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  1. Robert Landbeck

    Can science disprove the existence of God?

    'The existence of God is 'unfalsifiable' Accepted without question. Yet that does not make any claims by religious tradition true. Try this thought experiment: Within the scriptural record, both canonical and non, plus discoveries of the last century such as the Dead Sea scrolls and Nag Hammadi...
  2. Robert Landbeck

    Satan and the Sanctity of Marriage

    I cannot but agree. But the issue is not gay marriage, but whether traditional 'straight' marriage ever really 'strait' in the eyes of God? In the many heated and ongoing debates over same sex unions and the very nature of marriage since the SCOTUS decision, especially those comments coming...
  3. Robert Landbeck

    Satan and the Sanctity of Marriage

  4. Robert Landbeck

    Is the lack of faith of Atheists due to theists' failure to support their claims?

    Speaking as an EX christian who has concluded that 'theological' based tradition has nothing to do with God, but yet to default to atheism, I think " their failure to provide valid, reasoned, and supported arguments for their belief." is only a small part for the problem. If the idea of God is...
  5. Robert Landbeck

    If a creator exists, why worship it?

    I suspect the idea of 'worship' understood by tradition is a corruption. More neo-paganism with a theological spin on top. But if God were to offer our species the 'means' for ethical advance and growth that neither reason nor evolution were able to provide, paving the way for real progress in...
  6. Robert Landbeck

    Your best argument that god exists

    More than just banal argument, this hypothesis you can test out for yourself if you have the measure of moral courage necessary? I'm doing so myself at this moment: "The first wholly new interpretation for two thousand years of the moral teachings of Christ has been published. Radically...
  7. Robert Landbeck

    Randi Supernatural Million Dollar Challenge...

    That looks set to happen even as I type this entry to the forum! For I'm TESTING such a proof at this very moment. And it looks as if "hundreds, if not thousands, of supernatural claims . . . by people around the world" are headed for historys own dustbin of oblivion! Trials of the PROOF are...
  8. Robert Landbeck

    Did Jesus preach with intent to start a new religion?

    First I shall preface my comments, so my own prejudices are on the table. While having an interest in religious ideas, I have little confidence that any religious tradition has offered humanity a true insight into the nature of God or man. Thus when the question is asked: did Jesus " intended to...
  9. Robert Landbeck

    Why are Atheists on Religiousforums?

    There is probably no other intellectual endeavor and body of ideas so lacking in critical self scrutiny as religion. And atheists have valid questions on the nature of religion that remain to be answered. Faith has yet to Deliver on its Promise. So long as that is the case, the efficacy of...
  10. Robert Landbeck

    Who Said the Bible is True?

    The Bible is nothing more than a selection of scriptural material, chosen from a much greater collection, by an early roman church to impose theological orthodoxy. And the blood and arguments have never stopped since! Hardly the stuff of truth. Discoveries of new material such as the Dead Sea...
  11. Robert Landbeck

    religion is slowly dying?

    While the health of religious traditions is highly variable upon location and culture, the intellectual hold religion has on the mind is very much dying out, particularly in the West. Questions are being asked about the efficacy of religion that would never have happened even ten years ago. The...
  12. Robert Landbeck

    Why Evil?

    I agree completely. Reading is not knowledge. But experience is. And it is the experience that will decide the truth or falsehood of the material I'm studying at the moment. But like it or no, and many like yourself won't, a new religious teaching, a wisdom not of human intellectual origin...
  13. Robert Landbeck

    Why Evil?

    Well someone appears to have such understanding. He may very well have revealed it to someone as I'm studying such an absolute proof, downloaded for free off the web, at this very moment. And I have every intention of TESTING this new moral insight within my own marriage. And it can only be true...
  14. Robert Landbeck

    Why Evil?

    Scripture may have been preserved on parchment and animal skin scrolls, even CD's and DVD's but whether they contain the 'Inspired' word of God is a matter of considerable historical and theological dispute. Consider just the entire history of Christianity which has more to do with schism and...
  15. Robert Landbeck

    Why Evil?

    I cannot except that 'God's inspired word' even exists. If it ever did, it was lost in ancient times. And I for one would be happy to assume that Jesus was married. After all, our first understanding of 'religion' is from Genesis before the fall that was founded upon a spiritual conception of...
  16. Robert Landbeck

    Why Evil?

  17. Robert Landbeck

    Why Evil?

    I would suggest that the whole of history and human nature itself is, as you say, 'clueless as to God, His son and His word'. For a start, history has already proved that the Bible is incomplete. Discoveries of the Dead Sea Scroll and Nag Hammadi Library already offer, as before an institutional...
  18. Robert Landbeck

    Why would prophets/religious beliefs be off-limits to criticism?!

    Religious claims comes prepackaged with a great deal of hope and expectation. Early 'Christianity' for example was preoccupied with the return of Christ and the end of the world, even today many fringe groups prepare for an 'event' that both never arrives and defies description. And when the...
  19. Robert Landbeck

    Why Evil?

    Evil only came into the world with man as the result of his first disobedience. Evil or ignorance of what is right was and remains the punishment for that first disobedience. And that is where our species remains today. Rooted within an evolutionary paradigm, dominated by a materialist...
  20. Robert Landbeck

    Do you believe in reincarnation or rebirth?

    Although not a 'Christian' by any traditional definition, I do find the idea of 'rebirth' of interest. But not in any conventional religious sense. It is clear, at least to myself, that the human condition, rooted in an evolutionary paradigm, is without the moral or spiritual potential to be...
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