With a respectful discourse Jews, and Christians, let me ask Jews first, between the first five books of the Bible to the gospels, what was the reason those books outside the NT that didn't match the teachings and continuation of the Torah?

Christians (and Jews too), the bible OT is about a lot of history more so than words of wisdom. The only wisdom I can find in the OT is Romans. Hebrews, Psalms, and Proverbs (at least those I've read) and the NT mostly Gospels, Galatians Eccs., Acts, and...

I mean every page. And if you have, how long did it take for you to do that?

Does a god exist somewhere out there? Or is it the name given to the total silence within us?

Sometimes in religious debates, christians will ask atheists such as myself to just "open my heart, let Jesus in, and pray that he reveal himself to me".

That makes me wonder: Assuming that I were to follow your kind advice -- what exactly is it you imagine that I do? How would I go about doing that?

I found and saw this video, it goes in-depth on this topic. I wanted to ask, what do you think of it and is this all true?

I'm not sure, but I believe the trial he's talking about is the Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District trial.
Interesting, but not surprising, that the creationists at the trial were dumbstruck by this news, but perhaps we have an intrepid creationist here who would like to take up the challenge and show where the evidence fails.

Anyone?

Hello,

I'm currently deeply looking into hinduism and spend time trying to find a positive synthesis between it and my old christianity.

But I'm perplexed by the question of reincarnation viz wanting to be together with my family. I've loved my dad a lot but he died 7 years ago as an atheist. He always followed the common understanding of what a good man is doing with life. But when I still was so impressed inwardly about the fundamentalist understanding of christianity I thought maybe...

I mean there is no free will or consciousness in Atheism (the absence of belief in the existence of supernatural) since according to them everything is material/physical. So how can they claim that their view is true if it was predetermined?

I'm on the road of sincerely trying to mix christianity with other faiths. In my seeking, for example, I got close to Zeus too besides Jesus and don't want to deny this. I also embraced Durga, Odin, the Buddha and others. But I have no good education in this, ie I only know the names of the deities and some stories and that was it. And both my christian friends and the members of other religions say I can't mix Christ and other faiths. I do not want to leave Jesus because he came to me a few...

A weight of studies over the years have found a negative correlation between intelligence and religiosity. But if that's the case, then why is it so? A new theory proposes that the reason more intelligent people tend to be less religious is because (1) religiosity is rooted in instinct, and (2) more intelligent people are able to overcome their instinctual religiosity relatively more often than less intelligent people.

Source: The reason why atheists are more intelligent

What do you...