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Recent content by Skirnir

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    Christian Transcendentalism?

    But does anybody really have a truly coherent vision of what divinity is? At least what I've gotten out of transcendentalism is that nobody can truly grasp what divinity is, and is about the individuality of spirituality. The Bible does describe the idea of divinity, but know one can truly...
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    Christian Transcendentalism?

    I just want to first mention that I was born and raised a Lutheran Protestant up until I joined the military and where I am now at the academy. I had lost my faith due to the enormous amount of self-reflection I have done (boot camp can do that) and realized that I didn't fit into the...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Thanks a lot Monica, I will continue searching within myself and work through these tough issues;)
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Thanks Monica, again, I want to apologize to you personally for what may have come across as rudely aggressive. Thank you for your help. I really did come here for answers and enlightenment. I think I may have worded what I meant when I said God is a force a little wrong... I've always...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Thank you intricatic and Xenon, please forgive the harshness of my previous frustrations in this forum. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers. One question to you intricatic. I have somewhat of an idea of the difference between immanent and pantheistic beliefs, but I'm afraid I'm not quite...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    I'm just going to end my part of this discussion with what I said above. Like Xenon quoted: Matthew 7:8 "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." I have not given up my inner search for my purpose and relation to the creator. Life...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Look, I realize this discussion is not going down any new paths for me like I hoped that it would. My intentions have not been and are not to pick fights; like I said, I was raised a Christian for most of my life until about 3 years ago right after I joined the military. And while many of you...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Thanks, guess I'll have a lot of people to keep me company then if that's the case.
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Isn't the whole idea of Christianity about believing in Jesus Christ as the only means of salvation? Well, sure Abraham was a righteous man, does that change the fact that he did not get eternal salvation in heaven when he died? Most of my questions on this forum have been asking why somebody of...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Well first of all, Annihilationism is a doctrine believed by a very small minority of Christians. And this doesn't prove anything against my arguement because then God will either annihilate the Jews by destroying their souls or will condemn them to suffer. Doesn't change the fact that God has...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Ok, so I've decided that a Christian God and/or a Christian Jesus is more evil (if evil does exist) than hitler. first of all when people say hitler was evil, they are usually referring to the holocaust. undoubtedly, hitler killed and tortured jews and gays for years. second of all, the...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Well when you consider that the Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years, I think that it is pretty significant to have people who lived within even 100 years of his life and not mention him, don't you? What makes you think a person writing about Jesus 1,000 after his death is more...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Choosing which ideals I like over those I don't sounds a lot like those who pick and choose what they want to hear from the Bible, like killing gays or stoning those who don't believe. And if you say that the Bible changes in the New Testament to account for these harsh practices like...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    Therefore they will be going to Hell, right... Shucks, the Jews almost had it didn't they? As a Jew you would believe in the same God, believe in what he stands for, lead your life by His instruction, but interpret a few things differently and you're screwed. Like I talked about in my earlier...
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    Everything You Know You Don't Know About Religion

    How do you know that those who wrote the Bible sometime in the last 2,000 years didn't just add in little references in the Old Testament? While God might not be fallible, man certainly is. I can imagine it now, "Hey Bob, wouldn't putting a little foreshadowing here make it flow nicer into the...