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You carry on believing in fairy tales with no proof what so ever, just like all religon, fairy tales with no proof.
originally posted by: silo13
a reply to: Jay-morris
You carry on believing in fairy tales with no proof what so ever, just like all religon, fairy tales with no proof.
Well...there ya go then...
Maybe someday you'll read the Bible for yourself and gain some understanding.
originally posted by: St Udio
the Son-of-Man... not the once & first Resurrected Christ... will return to the Earthly biosphere to occupy a Throne of an Earthly Millennium Kingdom
the Resurrected Christ both is & is not the 'returning' figure of Jesus
returning to Reign as a 'First Born of Men' ~or~ 'Son of Man"
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I see the Christ as eternally seated at the right-hand of the Father...but the Triune Godhead will send a figure in place of the once crucified-then-resurrected but still denied Messiah--- to sit as King of the promised Kingdom here on Earth...
Jesus and the Christ and the 'suffering Messiah' who was rejected by the Tribe of Israel and predominately by the Jews & the Priesthood.... are all autonomous persons but are inclusive of each other just as the Trinity Godhead in Heaven are united yet individual aspects...
so a Christ or Jesus or the promised Messiah King will return to Earth for a 1,000 year reign & short rebellion that grew & flourished right under the noses of a 'Supreme Being' led Monarchy with a 'Swiss Guard' composed of Angels only...unlike the Vatican of today
one time I will elaborate as to why the anti-Christ Beast Kingdom is destroyed...only to return for a 'Season' after the 1,000 year Kingdom's time runs out for The Peace=&=Tranquility era....
after all the Cosmos is set-up to be 2/3rds creation but 1/3rd destruction for it to function correctly--if that balance/ratio is too whacked the result is-not-good at all
originally posted by: silo13
a reply to: Jay-morris
What's sad is people who can't see the choices they make (or don't) here in this life will effect everlasting life - and the peace and joy that comes from knowing you made the right choice.
That and why would anyone want to be willfully ignorant of the truth.
If I am wrong, which I am certain I am not, I would be absolutly gutted that a primitive thinking, sexist, arragont, ignorant, hateful, homophobic, war mongering being actually existed, and was the reason we are all here. I would be absolutly gutted! But would never worship a being like that!
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The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy, as he put it in Twilight of the Idols: “When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident… Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole.”
Nietzsche thought this could be a good thing for some people, saying: “... at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn.” A bright morning had arrived. With the old system of meaning gone a new one could be created, but it came with risks—ones that could bring out the worst in human nature. Nietzsche believed that the removal of this system put most people at the risk of despair or meaninglessness.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: silo13
Jay-morris states
If I am wrong, which I am certain I am not, I would be absolutly gutted that a primitive thinking, sexist, arragont, ignorant, hateful, homophobic, war mongering being actually existed, and was the reason we are all here. I would be absolutly gutted! But would never worship a being like that!
The Old Testament claims these attributes of Jehovah. Do you call the writers of the OT out for this when one points it out?
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knowledge enlightenment and acceptance negate the need for anger.
The world kept turning after the Temple was sacked in 70 AD
God is dead proclaimed Nietzsche
bigthink.com...
The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy, as he put it in Twilight of the Idols: “When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident… Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole.”
Nietzsche thought this could be a good thing for some people, saying: “... at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn.” A bright morning had arrived. With the old system of meaning gone a new one could be created, but it came with risks—ones that could bring out the worst in human nature. Nietzsche believed that the removal of this system put most people at the risk of despair or meaninglessness.
What replaces the Western tradition is what matters.
How we adjust may bring about the apocalypse
originally posted by: JHumm
So many people pick and choose which parts of the book they like , they follow the ones they agree with and do whatever they want anyway, when they don't like what the book says.
They will change things, they will omit things just so they can try to get around what the books tells them .
Bunch of hypocrites......
originally posted by: JHumm
So many people pick and choose which parts of the book they like , they follow the ones they agree with and do whatever they want anyway, when they don't like what the book says.
They will change things, they will omit things just so they can try to get around what the books tells them .
Bunch of hypocrites......
frustrating that something man made has dominated us for such a long time. So many lives lost because of this fairy tale that will not go away.
More people are begining to turn their back on religon though.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: Jay-morris
frustrating that something man made has dominated us for such a long time. So many lives lost because of this fairy tale that will not go away.
I wouldn't call it solely man mad, without going too far off topic. The lives lost were not for fairy tales but for peoples beliefs manipulated for the purpose of temporal powers in the pursuit of plunder. Man has an inherent need for faith, kings and bishops know this too well.
More people are begining to turn their back on religon though.
revivals come and go. It would be a sad day when the "atheist" outlaws religion.
The lives lost were not for fairy tales but for peoples beliefs manipulated for the purpose of temporal powers in the pursuit of plunder. Man has an inherent need for faith, kings and bishops know this too well.
Why should people carry on believing in something that is obviously not real? Especially when it causes so much pain.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: Jay-morris
Again you avoid my suggestion that religion is manipulated for ....
The lives lost were not for fairy tales but for peoples beliefs manipulated for the purpose of temporal powers in the pursuit of plunder. Man has an inherent need for faith, kings and bishops know this too well.
Why should people carry on believing in something that is obviously not real? Especially when it causes so much pain.
People also believed, under company law, that when a small business cant trade its declared insolvent.
When big banks became insolvent they made people believe they were too big to fail - they were bailed out "causing so much pain" to the taxpayer.
You wan't to do away with religion.
Do away with the corrupt politicians and I'll jump on that bandwagon with you.
And tell me which of the following were religious?
originally posted by: KansasGirl
a reply to: MatterIsLight
For starters: what does "All Israel will be saved?" mean? The answer to that question will then determine your answer about what the text says is going to happen and when. And in the bible, "Israel" is a word that is used in different ways (sometimes it refers to the patriarch Jacob; sometimes it refers to all 12 tribes; sometimes it refers to just ten tribes; sometimes it refers just to the tribe of Judah;