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02-04-2003, 12:31 PM | #1 |
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Not ncessarily boring...Philosophy and basis of Christianity
Okay...here's where we can discuss Christianity Whether you are Christian or not, even if you hate Christianity (no name calling). Here's the place to argue philosophically (or not) about Christians and their faith.
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02-04-2003, 01:22 PM | #2 |
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Isn't there a thread about this already? Oh well. I'm not Christian. Not even Christened and have only been in a church twice. I'm not one of those people who says "There is no God," because I can't understand how the world can exist if there is a God, or if there isn't. I don't think that makes sense at all to anyone but me. Oh well. But yay! Philosophy!
I'm going to pose some questions... Why are people always searching for more? Why can they not be happy just to be? How can there be no point to living, yet looking at the rest of the universe how can there be a point? What does everyone think?
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02-04-2003, 01:24 PM | #3 |
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Never been christaned, don't bothered about that.
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02-04-2003, 01:28 PM | #4 | |
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Edit: unless its debating that makes you happy. Then yeah..
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02-04-2003, 01:36 PM | #5 | |
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02-04-2003, 02:35 PM | #6 |
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I can't debate you on that one Anduril.
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02-04-2003, 02:36 PM | #7 |
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well im a proud christian and believe that our god is the one god and all other religions are false(judaism is partialy correct)and believers in the others false religions will find themselves in hell.
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02-04-2003, 03:26 PM | #8 |
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sorry Judaism isn't even partially correct according to Christianity...but the real truth is that every religion has some element of truth (maybe every religion as every element of truth).
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02-04-2003, 04:32 PM | #9 |
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Hmm, aside from the offshoot discussion, do you mean the original what religion are you thread?
Narsil's Master, I don't want to be rude, but I think that you could be a bit more tact. Speak the truth in love. markedel: is this the same old thing about how Christianity is all just love and law that you mean? Or something else? Anyway, Christians and Jews (now that I know that term isn't rude ) both worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, correct? But of course, I speak of fundemental Christianity, and you speak of conservative Judaism; whereas when I speak of Judaism I talk about Orthodox Judaism. Of course, along the same lines, Islam is also partially correct according to Christianity, in that they worship the God of Abraham. Which brings up a question I've wondered for a while: What religion did Arabians follow before Mohammed came along? Is this religion basically dead today?
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02-04-2003, 04:43 PM | #10 | |
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02-04-2003, 05:55 PM | #11 | |
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02-04-2003, 06:10 PM | #12 |
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Do you mean they were at the time, or they are now?
Most Middle-Easterners are Muslim; but before Mohammed, I don't know. Christians have always been in the minority (not counting the Christian Roman Empire and the Dark Ages, in both cases the Christianity of many of them was questionable). Also, Muslims believe that Ishmael was the Chosen one of God, not Isaac, I believe. No doubt their predessescors (sp?) also believed that.
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02-04-2003, 06:42 PM | #13 |
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Before Mohammed, the middle east was mainly a form of paganism. What mohammed did was declare that only one of their gods (allah, the moon god) was truly god and that only one of their idols (the kaaba) was worthy of worship. He basically consolidated all the god-sects of the old religion with a great deal of influence from christian and jewish thought.
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02-04-2003, 07:06 PM | #14 |
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Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I wonder if they'll leave this thread open?
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02-04-2003, 07:15 PM | #15 |
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You never know with those moderators...
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02-04-2003, 07:59 PM | #16 |
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im christian and the thing i dont like about it is all they say you do is sin sin sin. my god... i mean they can at least say we did something good rather than tell us all the time we're bad people and we have to go to church every sunday to go to heaven. (oops used gods name in vain... broke one commandment)
i see no point in being catholic if everything you do is bad.
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02-04-2003, 08:33 PM | #18 |
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Yes, that is not the way to heaven.
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