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It's easy to get carried away. I think that anything that causes one to be angry, it's best to just dust your feet off and walk away from, and if you can manage it, compliment your adversary too, because leaving on a note of respectful disagreement can lead to more fruitful conversations down...

Suppose that if you hit someone, and they hit you back. Did you learn a lesson? Did you WANT to learn that lesson? I suppose you didn't, you just wanted to hit them and not get hit back, yet it happened anyways. So if you suffer for your own sins and thereby learn a hard lesson, that is the...

What sort of idea or philosophy seems great at first but is actually really awful the more you think about it?

Nice Devil thread you've got going here, attacking fellow Christians for their ideas and losing your peace. I don't even know what is going on here, everyone is just mad and insulting eachother.

I think considering too hard how mankind reflects God is too dangerous for a tiny mind like mine. The man of sin sits in the temple of God, showing himself he is God. As the apostle Paul said, let me shrink so that the Holy Spirit can grow. There is a part of us that wants to believe we are God...

Sects of St. Thomas Christianity and Judaism Quotes below where God calls David the Messiah: Jeremiah 33 15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. Ezekiel 34 23 And I will...

What I mean is, that Jesus was perfected to unity with God via Mankind. Revelation 3:21 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Jesus was granted to sit in God's throne because He overcame the...

This may be quite tangential, but I have always as a kid thought that the Son of Man was kind of a weird title for Jesus to give himself. Aren't we all sons of Man? It's like he's walking around saying he's "THE Human". I don't think the title means "Jesus is a human" but rather that Jesus is...

Exactly this. A perfect Christian is an absolute pacifist. If I am ever drafted for war I would rather be hanged than kill someone. In my country, there is a lot of injustice. People who have diabetes or other medical conditions need to pay out of pocket for life-saving medicines, and in some...

So one thing represents another, but who is to say, the vision was not what is real (just on another spiritual plane where existence is more formless) and this world is not just a lowered state of consciousness? Though I agree with your point - that the symbols of a divine vision, and the...

I wouldn't so much say that the Devil hijacked God's creation, but rather that God created our reality for the Devil's education and let him have a hand in it (God knew there was a serpent in the garden). We see in the book of Job, that God is actively teaching the Devil moral lessons and giving...

Mankind can never view God's true face, so we see only "images" of God. Just a small fraction of God's personality and power, like an angel, or another person, perhaps.

Or inversely, if you see one in a spiritual vision (a glimpse into the perfect mind of God), it's a horse truer than any other horse. But if you see one in your barn (amid the hazy false illusion of materialism) it's not a horse, it's just dust animated by an imperfect reflection of the Creator...

When God forbade kings from amassing horses, it wasn't because the animals are somehow offensive to God, but because physical horses represent military power. So in a certain way, everything can be said to be a symbol of something. I mean, look at the words I'm writing, it's nothing but symbols...

Go read any Bible you want. I prefer KJV. I don't have any problem with reading Middle English so it doesn't bother me. I find it to be the most artistic rendition and therefore most inspired. If I give someone a Bible, I would want them to have the most beautiful rendition of the Bible I can...

Yup, them's the weeds. You know I used to go on really toxic forums, and I saved a lot of "funny" memes. And eventually I started to get a bad feeling. Like a sense that there was something wrong, a demonic presence coming from my electronics. I looked over my saved images, hundreds of them...

"Not being saved by works so no man may boast" doesn't mean you don't have an obligation to do good, what it means is, that you can't have an ego about doing good deeds. You can't become a self-righteous arse like the pharisees "I donate more money than other men, so I am so much holier and...

If NIV or ESV or whatever you prefer, works for you, then it works for you. I just don't understand why someone would consider KJV "unreadable". We all read Shakespeare in highschool. I posted Proverbs 1 as an example and nobody was able to find any verse in it which was incomprehensible. But if...

I was a heavily armed action hero in a video game and fighting against two zombie-like creatures. Because they were slow-moving, I decided they were no threat, and I should keep my distance from them and aim shots at their head with my pistol to conserve ammo. However, every time I shot them...

I agree, this whole topic is shallow and pointlessly divisive.