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  1. Robert Landbeck

    Is God impossible?

    "until someone gives a good reason to believe that God is possible. Does anyone have such a reason?" Apparently there is a 'some one' out there and while not wishing to sound too incredulous, I'm TESTING by faith for the justification of such a 'reason' at the moment. The real question is does...
  2. Robert Landbeck

    If the Jewish Messiah has already come….

    'Why hasn't he made himself known?' I would suggest that depends upon the purpose of his presence? My own opinion on the subject is that his coming is not to offer approbation to any existing truth claim, Jewish or Christian, but to offer correction to our understanding of God. In such a case...
  3. Robert Landbeck

    Is there any possibility of God's existence.

    That age old question that has dogged humanity for millennia may now have an answer but I don't think either side of the debate is going to appreciate it? But I'm TESTING it now for myself. And I mean that literally! The first wholly new interpretation for two thousand years of the moral...
  4. Robert Landbeck

    How Well Do the Various Religions Teach Spiritual Skills?

    The presumption that human nature is intrinsically 'spiritual' is looking a pot like the 'emperors new clothes' and as preposterous as being 'created in the image and likeness of God! That is not to say our species might not have any spiritual potential. The question is has that potential and...
  5. Robert Landbeck

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    I'm commenting as a very excatholic, and while not questioning anyones sincerely who may be a Catholic, I came to the conclusion many years ago that the RCC has nothing to do with God or Christ. But to say that begs several bigger question. The first is whether theology is even a valid human...
  6. Robert Landbeck

    Let's talk about Satan

    I have always thought of the quote from Mahatma Ghandi worthy of contemplation: "the only devils that exist are those running around inside the hearts of men" That being said, if there is a particular manifestation of evil, greater than all others that might be represented by the expression...
  7. Robert Landbeck

    Before You Ask, "Does God Exist?"...

    "how would we know that they exist?" You bring up what I would regard as the fundamental flaw and contradiction of existing theistic traditions. What is why there is no absolute proof offered by those who proclaim or pretend to such, while offering nothing more than a theological rational for a...
  8. Robert Landbeck

    No-MiddleMan Movement: Religion without middlemen

    I came across something very similar but related specifically to and antithetical towards existing Christian claims. But there is a definite resonance to the NMMM project. But what appears to make this material unique, if not revolutionary is that the underlying claim is TESTABLE by faith! And...
  9. Robert Landbeck

    Your God is Not God

    With apologizes, I can only rephrase the statement: Your theological conception of God [for in the absence of absolute proof] nothing else exists] has nothing to do with God. Indeed, all discussion about God whether institutionalized or within forums such as this are only 'an approach to...
  10. Robert Landbeck

    How can you literally believe...

    Can they be both literal and metaphorical? For example, The Resurrection as event might be considered God's unambiguous demonstration of His intention to intervene into the natural world for those obedient to divine will. As metaphor, it would represent out our own return, the 'rising up' from...
  11. Robert Landbeck

    Proof for the existence of the Abrahamic god?

    TEST it for yourself! The first wholly new interpretation for two thousand years of the moral teachings of Christ has been published. Radically different from anything else we know of from theology or history, this new teaching is predicated upon the 'promise' of a precise, predefined...
  12. Robert Landbeck

    The First Christians were not Bible Christians

    To use the expression 'Bible Christian' is something of an oxymoron. First, the Bible itself is no more than a selected group of scriptural material taken from a much larger collection and called 'canonical' by an early roman church to impose 'theological' orthodoxy, often by force, and impose...
  13. Robert Landbeck

    Can science disprove the existence of God?

    While 'high calibre' scientists are trying to use the scientific method as an arguement to disprove existence of God, it appears as if someone has used, if not the method but the model of scrutiny that is part of the method, to prove just the opposite! This is what I'm studying carefully at the...
  14. Robert Landbeck

    Does Religion Deserve Respect by Default?

    The question begins with an error. It should be: Do the 'claims' of religion deserve respect by default? And there's the rub. For tradition have failed to prove or demonstrate their case to speak with divine authority even while they try and God, assuming there is a God, has not seen any purpose...
  15. Robert Landbeck

    What is your belief in regards to God?

    I have no problem with that idea. But I'm not prepared to accept project 'theology' as a valid means to comprehend the mind of God. So to my mind tradition is a fraud and true religion has yet to begin.
  16. Robert Landbeck

    The Righteousness of God

    You bring up what I think is often called the Theodicy question, which has burdened 'christian' thinkers for many years, particularly in more recent times as radical atheists use the question of evil as an argument against the existence of God. And I regard it as a valid argument, contrary to...
  17. Robert Landbeck

    "Spotlight" - Is it a good or a bad thing ...

    . Speaking as an ex-catholic, I've seen the film and fully approve of it. Throwing light into the darkness of any institutional corruption is an important function of accountability. Attempting to put one self outside of accountability, which is the very nature of Law and especially in the name...
  18. Robert Landbeck

    The wisest man in the world is the one who realizes he knows nothing.

    I have always wondered if that famous quote attributed to Socrates didn't have a context we are not aware of? And while the 'golden age' of easy scientific discovery which gave science much of it's reputation has ended, that only reflects a reality that the search for practical, knowledge is...
  19. Robert Landbeck

    I think Islam is a totalitarian ideology with a religious facet.

    If that is the case, and I am not disputing the suggestion, why is Christianity anything more than neo-paganism with a theological spin on top? There was a time when the early church was just as totalitarian as Islam is today. Think crusades or inquisition. The early Roman church always had...
  20. Robert Landbeck

    Please use science to prove God exist

    The first wholly new interpretation for two thousand years of the moral teachings of Christ has been published. Radically different from anything else we know of from theology or history, this new teaching is predicated upon the 'promise' of a precise, predefined, predictable and repeatable...
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