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- Sat Jul 04, 2015 9:50 am
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: "Educated people are more likely to be atheists."
- Replies: 41
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Re: "Educated people are more likely to be atheists."
True Diz. Some atheists are indeed spiritualists, some believe in a universal soul or even mind (but it is collective and not 'a god'). Some follow the mutiverse science and string theory thread. Even Buddhists can be called atheists, or spiritual atheists, as it was Buddha who said he did not accep...
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:40 pm
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: The Trinity and Light
- Replies: 167
- Views: 66874
Re: The Trinity and Light
We have gone through this before Paidion, and again no one in church history believes the term begotten means God gave literal birth to Jesus, creating two individuales, as in and then there were two Gods. We understand He either was in God as in being God, or became the Son as in being 'declared' t...
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:07 am
- Forum: General Bible Discussion
- Topic: Following Jesus in How to Read the Bible
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11675
Re: Following Jesus in How to Read the Bible
Well for one, outside of the Pentateuch you have all the other books and Prophets, then you have Jesus, One like Mose's: a Prophet. Nothing is outside the Prophets, or in disagreement with The Prophets. So is nothing is outside the Law, or the Pentateuch, and nothing can disagree with the Pentateuch...
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 10:12 am
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: The Trinity and Light
- Replies: 167
- Views: 66874
Re: The Trinity and Light
I get it, Paidion speaking: God gave birth to a baby. God does not literally give birth to babies, or anything. No Hebrew or Christian writer expresses such a thought (yet on the other hand, Mormons do, but they believe god is a man, and at least they have the decency to give credit to the Gods wive...
- Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:14 am
- Forum: General Bible Discussion
- Topic: Following Jesus in How to Read the Bible
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11675
Re: Following Jesus in How to Read the Bible
Love does not override or void the Law, as if humans or Israel could love as in be perfect and without sin like the sacrifice was. Love was in the Law and of The Law . Love God and your neighbor is a Commandment (not just a way to read the bible). To not keep The Commands carried a penalty, and the ...
- Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:41 am
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: The Trinity and Light
- Replies: 167
- Views: 66874
Re: The Trinity and Light
Is Jehovah uniquely the "Father" (as the creeds define it) and is Jesus "uniquely" the Son? Yes and yes. This implies two different persons, and that is specifically why I believe they are two persons / this is why I am not a Modalist / and that is why I believe God is two persons. Because: both Je...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 3:05 pm
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: The Trinity and Light
- Replies: 167
- Views: 66874
Re: The Trinity and Light
I am very aware of the options Jose, I am specially familiar with Mormonism, the various sects of Christianity, and I am a knowledgeable student of world religions, Western and Eastern. Your form of Unitarianism or Socinianism, if that's where you are going, holds that Jesus was created, is that wha...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:38 am
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: The Trinity and Light
- Replies: 167
- Views: 66874
Re: The Trinity and Light
That is the problem, if scripture said: "... yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord Homer, through whom all things came and through whom we live" Either Homer is just a man, or Homer is The deity. Otherwise Homer is a fa...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:25 am
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: The Trinity and Light
- Replies: 167
- Views: 66874
Re: The Trinity and Light
Is God a literal father Brenden? No God is not, that should be obvious. Your trying to keep God in a box with a anthropomorphic term like father. God is an invisible being who can reach out at least 150 billion light years in diameter, simultaneously, create galaxies and stars at will, are you sure ...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:12 am
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: "Educated people are more likely to be atheists."
- Replies: 41
- Views: 22680
Re: "Educated people are more likely to be atheists."
The discussion group I go to would avoid this direction of thought (proceeding) because we basically have one rule, that we start from a 'realists' view of things and the world, since most Darwinists we know do not hold an illusionary view of the world (even a idealist looks both ways before crossin...