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I may not be clear on how apocalyptic is different from eschatological. Basically, he preached the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God which would change the whole order of the world. I disagree that this aspect of Jesus' mission was added by one group early on though. I think it goes back to...

From a historical-critical perspective, did the historical Jesus intend to start a new religion? IMO, the historical Jesus is the human Jesus. It's the Jesus where the historical-critical tradition has stripped away the embellishments about Jesus in order to get an idea of who Jesus was and what...

Oh, I'm sure that's just some tree hugging, liberal, hippie environmentalist alarmist scientist saying this. Everything will be fine. Go back to your normal lives. Nothing to see here. Sincerely, Sean Hannity

I seem to be returning to the Christian fold from the world of agnosticism/weak atheism. Might seem like a surprising statement. The funny thing about it is it's not as if I've had some big ephiphany from God which has changed my mind. I'm not even sure my mind has changed much. I've been going...

Does anyone know exactly why we're in Iraq fighting people, losing the lives of our citizens, and spending billions on it? Okay, the original reason for going there was it was part of the war on terror. It was claimed Iraq had WMD's and they were ready to use them on the U.S. The Bush...

I disagree that life is black and white. It's rarely, if ever black and white. Life is one big huge gray area. I know it's much easier to think that life is black and white, and this is indeed how many people think, but it's not the case. I think often we complicate our lives...

I agree that Jesus would probably have been seen in his day as politically neutral but only because he preached the imminent arrival of God's Kingdom. The reason he was crucified is because he preached the imminent arrival of God's Kingdom, which would overthrow the political rule (Romans) and...

As has already been mentioned, this begs the question of what fruits specifically will designate one who will be saved? And I think the word says that people will actually do miracles but still will not be saved. I don't think it says they will just say it, they will actually do miracles. (Sorry...

Doesn't address anything in my last post but perhaps that was not your intention.

I've always wondered how anybody could know the answer to this from reading the Bible. It's not clear at all. There's seems to be many different answers in the Bible itself. The proof that it's not clear at all is the thousands and thousands of Christian denominations which disagree on various...

Actually, I think the crucifixion of Jesus is one of the best attested facts of history. All the gospels mention it, Paul mentions it, other writings in the NT mention it. I think Josephus and another non-Christian writer in that era mentioned it. Crucifixion was used by the Romans to execute...

I'm not a Christian but they should be sent to seminary to learn the topics you mentioned. There's 2000 years of that stuff to absorb and understand. If they don't understand these topics, they'll be preaching their own uninformed, private interpretations. This reminds me these Christians who...

What do you mean that you feel like you're missing a piece of yourself? Please be more specific, if you wish to discuss further.

I have "The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an" tranlsation and commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. It's a great translation and commentary. I bought it from Amazon.

This conflict with Iraq has nothing to do with the religious beliefs of those in power, despite what they say. I'm not a Christian but as far as I understand how Christians are to live their lives overall based on the teachings of Jesus, I'd say most government officials, especially the ones who...

Just so you know, if you happen to live around me, and I see you preaching the Gospel to plants and animals, I'm calling the nearest funny farm to come pick you up. Just kidding...sort of. :D

Most people do not adopt religious beliefs based on any kind of evidence, so it won't make much of an impact at all.

I just have to disagree with everything you've said. Does it matter to you that the Bible contains errors and contradictions? If you believe it does, how can you say that it was written (in any sense) by the omnimax God?

True. Do you watch TBN? If so, how do you feel about the Crouch's guilting people into giving them money when they are living the life of luxury? They take money from people who can barely afford to give anything. Meanwhile, the Crouch's are living it up. :scratch:

I can see this find getting blown way out of proportion by Christians. They will claim that it proves more than it proves. I agree that all it can do is be considered as strong evidence that Jesus existed. It doesn't prove that a deity exists, or that any of the writings in the Bible are...