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Is Paul teaching a transformation in this physical life, or before entering the perfect Heaven? There's a hadith saying, Abu Sa’eed al Khudree (رضى الله عنه) reports that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said, “when the believers cross the Hellfire, they will be stopped at a small arched...

Jesus said that we should be reborn in the spirit, having a spiritual personality besides the body which, in contrast to the body, is immortal. There's no transformation. The body grows and perishes, the spirit won't perish if we take heed, but it can grow (parables of the seed) I reject the...

That theory of the proliferation of the genes is naturally correct in that the mere proliferation of the species proliferates the genes of the parents only. But it tends to forget the component of the survival and the success. Not only, but more than other animals, the humans have other means of...

Peace be with you on Yom Kippur and therafter.

My point is that the Father and the son/Son are not equal; the oneness with God has no equivalent counterpart in a oneness of God with a human, be it even God's chosen Messiah. In ideal oneness, the soul of the human is in full harmony with God and the works of the human are in full harmony with...

Sounds good, but does it withstand a closer look? Let's step back to the image used: The father (lowercase) loves his children. True for a normal father. The son loves his father: usually true if the father loves the son. But the love of the father to the son is a different kind of love than...

Things are of course different from one community to the other, from one religion to the other, and from one state to the other. I never used media for prayer or for Juma (the main prayer on Friday, maybe comparable to Christian services on Sunday or Jewish on Saturday). I don't see any value...

Important to note that narrations may be retold in an other language than the original, and peoples sometimes abandoned their language for an other one which was somehow dominant; e.g. Celtic languages have been given up in large parts of Western Europe (it was spoken in Spain, France...

You are right. "is" is in German "ist" from the arian root "asti". You mentioned the Sanskrit root for "Essen".

It's Newton who used the terms "natural" and "political" to discern between the world we should honour and the world we should refuse. He lived in the time of absolute monarchy; there was no real difference between politics and the powers (kings and gentiles).

Sorry, as English is not my first language, I don't understand you, as others did. What do you want to say?

Newton was a Unitarian. God is God and human is human. Subordinarism is more complicated. He discerns between the natural world which is the world created by God and the political world, the world Jesus fought and defeated. He says that Jesus was entirely part of the natural world, but not of...

Me, I've not been waiting for it so long, I'm not yet 60 years old.... But no, it's a valid question. I'm going to post a non-binding proposal of an answer later when I feel better. Just curing my cold...

I haven't read a book about it, but I understand what it means. Do you want to discuss a book or a topic?

What is the spiritual value of the narrative of the three magi for you? I am sorry if I hurt your feelings. But I don't disrespect the Bible, just have an other approach to it. I see the Gospel accounts as traditions written down. The authors of those scriptures were certainly pious people...

You are somehow 180 degrees opposite to each other concerning your base of belief/acceptance: accepting the Bible unconditionally vs. accepting evidence only. I am in between. I think there's a lot of meaningful wisdom and guidance in the scriptures, but I weigh the importance by experience...

1 This Herod reigned over both, but only Bethlehem in Judea was a town, the other a small village. If you say you go to Berlin, everyone will understand that you go to the well-known city, not to the village in the very north of Germany or in New Hampshire. Likewise, mentioning Bethlehem...

There are many points in which Luke and the author of Mt disagree in the childhood narratives. @TheAnointed made a good point on this particular difference. It's very likely that the narrative has been fabricated just to meet one expectation on the Messiah mentioned in the scriptures. Under this...

The scriptures of the New Testament do not claim that there won't be any prophets after Jesus,. Prophets are still expected; Paul even expects prophets in Christian communities of his time. The Quran declares Muhammad as the "seal of prophecy". Muslim do not expect or accept any prophet after him.

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