An interesting note about Latter Day Saints. I believe one reason they are so low on the belief scale is in their study of genetics they were trying to prove that there was Jewish DNA in the native Indian population so they could prove the Book of Mormon. When the results showed that there was...
What I find interesting is that God was afraid man would become immortal if he got to the tree of life. The other interesting thing is that the serpent did tell the truth about becoming like gods, knowing good from evil.
The symptoms of knowing good from evil where shame and blame. They...
From what I have read, it seems that hell as an eternal burning place of punishent is based on Greek and Roman mythology.
One interesting take on hell can be inferred by the statement in the Bible about heaping coals of fire on your enemy by acts of loving kindness.
I happen to believe...
Here is a partial list of features for a newly released game based on the Left Behind series of books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
· Lead the Tribulation Force from the book series , including Rayford, Chloe, Buck and Bruce against Nicolae Carpathia the AntiChrist.
· Conduct physical...
These "major issues" that come up to spread the fear that all the athiests, satanists, and liberals are rising up to persecute the Christians in this country are used to raise money. If there are no headline grabbing issues then there is no basis to support these national Christian...
These "major issues" that come up to spread the fear that all the athiests, satanists, and liberals are rising up to persecute the Christians in this country are used to raise money. If there are no headline grabbing issues then there is no basis to support these national Christian...
I like your attitude. I don't have anything against evolution or atheism. I also have nothing against believing in God. I don't happen to believe in God as anyone defines God, but I'm not willing to say that there is no higher power.
Most things in this world are deeply mysterious. We can...
Well there are several questions that come up for me within the story that Christianity has for the origin of sin.
Why would anyone created perfect choose something imperfect?
In the case of Adam and Eve, greed or fear (imperfection) would have to be present for Adam and Eve to choose...
We might have the ability to choose, but true freedom of choice would require all knowledge. Most choices we make that are poor are, more often than not, based on ignorance.
So this idea of perfection really breaks down because we don't have a consistant explanation of why anyone would...
Not only is perfection impossible, but its impossible to define perfection by nothing more than the most abstract terms.
Another way to look at it, as many have suggested, is that everything is already perfect. That would imply that trying to be something other than oneself would be...
There is some discussion that the word is mature, not perfect. This would be a call to maturity. If Jesus is calling us to perfection then we would need to have a pretty clear idea what perfection is. As far as I know there is no definition of perfection that is not based on some arbitrary...
I don't really care if you have a religious affiliation, but I would like to note a couple things.
Even in a secular context science can't take you everywhere. Unless you believe in an absolutely determined universe there is no science that can address consciousness, prove you love someone...
If you want to get a good overview of this problem of sola scriptura Bart D Ehrman has a great book called, "Misquoting Jesus" where he goes over the difficulty of establishing an official translation.
The major difficulty is that we have a whole lot of early versions of the Bible in Greek...
If you want to get a good overview of this problem of only the Bible Bart D Ehrman has a great book called, "Misquoting Jesus" where he goes over the difficulty of establishing an official translation.
The major difficulty is that we have a whole lot of early versions of the Bible in Greek...
If you want to get a good overview of this problem Bart D Ehrman has a great book called, "Misquoting Jesus" where he goes over the difficulty of establishing an official translation.
The major difficulty is that we have a whole lot of early versions of the Bible in Greek that differ from...
If you want to get a good overview of this problem of reliability Bart D Ehrman has a great book called, "Misquoting Jesus" where he goes over the difficulty of establishing an official translation.
The major difficulty is that we have a whole lot of early versions of the Bible in Greek that...
If you want to get a good overview of this problem of versions Bart D Ehrman has a great book called, "Misquoting Jesus" where he goes over the difficulty of establishing an official translation.
The major difficulty is that we have a whole lot of early versions of the Bible in Greek that...
I have enjoyed Stephen Mitchell's English translation of the Tao te Ching. This may or may not be related to the Tao, but I read the first part of A Course in Miracles and one of the first exercises was to go through the day and look at each thing you saw or experienced and say to yourself...