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Christians have a long history of taking scripture out of context and deluding themselves into believing that it supports whatever self-serving belief...

Okay. Evidently you misunderstood what I wrote. The problem is that I did NOT say what you say I said. Contrast what you say I said with what I actual...

Can you elaborate on what you've written here? As it stands, it doesn't make any sense in the context of what I wrote.

Only because the gospel preached by Jesus is not the foundation for Christianity. The gospel that Christianity is spreading is the Pauline gospel. I s...

Many Christians take that verse literally and out of context, as you've done here, as a justification for Christian violence. Matthew 10 34“Do not thi...

As so often happened while Jesus preached His gospel, Jesus used metaphor and the listeners (including the disciples) take it literally and don't unde...

Julliard String Quartet - "The Four String Quartets" Elliott Carter Teodoro Anzellotti "Janacek" Leos Janacek piano works arranged for accordion Barba...

Seems to be dominated by rock/pop regardless. Hopefully there'll be folks who have jazz and/or classical as their primary interest. Had never listened...

What do you have in mind here?

As to how the gospel preached by Jesus was corrupted, maybe it will help to highlight the underlying concepts of the main line. To lend perspective, t...

Like race, way too much importance has been and continues to be given to superficial attributes such as these. Human beings are human beings. From wha...

I had understood the topic of this thread. You seem to have misunderstood my previous post. You had indicated that you were going to create a new thre...

I'm not skeptical of the gospel preached by Jesus. I'm skeptical of the "gospel" of Christianity which is based on the Pauline gospel and the "gospel ...

In my experience, many read much into the first verse you've quoted even though it is ambiguous in and of itself. In your opinion: Who do you believe ...

From Dictionary.com Instinct: an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common to a given biological species. Habits are actions that have b...

It isn't that correlation is meaningless, it is that correlation in and of itself is meaningless. There's a distinction that needs to be made there.

Based on your responses on this thread, you don't seem very familiar with the history of the NFL, racism in the US and the long-term effects of system...

The point was that dimorphism likely has nothing to do with it. It's merely a statistic what shows correlation. In and of itself, it means nothing.

This doesn't even begin to make rational sense for any number of reasons. Not least since NFL quarterbacks typically become starters well before the a...

This seems a bit strong. Correlation does not imply causation. Seems more likely that it is rooted in the neurobiological incentive system than primat...

Interesting. Sounds like rather than an Australian Baptist tradition per se, it was the tradition of the individual church that you attended? Perhaps ...

What tradition was that? Were the mythical stories of the NT - literal resurrection of Jesus, literal healing of a blind man, literal raising of a dea...

You indicated that the plan was to discuss the following in the new thread you were creating: The OP seems to be about something very different. What ...

Any given passage from the gospel preached by Jesus needs to be understood within the context of the entirety of the gospel preached by Jesus. Seems l...

First let me know what you found questionable as to it being a part of Jesus' message. Also, just how familiar are you with the teachings of Paul? For...

Looking forward to it. After you've created the new thread, please post a note here.

If you have rational basis for your position, it seems that you are either unable or unwilling to articulate what it is. From what I can tell having s...

In the spirit of what I quoted from Kierkegaard, seems like it calls for instead is an analysis of how the "gospel" of Christianity differs from the g...

Can you try to make a cogent case for this? From what you've presented, you don't seem to have a solid rational basis for it.

What a curious response. You made the following request: "I'd be interested to know in what way he perverts the word of Jesus." My post was in order t...

Sure, one could hold that view and call oneself Christian, but Christianity, as the word is commonly understood, does not have the gospel preached by ...

Just so you know, I am not and have never been a "Christian". Christianity has the gospel taught by Paul as its foundation rather than the gospel prea...

Evidently you're going to continue to ignore what I write in order to go off on irrational rants. More's the pity. You're free to pull it together at ...

My thoughts exactly. Excellent point on Kant. What really matters are the underlying concepts conveyed by the words attributed to Jesus while He walke...

I did not say that "the way, the truth and the life is the way, the truth and the life" or anything of the kind. You've reached an illogical conclusio...

Sorry, but you still don't seem to understand. There are many types of figurative language. For example: "Time is money" is figurative language. Time ...

Do you really not understand the difference between "literal" and "figurative"? You took Jesus to be saying that He is literally "the way". He isn't l...

There's much more to it than this, but at it's most basic it can be thought of as a simple word puzzle. John 14 6Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, an...

Jesus is speaking figuratively. Once again you take it literally. A theme that runs throughout the four gospels is that Jesus speaks figuratively and ...

Of course, it could be that I question the abilities of some because they have demonstrated that they are lacking in reading comprehension skills, cri...

Let's see if you can make a cogent case.

Those would be words attributed to Jesus.

That was in response to post by @"Alkis Piskas". I didn't respond to your post until later. Not sure why you are unable to discern these type things, ...

In the main it's really quite simple: 1) The writers of the four gospels were pretty good about introducing the words attribute to Jesus. Typically th...

Of course, you could have exercised a little patience and waited for my response to your post instead of jumping the gun... Of course, perhaps I have ...

Matthew 5 17“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. 18“For truly I say to you, until ...

Yeah it's logical, though one must have some clue as to the basic teachings of Jesus in order to apply logic there. That said, I suspect that some who...

Actually you were correct in your assessment that " ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’" is not what Jesus Himself believed and taught...

Says the guy who side-stepped addressing the following: "How is it reasonable for you to say "I could same about you" when you're the only one who sai...

You're conflating the words attributed to Jesus said while He walked the Earth with the mythology NT writers wrapped around His words. When Jesus spok...