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Recent content by outlawState

  1. outlawState

    Jehovah's Witnesses continuing persecution in Russia....

    You certainly require God's permission to critique other believers in him, lest it be condemned as hypocrisy (Roms 14). You've already shown that you have a religion by making it clear that sexual immorality is condonable, which is a form of religion (humanism - elevation of the status of man...
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    Have you known anyone who was an atheist because they didn't want to obey god?

    I would concur that people don't usually become atheists to escape any demands a god might put on them, although it happens rather a lot with Catholics, who confuse the demands of God with the demands of the RC church. For many it's rather that they always were atheists from birth and they...
  3. outlawState

    Jehovah's Witnesses continuing persecution in Russia....

    There is every reason to construe JWs as a cult, due to the denial of the doctrine of gehenna, belief in the death of the soul at physical death, Jesus being no more and no less than a perfect human &etc and not the son of God that came from the Logos, although JWs do tend to equivocate on that...
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    Christianity not scriptural?

    Christianity is hyper-scriptural, in that it seeks to understand scripture according to the revelation of scripture that Christ himself had, which was very extensive (it does not always succeed by the sub-standard profession of many self-confessing Christians). In Luke 24:13–35 (road to...
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    What is Evil?

    What about corporal or any chastisement of a child. The intention is to harm, but how could it be evil if done in good faith? The flip side of the coin is intention does not seem to be particularly relevant. 3,152 civilians have been killed in coalition airstrikes in Syria. What does it matter...
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    Is there something that everyone can agree on?

    No, quite the reverse. Atheism manifests a false or illusory epistemic. It's an ontological issue, but unrecognized by atheists as ontological, which is why indeed they remain atheists.
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    First True Picture of God, EVER !!!

    That's what you've been told, and has been propagandized to you by mere men. But Jesus himself never told you that. Personification does not divide God. The spirit of God, and God, does not make a duality. The Logos, the spirit and the Father do not make a tri-partite God. God cannot be...
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    What is Evil?

    In theological terms, evil is someone who breaks the law of God. Generally an evil person does not even recognize the law of God, so that they don't understand that they are evil, or how evil they are. The greater evil is usually done by persons in positions of power. Evil can be directed...
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    Does religion encourage prejudice?

    Islamophobia isn't an issue and doesn't require a solution. Being a muslim is an issue, especially where Mahomet's principal claim to fame is that the law of God itself may be modified by persons with sufficient political power to do so, as Mahomet himself did, where Islamic law is not found in...
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    Women's head covering in Abrahamic belief systems.

    He already has. And he has made clear what is in store for those who don't believe the explanations already given. Luke 16:31 "He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'" Then you make Jesus to be a liar...
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    First True Picture of God, EVER !!!

    Trinity is a philosophical conception of man, a separation of God into divisible parts, into separate hypostases, whereas Deut 6:4 says God is one, and Heb 1:3 says that God has one hypostasis. What the bible teaches is that there is a closed-ness of God that man cannot penetrate, except that...
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    A Different Take on What Prompted Jesus to say, "Judge not, least you be judged"

    What Jesus' meant by judgementalism is epitomized by the example in Mark 7:1-13. Because of the rules for washing in temple rites, and other ritual washing in the Levitical law, the Pharisees had construed washing as a good idea and established other traditions such as washing hands before...
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    Forgiveness

    There were no "good old days." It's just a myth. Like Pablo Escobar, who some will say, he built schools, paved roads, got access to clean water, provided health care, supported churches, and invested in affordable housing.....with money obtained from rich people in the USA buying his cocaine...
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    First True Picture of God, EVER !!!

    I think that God established the earth. Anything to the contrary is imputing a demiurge, "a heavenly being, subordinate to the Supreme Being, that is considered to be the controller of the material world and antagonistic to all that is purely spiritual." That is an inherently gnostic conception...
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    Women's head covering in Abrahamic belief systems.

    Nothing to do with me. You're engaged in a straightforward logical fallacy. As if you had any power to "allow others to practice their own [beliefs]?" I think that the bible makes the assumption that everyone will practice their own beliefs. Revelation 22:11. Your "contentedness in your belief...
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