With all the disasters that keep happening and, as some believe, getting worse, because of climate change and whatever other reasons, does this fit with the end-time prophesies of your religion? And does your religion even have end-time prophesies? And because plagues and earthquakes and other...
That's the claim of the Baha'i Faith. Is it true? The claim is that their founder, Baha'u'llah, was sent from God to bring humanity the social and spiritual teachings needed to bring the world together in peace and harmony. So, what are those teachings?
In 1985 the Baha'i governing body, the...
Many Christians present Jesus as the "only" way to get into heaven. That everybody, without Jesus, is lost in their sin. That nothing they can do on their own is good enough. And, without accepting Jesus, God will send them to hell.
So the question for Christians is: Prior to Jesus, was...
I checked out a site that tried to answer the question about a prophecy saying that Jesus would suffer, die, and rise again. This is what it said:
"Imply"? Since the gospels and Paul's writing were after the fact. How does this even come close to being "as written" or "as Scripture says"? It...
Baha'u'llah claims that he is the return of every "promised" one of every religion. That includes all the big ones like Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and, of course, Christianity. They don't say he came as the same physical person that was promised, but that he is the return in a...
So many things don't add up in Genesis. Like the Sun and stars, not only were they created after the Earth, but created after plants? But then, I was wondering; Adam gets kicked out of Eden and has to till the soil? This is based on Gen 4:23 and 4:2 where Adam is sent out to "cultivate" the...
What should a Biblical economic system look like? What did the economy look like in ancient Israel and Judah? Since the early Christians shared all things in common, what happened? Did that not work? Or, since they were expecting Christ to come back soon, did they not care about the economy?
In John 4:24 KJV: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
In Luke 24:39 KJV the resurrected Jesus says: "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."
So Jesus is...
It's almost like saying, "Who's your daddy." Because John wrote down in chapter 14 verse 6 that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, it makes a pretty good case for Christians that they are the only ones right.
But in the Quran 33:40, Islam has "Muhammad... is the messenger of God and the...
I'm worried about how Fundamental Christians deal with 1st graders being shot. There' s always the question of why would a loving God allow it, but now that it's done what is God going to do. Most religions probably have provisions for such a thing. I was raised Catholic, so I was baptized to...
Missing links and the simple becoming more complex? I don't know. Plants being created before the Sun and stars? Yeah, right. All of creation crammed into a boat? Get real. Every has a little bit of proof. Mud with dinosaur footprints next to a human footprint? Hmm, how'd that happen? The fossil...
Some TV creationist show made a big deal about how reptiles never stop growing. And, therefore, that is why we have dinosaurs. They are merely big lizards, because the conditions on Earth were different and everything lived longer.
Two problems: The first thing that bothered me was that the same...
I've been wondering; If Jesus spoke Aramaic or some other dialect, then everything had to be translated into Greek. Add to that the very real possibility that several of the people that heard Jesus speak must have gone off and repeated the stories orally. The sayings of Jesus could have been...
I've assumed so much. Doctrine after Christian doctrine seems to have very troubling origins. I read an article I found at Outreach Judaism by Rabbi Tovia Singer. It said, "The term "original sin" is unknown to the Jewish Scriptures, and the Church's teachings on this doctrine are antithetical...
I asked this question before in religious debates, but only one Christian responded. So let me try again here in Biblical debates. I would like to know if it bothers Christians that Mathew takes Isaiah chapter 7 grossly out of context. The main point of the "sign" is the age of the boy, not that...
Doesn't it bother literalistic Christians that Isaiah chapter 7 is taken grossly out of context?
Regardless if the girl was a virgin or not. Regardless of the dual prophecy problem, that if the "sign" is to be a virgin, then we have Mary, but who was the other "virgin" in Isaiah's time...