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Recent content by DougLDS

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    Thank you for the refuge but it is time to go

    As a friend on another site said, "An intelligent conversation requires both reason and the assumption of good will of the one toward the other. Religious bigotry is an emotional positioning. It is immune to reason. I see little value in participating on the LDS Subforum on the...
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    Last movie you watched (7)

    The Other Side of Heaven
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    Maybe you missed this in my previous post. Bolded for better viewing. God is not like mortal man in many ways, for He is perfect, divine, immortal, infinitely wise and all knowing, etc. But He did create us in His image (Gen. 1:26,27). To say that He lacks a form or a body, based on John 4:24...
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    My final point to the "God is ONLY Spirit" crowd: The phrase "God is Spirit" should remind us of other similar phrases, such as "God is light" (1 John 1:5) and "God is love" (1 John 4:8). Are these passages defining God's physical nature or several of His many attributes? Is it not possible...
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    Brother, We worship God in "spirit" because God is "spirit" and we, being spiritual beings also (but not spirits only), can communicate with Him "in spirit." But nothing in John 4:24 rules out the possibility that God has a body - or that Christ has a body, or that we have bodies. We all do...
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    Brother, In John 4, a woman is asking Christ about whether God is best worshipped on a Samaritan mountain or in Jerusalem. The context of John 4:24 shows that Christ's answer is about our spiritual communication with God, which is not restricted by place. He wasn't answering a question about...
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    Aside from your personal bias against Mormonism which is noted, let's deal with the issue that you so strongly support, namely that God is pure spirit. Let's take the phrase "right hand of God" for instance. What evidence do you have the "right hand of God" does not describe a spatial...
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    Your bias ia already well known.
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    I guess this is also not the place for the opinion of the episcopalian theologian whom I also quoted since you diisagree with him as well. I guess I'll be looking for the thread "Episcoplaians are not Christian." Be careful your anti-mormon bias is showing.
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    whats your rep count (24)

    Reputation: 69798 Thanks for the help!
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    See, too many folks are caught in the "God is a pure spirit" trap. The view that God is a pure spirit with no body is historical, but historical since its development in the third or fourth centuries, not historical since the time of Christ. A good analysis of this issue comes from Barry...
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    If Jesus Was God, Who Was He Praying To? [moved from CA]

    They are one - but not in the abstract, bodiless "one substance" concept of the Greek philosophers.