions. With...
  15. Robert Landbeck

    Belief is Nothing When Compared to Experience

    I have always considered 'belief by itself' to be intellectually and spiritually disingenuous if not outright dishonest. That any religious belief, of any tradition, does not lead directly to a distinct experience of transcendent power is the PROOF that has eluded religious claims and tradition...
  16. Robert Landbeck

    Jesus, the Christian Myth

    The 'events' of two thousand years ago remain mostly a mystery and the theological narrative of tradition no more than self serving, institutionalized myth. The question is how to know what, if anything about Jesus has relevance and what does not. The means to sort out that mess may be at hand...
  17. Robert Landbeck

    Is the moral standard of humanists better than God's?

    Whatever notions of idealism a people, culture or nation have built upon, whatever the sum of human knowledge, achievement and understanding, whatever cultural veneer arts contribute or religious claims pretend the world is none the better. And what choices exist between any political...
  18. Robert Landbeck

    No, a street artist in London did that for me, in oils, on a 3 by 5 inch piece of board more...

    No, a street artist in London did that for me, in oils, on a 3 by 5 inch piece of board more than twenty five years ago, for an embarrassing small sum. Don't even remember his name. I found it only recently when packing up to move house. My hair and beard have gone rather grey since then! Glad...
  19. Robert Landbeck

    The chances of being right when it comes to religion.

    For a start I can't call it 'my' particular interpretation. And I can't tell you if it is correct/true or not, at least not at the moment. For I am still TESTING the first wholly new interpretation, for two thousand years, of the moral teaching of Christ. And what science and religion, not to...
  20. Robert Landbeck

    Wolves in sheep's clothings when the light inside is darkness.

    In one paper I recently read, there were counted more than three hundred direct references to and warnings against false teaching among the scriptural record. Even more counting indirect ones. I have always wondered how so much warning could exist without also having the means to recognize and...
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