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I have good news for you
The bible is true. Christian interpretation is nonsense.
The God of the Old Testament was Lord Jesus
He created your universe and is now the supreme ruler of it
Jesus was (and is) the “angry, vengeful, jealous God” you refer to
This, of course, is quite different...
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Everything that you experience with your senses is not there
You were taught that at College
It all consists of atoms and atoms are just energy
Humans are life-forms living in a field of energy in space
That’s all that really exists
and nothing else is really there
The question is, why do...
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The most obvious thing about Jesus’ 40 (do not judge) commandments at the sermon on the mount
is that they contain no principles for the judiciary, law enforcement, or armed defenders in any form, or for the daily decision makers of commerce and politics,
or the administrators and support...
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You have asked :-
"What is it about the teachings of Paul that causes you disharmony?"
Christian pharisees perniciously confuse "The Word" (Jesus) with the words in the bible
That allows them to view everything in the bible as an equality
So the authority of Paul equals the authority of...
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The thrust of your post is that God did not deliberately kill most of the human race with the flood
because those that he killed were not humans at all.
Protestantism, in order to differentiate itself from Catholicism, puts out the propaganda
that God is just a big sweetie-pie who is...
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You have asked :-
"Why doesn't God make the earth swallow up atheists and other unbelievers? Why doesn't God consume people with a glance?
Is it that God has changed? God has lost his power somewhere?"
Christianity revolves upon the issue that the world changed at or shortly after the...
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You can determine God’s intention on a topic by tracing the root of the word
The origin of the word ‘evil’ is obscure
but authorities suggest it developed from the roots ‘over’ and ‘up’
Evil is that which exceeds reasonable limits
Humans have developed this theme on, to include anything...
The bible story is that Satan was the lawful ruler of planet Earth between Eden and Jesus’ crucifixion
Is there any evidence for this?
Our ancestors have been around for 6,000,000 years
yet civilization as we know it, only began 6,000 years ago
Jesus died (broadly) 2,000 years ago
Real...
You have asked :-
"How Do You Distinguish between Religious Fervor and Mental Illness?"
Fervor is dictionary defined as a strong feeling of excitement and enthusiasm.
A classification of 'mental illness' requires 2 things :-
Significant changes in thinking, emotion and/or behavior AND
distress...
God is love
When two people fall in love - the real, genuine thing - that love is God
They create their own religion
For the relationship to work, long term, you must commit yourself to love,
not to the person
You must commit yourself to love with all your heart, with all your soul, with all...
You have written :-
” for epistemic reasons, god is a mystery which will never be solved”
You believe it is not possible to know whether God as a higher power exists
The Washington Times says that 84% of the world’s population believe in a higher power in some form
84 percent of the world...
You have asked :-
"What is the Lake of Fire?"
The Lake of Fire is the outer fringe of the body of God The Father
It is below and outside of the Lower Hell
You have asked
"For Christians who believe hell is a place of torment and punishment, is the Lake of Fire Hell itself, or is it something...