Why do people say that a theocracy / a country with an official religion is a bad thing ? They say literal interpretation of a religion would be bad too. Are these 2 things related ?
Thesis: correct interpretation of the Holy Bible needs the correct interpreter.
Proof: The Bible does not interpret itself. Each fact needs interpretation. Bible is one huge fact. For example, there is written in Bible, that God inflicts unimaginable evil on sinners. No! God is not the source...
Judaism DIR
Sanhedrin 98b is loved by a great many modern Messianic missionaries (alliteration is awesome) for reasons all too well-known to the members of this DIR, so no reason to get into all that stuff. Setting aside their interpretations which are meaningless to those of this DIR, a...
It is demonstrated that the many world interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is a useless, unpractical idea. The many world interpretation was aimed to make the path from one universe to another a deterministic process. But that goal was not achieved: modern experiments have proven that quantum...
I've oft seen " the little horn " of scripture discussed, ( Most often in Christian eschatology as the antichrist ) but never the little " horn " that is used in Greek manuscripts and written over all nomina sacra
Curious if the board here has already discussed such a thing ?
We have numerous cultural Stories of Creation, which very much seems to be similar to each other but how do we interpret these stories? Can they possibly be interpreted into modern terms and give some modern scientific sense?
In the following I´ll use the Egyptian Story of creation as written...