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Good one! This is the only way an intelligent mind can be taken for a ride. I am reminded of the story of John Nash, brilliant mathemetician, a "beautiful mind" gone temporarily mad. In his biography, it says that he said his recovery began when he stopped thinking about politics and...

That's the problem. Mad minds want to put Jesus into "con" text. Get it? Con + text = "context". Meaning, the text that surrounds Jesus words puts his message into a kind of prison. You are putting far too much faith in this book you call "holy". Of Jesus' words, less than 20% are in any way...

I once had one leg shorter than another...made equal through a traveling preacher/healer. When I read your post, I was reminded of these youtube clips. Here Here2 What do you think? I have a simple rule of thumb for discerning spirits: The unholy spirit leads into and...

There was another banning at TheologyWeb recently. Without going into detail as of yet, this post discusses the issue from someone elses point of view...whose eloquence speaks volumes. To celebrate the most recent banning, I offer the following exchange between alias "Hooks" who has not...

Scientific realism Scientific realism is, at the most general level, the view that the world described by science is the real world, as it is, independent of what we might take it to be. Within philosophy of science, it is often framed as an answer to the question "what does the success of...

Depends. Which is worse? Theistic atheism, or Deistic atheism? The theistic atheist believes in "god". But because his god has no resemblance to the true GoD, he is effectively an atheist. These seem to be the one's most inclined to kill in the name of their god...most actively...

You must have strayed into orthodox/club territory. It appears to be an internal joke as evidenced by this mods comment to a known atheist sympathizer: "You'd better pray to the God you don't believe in that DDW [site owner] doesn't catch you snooping around other forums." Someone says...

No. Did not hurt. No suffering. Yah there were eyewitnesses, a few mentioned in the pop gospels. And which of them testifies of torment? Where do they describe a "symphony" of pain? They merely describe appearances. And if we can believe the report, at least one roman centurian was...

From hell? Christ!

Coincidently, the alias of the site owner includes this motto: "at least my cult doesn't suck". :eek: I'll tell you how people get sucked in. And its not about how smart or dumb people are. We can really only be fooled by our desires. And it's fairly easy to identify what motivates...

er...thanx! I shall call you da master a disaster! :D

I think my post above this one addresses how the litigation of theology may profit an 'orthodoxy' relative to the 'heretics'. These are old formulas. I call it priest-craft. Priest-craft has always been in the decietful business of selling guilt to the already guilt-stricken, exchanging goods...

It turns out that banning is a way of raising money at TheologyWeb. They even have an Annual Banning Auction where you can pay $5 a day to have someone banned from the site. Meanwhile, those like me who are banned for three days here, two weeks there...can pay to get back in...reduce number...

You mean someone pm'd you for more content? If you didn't already intro yourself in the Administration Office, a mod may contact you for more info...if your profile is sketchy. They say they won't bite...but actually they are sniffing for sin...anything that can profile you as either orthodox...

Contrary to "orthodox" belief, Jesus was not about getting killed, nor about any kind of pain and suffering. He was all about not being afraid, and not feeling any pain...and proved it by going to the cross. What astonished observers is his lack of suffering. A state of mind, in which there...

No. The trouble started when I was browsing youtube. I was minding my own, er, my Father's business, checking out Gospel of Thomas videos. Then I stumbled on "KabaneTheChristian", something that looked like a 14 year old boy, who has 50+ "apologetics" videos. He seemed lost. I found out that...

Struggling for words to describe what is going on at TheologyWeb. Jackie Fox, venting in the Psychotherapy Room (for registered eyes only), was just too eloquent to pass up: In her bio, Jackie describes herself as a lawyer. :D cirisme, is a Charter Member and Chancellor with 23,755...

Even more weird stuff. In "Theology 201" forum, the OP asks: Seven posters followed up saying, basically, "no!" I followed with two excellent essays on why solipsism is a better paradigm when approaching the truth as Jesus understood it. The content of those posts was...

More weird stuff. It turns out that at TheologyWeb, eschatology can only be discussed within an "orthodox" framework. Here is the forum rules for Eschatology 201. I have no clue what most of these terms mean. I only know that the OP asked a simple, open question: So I wrote up a...

Here is a masterpiece of doublespeak. It's open... but it's not. If the mission is to be double-minded and forked-tongued, this would make sense.