Protestantism

» pink101 - Well, *Maybe* ;-)

In response to Well, *Maybe* ;-) posted by paper_turtle:
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ha ha ha.
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or is that
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heh heh heh
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The human body is a fantastic machine and extremely predictable once it is understood.
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The brain is no different than the gut or any other part of the body. Each one works according to its particular duties. Mess its options up and, whammo! There can be big trouble.
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I stick to my position on thinking and I think you will stick to yours.
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I'm correct and you're wrong. Or is that you are correct and I'm wrong?
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Ho ho
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-- posted by pink101

» paper_turtle - Well, *Maybe* ;-)

In response to Well, *Maybe* ;-) posted by pink101:

If you were a woman, you would not refer to the body as being predictable. Trust me on this one. ;-)

The body may work more or less like clockwork depending on one's age and health), but it is much more than a machine. Its an entire cosmos.

As an old friend used to say, "I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong."

LOL

peace and love,
Paper Turtle

-- posted by paper_turtle

» pink101 - Well, *Maybe* ;-)

In response to Well, *Maybe* ;-) posted by paper_turtle:
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I'm going to stick with the idea that our bodies--male or female--are predictable in the most precise sort of ways.
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We might not be able to figure that out; but, it is as predictable as anything there is. One little defect and, whammo! That's it. Just think of what happened to Jerry Falwell today. Apparently he failed to heed the warnings and didn't change his eating and exercise habits.
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-- posted by pink101

» HeadZenCards - Well, *Maybe* ;-)

In response to Well, *Maybe* ;-) posted by paper_turtle:

Trying to separate mind into heart and brain is like trying to separate walking into ankle and leg.

It can be done, but it misses so much.

Jerry Falwell now knows the truth about his situation. He is with Jesus now.

-- posted by HeadZenCards

» HeadZenCards - Well, *Maybe* ;-)

In response to Well, *Maybe* ;-) posted by HeadZenCards:

More on the "darker side of God":

http://www.biblicalnonsense.com/chapter9...

-- posted by HeadZenCards

» pink101 - Well, *Maybe* ;-)

In response to Well, *Maybe* ;-) posted by HeadZenCards:
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Jerry Falwell now knows the truth about his situation. He is with Jesus now.
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How's that?
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-- posted by pink101

» HeadZenCards - The Resurrection

In response to Well, *Maybe* ;-) posted by pink101:

IMHO, all Christians who die go to Jesus. Since Jesus is nowhere, who can disagree?

Read more here:

http://www.2think.org/hundredsheep/bible...

From The Myth of the Resurrection - Joseph McCabe (1925)

"It is not probable that one modern Christian out of one hundred thousand knows that centuries before the time of Christ the nations annually celebrated the death and resurrection of Osiris, Tammuz, Attis, Mithra, and other gods.

Tell it to your neighbor, and he will laugh. That is, he will say, the "science" of comparative religion. But I write these books in the hope that directly or indirectly, they will reach Christians.

I am giving a full, serious, simple, and easily verified examination of the Christian creed in every aspect; and this aspect with which I now deal is one of the most important, and to me most fascinating, aspects. So I approach it on lines on which any believer may accompany me.

What will he say? Surely not, as the early Christians did, that the devil inspired the pre-Christian nations with these resurrection myths. That is, frankly, childish.

We shall in the end search for, and probably find, the real roots of the myth in the early mind of the race. I take it that my religious reader will be puzzled. He ought to have known these things before.

Why cannot his writers and preachers candidly face them? All that I ask him to do for the moment is to make, with me, a more careful examination than he has ever made before of the evidence for the resurrection in the New Testament."

-- posted by HeadZenCards

» Migisi - The Resurrection

In response to The Resurrection posted by HeadZenCards:

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Very good article, Ollie. I've book marked it. Thanks.

-- posted by Migisi

» Migisi - Whole lotta raising going on

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Other men besides Jesus raised people from the dead. Check the close similarities in these three stories.
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1 Kings 17:20 - "He [Elijah] then took him from her bosom, carried him up to the loft where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. Then he prayed, "O God, my God, why have you brought this terrible thing on this widow who has opened her home to me? Why have you killed her son?" 21-23 Three times he stretched himself out full-length on the boy, praying with all his might, "God, my God, put breath back into this boy's body!" God listened to Elijah's prayer and put breath back into his body-he was alive! Elijah picked the boy up, carried him downstairs from the loft, and gave him to his mother. "Here's your son," said Elijah, "alive!"
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2 Kings 4:32 - "When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. 33 He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the LORD. 34 Then he got on the bed and lay upon the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out upon him, the boy's body grew warm. 35 Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out upon him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. 36 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite." And he did. When she came, he said, "Take your son."
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Acts 20:8 - "There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. 9Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. 10Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "He's alive!"
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Acts 9:40 - "Peter sent them all out of the room; then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, "Tabitha, get up." She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up."
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Note Peter didn't lay on the woman. That wouldn't have been acceptable. Like Paul, notice that Peter didn't need to invoke Jesus' name in order to raise the dead.
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Even touching dead BONES can raise the dead.
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2 Kings 13:21 - "Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet."
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Sometimes, the miracle worker doesn't even need to be alive and present:
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Matthew 27:51 - At that moment [of Jesus' death] the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. 52The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people."
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Wonder what these holy people did for three days before Jesus rose from the dead?
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Despite Elijah's reputation for miracles, including raising the dead, James said... "Elijah was a man just like us... " (Jm 5:17) Hmm... Really!? Well, that would mean that Elisha, Paul, Peter, and Jesus were just like Elijah... "a man just like us".
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Hosea 6:2 "After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will restore us,
that we may live in his presence."
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Hosea says God will revive and restore us ~on the third day~. What a coincidence, ay?
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And here's the million dollar question...
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John 11:25-26 - Jesus said to her [Martha], "I am the resurrection, and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
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Do you believe this? Here we have Lazarus, Tabitha, three boys, a corpse that touched bones, and many holy people who were resurrected and lived. Why aren't they also the resurrection and the life?

-- posted by Migisi

» pink101 - Whole lotta raising going on

In response to Whole lotta raising going on posted by Migisi:
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When I first learned about hypnotism, some of the sources talked about rasing the dead using this or that technique.
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One of the important points was that the subject could not be too long dead.
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-- posted by pink101