Evidence for God from Science

In answer to your question about the baptism of the spirit I think the answer lies in where the experience comes from. I have had some in depth experience with meditation and one of the first things I realized was how easy it is to create experiences, it is hard to tell a difference between genuine...

Not necessarily. You are assuming ancient weorld had a "panetheism" as we know it today. I said pantheism. sorry for typ-0. I have dyslexia, it's made worse by fast typing. Also, could you say your statement about the Q hypothesis again? It's a little messed up. they've identified Q veres...

Didn't Thomas' account claim that Jesus said women had to become men to enter heaven? Not to mention severly pantheistic quotes? Yes, among other trash. And just think, it's just as reliabie as the other gospels, even though it contradicts every freaking book of the Bible at least once. (I mean, th...

Forge wrote:"Split wood, I am there. Overturn a stone, I am there."

God is mud under a rock!

He' saying he's everywhere. What's the difference in that and saying God is nothing because in the begining there was a great void?

Didn't Thomas' account claim that Jesus said women had to become men to enter heaven? Not to mention severly pantheistic quotes? Yes, among other trash. And just think, it's just as reliabie as the other gospels, even though it contradicts every freaking book of the Bible at least once. (I mean, th...

Oh good grief, not Metacrock. Now the conversation is going to go to pot. We'll get a combination of mysticism and personal opinion, with a few passing references to 'Higher Criticism'. :roll: hey nice to see you too man I haven't seen you since the CARM days years ago. I'm back there again now - I...

Fortigurn wrote:Oh good grief, not Metacrock. Now the conversation is going to go to pot. We'll get a combination of mysticism and personal opinion, with a few passing references to 'Higher Criticism'.

hey nice to see you too man

http://www.westarinstitute.org/Fellows/fellows.html If any names at the bottom look familiar.... odd that his name alone isn't liniked. Here's the guy i'm talking about, he teaches at UT, on the PBS documentary "From Jesus to Chrsit." His vita says nothing about Jesus Seminar. http://www....

thanks for the extremely quick reply..... ok firstly.... I don't really know why I'm losing my faith.... I think the problem is...well I don't know....for some reason something in my heart is telling me the jesus wasn't a god.... :( I can't explain it...... when I used to pray.... I used to feel so...

I often struggle with this "commiting murder" in the heart thing too. And the lusting after another being the same as adultery. But I really like Fortigurns response "There's a difference between temptation and sin. Temptation is not sin. You might feel the impulse, the urge, but if ...

* The earliest text of GThomas we have date to no earlier than the 3rd century AD (this is significant, since GThomas quotes John's gospel, and the earliest text of John's gospel dates to almost 100 years earlier) * The earliest reference we have to GThomas in any Christian writing dates to no earl...

Why? Because the members of the Jesus Seminar find what they set out to find. They believe that there is only natural...therefore, they find that the Gospels are in error, which just happens to confirm that Jesus wasn't God (circular reasoning?)...Then, there methodology is so silly. I mean, how do...

Hey, one of my professors has a chapter for us to read from Jesus and Christianity by L. Michael White, a professor who teaches at my university, and I was wondering if anyone could give me stuff to refute his childish antics...one of them being that Jesus didn't come to start a religion, then he t...