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I think it has more to do with the "social environment" and culture in which people lived. If human nature was evil, Noah would have belonged to the same category as everyone else. I don't think things were that bad. I think this is just a statement of the general weakness and failure of the...

Listening to the wisdom of the sages will not disconnect you from your own ego. The ego is you, it is the self and you are you. Everything you do is your own thing. Even if you were a slave, it is still your very own choice to follow your master. You can rebel. But it's true that nobody...

Even though I have a "Christian" background, I personally find labels like "good" and "evil" to be unhelpful. I have found from looking into Judaism and the Jewish thought system that Jews tend not to think in terms of "good" and "evil" -- at least not half as much as Christians do. Jews tend to...

You can't really laugh on the Internet because it's all bytes and binary data. It's only until that data is converted into audio signals that it becomes laughter, like for example when you upload your laughter to YouTube. Crazy Girl laughing - YouTube Fart in a meeting (can't stop...

Old habits die hard.........:rolleyes: I think people do it because their parents did it. If they were to suddenly change things, there'd be a rude shock. It would seem like abandoning the faith. Imagine the dialogue....... "Darn!!! Why did you stop singing hymns, you know it's the way we...

What did you say? Was it something like the world is being manipulated by the Illuminati, that the Illuminati are going to bring the anti-Christ?:eek: ..... that the apocalypse is just around the corner? I know for sure that kind of stuff would be pretty provocative. That's the thing about...

May the Force be with you, donna;)

I don't think anyone should start preaching about the New Testament in general without some basic understanding of what the Second Temple world was like using information external to the NT itself. Reading it is fine, but forming strong opinions without background information is what leads to...

From what I have read, there is one major difference between the Apocalypse of St John and the Gentile Gospel of John -- that it contains Hebraisms and is therefore probably not written by the same author. One major theme in this book is idolatry. A person with a Jewish background is more likely...

Don't forget, however that early Christianity was itself a syncretism of Judaism and Hellenism. Christianity today descends directly from that syncretism. That means that authentic Christian teaching is actually syncretistic. Christians over the centuries have held the erroneous and mistaken...

Jesus is supposed to be a projection of all of us. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17 Didn't Paul say we had to become "all things to all people?" To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all...

What about Islamic Christians? Hindu Christians? New Age Christians? Isn't that what this thread is about?:eek: I actually wonder why people don't use these labels more often. They know they can, but why don't they? That is sure to create a storm. I think it would be an interesting social...

The first century is Christianity's link with Judaism. The New Testament does not tell us what actually happened in the first century. Jews brought up with the Torah and Talmud probably study first century religious politics. They probably know what happened and they know what Jesus really meant...

Jesus was a hybrid spiritual leader. He is supposed to be the bridge to all the world's religions. He was the bridge between Judaism and Hellenism in the first century. Christianity came out of the melting pot of Jewish and Greek culture and thought. Christianity today is deeply influenced by...

Messianic Jews are a modern innovation that came from Protestant Christianity. They used to be called the Hebrew Christians Association of America. Now they call themselves the Messianic Judaism Association of America.

The conspirators are unlikely to be centred in one location or to all be found in that same location. They would have agents spread around the whole world. Bombing the "City of London" would not stop it. The "City of London" may just have been one of the places where one of the meetings took...

Is it really that bulletproof? Look here, I have a logic gun. It's used to destroy people's logic. It fires logic bullets and I am going to aim it at your post and make random words disappear (by deleting them) from your post so that your logic gradually falls apart. Of course, that is...

This is a form of discrimination. I see a law suit coming. 3000: Hahahahaha I'm so special. 2999: I'm secondary. 3001: I'm tertiary. 32: Get off the high horse!!! Why do you get to be so famous? I'm two to the power of five. The square of me is 1024, the number of bytes in a kilobyte...

You don't really need wikipedia to tell you that do you? Why 3,000? Why not some other number?

It's supposed to be "the water, the blood and the baptism" according to modern scholars.