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Recent content by Zalman

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    Dinowhat?

    Nope.
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    Dinowhat?

    Well, what you have come to know as "rational" is really no more than a way of thinking developed during the Enlightenment, which is an empiricist, positivist, reductionist philosophy. Not even Newton applied the "scientific method" to every facet of human existence. If you limit the sphere of...
  3. Z

    Dinowhat?

    I'm quite certain that the World to Come does not involve micturation. That's really my point.
  4. Z

    Dinowhat?

    Didn't mean to offend, just pointing out what seems to me to be the logical conclusion of this way of thinking. If I'm wrong, I'll gladly accept correction.
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    Dinowhat?

    To paraphrase the Lubavitcher Rebbe, belief in God involves recognizing that "inner spark" within you, that exists on a plane above time and space, which cannot bear to be severed from its Source for even a moment, as the threat of separation from God is always utter and absolute, which threat...
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    Dinowhat?

    Sure. But I'm not sure that involves striding up to some old dude in a white beard, shaking his hand and saying, "nice to see ya, Lord!" I don't think the King of the Universe is quite so... "3-d".
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    Fr. Groeschel teaches about the Holy Spirit

    Regarding the bit I bolded and italicized, that sounds about like our conception, but the phrase itself only occurs thrice in the Tanakh, and is only really developed in the later Talmudic period, and even then, not very fully, which is especially confusing given that it is not entirely...
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    Dinowhat?

    If there is not God, there is no human "soul", and it doesn't matter what did or did not evolve from what. Humans, chimps, tree shrews, newts, pebbles -- all fungible. So stipulated.
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    Dinowhat?

    Okay, so he has a theomorphic bladder too, then, yes? And it gets full? So where is the Divine urinal? You can see how silly the idea of interposing human anatomy on the Lord is? I just think we're being a bit presumptuous to say, "okay, I 'get' God". If you had to explain quantum...
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    Dinowhat?

    You don't really believe that the Lord has anthropomorphic "fingers", "hands", a "back", a "face", etc., do you? That's really like re-forming the Lord in our image, isn't it? The "form" of God is incomprehensible to the finite mind. In calculus, it's convenient to draw a...
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    Threatening??

    Hmm. Seems I can't send PM's just yet, but yes, I'd be interested in hearing your story.
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    Dinowhat?

    I guess if you interpret Genesis to mean that God literally took "clay", and rearranged the atoms to make a fully-grown man, you're not going to be persuaded by evolutionary biology. But Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 don't really jive, do they? You've got to go deeper. Of course God didn't...
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    Dinowhat?

    Well, I don't mean to seem flippant, but doesn't it seem like he did, in fact, cause humans and chimps to descend from a common ancestor? If Adam's cousin was a bonobo, it doesn't make Adam any less the first created man, does it?
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    Fr. Groeschel teaches about the Holy Spirit

    So, can anyone give a quick summary of what (who?) is the Holy Spirit? I get that it's the third part of the trinity, but what is it, exactly? We have the "holy spirit" (Ruach haKodesh), but I'm wondering if the idea is the same, or if it's a completely different thing entirely. I...
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    Dinowhat?

    God couldn't have caused chimps & people to mutate from a common ancestor, then?
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