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Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

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burd said:
I don't see any lines crossed. Christianity is highly metaphorical, and in addition to its humor, anything that challenges or teases convention has value. I can't imagine committed christians feel threatened by it.
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Yeah. Kepler's pics were pretty awesome.
 
Beginning to hate people who tell me they "disagree." With what? We're not debating ice cream here.

Ranks right up there with "you made a choice." Like I would suddenly choose to have family and friends stop talking to me.

The more I look at it, the more I might join the Episcopalians. They have a lesbian preacher, all are genuinely welcome...
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Beginning to hate people who tell me they "disagree." With what? We're not debating ice cream here.

Ranks right up there with "you made a choice." Like I would suddenly choose to have family and friends stop talking to me.

The more I look at it, the more I might join the Episcopalians. They have a lesbian preacher, all are genuinely welcome...
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Jesus was God and so the Gospels trump. I can't imagine a scenario where those people are tracking with the Word.

Those Episcopalians sound good. What city do you live in? If you live in a major city, find some churches with young people in urban areas. Google is your friend. If you find the right community, they should care at a level that you don't typically find.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Jesus was God and so the Gospels trump. I can't imagine a scenario where those people are tracking with the Word.

Those Episcopalians sound good. What city do you live in? If you live in a major city, find some churches with young people in urban areas. Google is your friend. If you find the right community, they should care at a level that you don't typically find.
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The Bible according to 5mn: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

So, what do we do with the other 1,000 or so pages?
 
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5mn_Major said:
Jesus was God and so the Gospels trump.
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This will seem like a hopelessly simplistic and open-ended question, 5mn, but what does that mean? Is the meaning traceable to the Council of Nicea?

In 20 words or less. :)
 
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Didn't Pope John 23 tell us all to get along? Everyone can worship their own "god" and we can be happy?

Smart man that Pope
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
The more I look at it, the more I might join the Episcopalians. They have a lesbian preacher, all are genuinely welcome...
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The secular world also welcomes all. And we don't even tell people they're going to eternal torment if they don't do exactly what we tell them to.

We're funny that way.
 
Kepler said:
The secular world also welcomes all. And we don't even tell people they're going to eternal torment if they don't do exactly what we tell them to.

We're funny that way.
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The Episcopalians invited me. If I was considering a church, it would be them.
 
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This will be fun.

The first-known original Greek copy of a heretical Christian writing describing Jesus' secret teachings to his brother James has been discovered at Oxford University by biblical scholars at The University of Texas at Austin.
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burd said:
This will seem like a hopelessly simplistic and open-ended question, 5mn, but what does that mean? Is the meaning traceable to the Council of Nicea?

In 20 words or less. :)
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I am interpreting your question to be 'how do we know this to be true' rather than 'what are the implications'.

The Trinity construct is manmade, but its been scrutinized for millennia as the best Biblical representation of God. It says there is one God with three manifestations. One God is the key. It is in fact validated by Jesus Himself 'I and the Father are one."

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The Bible according to 5mn: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

So, what do we do with the other 1,000 or so pages?
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Wiki, the most scrutinized description in the world, defines Christianity as 'religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ'. The OT points to Jesus being the Messiah and Jesus/God Himself emphasizes some of the OT and others he changes...creating the 'New Covenant'. As a result, He Himself limited the relative importance of much of the OT. Why would I do differently?

My related question is...why would detractors of Shirtless go against the arguably the most obvious teachings (the Golden Rule) of Jesus and along with skeptics, raise the relative importance of the OT? Many psychiatrists would likely claim a common phenomena in people (coherent justification) of creating general belief systems based on the alignment with preexisting moral positions.

Why would you say you put so much emphasis on the Old Testament for the God in which you don't believe?
 
5mn_Major said:
Why would you say you put so much emphasis on the Old Testament for the God in which you don't believe?
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Because 99 percent of Christendom does, so we kind of have to know about it to survive in society.

And wikipedia also says that Christians believe the entire Bible is the Word of God, so I would ask why you ignore 95% of the Word of God for a God that you do believe in.
 
unofan said:
Because 99 percent of Christendom does, so we kind of have to know about it to survive in society.

And wikipedia also says that Christians believe the entire Bible is the Word of God, so I would ask why you ignore 95% of the Word of God for a God that you do believe in.
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And because of those Christians, I am hurting this holiday season. This shouldn't be. You know, I found an LGBT support center in Holland, my more liberal friends and family are supportive, but it still hurts.
 
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Newsflash - the New Testament is plenty sexist and homophobic without even getting into the OT.
 
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