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  1. Robert Landbeck

    Is There Truth?

    Yes and No! I do not accept that such a perfect truth is available via the existing faith paradigm of history and tradition for that 'faith' is an all too human theological construct. So 'those seeking for it' will only find disappointment. On the other hand, there appears to be something new...
  2. Robert Landbeck

    What is wrong with Prophet Muhammad’s morality?

    The whole of religious history is written in blood. And the problem with Muslim morality is the same as with all morality both secular and religious. What ever moral relativity exists between them, there is no 'morality' that exists from history or tradition, with the authority to take mankind...
  3. Robert Landbeck

    Resurrection of Christ: Literal fact or spiritual reality?

    While the Resurrection is a core belief, I'm not sure it has yet to be understood fully as yet. My own heretical spin is that the event was real, demonstrating God's willingness to intervene directly into the natural world in accordance with his will, but there must therefore be a 'spiritual'...
  4. Robert Landbeck

    Religion is for Enlightened Old Folks... Right?

    As all the 'tough' questions remain intact, as they have throughout history, and neither philosophy nor religion have effected the necessary solution to the problems, it is no wonder that so many are honestly disinterested. Why waste time on a body of ideas that have failed in there primary...
  5. Robert Landbeck

    Who will the Antichrist be?

    Most likely the 'arch deceiver' is already in the world teaching a false, counterfeit word. The question is if a second coming takes place, will that Christ confirm or deny the authenticity of any existing tradition? If he comes to correct our understanding of the Father, then those who refuse...
  6. Robert Landbeck

    POWER OF LOVE

    If every one who called themselves Christian had realized any of the ideals recorded in scripture, the world would be a very difference place. Unfortunately that has yet to happen. When God finally reveals the 'how' to inculcate those virtues into the human condition, I will agree that true...
  7. Robert Landbeck

    "Love, Love, Love...

    Love, like God, is one of those ideals that almost everyone thinks and believes they understand but probably don't. While there are many characteristics that can be identified as a part of Love, how we inculcate those from the outside to the inside remains mostly unknown. Now doubt if our...
  8. Robert Landbeck

    Is God an Alternative Fact?

    I would suggest the real target is not God but religion. For it is religious tradition that makes claims it remains unable to demonstrate 'without ambiguity'. That does not deny the potential for God, it does deny the legitimacy of religion, that without the offer of direct, evidence based...
  9. Robert Landbeck

    Faith

    I have to agree that the existing faith paradigm of religion is intellectually dishonest from square one. And was probably only contrived in the absence of a more profound 'truth' . Of course the early church didn't have the benefit of our Enlightenment thinking and empirical model, relying upon...
  10. Robert Landbeck

    The 10...Er, 613 Commandments

    One can argue the ten or the 613. But what has always been missing from both Christian and Jewish traditions is the 1! That being the single command [and probably understood as a single Law or moral principle] that established the original covenant and a direct, active relationship between God...
  11. Robert Landbeck

    Adam & Eve sitting in a tree....

    It is probably both history and allegory. But the story is incomplete probably because scripture is incomplete. The narrative is simple. God chose a moment of time to intervene directly into the natural world to provide for a direct relationship between man and God. That relationship and...
  12. Robert Landbeck

    Jesus , Krishna- which of the two is the supreme-god?

    I would suggest neither! Jesus was made into 'God' as a theological convenience by the early 'church' that allowed for the development of worship rituals necessary for an institutional 'church' to take form. I cannot speak with any valid opinion on Krishna, but Jesus was not God, but the last...
  13. Robert Landbeck

    Check what you are

    When I look at the trajectory of a world sliding down that slippery slope towards it's own self made hell, I cannot find any indication that a God is an active reality. Religion may exist but with respect to the mono theisms, their contribution to human progress is dubious indeed and religion...
  14. Robert Landbeck

    Why do the gods hide themselves?

    It remains one of the great contradictions of religious claims, at least for the Christian/Judeo traditions. I think Its worth remembering that while 'religion' exists, as your very comment suggests, whether they have anything to do with God remains unanswered and the absence of a faith unable...
  15. Robert Landbeck

    The Limits of Religion

    For all the claims of 'revelation' religious tradition, particularly the mono theisms, are human intellectual, theological constructs. They are human and unlike the limitations of science which are always being pushed to extend existing limits, religion, using tools of philosophical logic...
  16. Robert Landbeck

    Why do disbelieves hate the word disbelievers

    "because i will never believe in their doctrines." All dogma and doctrine is no more than a human, theological product, so I share no belief in any existing religious tradition for the simple reason that I am unconvinced they have anything to do with God. In fact it proves to me that human...
  17. Robert Landbeck

    Morality

    Morality and spirituality, for the two in my own mind cannot be separated, for they must work together as an expression of both moral reasoning and will. But there must be a serious disconnect within the human condition. Given talk of a sixth mass extinction that might very well include us, with...
  18. Robert Landbeck

    Free will exists, it's simply not inherent

    Whatever Free Will is in the religious context, If we we indeed have 'free will' it has not provided our species with the wisdom or moral reasoning to create a sustainable, just and peaceful culture construct. And if we are to ever discover a way off the slippery slope towards our own self made...
  19. Robert Landbeck

    Are arguments a type of evidence?

    I can start with a quote from Plato: "opinion is a consequence of persuasion not truth". All argument is opinion, or human intellectual origin however ancient or dogmatized it might be. And contrary to much suggestion within the scriptural record, it is only in the absence of a revealed truth...
  20. Robert Landbeck

    Changing the Bible

    As an excatholic/Christian who still remains active in religious thinking, I'll add this little spin on the question. My first problem with the Bible is that it is probably incomplete. Anyone studying the early Roman church knows that what we call the 'bible' is no more than a collection of...
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