It happens with great frequency now. Exactly why I don’t know. It is real.
By “They”, do you mean a corporeal entity or a being only you are aware of? (Italics and Bolding mine)
A supreme being, Paradise, Hell, an infernal opponent, a savior born of a virgin etc.-Does Christianity have any original ideas at all?
Well, having your god nailed to a cross and left to die there, by puny mortal humans, is rather unique. Wouldn’t you say?
But then they get all schizo on how he came alive again and then sort of melted with his father but is still seperate but also one with some sort of spirit.
And he will come back…but that is nothing to be happy about because that will be the end of the world.
When I post my experience or things from my site the people in charge have told me not to do that, so I don’t.
Jesus never said He was God or a Saviour. There is much interpretation given to the Bible that is not there. Jesus is not coming back and there is no hell. The concept of hell came from Dante’s Inferno and not the Bible. The reason Jesus allow His own crucifixion is to show that life goes on after death. He taught love one another, and He meant it.
What Jesus actually said or may have believed is neither here nor there.
What christians believe is. The vast majority of Christians believe Jesus =God=Holy Spirit and they believe hell to be a place of eternal torment, where the bad people go.
Are there any besides the J/C god that are said to be just as powerful as he is attributed to be that are currently being worshipped?
Why would that matter if not true?
Not in reality. Technically there is only one God. We are all a part of that God.
That God does not require worship rather something much harder to do --Love
This isn’t a thread exclusively about your particular religion, as you’ve been told before.
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Why do you keep asking questions that do not pertain to the topic under discussion?
question was:
answer pertaining to question is:
There is that one twist at the end, I admit.
I believe 1.7 billion muslems would argue that Allah is pretty great.
Hindu deities are far too many to enumerate but together they represent about 1 billion followers who think their gods are collectively pretty special.
Buddha is just out of the medals with a fourth place finish. Possibly having to do with his high BMI and lax training program.
The rest trail the field.
But you know all this, or could easily look it up. So where you headed with this question?
I’m just curious about what different people think of when the word “god” pops up, besides the J/C god that is all everything.
However, you are the one who dragged this stuff into this thread.
None of this has to do with a definition of what god is and your insistence on bringing it into every thread in which you post is not appropriate.
Simply do not post this.
pjnlsn, (and anyone else), if you actually want to have this discussion, e-mail lekatt. Do not continue to drag it out on the SDMB.
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Nice to hear from you Tom
What I wrote was that it’s more likely that death is simply not black-and-white rather than that there is an afterlife, or that people have ‘souls’ or some essence which has no physical tether.
Did you happen to see post #176?
Christianity is Judaism adapted for pagans. One of its adaptive strengths is in stripping out the awkward parts of what preceded: advocating adult male circumcision isn’t a great way to attract converts for example. Those interested in evolving Judaic takes on adult circumcision are directed here: Conversion to Judaism - Wikipedia
Zoroastrians still exist, though they do not proselytize and they discourage inter-marriage. They probably worship the same J/C/I God though (or rather, that’s the conventional ecumenical take). Fundis can differ on that point.