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God does what He wants but cant go agaisnt Himself. He is good thus he cant sin. He is truth, thus He cant lie. See where this is going? Its really simple. So you are limiting God in what He can do. I wouldn't say that God can't do those things, just that He chooses not to. And even if He did...

Yeah, that's what I thought (except for the Hayasira part, which I didn't know). It would be kind of strange if the last avatar (I assume it's the last) of the age was Mr. Ed. :p

No, I can't. But I just don't remember him ever asking them to worship him as Jesus the man. I had always understood it as you worship God the Father, and the Son merely died for your sins...even though they are the same. It's not important anyway. OK, he was a manifestation of YHVH, not God...

Conversing alone does not do any good. Action is what solves problems, not talking abotu what you're going to do. And none of us are really equipped to help shadowman anyway. Also, I wasn't being mean and I don't know why people think I was. Edit: I think shadowman means blaspheming the Holy...

That is not a picture of a Jinn, I'm pretty sure. It's an Assyrian god or god-like being, upon which the cherubim are partly based. It looks like Nisroch without the bird head.

Yeah, that's the problem. That little tidbit has fallen between the cracks even in Judaism, and there is no reason to even consider it in Christianity.

Gehenna is a hell, it is an allusion to the valley of Hinnom. I was saying the Judaic version of Gehenna is like Purgatory, not the Christian perspective is like Purgatory. I was trying to show you that you are committing an etymological fallacy. Also, armageddon is the final battle, not a...

They are hells, just not in the same sense that Christians think of hell. Gehenna corresponds more closely to Purgatory than Hell in Christianity. The actual word Hell comes from hel, meaing to cover, but that doesn't mean Hell is just when you are covered by linens at burial. Armageddon is not...

Sheol, Abaddon, and Gehenna are all different Hells in Judaism. Gehenna's name came from the valley of Hinnom, sheol supposedly means grave, and abaddon means destruction, but I wasn't talking about their names. Actually, I just found out that it comes from Qabalah, not Judaism per se. Likewise...

Well, I do mind when people cause me suffering, which is why I said that as long as the suffering is minimized then people should be able to eat meat, or rather I'm not going to chain myself to a cow to stop it from dying. Unfortunately, the world is a crappy place and unfortunately there are...

No, it's definitely Judaism. The only three that show up distinctly in Christianity are Abaddon, Sheol, and Gehenna. I don't know the Islamic Hells, but I know one that correlates to Gehenna is called Jahannam. You know, the Encyclopedia of Hell by Miriam Van Scott is a pretty good source of...

Yeah, something about knowing a tree by its fruits, rather than it's roots...or something. I'm not very good with proverbs, but at least it rhymes. Anyway, I don't think there's any reason to question that anymore than there is a reason to question whether anything really exists. Technically...

That wasn't nice? Did you see Terrence's post, where he mocked shadowman? I didn't insult anyone or assume. I was not insinuating that Terrence was a Jesus zombie or that Christianity is about being a zombie, I was pointing out that shadowman does not want to become one. I'm trying to help...

Well, I am referring to worshipping the invisible God as opposed to the man he incarnated as. Isn't there somewhere where Jesus says that people shouldn't worship him, but the Father instead? Edit: The only other human in Christendom that is supposedly an incarnation or manifestation of God is...

Why does that preclude there from being other incarnations of God? They would satisfy the conditions in the same way that Jesus did, especially since they were not worshipped. I thought you were supposed to worship the Father anyway, not the Son. I'll see if I can find the evidence for other...

Yeah, I think the first part makes sense, seeing as how the Buddha did not just sit down and seek to create a religion. Second part makes as much sense as any other explanation of the genesis of things.

Where did you get the impression that God cant do anything? Sorry to inform you, but our God is a God of Holiness that cannot sin. Since lying is a sin, God cannot lie. Yes, God is immutable - He does not change. I got the impression from the fact that He is God and He can do whatever He wants...

I thought angels were made of spiritual stuff, certainly not fire as we know it, in any case. Also, I think it's quite clear that Jesus is YHVH incarnate and not just some "god" that God created. Supposedly, Jesus is not the only incarnation of Him either, but he is the most perfect or greatest.

It was a hypothetical proposition. If Jesus said God does not exist, then it would not be true simply because he said it. Likewise, if Jesus stated he was not the Word of God, would he be or would he not be? The point I was trying to get across is that something should not be taken to be...

I see, that's helps a lot. So the lack of a supreme creator deity is to make sure that everyone takes responsibility for their own actions and does away with many other problems of monotheism. I thought as much. It's more like an evolution of consciousness rather than some guy saying "let there...