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What the Hell Happened to Christianity?

Religion What is your take on religion? Do you base your thoughts in life according to your religion? Do you feel that religion should be kept out of Government and Politics?

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Old 02-20-2007, 04:38 PM   #111 (permalink)
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Like what?
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Take your pick of any time that religion has presumed to tell science how things are.
Like astronomy for example. Sun revolving around the earth stuff.

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Sounds more like evolution. Just keeps changing with the tide.
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Ergo, you have no real knowledge from your god. Your interpretation of the bible has no more veracity than a magic 8-ball.
If the bible was the absolute word of god worth anything, people wouldn't get it wrong like this.
Considering how wrong Christianity has been in terms of scientific application of the bible, how can we determine the supposed veracity of the morality application of the bible?

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When did you become a athority on what should be taken literaly in the bible?
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Actually, I NEVER CLAIMED to be. I don't think there is that much in the bible which should be taken literally.
The point is that historically those who pretend to be such authorities often get it wrong.
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Old 02-20-2007, 05:07 PM   #112 (permalink)
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For the same reason people used to go to Freak Shows.
they don't do that anymore?

so THAT'S why Jefferson is out of work
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Could you say that maybe some try to rise above such as God in the hearts of men by force. Isaiah 14:14-17 Heaven is God's throne. Jesus told us that Heaven was within us so we would search out our own hearts. If one is trying to force anothers heart by forcing the thoughts of their's and another to their will, are these as such wishing to rule on God's throne?

Where Jesus said the the Kingdom of Heaven is within you comes from a gospel that was never put into the canonized Bible.

That is from the Gospel of St. Thomas. (If it is somewhere within the Biblical gospels, I don't remember it.)

I think that needed explaining so that everyone could get the point of reference.
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Where Jesus said the the Kingdom of Heaven is within you comes from a gospel that was never put into the canonized Bible.

That is from the Gospel of St. Thomas. (If it is somewhere within the Biblical gospels, I don't remember it.)

I think that needed explaining so that everyone could get the point of reference.

Are you suggesting that God forgot to include this gospel of St Thomas in His Bible?

Your pretentiousness straddles that fine line between comedy and tragedy
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I see garysher has returned from getting his butt kicked on the St.Lucia board.
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Hey tinkerbelle

I see you average 22.65 posts per day on here

That qualifies you for the deadbeat category
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Are you suggesting that God forgot to include this gospel of St Thomas in His Bible?

Your pretentiousness straddles that fine line between comedy and tragedy
I think there are a LOT of people who have been duped by books like The daVinci Code - and are thinking that there's absolutely no good reason why all those apocryphal and pseudopygraphal writings aren't in the Bible. And it is, of course, chalked up to being a conspiracy of angry white men.
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Hey tinkerbelle

I see you average 22.65 posts per day on here

That qualifies you for the deadbeat category

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so, at (27.90 posts per day), what does that make you? LOL LOL LOL

pathetic LOL
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I think there are a LOT of people who have been duped by books like The daVinci Code - and are thinking that there's absolutely no good reason why all those apocryphal and pseudopygraphal writings aren't in the Bible. And it is, of course, chalked up to being a conspiracy of angry white men.
Have you read the Gospel of Thomas? It's actually quite interesting.

The Gospel of Judas, what remains of it, was intersting as well. (This one may well be a gnostic writing. I don't know if they carbon-dated the document.)
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Have you read the Gospel of Thomas? It's actually quite interesting.

The Gospel of Judas, what remains of it, was intersting as well. (This one may well be a gnostic writing. I don't know if they carbon-dated the document.)
Yes, I've read them actually.

But "interesting" isn't the qualification - just like "it feels good" is the determinant of what is right and wrong.

And for the record, it's long been known that gnosticism is an anti-christian heresy. So... if you were a christian, why would you include heresy writing in your Bible?
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