Fair enough if I am innaccurate. I can not claim to know everything. But despite the fact that you have now so unabashedly condemned me to falsehood I still sit in waiting for enlightenment. So please, I have asked for correction in my previous reply so if there is something else you wish to...
Technical discrepancies within my essay aside, I believe that the essence of what I am saying (or rather summarizing) is clear. Regardless of the nature of the accurate Hebrew name of the man we call Jesus Christ, or the lack in infamy of the DSS (as I can see is the colloquial amongst the...
Jesus derives his divinity from his ressurection and his return to heaven at the right hand of God, thereby proving his connection with the Almighty and strengthening the symbolism of an earthly death and spiritual life. This is the view of the Catholic church and is the root of all...
I know its a long post but if you have an interest into a more historical study of the time of Jesus you might find this interesting:
If any of you have read, The Hiram Key or any such book on the academic and historical study of Religion, you may have encountered scholars which raise an...
I know its a long post but if you have an interest into a more historical study of the time of Jesus you might find this interesting:
If any of you have read, The Hiram Key or any such book on the academic and historical study of Religion, you may have encountered scholars which raise an...
The following is my experience with Buddhism and reflects only my opinions:
I started out as a Christian. For seventeen years I was forced to go to church but no matter how much I tried, or was willing to, I never returned home with a feeling of purpose or a higher understanding. My heart...
The reason why I chose 'other' was because I found the question to be a bit ambiguous and maybe a little paradoxical. In science, any 'truth' that is conceded upon by the relevant scholars and scientists has been painstakingly observed, noted, hypothesized, concluded and retested over and over...
Hi everyone! I've just joined this forum and I'm actually quite excited about what's going on here. I love fair, open debates on religion (comparative, of course), philosophy and history as these are things that I have the utmost interest in. I feel that if you understand someones faith and...
Thank you all for your input. My first initial reaction was very much like all of yours. As Maize said, since it is his own forum he has the right to run it how he wants. Of course we can give him that much. I gather that his motives for the forum was not for an open debate but for the...
Hi All. I'm new to the site and this my first post but I stumbled across this post below on a certain christian site yesterday via Google and I really would like an open, fair, and objective disscussion from others about what this guy is saying:
Posted by xxxxxx on 09/10/01 at 10:39 AM...