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RE: Why their is so many denominations
April 20, 2012 at 1:11 pm
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(April 20, 2012 at 9:12 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: I see and considering that the Hebrew Bible, The Torah, was directly translated from the original Greek Bible how do you have the front to be Christian and claim you have the original message at your disposal? The greek starts in the Book of Matthew through revelations.(The NT) The OT is written in Hebrew.
Quote:Surely it would be the Jews seen as they follow a more undiluted text.
Also, how does this add to the plausibility of the original text itself? Is there any evidence to back up any of what it says?
If you are unsure of something would it be better to ask a question rather than run the risk of looking foolish asserting what it is you do not fully understand?
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RE: Why their is so many denominations
April 20, 2012 at 2:56 pm
(April 20, 2012 at 8:01 am)Drich Wrote: I am here because I am in a position to give what some of you are looking for. The only thing I'm look for right now is a new camera and maybe a bicycle, still not sure about the bike.
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RE: Why their is so many denominations
April 20, 2012 at 5:38 pm
(April 20, 2012 at 2:56 pm)Sciwoman Wrote: (April 20, 2012 at 8:01 am)Drich Wrote: I am here because I am in a position to give what some of you are looking for. The only thing I'm look for right now is a new camera and maybe a bicycle, still not sure about the bike.
Me too. I have my eye on a Canon Rebel 
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RE: Why THERE is so many denominations
April 20, 2012 at 6:34 pm
I'm looking for something of the point-and-shoot variety. With the camera I have now, I miss a lot of pictures because it is so fiddly and it has been acting up lately.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
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RE: Why THERE is so many denominations
April 20, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Quote:Me too. I have my eye on a Canon Rebel
Not me,I want a Beemer (2 or 3 years old will be fine) Mercedes Benz are ostentatious.
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RE: Why THERE is so many denominations
April 21, 2012 at 1:54 pm
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My first ride was a Mercedes 425se, def felt like a poser driving it. But dat front end, christ, so awesome
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(mine was an awesome hunter green, my favorite color then and now, interior was the same)
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RE: Why THERE is so many denominations
April 22, 2012 at 12:18 pm
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(April 20, 2012 at 1:06 am)Faith No More Wrote: If they were so gaga over Jesus, why weren't they Christians?
You completely missed the point.
Which is that as intellectual honesty increases, so does your awareness of your own bias and your admiration for Jesus
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RE: Why THERE is so many denominations
April 22, 2012 at 12:23 pm
(April 22, 2012 at 12:18 pm)radorth Wrote: (April 20, 2012 at 1:06 am)Faith No More Wrote: If they were so gaga over Jesus, why weren't they Christians?
You completely missed the point.
Which is that as intellectual honesty increases, so does your awareness of your own bias and your admiration for Jesus
Of course, every intellectually honest person admires jesus. If what you said was true, it means that there are no intellectually honest people, because most christians are not in the least bit aware of their bias.
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RE: Why THERE is so many denominations
April 22, 2012 at 1:32 pm
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Whoa, this is a big one, so I'm gonna have to cover it piecemeal.
(April 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Drich Wrote: I do not represent any specific domination or even a non denominational church. What I am representing is biblical Christianity.
Sure, that's what they all (non-denominational Christians) say.
(April 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Drich Wrote: What I am representing is biblical Christianity.
Wow, I've never heard that one before.
(April 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Drich Wrote: If God wanted us to adopt all of the ceremonies traditions and rules that most of you think of whenever Christianity is mentioned. He would have given to us. Christianity Biblical Christianity is about freedom from religion.
Ha! That's a good one!
(April 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Drich Wrote: The works found in the books of the NT attest to this fact. Paul Spends most of his time shooting down all of the different religious "have to's" the different churches and church leaders were making for themselves.
And yet they all still have them.
(April 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Drich Wrote: Honestly I do not even think this is a conscience effort for most, we just naturally want to do our best for God.
I do the same thing... ya know, except with out the "for God" part. Why do we need God again?
(April 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Drich Wrote: Christ freed us from a singular rule driven worship and ceremonies type of service, unless this is the type of thing we need.
So basically "We don't need all those stupid rules, except when we need them". Wow, that has got to be the most meaningless statement I have ever heard.
(April 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Drich Wrote: Someone asked which one is the correct one? the answer is none are
I'm gonna stop you there; that is the correct answer.
(April 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Drich Wrote: The tricky thing here is not to talk yourself into lowering your "all in standard" to suit your current life style, lest you think God a fool or bound by loop holes you have created for yourself.
Except for the one where, ya know... he doesn't exist!
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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RE: Why THERE is so many denominations
April 22, 2012 at 1:47 pm
radorth Wrote:Which is that as intellectual honesty increases, so does your awareness of your own bias and your admiration for Jesus
Why is it intellecually honest to admire a man that shoehorned the teachings of older religions into a newer one where he is at the center?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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