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    Thread: What is it about America? Does America's education system just suck?
Post: RE: What is it about America? Does America's educa...

I revered Americans from childhood and yearned to be in the USA. When I finally encountered Americans, I found them to be arrogant/loud/rude/no manners. They don't know how to say please/thank you/exc...
jupitor Religion 87 30656 September 1, 2012 at 2:31 pm
    Thread: Why religion was necessary; why it no longer is.
Post: RE: Why religion was necessary; why it no longer i...

@ Lion. You asked how the first man/woman stumbled on religion as man evolved from apes and became more intelligent, they began to worship the sun and moon, thinking they must rule all. Then when tha...
jupitor Religion 24 14336 August 17, 2012 at 7:16 am
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

It's still incorrect for a supreme being to say. He would have said round the world knowing he created it like that. In effect God didn't speak to anyone, it was all thoughts in the individual's mind....
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 15, 2012 at 12:52 pm
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

(August 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm)Drich Wrote: (August 14, 2012 at 2:18 pm)jupitor Wrote: The whole of the truth of the prophets is wiped out in revelations when God says he will send Satan to the four...
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 15, 2012 at 12:19 pm
    Thread: Better reasons to quit Christianity
Post: RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity

also if you read about Moses, God constantly visited his tent. At one point telling Moses that shekels had to be collected from families and the amount given to Aaron and his wife!!! I don't think s...
jupitor Christianity 462 302796 August 15, 2012 at 12:16 pm
    Thread: Better reasons to quit Christianity
Post: RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity

(August 15, 2012 at 12:08 pm)spockrates Wrote: (August 15, 2012 at 9:21 am)Thor Wrote: Someone once told me that humans were created when a space alien named Rick dropped people shaped candy when ...
jupitor Christianity 462 302796 August 15, 2012 at 12:12 pm
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

The worst thing to me is how the muslims so believe that Mohamed split the moon in half..as if. There is a phenomenal that uniquely there are ice crystals in the universe, trillions of them; they 'mak...
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 14, 2012 at 6:11 pm
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

@ spockrates, all very well but the universe is not a canopy. Each star will eventually die, explode and then there will be nothing. Never again will there be life in the universe but 'we' are talking...
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 14, 2012 at 4:20 pm
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

(August 14, 2012 at 2:36 pm)jupitor Wrote: Then, they believed that the earth was as a carpet, so they would say four corners. Sorry, they were lying/deluded/egotists/loved an audience Do you ever w...
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 14, 2012 at 2:40 pm
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

Then, they believed that the earth was as a carpet, so they would say four corners. Sorry, they were lying/deluded/egotists/loved an audience
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 14, 2012 at 2:36 pm
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

(August 14, 2012 at 2:12 pm)Drich Wrote: (August 14, 2012 at 8:36 am)pgrimes15 Wrote: Ahh. Getting somewhere now. If the sacrifice was being seperated from the Father, why did he need to be crucif...
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 14, 2012 at 2:18 pm
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

@spockrates I have looked on that web and it doesn't find it. I have definitely read it in the new version. Jesus' words are printed in red. It was one I borrowed so I haven't got a copy to look at.
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 14, 2012 at 11:56 am
    Thread: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?
Post: RE: What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

He sacrificed his own life for the belief in God. He wouldn't denounce Christianity. He'd rather die for his beliefs, in the hope others would follow. I would denounce it rather than die. But my opin...
jupitor Christianity 78 38362 August 14, 2012 at 9:51 am
    Thread: Atonement...
Post: RE: Atonement...

(August 11, 2012 at 9:06 am)catfish Wrote: http://www.biblegateway.com/ I've tried that site before catfish and it doesn't bring anything up. In the latest bible version, Jesus' words are printed in...
jupitor Christianity 48 13879 August 11, 2012 at 4:18 pm
    Thread: Atonement...
Post: RE: Atonement...

CATFISH You did a quote in your opening post and said it was from the New International Bible. If you have a copy, can you look in Matthew/Mark/Luke/John for a few lines....a woman approaches Jesus a...
jupitor Christianity 48 13879 August 11, 2012 at 7:00 am
    Thread: Evolution/creation 2
Post: RE: Evolution/creation 2

(August 8, 2012 at 1:43 pm)Undeceived Wrote: (August 8, 2012 at 1:11 pm)jupitor Wrote: I've not read much of this thread as it is so long but the Adam and Eve story is so ridiculous its incredible...
jupitor Christianity 218 75823 August 8, 2012 at 1:53 pm
    Thread: Evolution/creation 2
Post: RE: Evolution/creation 2

I've not read much of this thread as it is so long but the Adam and Eve story is so ridiculous its incredible. Firstly there would be no thought of years/months then so they wouldn't know how long the...
jupitor Christianity 218 75823 August 8, 2012 at 1:11 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

The Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 was the decisive event of the First Jewish-Roman War. The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command, be...
jupitor Religion 605 415818 August 8, 2012 at 11:09 am
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(August 7, 2012 at 3:46 pm)Stimbo Wrote: This is a very revealing and absorbing article on the supposed historicity of Jesus and its origins, from a scholarly Jewish perspective: Refuting Missionar...
jupitor Religion 605 415818 August 7, 2012 at 6:12 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(August 7, 2012 at 6:18 am)padraic Wrote: (August 5, 2012 at 4:52 pm)cratehorus Wrote: why would someone invent the Jesus myth? Some ONE didn't. Christian mythology developed over centuries. ...
jupitor Religion 605 415818 August 7, 2012 at 7:53 am