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As I understand it, it has to do with the preponderance of references to him even though they are not contemporary. Evidence - Too little too late for a die-hard slam-dunk, but evidence is too much too early to be dismissed. @Thomas might be able to say whether my little heuristic there is on...

Interesting Customer service scripts, sales pitches, and humanistic therapeutic approaches like "unconditional positive regard"

Though the heady contemplation and the simple devotions are not mutually exclusive Although I have wondered at various times over the years what Jesus/Yeshua, a Jew, would think of the statues, relics, and ikons I hope you keep the heady ramblings coming though. I appreciate the insights...

Interesting That reminds me of the concept of sparks and divine contraction in Kabbalah. Is that what you mean? https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/361884/jewish/Tzimtzum.htm https://jcoh.org/2025/03/28/tzimtzum-and-leadership-the-sacred-art-of-contraction/...

The entire doctrine of eternal hell should be regarded that way. Annihilation, though seemingly equally or more extreme rigid and final, lacks the sadistic element.

As has been pointed out, the Trinity doctrine is not exactly spelled out in the bible either... many think it is a doctrine of men.

We are definitely apt to catch grief for not believing as others think we ought to. Sometime I'm going to start a thread about something like that... just not sure how to angle the question or what I want to call it.

I don't know what that means in this context. Throughout Christian history various controversies and schisms developed because somebody always thought somebody else was - "mucking it up" "Mucking it up" means... what? Disagreeing? Different interpretations of oblique or ambiguous scriptural...

Well, some theists. Some theistic religions posit conditional immortality (ex heterodox denoms of Christianity, some Jewish thinkers) or reincarnation (Sikhism, some Jewish thinkers) or other afterlife theories (I believe Bahai' has a different afterlife theory?) Philosophical theists don't...

But scripture doesn't specifically say a lot of things. When I point that out, or ask about it on any particular point, it seems to frustrate people. 🤨 😔

I remember it being out, I cannot recall if I saw it or not. I don't remember much about the content. I probably saw it...? Fat AND very healthy? Wasn't it more like gobbling large amounts of fast food nonstop would help you gain weight and harm your health without having to invest more than a...

Do you think anybody has access to an answer for that?

Different religious views are often incompatible. Some ideas can be reconciled, some cannot.

Fascinating. Can you clarify?

To whom it may concern (waiting at the service counter) Your oblivion to those around you was obnoxious to the point of aggression. No matter where I stood you stood between me and that counter, even after you were waited on, and two members of your group kept passing in front of everyone, back...

I mean seriously!! Murdering someone because you do not like what they say? Barbaric. What good is religion if for one thing, it doesn't know right from wrong, and for another thing, you have to defend it from free thinking? Is it considered blasphemy that I said that? If the right/wrong people...

If anybody does in fact thing such things, they are not considering the bigger picture and how many excuses people will find to do bad things to other people. And they would be disappointed to find their prediction nil.

I believe so, yes, so I'm not sure why this is in the Christian board. I believe she had an interfaith upbringing which included Christianity but that she herself identifies either as Hindu or as her statement reads she does not believe in sectarianism and exclusivism. But that would be at odds...

You, I think.

Yikes. They did that in Europe too for a time, killed people for saying things contradictory to the preferred religious system of whoever was in power. It's happened elsewhere in the world too. I do not think it should happen AT ALL.