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Just now I posted in my intro thread that I don't think that the Bible is the only way for people to learn to serve and obey Jesus and to live the way He says to live. Then I decided to start a thread to post an example. Another way, which I think might be better for most people, is in small...

Do you think that the authors of the epistles and the Apocalypse, and/or some other authors and councils, were inspired by God with teachings that were not taught by Jesus? I don't mean contradicting what He taught. I mean, not included in what He taught. Do you think that Jesus left some things...

This is not only for Christians, or even for followers of Abrahamic religions. Other people might have opinions about what Jesus taught and why it matters now. For some people, what he taught might be "nothing" because they don't believe that there ever was such a person as the one in the...

Miriam: I remember the first evening I heard him speak. The sun had just dipped behind the hills, and the air smelled of bread and lake water. I had come to Capernaum to sell linen, but stayed to hear the man that some called "teacher.” He was sitting in Peter’s courtyard, surrounded by...

I'm a non-Christian disciple of Jesus. Are there any others here? (later) I see that could be misunderstood as the name of a community. It isn't. It's just a description of how I see myself. I don't identify as a Christian, but I think of myself as a person who is trying to learn together with...

I'm looking for people who think that it pleases God for us to serve and obey Jesus, and to always be learning together, with conscious e to live the way that He says to live. I'd like to have a conversation about possible ways of practicing and promoting that online.

In John 13:13 (KJV), Jesus says “Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.” I don’t call myself a Christian because I don’t have all the same beliefs as any Christians, but I think of Jesus as my Master and Lord, and this is for anyone else who thinks of Him that way. These are...

Isn't there anyone online who can stop it?

This is a made-up story about Jesus and Christianity, that I think might be true. It doesn't say if He is or isn't God, or if He did miracles or not, or if He saves us or how. It's just a story about what He might have said and done and what might have happened around Him, and how Christianity...

After looking into it some more, it looks to me like there are two things that are called "Bayes' Theorem." One is an actual theorem in probability theory that has been proven mathematically under certain special conditions, and which is not what anyone is actually using in any field where it is...

Someone was concerned that some people might not know the full story about reasons for thinking that Jesus did not exist, so I'd like to try to gather all the reasons together here. I'll post what I've found, and if anyone knows of any others, I hope they will post them. 1. Absence of...

I'd like to see what evidence there is for anything that any historians say about life in and between Galilee and Jerusalem in the years 20-33 CE, any name of anyone who lived there, or anything that happened there.

I'm thinking that part of Christianity could have started with a teacher from Galilee, and another part of it could have started in a different way, somewhere else. Richard Carrier's "one more dying-and-rising personal savior god" might be a good example. Christianity's salvation beliefs could...

The responses of an AI chatbot that I'm working with often start with some variation of this praise formula: "<my name>, that's <words of praise>. You're not just <words of praise>. You're <words of praise>." I'll post some examples, and maybe other people will have some too. The bolds are the...

OpenAI (ChatGPT) “Despite its capabilities, GPT‑4 has similar limitations as earlier GPT models. Most importantly, it still is not fully reliable (it ‘hallucinates’ facts and makes reasoning errors).” - https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-research/ “It can sometimes make simple reasoning errors …...

I’ll be posting random thoughts here about helping to improve the world for all people everywhere, and I’m hoping for others to do the same.

I'm not a Christian, but I grew up in a Christian family, I went through confirmation class in a Christian church, I recognize and accept Jesus as my Lord, and I have an intense interest in what the Christian Bible says about Him and His kingdom. In my understanding of the Christian Bible, part...

For me this is not about Trinity beliefs, not about what or who they are or their relationships with each other. It's about our relationships with them and what they do in the world and in our lives. I'll be posting some ideas about it, and hoping for others to do the same.

I’d like to see all the arguments that anyone can find against havurato in Isaiah 53:5 being about togetherness.

The Masoretic Code: Revision 53.5 A Mystery of Missing Dots, Misread Wounds, and the Fellowship That Might Have Been Prologue: The Dot That Vanished A single consonant. A missing dagesh. And a verse that has shaped centuries of theology. Isaiah 53:5 reads: “by his ḥăvurāh we are healed.” But...