A Theology Question

[Tinkerpeach]

If you are not at home now you never will be.

You’ve been given the information you need and now the choice is yours to make.

You are at the crossroads and one sign points to Heaven and the other to Hell

Which will you choose?

 

[Mason Michaels]

We both know that most people will never get it

Exactly true!
I have no problem with that!
I do have a problem with insulting name dropping ,people like Cypress who claims believers filled with the Holy Spirit are in his word "nuts"!
And asshole of all asshole Dr Dutch claims is
Mental illness.

 

[Mason Michaels]

Obviously. Someone telling me a myth does not make it true.

Assuming reality that's beyond you is myth!

 

[Mason Michaels]

Okay. But I am not making any assumption.

Any assertion that there is a god (let alone a specific god)...is nothing but a blind guess...just as any assertion that there are no gods...is nothing but a blind guess.

So...perhaps you can identify the "assumption" to which you refer.

Good luck with that! You're betting it all you're not assuming

 

[Mason Michaels]

Looking forward to meeting you in person Mason when God finally brings us home

I'll be the last one out after the Harvest!

 

[BidenPresident]

Not sure of your point, BP.

Are you saying you think a god that will send some people into a place of excruciating torture for all of eternity...is better than a god that might cause a shipwreck...or a war?

Sorry, I have no idea why you wrote that.

 

[BidenPresident]

You’ve been given the information you need and now the choice is yours to make.

You are at the crossroads and one sign points to Heaven and the other to Hell

Which will you choose?

I choose to ignore such childish thinking.

 

[BidenPresident]

Assuming reality that's beyond you is myth!

Ancient Jews made the story of Jesus. I do not find it compelling.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Ancient Jews made the story of Jesus. I do not find it compelling.

Jesus was a Jew.

 

[Saint Guinefort]

Every point you've made about the origin of ethics on this and other threads did not orginate independently in your mind.

As I said, it feels like you are amazingly well versed in a number of topics, but lack that kind of interaction that comes from robust discussion and debate. It feels like you seldom challenge yourself to see the opposing side, especially after you've read an authority.

 

[Cypress]

Those are valid points there, Cypress. I do not look here for novel ideas...and, in fact, seldom see them in the many columns opinion writers produce for the newspapers.

Good to see how old ideas are put to use by posters here, though.

Anyone who comes up with a truly original and independent idea in philosophy, physics, history gets awarded a PhD. That's what PhDs are for - an award for original contributions to human thought and knowledge.

The best people like you and me can hope for, after spending a lifetime taking classes, reading books, listening to subject matter experts is to synthesize and filter it though our own experience to decide which ideas speak most convincingly to our sensibilities

 

[Tinkerpeach]

Ancient Jews made the story of Jesus. I do not find it compelling.

Sources outside of religious texts talk of a man called Jesus who caused quite a stir.

There is zero doubt He existed, it’s historical record, the only question they debate is whether He was God

 

[BidenPresident]

Sources outside of religious texts talk of a man called Jesus who caused quite a stir.

There is zero doubt He existed, it’s historical record, the only question they debate is whether He was God

I did not say that person did not exist.

 

[Tinkerpeach]

I did not say that person did not exist.

My mistake then

 

[goat]

As I said, it feels like you are amazingly well versed in a number of topics, but lack that kind of interaction that comes from robust discussion and debate. It feels like you seldom challenge yourself to see the opposing side, especially after you've read an authority.

Cypress needs to be cornered and forced to think. Even then he'll sit on the fence.

 

[Ross Dolan]

Good luck with that! You're betting it all you're not assuming

I know I am not assuming.

How can it be anything else?

 

[Mason Michaels]

Ancient Jews made the story of Jesus. I do not find it compelling.

We don't live with Ancient Jews

 

[Mason Michaels]

I know I am not assuming.

How can it be anything else?

Because it is.

 

[Mason Michaels]

Cypress needs to be cornered and forced to think. Even then he'll sit on the fence.

For once Yurt has a real thought

 

[BidenPresident]

We don't live with Ancient Jews

Yes, that is my point.