Accused, often. Guilty - no.
The Phoenicians definitely practiced child/infant sacrifice and infanticide. The Greeks and Romans routinely exposed their own children to die. One of the reasons the Greeks thought the Jews were 'uncivilized' was simply because the Jews DID NOT kill their children...
Incidentally - back in the dark ages even - earlier than that, actually- Jewish scholars (religious authorities, really) determined that there were only a very limited number of actual miracles (total suspension of natural law) in the Tanakh. Plus they were quite conservative, and said the...
I'm not. But YOU clearly have been, so I've courteously supplied you with two authorities to inform your opinion. I wasn't sure whether one was enough, or whether or not you had a bias for or against the Catholics, so I pulled up two. I'm sure there are more, if necessary.
I'm a fan of Georgius...
See, there's this thing called MOMENTUM and this thing called CENTRIFUGAL FORCE and this thing called GRAVITY and....
The actual point is, if you just say 'Goddidit' and 'miracle' you are explaining NOTHING and you are also not going to convince anybody without your particular belief system...
You are confusing what you BELIEVE about God with what is portrayed by the text. God may or may not be omnipotent - God may or may not EXIST - but the text as interpreted can be used to support the belief that God is omnipotent, and it can also be used to support the belief that omnipotence is...
umm - no. But whoever wrote those stories was ignorant.
The Hebrew Bible is not like the NT or the Quran. The NT and Quran were both written over a very short period of time by relatively few people. The Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh, or the OT) was written over the course of at LEAST four hundred...
A) God has to ask Adam where he is - Genesis 2. God also asks (you can argue that God already knew, but maybe not) what is going on.
B) God has to use the forces of nature to create a path through the 'sea' (Exodus) (by the time you get to Deuteronomy, it is a whole lot more impressive as an...
'Creation science' is non-science (and nonSENSE). It is possible for a scientist to believe in God, and to believe in a god who created everything - but such a scientist should recognize that his/her belief is just that - a BELIEF, and is not 'science' nor 'scientific', nor can that belief be...
Actually - you can make a case - FROM 'SCRIPTURE' that the Abrahamic deity is neither omipotent nor omniscient, nor even 'the only god'.
Really - it is all in the preconceptions derived from later interpretations. Genesis 1 does indicate that this God is extremely powerful - but not necessarily...
God is Creator. But God is not 'the Creation'. We can and must separate what is 'creator' from what is 'created' - unless we are pantheists.
I'm not a pantheist, but I can entertain the idea of panENtheism, which is rather different.
I believe you are incorrect in your assumption, or at least a bit sideways. Science concerns itself with anything that can be falsified IN THE NATURAL WORLD using natural means. Science does not and cannot 'test' (falsify) matters of the immaterial, spiritual 'world'. Wrong tool.
I should...
By definition (God as spiritual entity, bodiless, outside space/time) it is not possible to test ('prove') whether or not such a deity exists using 'science' as a method. Science confines itself only and solely to the natural world of our space/time. 'Things' (or beings) outside that (wholly or...
I'm pretty sure I'm older than dirt. But in computer time....when I got my first one, the operating system was DOS 3.0, and there was a whole entire one megabyte of RAM, because I paid for the upgrade for extra memory. Floppy disks were still over 5 inches and the dot matrix printer was the...
Ok - Jesus was a Jew. Not a big issue really.
Next - let's see - Judaism does not separate 'religion' from 'cultural background'. A Jew is a Jew and a Jew practices Judaism. Judaism is 'living like a Jew'. Your confusion is common enough, because the western world separates religion and culture...
Just to clarify - ABRAHAM was a 'Hebrew'. Adam was just a human person. Not a Jew. Not a 'Hebrew'. Just a human (actually, 'he' is probably just a personification representing all mankind/humans, and not a real person in the first place, but for the sake of argument - Adam was a human person).
'Judaism' (which is the name for the religious practice/worldview of the Jewish people) basically doesn't really get properly begun until Sinai. The people who were present there were a mixed multitude, which included, but was not restricted to, the lineal descendants of Abraham, who is...
So, what I'm asking I guess is --
If you converted to Judaism,
Why did you choose Judaism?
What other religions did you consider?
What did you do to rule those out?
What made you decide against other religions?
this is long, sorry.
I was raised in the non-instrumental church of Christ - if...