I can only speak for myself, but when I started doing serious research into Jesus I was agnostic at best and, I begrudgingly admit, I was hoping to nail that coffin shut.
The reality is that when...
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I can only speak for myself, but when I started doing serious research into Jesus I was agnostic at best and, I begrudgingly admit, I was hoping to nail that coffin shut.
The reality is that when...
You should realize that anything written within 30-50 years of a person's death is considered extremely close in regards to ancient history.
Example:
All we have of Alexander the Great, the great...
A good introduction:
Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence (Studying the Historical Jesus) Kindle Edition
by Robert E. Van Voorst (Author)
Considering we are talking about a 1st century Jewish peasant that was executed like so many others, it is remarkable that we have what we do have.
If you don't care enough to do the research, which...
You need to be better research.
You can START here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
In the cited sources.
That is, IF you really want to know.
The principle message of Jesus was the one He said over and over, " The Kingdom of God is Here..."
The historicity of Jesus the person is beyond doubt.
He is attested by more documents than any...
Ah dude, if it was ever so simple...
Note how Jesus is recorded saying "That's enough..."
Just saying that His disciples were notorious for hearing one message and understanding another, how ...
What part?
That quote may not mean what you think it means.
It is not an advocation or call to arms.
That said, as I stated above, pacifism is not something that any religion that is guided by a moral code...
Pacifism doesn't really play a part in any religion or ideology that subscribes to a moral code or the belief in a moral absolute.
In short, violence CAN be justified.
I agree.
As a Christian one must decide for ONESELF their path.
See, Christianity is and always has been a expression of choice. It isn't a religion ( organized) per say because we truly follow ONE...
It is not about raising a building or anything above one's faith, it is quite simply about respecting what an institution has says it stands for.
Try opening an rub-n-tug in a university and lets...
You seem to be confusing ORGANIZED religion (which is what we are talking about) and "spiritual" religion.
There was a reason that Jesus took the whip to the money lenders in the Temple...
Fact...
So you are ok with someone preaching Islam in a synagogue?
Since it's only a building, we are ok with people proclaiming that the holocaust never happened at the Jewish Research Center?
What I am...
The church being a communal place and a sanctuary is all fine and quote correct, it should even be a sanctuary for ALL, regardless of religion.
BUT it should NOT be a place where other religions are...
It's quite the fascinating thing to watch the very gradual but obvious decline of orthodoxy in N.America.
To bend over backwards so much for either a "quick buck" or under the disguise of "liberal...
Forgiveness was always open to those that repented.
Of course repentance was/is not as easy as it may seem because with it comes full acceptance of all that one has done wrong AND the burden of...
Indeed, and all the good and bad that goes with it.
One sometimes wonders what is going through the head of the Big Guy upstairs when He sees the crap we do to ourselves.
The history of marriage is a perfect example of MAN going out of his way to...
As much as I agree, that is a tricky situation.
In all fairness to Scott, his requests involved sodomizing bears and NOT any homicide what so ever.
Well put, yes we always make a judgment, we just shouldn't judge OTHERS.
Someone asked me once if I ever judge and I said of course I do.
BUT what I try to do, because that is who I understand what...
Its funny, I tend to have more debates with other Christians then I do with people of other religions or atheists.
There is a element of " I am right you are wrong" in every ideology but in a...
Thanks, I appreciate that.
When a Christian is a Christian by choice and because they have been humbled by God's love, they tend to not be the overly "militant" type and quite honestly the vast...
Indeed, hence his warning that any man that divorces a woman (outside of adultery) makes her an adulteress AND all the penalties that go with that (stoning for one).
It was a warning NOT only for...