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  1. Rakovsky

    Is double-mindedness or wavering "an earthly spirit, from the devil" as The Shepherd of Hermas says?

    The Greek word for "Double-mindedness" is δίψυχος (pronounced "dipsuchos") from Di (two) + Psuchos (Soul), It is synonymous with the terms "of two minds" or "wavering". The only places in the Bible that use the Greek word are James 1:8 & 4:8. First in Chapter 1, James discusses how to make...
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    • Forum: Catholic DIR
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    The Council of Yavneh's Birkat Ha-Minim (1st century AD) Questions to understand it

    The Council of Yavneh (also known as Jabneh, Javneh, or Jamnia) was a rabbinical council or school held around or in the wake of the c. 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem's Temple. Many scholars think that it was responsible for codifying (or helping to settle on) the list of books of the TaNaKh...
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    The Apocryphon of James (1st - mid-2nd century) Questions.

    Recently, I read all the books that scholars think might have been written in the first century on Christianity, including several gnostic Christian works. In the course of reading the gnostic texts some questions came up and I would like to ask them in the gnostic section of the forum. The...
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    Does TaNaKh teach mistaken geology or cosmology, and does that undermine its reliability?

    Tanakh's blessed predictions about Messiah, the Messianic era, and the resurrection of the dead are very appealing. In fact, belief in Messiah and the resurrection are two of the thirteen fundamental principles of Judaism laid out by Rabbi Maimonides. Yet does the Tanakh when intentionally...
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    • creation flat earth flood inerrancy literal resurrection
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    • Forum: Judaism DIR
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    Explaining how "Christ is in two natures" in reconciliation dialogues with Oriental Orthodox

    An Oriental Orthodox friend whom I respect wrote a book called the Orthodox Dilemma about reconciliation between Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox. I wrote a three and a half page response to his book. His book does a good job encouraging dialogue and reconciliation between our churches...
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    Why should one believe that something the TaNaKh predicts would actually literally occur?

    The TaNaKh has inspiring, appealing predictions like the future Redemption and Resurrection. I would prefer for them to turn out to be factually true, but I would like to please ask why one would believe that they actually would? Let me explain what I mean. I. Jews and Christians generally...
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    QUESTION: Do the letters in YHWH compose a meaning?

    I am part of the Christian community, but would like to please understand what views there may be in the Jewish community on this question. In ancient Egyptian and Cuneiform alphabets, in their first stage the letters began as words and then in the second stage of development they progressed...
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    How to accommodate Purusha Prajapati with Shiva or Vishnu being Ishvara Svayam Bhagwan?

    I would like to direct a question in a respectful, non-debating way to followers of Hinduism. Since this is the Hindu section of the forum and I'm not Hindu, I'll allow myself one follow up only. The following question is quite interesting, since Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and largest...
  9. Rakovsky

    DNA will best solve if IndoEuropeans were a major part of the IndusValley Civilization at its climax

    Hindu gods like Indra and Dyaus Pita match IndoEuropean gods, while others like Krishna are unique to the Indian subcontinent. R1b and R1a DNA are found in Europe and Asia, but R1b is not found to a major extent in India. Also in the Vedas we read about the conflict between the victorius...
  10. Rakovsky

    What movies cover the Indus Valley society?

    What movies cover the Indus Valley Civilization that lasted until about 1500 BC? I am most interested in films that directly take on this topic, although a movie that discusses it to a major extent in passing would count. I found: NETFLIX Raja Rasoi Aur Anya Kahaniyan - (deals with food of...
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    Which were the main gods of the Indus valley civilization?

    The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the world's oldest, lasting from prehistory to 1500 BC. It had a huge population spread along the Indus river and neighboring regions in modern Pakistan and northwest India. Scholars tend to think it was basically Dravidian in its main language and that it...
  12. Rakovsky

    According to Sumerians, who created Nammu(waters) and An(sky)?

    Nammu was the goddess of the primordial waters and the Abzu(deep waters), and her sign was Engur. The Engur sign is written with the signs LAGAB and HAL (totality + secret). The Lost History website says: The latter quote is from Sumerian literature, although neither passage cited mentions...
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    What is the root meaning /etymology of the Sumerian word for God, Dingir?

    Here is a diagram of the development of Sumer's sign Dingir. The Akkadian symbols that succeeded it are on the upper right. https://aratta.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/the-sumerian-pantheon-an-dingir-nineresh/ Archibald Henry Sayce says in Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion (1887)...
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    Sumerian video games?

    This thread is not about people playing video games in Sumer. Rather, I wanted to see if there were video games that were about Sumer. I understand that this may not be a serious subject to some, but in another way, i think that documentaries, fictional movies, and even video games help in a...
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    Problems or reservations about Egyptian/Kemetic religion

    I agree with the idea in Kemetic/Egyptian religion that there is one God, NTR, as some Egyptian writings narrate. They say that Amen, Ra, Ptah are really one. And NTR in late Egyptian is Noute. And so Egypt's Christians put Noute in their translation of the Bible. In their prayers, they pray to...
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    Is the root meaning of NTR/Natjir (God) - wonder, shake, force, power, rise, tremble, animate?

    After considering in my last message whether NTR is related to heaven (Nut) and the celestial waters (Nunet), I looked for words in other languages in the Afro-Asiatic family that could show a common root meaning. First, I looked at Budge's dictionary and noted that it mentions among other...
  17. Rakovsky

    Do you think that Egyptians used advanced (for our time) knowledge/technology to build the pyramids?

    The pyramids, particularly at Giza, are a fascinating mind puzzle, and the claim that advanced knowledge or technology was used to build them is interesting. When I mean advanced, I mean even for our time, like machine tooling with diamond blades. 1. What in your opinion are the strongest...
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    Is the root meaning of NTR/Neter (god) => Nut/Neith/Hathor + Ra/Horus?

    Currently scholars do not have a consensus on the origin of the meaning of NTR. This is the Egyptian word for God, for a deity, or for a divine object. It is spelled NTR in hieroglyphics and pronounced Neter. Some scholars post the theory that NTR means nature, element, or principle. One reason...
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    Which god(s) in Egyptian religion most closely resembled the Abrahamic one, a Supreme Creator Lord?

    I am looking for which god(s) in ancient Egyptian religion most closely resembled the Abrahamic or Mosaic one, a Supreme Creator Lord. Which god was the earliest, most foundational, the one who was a Lord, an uncreated eternal Originator or Creator of all things? Perhaps there is no particular...
  20. Rakovsky

    Did a major portion of Egyptians believe in monotheism?

    Egypt's civilization is considered to have begun about 5000 BC, and its writing is dated to have begun in 3500-3100 BC. The First Egyptian Dynasty dates from 3100 BC. Scholars debate the extent of monotheism in ancient Egypt, and those who find monotheism in their religion may point to the...
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