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Recent content by sojourner

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    God is beyond religion

    Sure, but where are the myths, ceremonies, and theological creeds?
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    God is beyond religion

    I kind of agree and kind of don’t. Atheists espouse no religion. Religion is a specific system of beliefs, myths, ceremonies, and sacraments. Not all who are spiritual make use of such systems. Humanity’s approach to the Divine is not always through religion. But it is always a matter of intuition.
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    God is beyond religion

    “God” is a specific name/designation, with specific theological connotations. I, personally, prefer the term “the Divine.” It seems to be more conducive to universality. But in theory, I do agree.
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    Where does Christianity begin and end?

    I get what you’re saying, but here’s the thing for me: why would a person want to identify herself in negative terms, that is, by asserting what she is not? Doesn’t that act imply divisiveness, in addition to not being very helpful in identifying who she is? You are a Christian; you’re not a...
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    Is Jesus God?

    The Father sent the Son
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    Double-blind Prayer Efficacy Test -- Really?

    Kierkegaard said that the function of prayer is not to influence God, but to change the nature of the one who prays. Those are the parameters for the test. Who was changed by praying?
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    Is Jesus God?

    The Bible says so.
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    Bible contradictions

    Except that most contradictions aren’t due to scribal error.
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    Christian Evolutionist debate (using scripture)

    The basis of the Apostles’ teaching, the breaking of bread, and the agapé fellowship of the assembly. “The Faith” isn’t entirely, or exclusively, written in “the Scriptures.” “The Faith” lies mostly outside what’s written in the Bible. If you don’t understand that, you understand “the Faith”...
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    How does “Hear, O Israel, YAHWEH, our God, is one” prove that YAHWEH is three persons

    First, Moses didn’t tell the Israelites anything. Israel didn’t exist during the time of Moses. Second, Moses is a literary character. Third, nothing in the Hebrew texts alludes to either Jesus or a Trinity. Fourth, the doctrine makes clear that there are not “three … beings.” Yet again, you’ve...
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    Christians: The Nicene Creed?

    Except that, during the years of the proto-church, the NT didn’t exist. The “written word” is part of humanity’s tradition. You’re ascribing attributes to the texts that are clearly mistaken.
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    Christians: The Nicene Creed?

    You’re conveniently forgetting that, per the doctrine of the Trinity, Jesus is also fully human, and “is tempted in every way as we are.”
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    Christians: The Nicene Creed?

    John 1: “ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all...
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    Christians: Is Sola Scriptura Biblical?

    It’s a classic heresy.
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    Double-blind Prayer Efficacy Test -- Really?

    Music can be a form of prayer. That’s why we sing hymns, hear choirs, and have offertories in worship. Chant is also a legitimate musical form, also used in worship (think Anglican chant, where the same note is repeated over several words). Part of what causes music to make sense to our ears is...
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