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Is sin and Punishment nothing more than an ancient religious construct or is it real? We see God in the bible punish the world for there sins with a flood. We see God Killing everyone around the dead sea when he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities by punishing them for...

Well Matthew must have gotten it from somewhere. I was just curious to where exactly. Seems there are a lot of possibilities, as many before me have also had this problem. Nice to see the many varying possibilities given by different people, thank you :) nothing precise or exact but that's ok...

How seriously can we take Jerome? I mean, when the guy starts making ridicules claims like the one below, can we take anything he says at all as true??? This guy is tripping... Tradition has it that in this city, nay, more, on this very spot, Adam lived and died. The place where our Lord was...

I'll go read Jerome's letter and see what he has to say. However, your p.s. is a bazaar thing to say. That would have to be one of the most ignorant things I have heard all week. Are you suggesting that I take the scriptures at face value and never question anything??? I ask, Knock, look and...

Hmm, that's an interesting look at it. I wonder if that was what Matthew meant when he wrote that? I suppose he would have to because there isn't anything else in scripture that says this. Personally I think Matthew is stretching it.

That doesn't answer my question? If he is correct, as you say he is, can you show me how this is correct because I don't know of anything written by any Israeli prophet that claims the messiah would come from Nazareth.

Where is Matthew getting this claim that the Prophets said that the messiah would be a Nazarene? Where did he get that from? What prophet said that and what book will I find it in? Matthew 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the...

Well there is one thing I know for sure. If Jesus raising from the dead was true and based on fact, then I wouldn't flat out reject it, just as I don't reject the fact that the earth goes around the sun. The problem is, we don't have any proof. We have to go by faith, which means no one can be...

There has been a few things said that have caused me to wonder further. For example, was Paul dead by the time Acts was written and if he was dead, why doesn't Luke mention that? it changes a lot of things for me. There is more but the point is, I am not fully decided that Jesus is not the...

hey, I honestly have no problem admitting I am mistaken but really, what you are saying about that scripture in acts 1:9, it so clearly says that they were intensely looking up as Jesus rose up into the sky and disappeared into a cloud. I really do not know how you can see that any other way and...

well, an atheist is certain about what they believe. I am a Christian who has gone from being a Christian, to drifting towards agnosticisms, while I continually weigh up my faith and my old religion with whatever knowledge and understanding I can find. If I end up atheist, then that is only...

I suppose my main motive is the truth. I'm not out to save or correct anyone more than I am just asking the obvious questions that cause my faith to no longer add up. The thing about todays world is that knowledge and education is at every ones fingertips and it is not hard to research and...

lol, sounds like you are twisting it to make it mean what you want it too. When I read that, it is clearly saying that Jesus was taken up into the sky and disappeared into the clouds...That is why they were all looking UP... it is very much the same with Elijah. He was taken up in a...

The Ancients obviously thought it was up in the sky, these days people believe it is in a different dimension. Personally, I have believed in reincarnation, I then became a Christian and believed in heaven and then after studying the Bible I believed that we are raised from the dead at the last...

it comes from spending 20yrs as a Christian ;)

Well, according to Act's, it is up in the sky. 9And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.10And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside...

That's not what Act's 1:9 - 11says; 9And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.10And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them.11They also...

I would like to believe we have a maker. I assume my guess is as good as anyone else's guess. I have spent most of my life believing but these days I am not finding a whole lot that is even believable let alone rational... I have issues with the bible because I have spent my life studying it...

Actually, I wasn't being a smart ass. The bible does say that Jesus was taken up into the sky and disappeared into the clouds. Now, why would he have to do that? because they believed heaven was up there but obviously today we know it is not up there, so, I find it interesting that the first...

We see in the Bible Elijah gets taken up by a whirlwind into a chariot in the sky and taken to heaven. We then see the Jew's believing and expecting Elijah to return. Hundreds of years later and they still wait for him to return from the sky in a chariot. Eventually John comes along baptising...