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  1. YoursTrue

    Why do you think some enjoy boxing or wrestling?

    I was seeing an ad with men hurling each other, slamming each other down in the ring, crowds cheering, and wonder why would people enjoy that?
  2. YoursTrue

    Redemption -- means?

    What do you think redemption means in reference to a messianic concept or deliverance? According to one dictionary, redemption is: the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil. "God's plans for the redemption of his world" 2. the action of regaining or gaining possession of...
  3. YoursTrue

    What is the Bible?

    According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the Old Testament includes writings considered apocryphal by Protestants. The New Testament contains four Gospels (Matthew...
  4. YoursTrue

    Evidently the Bible is the most widely distributed book.

    "According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best selling book yet written with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 190 million copies for the Book of...
  5. YoursTrue

    Scientists say...

    There was a start to the universe. Kind of, more or less. Like it blasted from a teeny, tiny substance. Moses knew the universe had a beginning. How did he know that? No telescopes, no space travel...so how do you think Moses knew that there was a beginning to the existence of the universe...
  6. YoursTrue

    Definitions and species (hmmm...)

    So let's see -- is the following true as far as you are concerned? "Why Are Species So Confusing? The central difficulty when studying species is that, even though all species are kinds of organisms, all kinds of organisms are not species. For example, birds are a kind of organism, but birds are...
  7. YoursTrue

    Not sure if this is the right forum, but--maybe we can talk about Spinoza and his concept of God for a while

    Assuming this is the right forum to discuss this as peacefully as possible, I am learning somewhat (although for me it's hard to understand) about Spinoza's concept of God. So one comment reads, I'm just going to center on a few sentences because otherwise for me it gets too confusing. "As...
  8. YoursTrue

    Let's start at the beginning? maybe?

    Let's try. So I'm looking at an introduction to evolution. (Evolution 101) And little by little I'd like to discuss it without rancor, if possible. This is from berkeley edu. It starts by giving a definition of evolution, saying, "Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with inherited...
  9. YoursTrue

    Going back to evolution again...

    So there is a definition of clade, according to the theory of evolution. "A clade (also known as a monophyletic group) is a group of organisms that includes a single ancestor and all of its descendents. Clades represent unbroken lines of evolutionary descent. It’s easy to identify a clade using...
  10. YoursTrue

    WHY do you believe in God?

    That is the question...:-)
  11. YoursTrue

    Truly amazing beyond --

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/we-built-the-worlds-simplest-cell-but-dunno-how-it-works#:~:text=A%20human%20cell%20has%20more,modest%20blueprint%E2%80%94only%20525%20genes. “It’s a very humbling set of experiments,” Venter says. It’s how much they don’t know that’s really...
  12. YoursTrue

    Where were you ...

    Where were you when the earth was formed?
  13. YoursTrue

    When was Jesus born?

    The question has been brought up by more than one that the accounts in the Bible by Luke and Matthew differ insofar as when Jesus was born. I am hoping to have a decent discussion as to the various opinions and explanations about this. It gets kind of deep as far as I am concerned since I am not...
  14. YoursTrue

    Figuring dates once again about civilization

    Once again, we're back to dates. (OK, I'm back to dates.) So reading assertions about the earliest civilizations, I notice a difference of dates for starters. But let's start with one description of an early civilization, the Indus civilization. From the Encyclopedia Britannica: -- notice the...
  15. YoursTrue

    Basically for Jews

    But others welcome -- HOWEVER, it has been said that belonging to the Jewish religion is by MATERNAL lineage, do I have this right? To be born considered as a Jew somehow ethnically or otherwise, it's the mother's affiliation or birthright or whatever that counts, unless of course a synagogue...
  16. YoursTrue

    How do you define SCIENCE?

    The discussion is about SCIENCE -- Creation -- and religion. How do you define science, first of all? One definition of science: (yes, I know there are different "branches" of science, but looking for a broad definition): Science: "The systematic study of the structure and behavior of the...
  17. YoursTrue

    How would you define secular Jew?

    Not sure if this is the right forum for this discussion but I'd like to hear opinions as to what is a "secular" Jew. From Jews and non-Jews if possible.
  18. YoursTrue

    Interesting discussion about religion and evolution

    https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/09/15/440501945/a-question-for-you-about-evolution-god-and-death Changing ideas...? Maybe. Question For You About Evolution, God And Death
  19. YoursTrue

    Question -- not a debate but...about life on earth

    So I read that scientists have discovered a black hole then a huge hole in the sun -- so what's to say the sun will definitely burn up and the Earth will not be existing any more? You can debate all you want to, but I am convinced science does not have the "answers" to life. Anyway. MSN...
  20. YoursTrue

    How do you define a good person or a bad person?

    Some say a person is good. Or bad. How do you figure good vs bad, or simply good and bad?
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