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  1. K

    Does male and female truly exist?

    Biological sex is something of a mystery as Meow Mix pointed out. At a genetic level there are a number of instances where people exhibit traits of both sexes. Gender on the other hand is a social construct, a set of roles placed on people based on their perceived biological sex.
  2. K

    The Bible Denies the Divinity of Jesus

    I have to disagree with that. 1 Timothy 3:16 was clearly changed from ΟΣ to ΘΣ the nomina sacre form of God in Greek. You can see it in both the Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Sinaiticus. Changes which were meant to discourage an adoptionist reading of the scriptures but that...
  3. K

    How Jewish were Jesus and the Apostles?

    This is pretty true. Speaking about Judaism in any sort of concrete singular form is fairly anachronistic.
  4. K

    Just how much Gnostic dogma seeped into Christianity?

    Well like I was saying, a number of scholars believe that the Johannine literature is very influenced by Gnostic ideas. A cursory search led me to find the word "know" (usually either ειδω or γινωσκω) 71 times in just the Gospel of John...
  5. K

    How Jewish were Jesus and the Apostles?

    Jesus, his disciples, and mostly all Christians WERE Jews. For some time Christianity was not a new religion so to speak, it merely was, in the Christians' eyes, the correct way of being a Jew. This is why Matthew's gospel draws so many parallels between Jesus and Moses, why Luke goes through...
  6. K

    Just how much Gnostic dogma seeped into Christianity?

    Hard to say, I mean Gnosticism, generally speaking, is a fairly wide array of beliefs with sets of common themes: duality, secret knowledge, etc. But there are a number of scholars who read the Johannine literature as being influenced by Gnostic beliefs in many ways and I recently read a journal...
  7. K

    Can Buddhists actually be called Hindus?

    You're mincing words... well actually languages... anatta is Pali for anatman (Sanscrit). It is by definition a denial of the atman.
  8. K

    What evidence for God

    However, belief in a creator simply creates a more convoluted problem as something would have to create that creator if you are assuming that "being" is reliant on "creation." As you said "nothing cannot create something" and of course that raises the further question of what created the creator...
  9. K

    Prove it!

    Awesome! I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by the lack of intelligible points. :facepalm:
  10. K

    variety in evolution?

    Evolution is simply chemistry playing itself out. Calling it random does no justice to the beauty or the magnitude to which occurs. Evolution is guided by laws, but they are not divine ones, they are simple chemical rules. Organisms which can survive and reproduce within an environmental niche...
  11. K

    Prove it!

    Still not sure what you are talking about exactly. Is it that the bible is in many places contradictory to its own teachings? If so then congratulations, you have pointed out something that many of us have known for a long time. Aside from that I haven't really seen a coherent point made.
  12. K

    Prove it!

    I don't really understand this thread. What is to be proven? Belief implies acceptance without substantial evidence, i.e. a claim that is not provable. God cannot be proven, nor can the theological or eschatolical claims within bible. One either believes them, thus taking them at face value...
  13. K

    Ex-Christian here.

    I would disagree here. The term Four Corners of the Earth, which is a term based on the concept of a flat earth appears no less than 5 times in the Bible. In Isaiah 11:12, Revelation 7:1, Job 38:13, Jeremiah 16:19, and Daniel 4:11. In Matthew 4:8 the Devil takes Jesus to a high mountain to show...
  14. K

    New member

    Thanks! There was originally a URL for the study but it was deleted. When I post a bit more and assert that I am in fact not a spam bot (an understandable precaution on the Mod's part) I will repost it and hopefully garner some of the data that I am looking for. :)
  15. K

    New member

    Thanks, *Anne*!
  16. K

    New member

    "It is true what they say: Women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9." Thanks!
  17. K

    New member

    Hey everyone, I just registered and am looking forward to what this forum has to offer. I recently started searching out religious debate forums because of a sociological study I am starting having to do with religion. I am a member of a couple other religious debate forums and while my study...
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