Quote (Nick Hassan @ Mar. 26 2008,06:37)Hi cato, Humanism?Reason rules over all? Yes that sort of religion is immensely popular.Nick,1.  So anything not directly connected to what you view as scripture is humanist then?2.  If you actually read my post you would note that I found that reason and faith should be complimentary.  You want faith to di…[Read more]

Nick,Why do you find the idea that Christianity was probably influenced by Zoroaster troubling?  What does it take away from your beliefs?  Do you think God only cared about Jews before Christ?  Doesn't it answer questions of why the depiction of God is so different between OT and NT?  KJ is not advocating Zoroastrianism he merely is pointing out…[Read more]

Mandy,Thank you for your kind words, if we can get over the idea of infallible scriptures and revealed religions containing “the truth” instead of partial truth, we can form a living, growing framework where faith and reason are complimentary, rather then antagonistic.  Faith should not conflict with reason but rather take us where reason and…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Mar. 25 2008,10:05)Hi cato, The kingdom of God existed before earth and it's puny inhabitants were created. But vain men seem to think that it was ever all about men. Men are offered a lifeline in Jesus Christ.But we are owed nothing.Nick,Your point being?  You earlier proposed a question to KJ on what would he then propose…[Read more]

Quote (seek and you will find @ Mar. 25 2008,07:06)Quote (Cato @ Mar. 25 2008,02:02)Does anyone actually believe that a being capable of creating the entire universe, an all-powerful, all-knowing God can actually be capable of jealousy much less hate, over the remnent (name) of a figment of a small group of inferior beings imagination (Astarte)…[Read more]

Nick,If God's plan for salvation is not about man who is it about?  Why would God create us?  What you say is scripture turns out to be this:1. Because of Adam we are born in sin.2. Because of Sin and the fact we are weak we are destined to damnation or destruction.3. Through Christ's sacrifice if and only if, we believe and are born again in s…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Mar. 25 2008,05:34)Hi KJ, Do you have a better plan to offer God?The sufferings of Christ are made complete in his followers.We cannot bear his name without sharing his rejection and pain on a planet where satan still can rule. Sharing includes pain.Is it written it would be easy?The crucible burns off the dross.Eternal glory…[Read more]

Doesn't it defy all logic that the Creator of everything, the entire universe, would have a favorite people in the first place?  Out of the entire universe, one planet, out of that planet, one small tribe of people?  If Christ died for all, it begs the question of there being a favorite people in the first place.  It goes back to the OT authors po…[Read more]

Does anyone actually believe that a being capable of creating the entire universe, an all-powerful, all-knowing God can actually be capable of jealousy much less hate, over the remnent (name) of a figment of a small group of inferior beings imagination (Astarte) that no one even knows of or acknowledges today?  I recognize that the OT in…[Read more]

Quote (seek and you will find @ Mar. 22 2008,09:02)Quote (Cato @ Mar. 22 2008,02:59)Quote (seek and you will find @ Mar. 22 2008,00:08)Let me ask you, knowing that these days derive from the pagans, knowing that God hates them, why do you think it is alright for you to think that God would aprove of it. Do you think that He would aprove? I don't…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Mar. 22 2008,05:25)How has that savior improved anything, seriously? Is the world a better place now than before Jesus came? Did not the death of Jesus result in the death of thousands — perhaps even millions — of other people afterwards? Christians killing Jews, Trinitarians killing Unitarians, Catholics and Protestants…[Read more]

Quote (seek and you will find @ Mar. 22 2008,00:08)Let me ask you, knowing that these days derive from the pagans, knowing that God hates them, why do you think it is alright for you to think that God would aprove of it. Do you think that He would aprove? I don't think so.  God is the same yesterday  and tomorrow. If He hated it yesterday which H…[Read more]

David,Are we to change the names of the days of the week as well?  Tuesday comes from Tyr, Wednesday from Wotan, Thursday Thor, Friday Frey, Saturday Saturn.   I suppose we should get rid of the months of  March and June as they connect with Mars and Juno?  I suppose that Thor and Hercules are fallen angels or demons also?  Astarte was a phoe…[Read more]

Stu and KJ, Both of you are obviously critical of religion, yet what's your take on deism?  Defining a deist as, “One who believes in the existence of a God or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason.” Thomas Paine a strong proponent of such wrote, All other systems have something in them…[Read more]

Logic alone can not provide all the answers for we are limited in knowledge and understanding, but to throw it out is absurd.  Logic led me to my faith in God when I thought belief in such for the weak and ignorant.  Logic is organized reasoning, to abdicate such is the height of ignorance.  I would expect to hear such from some obscure cultist or…[Read more]

I don't think a child's egg hunt is in anyway a sacrifice to the infernal.  That many traditions have some start in ancient pagan festivals hardly qualifies them as evil.  I think we should be more concerned with crass commercialization of our celebrations then worrying that they happen close to a solstice or equinox that ancient druids or s…[Read more]

Samuel,Sometimes it's not just the destination (truth) but the journey.  If the end was all that mattered God would just give us the truth without the need to seek and find it.  We are all fellow seekers, we all want love and have doubts.  As you question, you look at things from a new perspective and this starts with confusion but leads to gr…[Read more]

Perhaps it was part of the plan for us (humanity) not God to have an adversary?  Sometimes we learn of something through it's opposite.  The concept of “positive evil”, is that evil which ultimately serves God's plan by allowing us dragons to slay, a chance to be actively and not merely passively good.  It provides the temptation that when ov…[Read more]

I have brought up a thread in the general questions section that outlines how what many commonly view as God's plan for salvation seems flawed.  I freely admit my argument is based not on scripture but logic.  I see God's law written in the universe and no where in God's creation do finite causes lead to infinite results.  I believe all will ev…[Read more]

Quote (kejonn @ Mar. 20 2008,00:25)Quote (Cato @ Mar. 19 2008,05:38)Nick,Do you think what is portrayed as God's plan is fair, especially considering the ultimate ends awaiting our short and vastly different lives?  I know you think it is God's, but can you comment on the plan itself.  Have you no pity for those poor souls born in the dominion o…[Read more]