Consciousness deals with awareness. How do we become aware? Through our senses which is then processed in the brain. Consciousness is definitely a product of the physical world.
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Most people just love themselves. Their possessions are mere extensions of themselves. They term their love ones as possessions; my wife, my son, my father, etc.
The premise behind science is usually a certain set of facts that lead to a conclusion. In religious faith, there are no facts. There is a difference in saying my car will start if I turn the key in the ignition and saying I can sit on this rug and fly away cause I read it in a book.
The...
The biggest misconception about light and dark is that they are opposites. They are not. Light is in darkness with everything else. Light is composed of particles of energy. Darkness is.
Muslims make the declaration that there is no Allah (God) but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. How can they say that they don't need and intercessor when Muhammad is the intercessors? Otherwise Allah would have delivered the message himself!
Genesis 18:1-8
1 ¶ And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the...
By definition, a person with faith should never question because with faith the answers never come.
Hebrews 11:1
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
This means that with faith, there is no confirmation, no evidence, no proof, etc. So a person...
Reading Revelation, I cam across an interesting verse which ties into the cook book called Leviticus. Especially after reading Genesis 18:1-8 where "the Lord" appeared to Abraham and ate raw flesh.
Just read it for yourself:
Revelation 19:17-18
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and...
If you read different sections of the Bible independently, you'd get different interpretations of God. Thus you have thousands of religions. Life is part of a cycle. Like any cycle or circle, if you were not there to witness the circle being drawn, you wouldn't know the beginning point.
In Matthew 10, Jesus tells his disciples to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils.
Matthew 10:8-9
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your...
Paul basically started a new religion. Jesus lived by the law of Moses and expected all of his disciples not to deviate from that until all of the prophesies be fulfilled. All of the prophesies haven't been fulfilled so we should still be under the law. Paul did away with the law by saying...