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Recent content by darklydreaming

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    The Resurrection: Why does it matter?

    This subject is addressed in detail in 1 Corinthians 15, which is structured chiastically. The entire chapter pivots around the idea expressed in verse 26, that "the last enemy that will be abolished is death." The word for 'death' here is θάνατος (thánatos), which can signify either physical or...
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    (Christianity) Do you believe the Bible to be inerrant/inspired?

    I believe in the inspiration and inerrancy of the original autographs of the Biblical texts, while the text we have now is not necessarily word-for-word inspired or inerrant.
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    If God exists, why does He allow suffering?

    The real question is why would anything good happen at all to anyone, when we are rebellious sinners inhabiting a fallen world? Yet God, in order to glorify himself through the display of his mercy, chose to save some of us, and the suffering which we experience now does not at all compare with...
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    Is progressive revelation believable?

    Again, you refuse to respond in detail to much of what I've said and just resort to rhetoric. Biblical authorship is an entire discussion in itself, but Baha'u'llah himself affirms traditional authorship of both the Torah and the Gospels. "[T]he Torah that God hath confirmed consists of the...
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    Is progressive revelation believable?

    I'm not even sure how to respond to your post considering that it feels like you're talking at me and not to me, but you're just wrong. "Were these people to shake off the slumber of negligence and realize that which their hands have wrought, they would surely perish, and would of their own...
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    Is progressive revelation believable?

    I'm seeing a conflict with what liberal Baha'is such as yourself say and what Baha'u'llah actually taught. If one does not recognize the Manifestation of his age, then he is already in Hell by virtue of his denial, so stop pretending that your religion is so much better and so much more tolerant...
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    Is progressive revelation believable?

    You negate the centrality of Christ and the true meaning and purpose behind his death and resurrection. He did not die in vain (Galatians 2:21).
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    Kitab-i-Iqan was not a Direct Converse from/by G-d. Was it?

    There is no such verse. He had not yet claimed to be a Manifestation of God when he wrote it.
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    Kitab-i-Iqan was not a Direct Converse from/by G-d. Was it?

    When Baha'is claim this, it's always funny. I studied Arabic and Persian in college when I was investigating Islam and related religions. There are in fact unsavoury things in the Baha'i writings which are concealed through selective translation practices, and scholars and private individuals...
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