In my opinion it's very dangerous for 2 reasons.....
1.) People not sophisticated about religion may and do become obsessed with this wrong notion and act out on it in crazy destructive ways (dropping out of society, giving up, becoming gun nuts/ survivalists, forming cults, and giving in to...
I'm confused. We all saw the 5 million person march by Europe for free speech and no intimidation from terrorism and among the marchers were European Muslim leaders and European Muslims saying how Islam has no problem with the free speech of others, rejects violence, is a religion of peace...
Cogito ergo sum....I think therefore I am......Yes human logic proves the existence of a Deity that created this universe and reality through a logical intelligent design. As does the fact the whole universe can be reduced to highly advanced mathematics and laws (is that supposed to be just...
Mainliner,
To be a human with our very limited human abilities judging God and judging He has failed is pretty heavy stuff don't you think? But if your in pain and despair I guess it's understandable.
In my opinion NOW is the time you 'need' Jesus and God. Rich people, lucky people, happy people...
No, if the Muslim's said that, they Muslim's are wrong, and inaccurate.
'Corrupt is a way too strong word'. Paul was a true son and Saint of our God . He never claimed to and admitted to the fact he had never written a 'Gospel'. Nor was asked to do ever do so. He never got to be with Jesus on...
No it's not a sin according to the Christian Gospels. In just not mentioned and therefore not a sin. Jesus spoke out harshly against adultery (that is, sex with another mans wife or another woman's husband, or sex with another if your already married). When Jesus said... 'You have heard the...
Sure morality can exist without religion. There are many basis for morality, not just religion. The ancient Greeks for example were a very moral people but got none of that morality from their religion.
Yes some of the ex pastors points are wrong. Most notably #5, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark simply don't say what the pastor says they do. The pastor says Mathew and Mark say that the risen Jesus was only seen in Galilee and this contradicts Luke and John who say seen in and about Jerusalem...
I have to agree with nazz above, it's in fact 'Mt Megiddo' (the words mean the same) a high point in the line of hills running E-W across north central Canaan (Israel) and blocking the N-S route through Canaan and into the hills of Judah. Many Biblical and historic battles had been fought there...
Well, I am Christian...but if I was Muslim, Hindu or Jewish...I would do the same...I doubt and research...everything. I study...I learn (or attempt to)...I have no fear.
It is my firm belief that if we all do have a 'father in heaven' who created us, he created us with...logic and reason and...
'MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS EARTH'...quote of Jesus. We are all mortal. In my belief and by the evidence... we are all God's children.....and we are 'spirits (or souls) in mortal bodies. Every single one of us was born...to die later. All and every human dies, your lives on this planet are...
Well Israel/ Hebrews are the descendants of.....'Jacob'.....He was 1st called....'Israel'....in Gen32 29.....It means one who struggles with a divine being.
A famine in Canaan supposedly later made these people under 'Joseph' go to live in 'Goshen' (the Nile Delta) of Egypt near either Avaris...
I personally have never seen a necessary contradiction between science and religion and why a person can't accept both as true.
1.) I think your right that the artificial contradiction comes from literal/ or unscholarly reading of religion...but...also
2.) Equally often from science on the...
Well, I wouldn't say the Quran is 'inferior' to the Bible or other way around, that requires a 'judgment' and that's not what either book was written for and of course as judgment subject to bias.
But....if you mean to imply is there a connection between the Quran and both the OT and NT then I'd...
I see this topic asked a lot especially from Islam. When the Quran was 1st being written down Jerusalem had already (in 638) been transferred to the Muslims so they knew a lot of Christians. The Quran includes Jesus (and his mother) as being worthy of great respect, touched by God and the...
Well....no....I disagree with the interpretation.
As one of the earths 3 billion or so 'Christians' I've never read what Jesus taught as...not living for this world but for the world to come...and embracing death.
Far from it and opposite Jesus and God taught...life is a gift of God...as much of...
Well, I'm very sure Muhammad existed....The same is also often asked by people about Jesus...how do we know he existed? Well, let me ask you....3000 years from now or even 1500 years from now....how are we going to know...you or I, or the people reading these words existed...you think someone is...
It's too bad you had to grow up with such a negative experience of 'Christianity' that understandably now taints you against it. It's real crock chucked full of nuts stuff for sure!
Mainline Christianity whether Catholic or Protestant being 75% of the total does not and has never believed in...
Well, no...YHWH...never appeared in the ...NT...at any time because it's only a...OT...Hebrew term. The NT written by 100AD was only 'ever' written in Koine Greek translated from the Aramaic as necessary of Jesus time. Greek and Aramaic were the languages then, Hebrew no longer being in common...
I think man made religious affiliations...not God...They're important to humans only who choose to make them important. To God they are no doubt only silly things of dis-united humans, not important to God.