Thank you for your reply. At Psalm 1:2 we find mentioned the Law of the LORD (KJV)
* That Law was the written Constitution of the Mosaic Law aka Scripture to meditate (think about) daily.
One person said that God's holy spirit is frozen in the Bible.
The only way to thaw out God's spirit is...
When I was a street preacher, I used to remind other Christians of 1 Peter 3:15–16 whenever they treated atheists with contempt, which frequently included false accusations of hating and/or rebelling against God, as well as extremely sarcastic remarks whenever any atheist attempted to reason...
I'm going to try to simplify what I said before. I'm in a kind of daze now, so I don't have any clear idea of what I wanted to discuss with you, but it might be about the history of Christian doctrines. My story about Jesus is part of that. Not any historical Jesus and not any Christian Jesus...
Thank you. I'm not saying that it was a Messianic prophecy. I’m saying that if you want to understand what I’m thinking, it might help to keep in mind that in my story, as a context for my ideas about the history of Christian doctrines, Jesus thought he was the person in 2 Samuel 7:14-16. That...
No worries about my sensitivity. The truth is the whole messiah thing is not important at all to me. I discuss it a lot in RF because Christians dominate this forum, and it is the singular focus for them. For me, such discussions are intellectual fun, not seriously important to me. So what...
I'm thinking that maybe the idea of Jesus being a Jewish Messiah is a sensitive topic for you. :) For discussion purposes, would it be acceptable for you to imagine that Jesus mistakenly thought that he was this person? (2 Samuel 7:14-16 KJV)
Jesus thinking that he was that person is part of my...
1 Samuel 16:7
7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Naturally the World is Racialised given...
Are you aware that philosophers were around before the scientific method was ever conceived of? Scientists came along and said, "Lol. We can prove things about nature at a level of precision that you thinky-*** philosophers could never dream of!"
And the philosophers were like: "Yeah. You got...
Baha'u'llah was also one of David's descendants, and Baha'is believe He was the return of Christ who came to reveal what will be necessary to help humans establish the kingdom of God on earth.
That does not say that Jesus was a king.
An anointed one is not necessarily a king.
Jesus never...
In Samuel, God tells David that he will establish the kingdom of one of David's descendants, and says "I will be his father, and he shall be my son."
In Matthew, after Jesus is baptized by John, the Spirit of God comes down to him, and a voice from heaven says "This is my beloved Son, in whom I...
In disgust following the Swiss religious civil war of 1848, my great greatgrandfather Samuel Mueller saved up money and emigrated to the United States in 1862...just in time for the American Civil War. He went as far as he could with the money he had, and ended up in a Swiss migrant community in...
Elucidate on what ? --- Tell me of these doubts ... is it that John is more anti Jew than the Gospels Mark/Matt ?
https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/johns-anti-jewish-polemic/
Is it the dating of John that troubles you or the authorship (not likly the disciple by that name) ...
Mine is "Troubadour," by Samuel Edmund Oppenheim. It's a painting I have in my living room and I like the association with the lyrical poet figure going around singing to folks. He also kind of looks like me.
Feeling of saying is that God is NOT the man/body which is made up of flesh and bones.
Feeling of saying is that God is the divinity which is lightining inside a cretain body.
True, but it is also believed the writer used the accumulated letters of Paul to base his "message and style."
The writer of Hebrews had for his model the Pauline letter-type, which had just clearly emerged before the churches in the published collection of Paul's letters. His letter is about...
You seem to have left out the full quotes and so miss what is being said, but also there is nothing there which says that the Son of God cannot become a man, and still be the Son of God.
I agree with you. I use to make this argument all of the time but many Christians insist that Jesus is God still. I've read the entire Tanakh too.
JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh 1999. 2,023 pages
God I see an idea. Not a man. And that idea varies around and within a common theme. That common theme being the mystery source, sustenance, and purpose of all that is. Including mankind.