Topics Started by hmike
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What means "poor in spirit"?
by cameo-d indoes poor in spirit mean you are lacking something?.
why is "poor in spirit" a qualification to "see god"?.
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Any "Born Again" Christians here?
by sacolton inwould like to see how many have accepted jesus christ as the only way, truth and life..
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Praying for God to lower gas prices
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inhey, it worked for the giants.... they won the superbowl, after all... .
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=84883.
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C.S. Lewis and his "trilemma".
by gaiagirl inauthor c.s.
lewis once wrote that one of three situations exist: .
1) jesus was the son of god .
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My Visits To Church
by serotonin_wraith inwhy would an atheist go to church?
to seek out a god?.
no more than a historian seeks out ra or hathor by researching egyptian religions.. those religions are dead now.
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Concerning the "born again" thread
by startingover inpotentialjwconvertwife said:.
well, as you know, i never was a dub.
but i am and have been a born again christian for many years.
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The "Historical Jesus" and Christian Faith
by Narkissos inin the wake of lovelylil's recent threads on the "historical jesus," a side question.. let's assume, for the sake of the discussion, that the four canonical gospels are not historical accounts of jesus' life, but a much later elaboration of christian faith in narrative form -- there are many reasons for such a proposal, but i'm not going into them right now -- let's just assume.. what do you think would be better or worse to find out in the historical field, from the perspective of christian faith:.
1. that there was no "historical jesus" at all, and that the gospels are essentially a religious myth made (hi)story, "the word made flesh" so to say;.
2. that there was a "historical jesus" completely different from the christian saviour -- for example, a galilean apocalyptic prophet and political zealot, trying to cleanse the nation and the temple from both the roman occupation and ritual disorders, with no interest at all in starting a new universal (i.e.
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Paul's belief in Christ - Lets get it STRAIGHT this time!
by lovelylil ini need to vent.
i am sick and tired of people claiming that paul did not believe in the jesus christ of the bible.
there are many articles on the web (someone sent me one today) that claims that paul's writings deny that a historical jesus existed.
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Supernaturalism and reason.
by Narkissos inreading one more time (on the umpteenth thread about the 70 weeks of daniel, into which i'm not going again) the idea that "anti-supercalifragilnaturalistic bias" ruin the unbelievers' (or misbelievers') exegesis of bible texts, and readily admitting to such... bias, i have one very general and simple question which might be worth its own thread.. here it is:.
once you admit such thing as the "supernatural", .
on what grounds can you assess anything.
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Stumper for Jehovah's Witness.....what does Son of God really mean?
by A-Team in(bible believers only please)
a jw kept on asking me why do i think jesus was god when the bible says he is the son of god?
the answer to that really laid into the word "son".