Jim

Simon Paynton wrote:
I just think that insulting someone’s religion can be like insulting their mother: for a lot of people, it’s not nothing.

Yes. For sure. There is nothing virtuous about insulting a religion. However, it isn’t inherently wrong. The  “mother” example is relatable with religion in this sense:

Someone’s mother is spouting raci…[Read more]

re: rights of belief

Cheat sheet:

The four rights (holding beliefs, expressing beliefs, acting on beliefs, imposing beliefs) are separate and are not interchangeable nor does having one right guarantee another right. One of these rights does not exist:

• Right to hold a belief = unquestionable. No one can take that away from you.
• Right to…

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michael17 wrote:
Reg: ”What you are telling me Michael, or at least what I am hearing, is that you believe that it is possible that you will exist in some form in 20 billion years time as an immortal. Is that a correct assessment of your belief?” Science’s answer to the anthropic principle is the Mult-verse which is unfalsiable. I choose God,…

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@Michael

Okay. Thanks for the clarification. I take it then that you use metaphors a lot, which is one way of saying: you don’t really mean a lot of things that you say. It’s difficult to take someone seriously when their text is littered with possible metaphors. I recommend using them VERY sparringly. In my hunble opinion.

@Michael

re: continuous ducking and dodging

Give us the specific NAME, LOCATION and YEAR of someone raised from the dead by the arc of the covenant. Or admit you made an unjustified claim.

Otherwise I will put you on my ignore list (as I’m sure several users have already done).

Michael I asked you to give me specifics, not a link. Name, place and date. As I expected you didn’t deliver. I looked at that page and lo and behold…you’ve wasted my time. I read the link you referenced and NONE of those mentioned the arc of the covenant. I could not have been more clear. I never asked for a list of those raised from the dead.…[Read more]

That is still a long string of words…which do not remotely answer my question. I’ll put it as clearly as I can:

I need a CONCRETE EXAMPLE. Not an explanation, not an anlysis. Give me the NAME and TIME of a specific person who was raised from the dead BECAUSE of the ARC.

michael17 wrote:
living oracles of God
Yikes. they heal the sick, cleanse the leprer and raise the dead Could you give a concrete example of this? Christianity must put up or shut up. Without the day to day events descibed in the Book of acts continuing in the present no church has any legitimacy. The only excuse that I accept is the “body” has…

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michael17 wrote:
I don’t believe anyone that says they are.

Why would you doubt someone who was indoctrinated into a religious cult, slowly came to their senses and drifted away from it (or cast it a way) and then find themselves drawn back to it (even possibly more devout than before). This happens every day. If they say they are born again, t…[Read more]