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1.You became an atheist when you were 10 years old, based on ideas of G-d that you learned in Sunday School. Your ideas about G-d haven't changed since. 2.You think that the primary aim of an omnibenevolent G-d is for people to have FUN. 3.You believe that extra drippy ice-cream is a logical...

Can you prove, empirically, that a tree exists?

(TheGreat0ne;7208) That's all well and good, but you've missed my point, which is that you must believe that god makes our decisions for us if you believe him to be omniscient, omnipotent, and the sole creator. Reading that makes me ready to plotz lol!YOU'VE missed mine - our choices are ours...

That's a very interesting question Kriss. You'd think the answer would be very straightforward, too, given the current state of affairs. But there's something that we have to bear in mind about the "English" psyche. It's best illustrated thus: If you step on an Englishman's foot, he will turn...

The first "Christians" were, effectively, Messianic Jews joined by Gentiles. Their churches would have been run as were the synagogues - the men traditionally sit on one side, and the women traditionally sit on the other. The Gentile women would have no knowledge or understanding of the...

(Firstly - Wow, that has to be one of the most poorly thought out straw men arguments ever.)To the crux - G-d has often tried to impress on man the crucial principle that every effect has a cause. But we have difficulty grasping this truth, so we continue to suffer the debilitating effects of...

LONDON - Anti-Semitic attacks reached record levels in Britain last year and peaked during the conflict in Lebanon, a study showed.Race hate incidents - ranging from death threats to physical assault - rose by more than 30 percent to almost 600."These are the worst figures we have had in the 23...

The King David School It is infant prize day at King David School, a state primary in Moseley, Birmingham, England. The children sit cross-legged on the floor, their parents fiddling with their video cameras. The head, Steve Langford, is wearing a Sesame Street tie.A typical end-of-term school...

Ever since the US-led military coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime, the Islamic hard-liners who govern Iran have been determined to ensure the mission ends in failure.The ayatollahs have no sympathy for the former Iraqi dictator. On the contrary, the enmity...

"Assemble and come, all you nations, and gather together all around. Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations" (Joel 3:11-12).The Arab Christian population in Nazareth has become a minority in the past few...

JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert heads to Turkey this week, where he will ask Israel's closest Muslim ally to help in the international effort to curb Iran's nuclear program, officials said. Olmert also could come under pressure to make peaceful gestures toward Syria and the Palestinians...

Just read something that will put a smile on your face, Betchevy:Yeshua and PurimMost people are unaware of this, but Yeshua celebrated the feast of Purim! In John 5, Yeshua is in Jerusalem for an unnamed feast. Scholars have debated whether the feast was Passover, Purim, Sukkot or even...

Do you read and post here in contemplative silence? Perhaps the radio, or background TV? Family raising cacophany? Or - like me - you're lost in your favourite music? And if so, what is it? I'm not too fussy - I like many different kinds of music so I just go with the flow. Last night I was...

Which reminds me - have you seen "One Night With The King" yet? I haven't, but I'm told it's very good. http://www.8x.com/onenight/main.html

Ah, Purim... I'm so looking forward to it - as usual! But remember, shvesterl, as my (and most everybody else's) Rabbi points out every year, "It is not a Mitzvah to get drunk on Purim!"Who are they kidding?? Ah, to err is human - I think they're reading the wrong page on that one lol...

Valentine's Day began when the Roman Catholic Church absorbed a pagan Roman holiday called Lupercalia, the festival that honored Lupercus, the hero-hunter of wolves. Just goes to show - you can take the holiday from the pagan, but you can't take the pagan from the holiday... Be honest - does...

Further reading...There is Scripture which condones self defence - Exodus 22:2 states, "If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him." If you take a life to protect your own life or the lives of others, G-d accepts that as a just cause. Also...

I've been on mssngr most of tonight with some friends in Israel, planning my next trip back there, and I asked one of them - who is far better read than I'll ever be - about it. He was of the opinion that on the one hand, it is a fictional thing, but also pointed out that an omnipotent G-d will...

It is rarely spoken about in its true context. It is a slice of Jewish mystical thinking, much like the Kabbalah, not meant to be taken literally or out of its original context. And its original context is in Yevamot 62a, which is concerned with the Mitzvah for Jewish women of Pru U'rvu...

Regardless of one's church or doctrine, one thing cannot be argued. No matter how much we try to ignore it or deny it, G-d allows sin, suffering, warfare and death. The Bible itself is full of the same, and that is one of the reasons it is accepted as history, because its record is honest and...