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Apparently the valley of bones image is omitted from the Qumran version of Ezekiel 37, in relation to the restoration of Israel?

So I don't think the anthropic principle overturns anything, or even that it says anything: things are the way they are, because that's just the way they are ... LOL -- how earthshaking is that!

Can we get this straightened out? Does @Ahanu wish to outline the anthropic principle as intended here?

It works for you if you prefer Baha'i interpretations of the New Testament @Tony Bristow-Stagg but it doesn't mean the writings of Baha'u'llah and his family should become the inerrant word of the Almighty for everyone else in the world for the next 1000 years, or that Christians should be...

Agreed to all that. But it's a stretch to try to make Christ's words prophesy Muhammad (pbuh) the Bab and Baha'u'llah? Which seems to be the point of quoting them here?

It seems to be the name of the game But Jesus was speaking in context: I don't see how you can draw that interpretation of Christ's words from the above passage? It is the same chapter of Luke that describes the Transfiguration, where Christ reveals his divine form to his closest apostles...

Do you have a reason to interpret the Valley of the Bones prophecy in Ezekiel 37 as physical resurrection? There's a thread about it here: https://www.interfaith.org/community/threads/21126/

The second video. It is interesting that the Shia Muslims are able to find justification in the Quran for Muhammad (pbuh) as 'more than just a man' and in fact a manifestation of Godhead in himself -- if that's a right way of putting it? I stand corrected on the point. When it comes to a...

I thought the whole point of the parable was that to help the poor and needy is to help Christ himself? “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and...

Just watched it. Most informative. Yeah! I didn't know all that. Thanks @Ahanu It's new ground for me. Dr Khalil Andani is a very smart and considerate scholar, imo The second, longer one saved to watch later

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However I'm talking about religious leaders, more than great social reformers like William Wilberforce, the English politician who ended slavery. The founders of the great religions have always focussed hardly not at all upon changing the world but instead on healing and uplifting the...

Are you a vegetarian?

To me the folks who do the most to uplift the state of the world are the nurses and teachers and doctors and counsellors and others who care first for the individual. The Social justice warriors and social reformers can easily lose sight of the individual in their mission for a better society...

In caring first forr the individual soul, Christ uplifted the world. In caring first for (the state of) the world, lesser teachers degrade the individual soul, imo

The fact that material science cannot measure non-emperical states of existence outside the mathematical limits of time and space, does not disprove anything?

They were not so much moral judgements as practical tribal mores to protect the tribe, imo. Adultery within the tribe led to all sorts of problems, marriage and child disputes, sexual diseases, fighting amongst members of the tribe, and so on. Southern African tribes also had very strict laws...

Yes. Stoning for adultery is not in the Quran. I don't know the Quran well enough, but I believe the face covering or even headscarf has not been mandated either? A woman is merely advised to draw the veil over her chest and not reveal her hidden adornments ...

Time to move on?

No I'm not. It is Shariah law being discussed. You said earlier (#80) that you believe the enactment of Shariah Law is rebellion against true Islam? Old Testament law still orders the stoning of an adulteress. Of course it is no longer practiced in the 21st Century. And Jesus asked who would be...