No, God is not human.
Most of the problem arises around the allegation that [he] made humans in [his] own image ─ and of course no one knows quite what that means.
God has already set a plan for such a situation: He has proposed that it can never happen.
Sure, there will be a ‘Famine’ of the word of God… it would not be the first time in history… and history has shown that God’s word will be revived … So do not worry… Just don’t be one of those who sought...
Bible shows strikng evidence that Jesus and his disciples took reincarnation as fact.
I always thought there was of suggestions reincarnation in the Bible though it ran counter to Christian doctrine.
Depending of what narrative you run with while reading the Bible you get very different...
So here I go. Firstly, reading the writings of Origen of Alexandria probably influenced me a great deal. However, he was conflicted over reincarnation. Most know that the eastern religions have believed in reincarnation for millennia. And Plato wrote his views on his belief in reincarnation...
WOW -- I've got some homework ahead of me! LOL I love it! Thank you for the research and thinking challenge. I will surely reply when I have my notes compiled. My scratch pad is already on my chair arm ready to go............
I'm interested in knowing your personal interpretation of the following scriptures. I'm addressing this post specifically to you because I'd like to know your thoughts on them. I decided to address you directly because I'm already aware of how a couple of others in this discussion interpret the...
It isn't repetition within the same book or same chapter. There is some trouble with just leaving this as is. Numbers 23 is a quote from Baalam (a shady character), and there are instances in various books in which humans are called gods. 1 Samuel is a story about a king who may not even be...
Jesus said he came for the people of Israel. The people of Israel wanted him gone/dead. Maybe he came to accept that to be his fate though only after one final plea to God for it to be otherwise.
To be fair, Paul was coming from a pre-existing Christian movement, one he says he'd persecuted, presumably for what in Jewish terms were blasphemies.
Yes. Jesus states at the start of his mission that it's a suicide mission and he's going to die eg ─
Mark 2:20 The days will come, when the...
I tried to put it to you as mildly as I could possibly could, but Thomas Szaz, who spent most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York said:
“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia".
But I guess you don't believe...
Very well. Let's talk about the Goliath pericope beginning at I Samuel 17:4. Quoting Wikipedia ...
The oldest manuscripts, namely the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel from the late 1st century BCE, the 1st-century CE historian Josephus, and the major Septuagint manuscripts, all give Goliath's...
Yes, Israel was given the freedom to decide whether they wanted a king or not.
But getting back to the government that God is said to have designed, it is run by the Levites and Judges. Although Levites are hereditary, Judges earn their position with their knowledge of Jewish law. IOW a...
Nah, according to 1 Samuel 8, YHVH only begrudgingly let Israel have a king, because they wanted to. So, the ideal was to have no government, only judges, or, basically, anarchism.
A very interesting part of the bible that is widely unknown. Priests and pastors would never tell their flock about...
I don't believe that. Why would I? The argument for resurrection is that some people say that some other people saw Jesus when he was supposedly dead, and that when a rock was rolled away, there was no body to be seen. There would need to be a suspension f the laws of nature to revivify a body...
One way to explain all the contradictions in the Bible, is that the text of the Bible was written after the events. The accounts of the events had been pass forward, in time, by word of mouth. The New Testament version of the Bible was written about 200 years after the events. Rather than be...
True!
But there is a fuller and more relevant question:
If the Son is God AND is equal to God
And:
The Son is MAN AND is GOD then
Is the So GREATER THAN GOD because he is:
Both Man AND God?
or is the Son LESS THAN GOD because he is
Both Man AND God?
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man...nor a son of man.
1 Samuel 15:29 for he is not a man
Hosea 11:9 I am God and not a man
Job 9:32 For he is not a man
So four times, FOUR, the Tanakh repeats the same teaching. Wouldn't you think that makes it rather important?