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Oh absolutely. Jews, who have been studying this text far longer than Christians, have been operating under this assumption since the beginning. You n...

I'm not trying to convince you if you're an atheist. That would be too big of a task for me. All I'm saying here is if we're going by the Bible then t...

Because we're having a conversation on religious ethics?

In Genesis it is very clearly stated multiple times that man was created in the likeness of God. There is no possible secular counterpart to this. You...

Jesus gets girls and demonstrates high-value attractive behavior, but I wouldn't expect philosophers to understand this. Keep it up with the Schopenha...

Suicide causes immeasurable pain and suffering to those who knew the deceased. Parents never get over it. You'd be causing immeasurable suffering to y...

That commandment, found in Deuteronomy, is from God. At the end of the day you're going to make the final decision: Life or death. Love or lovelessnes...

If you believe that you're already dead. The Old Testament commands one to choose life.

Go find love, Javi.

I don't think suicide hurts God (God is all-powerful), but it is bad for one's soul if such a thing exists. If there is no soul we will already spend ...

This is true if we adopt value neutral individualism, but the Judeo-Christian tradition is not fundamentally individualistic. In Judaism -- out of whi...

:100: He sure read a lot of books, but didn't seem quite able to use any of them to aid his own well-being or guide his behavior. Thoughts and prayers...

Now that you mention it I'll have to give the Stoics another look. I haven't studied them in depth. When I'm evaluating morality the central questions...

I believe it's Paul who ties the legitimacy of authority to God. However, if we read Samuel, God (and Samuel) are actually against kingship but the Is...

Question it. Who’s to say that existence is pointless? What led you to accept that belief as true? What was the criterion on which you accepted that c...

Largely laudable, yes, but also a definite element of insanity/radicalness that frequently flies below the radar with modern Christians who use select...

I got some ideas: Do what God says. Eat all rich people. End suffering, destroy life. Force happiness on all.

You should be thanking me. I made you smarter today. I’ll stop doing it.

It does not begin with Plato or Christianity. Read your old books. If nothing else it is a very useful fiction.

Here's where we differ: Magic tricks have rational explanations, miracles by definition fall outside of the laws of nature. There are plenty of great ...

I've never found haggling over the exact definition of the messiah to be particularly fruitful. Even if we go to the Bible we get a number of differen...

Not only would mass euthanasia cease all current human suffering; it would prevent all future human suffering. Makes a ton of sense if we follow the l...

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Thanks for the recommendations. These books look like they're great counters/additions to the New Testament. Christians will often read in Christ refe...

Possibly? I'm not a historian or Christian. I'm just digging into the NT after reading the OT. My approach is more philosophical/theological rather th...

I could swear salvation through Jesus was mentioned in Matthew. It's mentioned in many parables. In any case, I regard what you've said as an importan...

"Adapting ideas from Judaism" -- 77% of your religious cannon is Judaism. It is what Christ was/is and what he was reacting against in his teachings. ...

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Does this really matter though? There's dozens of miracles associated with Jesus. We can disregard the miracles. Jesus's teachings on salvation are ac...

I think that's actually how it should be: Dowdy and obtuse earnestness on the outside, lion on the inside. Jesus tells us to love our neighbor as ours...

Christianity is more dangerous than its predecessor. In making a virtue of weakness/simplicity/servitude the strong adopt sheep's clothing and the poo...

If certainty is our standard for reasonable belief then the field of history is in trouble. Jesus very likely existed; he can found mentioned in Jewis...

My previous post was based on the OT. With the NT you just gotta have faith, love, and if you break every rule in the rulebook just say it was done fo...

Not too familiar with the fundamentalist Christians, but yes, in rabbinic Judaism law is defined as halakha is determined by the rabbis which draws fr...

Read Matthew today. NT is very different from OT. I believe Christians worship a false prophet. Lot more black and white thinking in NT. It's all abou...

if god commands X that means you can maybe start the process but fulfilling the actual execution is a whole other issue. execution was extremely rare ...

We've now moved into theology i.e. religious reasoning. Do you think it would make sense for someone to derive that they personally can just carry out...

What counts as insufficient evidence? By virtue of calling something insufficient you're already saying belief isn't justified. Who determines that. W...

there is a difference between the written law and the implementation of that law. Why should the authority matter? This is a philosophy forum. Unless ...

We could have that discussion. I've mentioned the books of Ecclesiastes and Proverbs as two of my favorites that contain a lot of wisdom. I never said...

Well, yeah, one could be making an unnecessary or wrong presupposition when approaching a system which could confound one's understanding.

It can be both. It's fine to question and it's fine to grant (granting is not necessarily conceding that something is 100% correct). Each discussion t...

The Bible. I am talking with Dingo here, who is for the sake of discussion willing to operate within a biblical framework. If you just want to doubt e...

a) it's a rule/law. a judgment issued from god, but not an absolute one. the bible is many things: history, poetry, philosophy, practical wisdom, lega...

no, this is not part of the wisdom. i believe the two clauses against homosexuality appear in leviticus which is more of a legal text that just lays o...

in order for us to apply this commandment we need infrastructure i.e. a religious court system that would make the judgment. In ancient Israel this wa...

given all the brutal details and slaughters in the bible if we're going to make sense of it we need a few assumptions/presuppositions. it's all part o...

my response is commensurate on the effort that you give. so far you've given me nothing. the illiad and the odyssey were picked out by nietzsche as ex...

Pervasive ableism and classism as I said before. Deeply entrenched in the culture and in their lit. I'm not your teacher, Jackson, go read the Odyssey...

We're going to stick to this one topic instead of branching off to homosexuality which is its own separate topic. I want to get this done first then w...