When I first read this thread's headline, "Do you pray for Restaurant meals?" my thought was "No, I pray for world peace." :rolleyes: Seriously,...
I find the concept that "the King Jame's Version is the only true version" utterly bizarre. Here's a translation of a translation of a...
Different times. People didn't publicly come out of the closet in those days. Everyone may have known, but he didn't want it talked about....
But only in the temple, which no longer exists.
Accurate with Jehovah, but not quite with Yahweh. In ancient times, the Hebrew alphabet lacked vowels. God's name was thus spelled out in 4...
Wishful thinking. Fanatics don't respond to reason.
It was your use of the words "the whole point of Jews not believing in Jesus is..." that offended me. There is no single, simple point. I don't...
<smile> How true.
Very true--at least as far as I understand Buddhism, which isn't much. Another similarity: You can be an atheist and still be a Buddhist or a...
No. The whole point of our not believing in Jesus is that we're not Christians. It's that simple. Your statement is as ridiculous as saying "The...
Sorry, but Moses did not prophesise the Messiah. The fact that Christians later re-purposed his words doesn't make it so.
One of the great Jewish teachers, Hillel was supposedly asked to summarize the Torah while standing on one foot. His response: "What is hateful to...
There's no mention of that prophecy in the Torah portions that discuss Yom Kippur. And even if that was the earliest reference to that holy day,...
According to James Carroll's excellent book, Constantine's Sword, the concept of Papal Infallibility is quite recent. It became doctrine in the...
I never could reconcile the ideas of Hell and a loving God. You can't have both. Purgatory, maybe, but not Hell. But then, Heaven causes...
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