"'Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I... belive without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builderes of Babel." - Benjamin Franklin, 1789You will recall, since y'all profess to know the Holy Bible, how successful buil
Sure there are people with childish conceptions of god and jesus so what do atheists do? They hold god up to those childish conceptions. instead of the mature approach of asking if god is or could be real what would he be like? Basically they strawman god instead of steelmaning god
# Why Are We Here? Why Must We Die?*"Life is the arena where faith, love, and free will become real. Death and suffering are not good in themselves, but they create the conditions in which the deepest forms of love, trust, courage, and dependence on God can emerge."*Why are we on earth?Why do we suf
Exorcist vincent lampert discusses exorcism and spiritual warfare https://share.google/HHUn8IBR23B3zA6FM
Your reasoning is logically strong if we distinguish love from approval, trust, or lack of boundaries.In the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, the command to "love your enemies" is significant because enemies are precisely the people who have not met any condition that would make them easy to love. If
Imperium Deus means "Government is God".this religion is followed by greatest number of people in the world, who believe government is the ultimate God judge on all moral issues and ultimate authority of truth.this religion is followed by government cult followers, called Cultor administrationis, wh
Church scholars push for adherence to early church teachings but jesus also said the spirit will lead us to truth and often theres even more uncertainty in the early church than even all the interpretations of the bibleThis hit on one of the most profound and liberating truths of Christian history—a
This is more a discussion for/about various pagan religions in the west, but I welcome the perspective of others as well. The internet has done much to spread knowledge of smaller religions, but how effective has it made these religions spread? Is there a “cap” to the growth of these religions?
It seems like a lot of times non-believers can't be satisfied with God's mercy. Too merciful, angry. Not merciful enough, angry. ........You’re touching on a tension that theologians, philosophers, and skeptics have wrestled with for centuries. The difficulty is that **people often want two things a
After all of the witnessing of “miracles & wonders” by hundreds of thousands of Jewish people and hundreds of thousands more hearing those wonderful sermons about selling your worldly goods to give “poor” and buy swords, it appears that the short minded and forgetful Jews still couldn’t rec
P1. Existence can only be conditional or unconditionalP2. If existence is unconditional, then everything exists, including God.P3. If existence is conditional, conditions for existence are essentially same as God in power, thus GodC. God exists in both possible cases.Conditional existence talks of "
It appears that the most popular is the King James' Version. According to Wiki and a few other sources. I have found this to be the case myself from speaking with devout christens but they can never explain why only to say that they - "trust it".
.....then the who put them into the mouth of the Christ?Equal then not equal John 10:30 " I and the Father are one". John 14:28 “ I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I" .I judge then I don't judge John 5:22 , 30. " Moreover, the Father judges
Jesus ,the bible says , was resurrected a flesh and blood man.So how did Jesus enter the closed and locked room? On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said,&n
Jesus's tempter was Satan/ the Devil we are told.Mathew4:1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.Right off the bat this story falls apart if it is to be taken literally? Because immediately the “devil” begins his test by saying;4:3“If you are the Son of
Revelation22:18-19 "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take aw
Christians: 32%Muslims; 23%Judaism: 0.2%I have read the Holy Bible, and then Torah, cover-to-cover in four languages: English, French, Greek, Italian. They are not identical, word-for-word. Even just in Engish, there are over 2 dozen separate translations.I have read the Quran cover-to-cover in
When people say Christianity is based on faith, I find that to be indicative of a superficial understanding of Christianity! There is Faith--with a capital "F"--which refers to the unified faith or belief that we have as the Church in believing the truth.This is a communal mutual aggreance of what w
**What Does It Mean for Scripture to Be “True”?Biblical Authority, Human Flourishing, and the Wisdom That Saves**One of the quiet fault lines running beneath modern Christianity isn’t politics or morality, but epistemology: what kind of truth is the Bible actually claiming to give us? 
Even without religion and purely from a skeptical point of view, How We Live Might Matter If Consciousness Continues After DeathIf human consciousness were to persist beyond bodily death — even in some minimal form — it would almost certainly not persist as a blank slate.In every domain we understan
Even Paul and Luke seem confused on the matter. Refer to I Timothy 2: 12 "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." Then refer to Acts 21: 8, 9 "And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we ent
I hear this occasionally and I'm getting kind of tired of it.Huxley coined the term agnostic to describe a reasonable philosophy: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration, and do not pretend that conclusions are certain whi
1: CatholicismJesus said you will know them by their fruits. Regardless of what you want to say about certain individuals within the Catholic church, Catholicism as a whole has more fruits than every other version of christianity combined.2: Greek OrthodoxI have changed my mind about which EO patria
I didn't ask anyone to die for my crimes or sins or misdemeanours.By all accounts, and after all the claims made by Christians of humans having “free will” someone did take it upon themselves and committed suicide on my behalf and I didn’t have a say in the matter.And the idea that I would
I am very confused right now. In past two weeks, I did as one video instructed. I drew a circle, and wrote "Monad" inside a circle. this is to make you invisible to archons. I drew it on arm.I have also drawn some other symbols, as well as prayer to Cthulhu.In past two weeks, money has been coming t
Exodus 20 is the source of the Ten Commandments given to the Israelites [not just Jews, as many interpret, now, but the entire House of Israel. After all, Moses, himself, was of the House of Levi, not Judah] by God through Moses. Verses 2 & 3 contain the topic of the first commandment, the whole
The Christians dogma still,to this day, insist that there was and is, only ever has been, only one god. This is a lie and the odd thing about their insistence is that their own scriptures state to the contrary.Why is it that they have settled on the preferred idea of an omnipotent and everlasti
I have heard a few reasons as to why god is said to have become flesh and not once have I been able to understand why this "incarnation" had to happen and even why it should be believed.So why is that Christians believe it?
They aren't very educated so they dont realize hes not doin much actually to improve these things, and overall hes actually making it worse. Hes mostly just a one trick pony givin fat tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense of basic social services. They probably think hes cutting everyone's taxes bu
Don Lemon was legitimately charged for violating 18 U.S. Code § 248 - Freedom of access to clinic entrances [and religious services], to wit: 18 U.S. Code § 248 - Freedom of access to clinic entrances(a) Prohibited Activities.—Whoever—(1) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, inten
