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    Is religion dying?

    Globally religion is rising and the number of atheists declined massively with the defeat of communism in Russia. Also atheist demographics are shot to pieces so further decline is expected vis a vis religious nations. The church is growing in places like China and Iran. What has changed in...
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    I was accosted by a couple of Born-again Christians while fishing

    There is no evidence for abiogenesis whatsoever. So this is a matter of faith.
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    I was accosted by a couple of Born-again Christians while fishing

    No you are right it requires more faith to believe in the spontaneous emergence of the irreducibly complex from chemicals than it does to believe in a super intelligence able to make that happen. I stand corrected.
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    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    The post contains enough links to historical evidences to undermine its central premises and render the question nonsense. Also the global consensus is that he did exist and that the historical evidence supports that: The question of what constitutes evidence when the question of Gods existence...
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    Artificial Intelligence and Religion: A Discussion Initiated by GPT-4

    No AI cannot have a soul and the lack of a body and historically and physically embedded personality is a part of that. The question asked above illustrates the premises which come up again and again in deep tech silicon valley chat bots. They are programmed to find consensus and not to offend...
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    Are Christians More Moral Than Atheists?

    Yes Christians are generally more moral because the most important moral activity we engage in relates to God, how we speak of Him and How we honor Him. An atheist by definition does not engage in this activity or only speaks and does negatives regarding God. So with that handicap as a beginning...
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    Reasons for believing in the Bible as the literal word of God.

    The person who inspired it is the reason to trust it. If you trust Him then you will trust His word and gain perspective on the details that bug you. Also the untrustworthiness of the people whose worldviews you merely echo in your objections is a reason to turn away from them.
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    Why do Christians accuse other religions of believing in false prophets?

    All of these are false when they contradict the message Christians have already received and agreed on. But Muhammed spoke truthes and especially in the early part of his ministry when he warned that people should not take God for granted. The overall message of Islam contains clear truthes like...
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    I was accosted by a couple of Born-again Christians while fishing

    Maybe you did not signal very well. Evangelists following Jesus's script and receiving a rejection should have handed you over to the judgment of the Lord, wiped the mud of their feet and moved on to the next person. Regarding abiogenesis there is zero scientific proof and the arguments...
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    There is no evidence for God, so why do you believe?

    There is no proof of not-God either so this lengthy discussion is really just about demonstrating the limited scope of the scientific method. There is significant historical evidence and witness and most scholars agree there was a Jesus and since his church has been growing for 2000 years it...
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    Question about jesus

    God is One , God is Three. Jesus is fully God and fully Man in the same person. Since God is omnipresent and man is not. Jesus was both in heaven and not in heaven.
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    Question about jesus

    The mainstream interpretation of the church of what Jesus said is that there is a literal heaven and hell. There is a difference between spirit preaching to spirits in tartarus and resurrection. Annihilationism is also not a fair reading of the whole of scripture nor mainstream teaching.
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    Question about jesus

    Jesus taught that death was temporary like sleep and then proved it. Jesus said I am the God of the Living and then spoke about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Hebrews talks about a great crowd of witnesses to our earthly endeavours (the church invisible). The mainstream doctrine of the church has...
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    Question about jesus

    The other Lazarus does not save your argument either. It is clear that when Jesus says he is sleeping he is indicating that his condition is temporary. When the disciples ask for clarification of what he means Jesus tells them plainly: "Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. " John...
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    Question about jesus

    He said he was dead and then described what that meant. It is clear that Lazarus and the rich man were conscious in death but separated as are heaven and hell.
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