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  1. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    You are totally wrong; Jesus accomplished His mission. In fact those who believe in Him are sanctified and saved. However, those who do not believe in Him, would not believe in Him even if He came again and again. Jesus Himself explained this: Luke 16: 19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in...
  2. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    You cannot extract only a piece of a verse,out of its context, and build a whole theology on it. The full verse is: But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. The Lord Jesus and the Father...
  3. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    You must understand that God lives His eternal life out of time. But God is omnipotent and He can assume the human nature and enter time and space as a human, and as a human He can suffer and die. In His eternal and out-of-time life, God the Father and God the Son always live in the unity of the...
  4. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    I strongly disagree with your statement that "there really is just as much reason to believe in the Bible as the Quran". In my first post I explained why the christian concept of divine love is unique and different from the one expressed in the other religions. There is indeed much more reason...
  5. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    Actually, I do not remember if I have ever been in a forum called Beliefnet, but I don't think so. This is not a problem at all. In fact my point is that it is the idea itself that God loves us so much that He chose to assume the human nature and accepted to suffer crucifission in order to...
  6. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    I can only suggest to you to study physics, and you will easily understand that consciousness is irreducible to the laws of physics. Best regards.
  7. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    The fact that consciousness is irreducible to the laws of physics is so obvious and well known that no respected peer revewed source would publish an article about such obviousness..
  8. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    False. The laws of physics are something we know and the laws of physics describe all the properties of subatomic particles and quantum fields; among these properties there is no room for consciousness. This is something we KNOW, and therefore the irreducibility of consciousness to the laws of...
  9. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    I am not sure to understand what you mean with "impartian" Anyway, let me explain why we have to accept Christ. I believe that God loves us infinitely, and He desires to lead each of us to the true life and true happiness, a condition existing only in communion with God. But God cannot tolerate...
  10. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    You seem not to understand that all what occurs inside a brain consist only in successions of elementary physical processes, which is sufficient to prove that the fact that consciousness is irriducible to the laws of physics implies that consciousness is irriducible to cerebral processes and...
  11. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    You are using straw man and are misrepresenting my argument. I have never said anything like "I don't know, therefore God", but I rationally anaòlyse our scientific knowledges. In fact, our scientific knowledges show that all biological/chemical/cerebral processes are reducible to the laws of...
  12. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    Your example does not make your point. In fact, a perfect circle is only an abstract concept which can exist only in an intelligent and conscious mind. Perfect circles do not exist by themselves; therefore, also PI and its value is only an abstract concept and it exists only as a concept in a...
  13. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    I have clearly shown such contradictions, and you have provided no valid counter argument. You are simply denying the obvious. You need to reject all our scientific knowledges abut matter in order to keep your assumption that consciousness is generated by cerebral processes; this is sufficient...
  14. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    False; it's an argument based on our scientific knowledges. Materialism is based on assumtions contradicted by our scientific knowledges. I am just pointing out such contradictions.
  15. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    If Jesus were not God, then the idea of a God that loves us so much to be willing to suffer a terrible death in order to save us, would not be true; hence God would love us less than our idea of God, which is impossible, because God's love is superior to every idea of love we can conceive.
  16. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    Simply false and absurd. First of all the structure of the brain provides no explanation for consciousness. Besides, your idea of "zoomed out view" implies the existence of consciousness. In fact, the choice of zooming or not can be done only from a conscious being. This means that consciousness...
  17. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    I have never said that "it takes the mind's understanding of reality to function as the foundation of reality"; what I said is that this mathematically structured universe can exist only if an intelligent and conscious mind conceives it as a mathematical model; of course, I was referring to the...
  18. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    what?! Thomas is talking to Jesus and he calls Him "my God!. You are denying the obvious.
  19. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    Yes, Jesus is God the Son and His God is God the Father. You must humbly accept that God in His essence is unknowable because He is far beyond our capacity of understanding; However God has made Himself knowable in the Person of Christ; in Christ we know His infinite love and goodness.
  20. mmarco

    WHY I BELIEVE THAT CHRIST IS GOD

    Both Jesus and the Father are the one God; you cannot choose only one verse and disregards all the others; for example; John 20:28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Thomas calls Jesus "my God" and Jesus does not correct him. God loves us so much that He decided to suffer a terrible...
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