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    ADCs (After-Death Communication) and NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) as Evidence for an Afterlife

    This thread will initially focus on unique evidence from 5 categories of NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) and ADCs (After-Death Communications): (1) ADCs in which the Dead Drive a Vehicle to Help or Comfort the Percipient (2) NDEs with Paranormal Details Shared by Witnesses Present (3) Artifacts...
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    Let's TALK about Paul...

    Text Criticism is the science of recnstructing the original text of Scripture. No modern scholars dispute that Paul wrote 1 Corinthians and Galatians, the 2 texts in question. In my grad studies I studied under Bruce Metzger, the leading Text Critic at the time.
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    ADCs (After-Death Communication) and NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) as Evidence for an Afterlife

    Let me begin with this disclaimer: I am a Christian for whom Christ's atoning death and resurrection are the anchor of my faith. But at their best, the verifications inherent in ADCs (=After-Death Contacts) and NDEs (near-death experiences) replicate by their seemingly "physical confirmations"...
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    Question for Christians and those Who Believe in a Personal God

    L jnvite you skeptics to monitor my new developing thread in the Paranormal Experiences section. Tbat tbread focuses on personal experiences as evidence for a personal God. A follow-up thread will then examine the paranormal verifications of an afterlife from NDEs and ADCs (near-death...
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    Let's TALK about Paul...

    Paul lists Jesus' resurrection appearances in 1 Corinthians 15:38. His list derives from nix 2 early visits to the Jerusalem apostles, who approved his Gospel and endorsed his Gentile mission (Galatians 1:18=19; 2:1-10): Paul is aware from his 2 visits to Jerusalem that some of the 500...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    But “the word of knowledge” is a spiritual gift that can be part of a learning curve and its application is not always easy to grasp. Consider these 2 paranormal clairvoyant experiences at the onset of Christmas vacation: (4) At age 19, I was a Winnipeg college student. About 5 years my senior...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    (3) THE SPIRITUAL HIGHLIGHT OF MY LIFE: MY SPIRIT BAPTISM At age 16 I was so nagged by doubts about the reliability of Scripture and the authenticity of charismatic manifestations in church that my faith crisis prompted me to spend a week at Manhattan Beach Camp near Ninette, Manitoba with the...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    I'll begin with the first 2 of 3 childhood experiences that were the foundaton of many future paranormal experiences: TOUCHED BY GOD IN 2 EARLY CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (1) By the time I was 6 I had learned to hate church. There was no children's church or Sunday school for my age and Church bored...
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    Yeshua / Jesus Vs Saul / Paul Points

    OK, wizanda, I think it best to wait for you to document your claims. That effort might help you gain greater clarity and I want you to be at your best in your articulation. When you repost your list with documentation appended (e.g chapter and verse; rabbinic source), I will start a new...
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    Yeshua / Jesus Vs Saul / Paul Points

    Wizanda, I have 2 questions for you: (1) The most interesting thing about your list of points is the ease with which your simplistically selected prooftexts can be identified. But I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. Are you willing to make yourself vulnerable enough to actually list...
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    Jesus: Connections to Eyewitnesses and Extrabiblical Sources

    Irrelevant here because we now from other sources that Luke was Paul's physician and travel companion. Moving on... (11) In 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 Paul lists the sequence of resurrection appearances that he "in turn had received." Received from whom? Well, the answer can be found in Galatians...
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    Jesus: Connections to Eyewitnesses and Extrabiblical Sources

    (10) Acts 16 begins the famous "we" passages in which Luke was an eyewitness to events recorded. Luke is present with Paul when Paul's companions meet with Jesus' brother James and the Jerusalem "elders," including the surviving eyewitnesses (see Acts 21). It is during these encounters that Luke...
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    Checkmate Evolutionists!

    Transcript of Actual Sermon: "You can believe you're the product of a baboon convention, if you want to. But I'd rather know the Rock of Ages than the ages of the rock. I like my religion the way I like my tea--hot! 'Cause I'd rather be a fool on fire than a scholar on ice. Amen? 'Cause...
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    Kenneth Miller's Reconciliation of Relgious Faith and Evolution Theory

    Yes, of all the scientists I've heard lecture in person or online, Miller is the most skilled debater and best public speaker. I've watchcd the Nova reinactment of the Dover trial on DVD. The Discovery Institute did themselves a great PR disservice by bailing out of their roles as expert...
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    Jesus: Connections to Eyewitnesses and Extrabiblical Sources

    Metis, you made my point for me: no slam dunk case. In any case, the synagogue is irrelevant to my point about the holy sites of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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    "The Science of Premonitions" (Dr. Larry Dossey)

    (6) When I was a United Church of Christ interim minister in Buffalo, NY, Eleanor regularly attended our prayer group (4-6 people). As in my present location in Washington state, we were amazed by our answers (e. g. Doctors decreed that a baby would not leave the hospital alive, and the baby was...
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    Jesus: Connections to Eyewitnesses and Extrabiblical Sources

    For the benefit of Metis: "while Loffreda claimed to have found a paved surface, others are of the opinion that this was an open, paved market area." Metis, I want this 4th-5th century synagogue to be cite of the first century synagogue where Jesus taught. The evidence is simply not there, but...
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    NDEs and ADCs: Awesome Verifications

    George, I agree; and that is why shared NDEs are so compelling as faith-inducing anecdotes, especially when they involve materializations of physical objects or plants. These materializations illustrate a way to challenge the scientific dogma that you can't gain something material from nothing...
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    Jesus: Connections to Eyewitnesses and Extrabiblical Sources

    No, Metis, later excavations suggest that what underlies the present synagogue ruins is not a first century synagogue, but an open, paved market place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum Blue Taylor's post illustrates the same sort of stereotypes that give rise to racism and...
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    Jesus: Connections to Eyewitnesses and Extrabiblical Sources

    Metis, your academic background prompted my assumption that you were aware of how holy sites can be preserved and remodeled with inscriptions, etc. (e. g. the first century Nazareth house celebrated in tradition as the home of Joseph and Mary; the Upper Room, etc.). The tombs discussed in my...
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