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Thread: The power of Christ...
Post: RE: The power of Christ...
| (August 29, 2023 at 10:25 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Thing is, the church and the bible promise all manner of things to the believer: answered prayers, spiritual gifts, miracles, angels, inner peace, ... |
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August 30, 2023 at 2:21 pm |
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Thread: The power of Christ...
Post: RE: The power of Christ...
| (August 29, 2023 at 8:59 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: It's quite tragic, really.
Many people want to believe in magic, they want their irrevocable problems to be fixable and fixed. And religion makes ... |
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August 29, 2023 at 10:22 am |
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Thread: The power of Christ...
Post: RE: The power of Christ...
| (August 29, 2023 at 8:22 am)Ten Wrote: That whole confirmation bias, yeah? Where believers see significance because they're only counting the hits and justifying the misses. You never lose with the ... |
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August 29, 2023 at 10:21 am |
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Thread: The power of Christ...
Post: RE: The power of Christ...
| Thanks for the reply
(August 28, 2023 at 10:09 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: Perhaps you would benefit from science training. The "natural order" means that a model can predict (either deterministically ... |
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August 28, 2023 at 2:14 pm |
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Thread: The power of Christ...
Post: RE: The power of Christ...
| (August 25, 2023 at 12:40 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Either miracles are rare, or they are common.
Either miracles break natural order, or are indistinguishable from natural events.
Rare + Breaks Natu... |
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August 27, 2023 at 11:09 am |
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Thread: The power of Christ...
Post: RE: The power of Christ...
| (August 9, 2023 at 6:21 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It occurs to me that if the Thomists are right about it being impossible for God to act against his immutable nature, then either all prayers must... |
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August 25, 2023 at 12:20 pm |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| The most Jesus achieved in his lifetime was a making decent set of chairs. Possibly a shed in someone's garden. Then he died.
Somehow his friends all decided he had freed humanity from death, fulfill... |
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June 16, 2023 at 2:12 pm |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (June 1, 2023 at 2:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Back to the title of the thread -
Two separate beings are...two separate beings.
That's why I insist they can't be one...since they are obviously two... |
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June 11, 2023 at 9:54 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (June 7, 2023 at 12:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It doesn't even speak to the legitimacy question - all it shows is that the sufferers believed that Christ was divine, not that he actually was.
Ye... |
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June 11, 2023 at 9:54 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (June 4, 2023 at 6:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^‘I know your life as a [fisherman/stonecutter/dung harvester] is horrible, hard, and nasty, but if you’ll just follow me and do as your told, you’l... |
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June 7, 2023 at 7:14 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (June 1, 2023 at 6:08 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Again, there is no evidence for your claim that the apostles suffered for Jesus. Not even the Bible claims that.
I dislike getting involved in multiple d... |
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June 4, 2023 at 10:17 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (June 1, 2023 at 7:00 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But - as with hallucinogens - one can be perfectly sincere and still be wrong. A Hindu or a Muslim is just as sincere in their beliefs as you are. Y... |
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June 4, 2023 at 10:15 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (May 31, 2023 at 7:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Personal experiences may or may not qualify as evidence. I have no doubt that you've had religious experiences, but they don't necessarily point to ... |
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June 1, 2023 at 5:20 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (May 30, 2023 at 1:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Very eloquent, but not what I asked you. I’ll try again:
What evidence, exactly?
Boru
I think I must be missing something very obvious, because I th... |
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May 31, 2023 at 7:17 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| It's pretty much universally agreed that Paul was writing in the mid 50s, so some of the dating here is...daring. Anyone who thinks that 25 years after the event is an issue should watch an episode of... |
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May 30, 2023 at 11:28 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (May 20, 2023 at 8:59 am)KerimF Wrote: I guess it is well known that a formal Christian is supposed to believe in Jesus (The Savior) based solely on faith, as Pagans do towards their Idols.
Apologi... |
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May 29, 2023 at 5:33 am |
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Thread: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
Post: RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can...
| (May 20, 2023 at 8:59 am)KerimF Wrote: This insistence arose mainly when people discuss Jesus’ saying: “I and 'the' Father are one”. (A side note: Jesus didn't say I and 'my' Father are one).
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May 28, 2023 at 11:09 am |
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Thread: The Story
Post: RE: The Story
| Grand Nudger, GUBU
I can't see evidence presented for your claims. I would think then Hitchen's razor applies: “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
To repe... |
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August 26, 2022 at 10:14 am |
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Thread: The Story
Post: RE: The Story
| OK, a rather overlong answer to the persecution question, now I can focus on such a tangent.
Firstly, what is persecution? There is high level persecution in which an emperor declares that Xians are ... |
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August 25, 2022 at 12:42 pm |
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Thread: The Story
Post: RE: The Story
| (August 23, 2022 at 11:29 pm)Tomato Wrote: The interesting thing about stories is that they're fictional.
When we refer to events in our reality, we don't call them stories, after all.
Sometimes we... |
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August 24, 2022 at 1:33 pm |
