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It is not necessarily the promise/threat of heaven or hell that makes belief in God significant for ethics. It can also be the philosophical/logical position that no system can validate itself. Ethics, no matter how you slice it, depends upon something being considered absolute to measure...

According to the view suggested in the OP, yes. It is meaningless.

The salmon swim upstream because of blind, meaningless evolutionary instinct.

That is interesting P. I can relate to that experience.

Or, what if there is Something and we've gone through life believing there is nothing for no good reason, except perhaps that it is the bleaker and more punishing worldview and we are too proud to think we need to be comforted.

How do you recognize/define a prophet? Do prophets tell the future, or tell us Truth, or both? Who in the NT would you say were prophets? Why? Are there prophets today? Who? If you think so, are they different from prophets of the Bible?

I think it is correct that the Bible is not a history book the way we think of history books today, the way a scholar or journalist needs to stick to 'just the facts.' But it is historical in that the events (or more significantly for Christians and the NT, the Event) it describes did happen...

Hi Dream, thank you for the drive-by hello. ;-) Hope all is well in your world. luna

A blessed Holy Week to you FS, and everyone else here oberving. :)

Great post Path and the second paragraph especially rings my bells, as I think at least part of the story is that God creates in the eternal moment which exists in the fleeting present (if that makes sense), not like someone who wound up the machine and then stepped back, or only steps in to...

I agree with you on this. I don't remember my birth, but it seems unlikely that it would be impressed upon me as a journey down a long tunnel with light visible at the end. Intense squeezing and then sudden light would seem more likely.

1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the...

Welcome back Tao. :)

Sad news, I've been missing Scott for several months now. Rest in the peace of God, Scott.

Moved from Christianity to Comparative Studies. lunamoth, moderator

Hi Phyllis, Lunas and the whole moth family doing just fine. We love the snow and the girls got two days off of school. We stayed tucked in and enjoyed it making cookies and playing games, watching movies. Today is gorgeous with a foot of snow to play in and bright blue sky. I missed...

Hi Chris, Been missing your presence on the forum. Your new work-out program is inspiring. ;-) Laurie

Are you sure you're not just referring to a cross-country trip on I70? :D

I am a Christian and a theist. I make plenty of mistakes every day. I often choose to follow a course of action that is not wholesome. I am prone to selfishness, laziness and arrogance. All of these things I see as my shortcomings, my "faults", my responsibility to fix. Satan encourages...

It's very true Path that the division over homosexuality is hurting our congregations and keeping us from our mission of reconciliation. I think, however, that even a few individuals who refuse to let themselves get too distracted by this issue and focus instead on being a community of...