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- Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:36 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33772
Re: What is hell?
Sometimes, you display a rather shallow background for someone who wants to make big swweeping comments about a very old, and very complex phenomena like "xianity" (if there even is such a thing). But anyway, Christ actually talks about Gehenna - a complicated & interpretable image that sometimes i...
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:36 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33772
Re: What is hell?
Sometimes, you display a rather shallow background for someone who wants to make big swweeping comments about a very old, and very complex phenomena like "xianity" (if there even is such a thing). But anyway, Christ actually talks about Gehenna - a complicated & interpretable image that sometimes i...
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:29 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 62031
Re: Christians and Sabbath
Yeah, when he establishes, in two critical passages of the Sermon on the Mount, that keeping Law is no credit to a person if they even WANT to break them. So, right there, the Law (as uncorruptible as it may be) according to Christ, the Law has become pointless, useless, "a stumbling block", much a...
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 12:55 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33772
Re: What is hell?
How does that all stand with Jesus talking about hell? What happens in the afterlife is fundamental to Christianity; Jesus incarnated so people could have one afterlife rather than another. I think that is pretty universal in Christianity, right? So here we have God telling people how to get to heav...
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 12:48 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 62031
Re: Christians and Sabbath
I think it means (or could reasonably be understood as saying) once the prophecies are fulfilled, the Mosaic path - ritual Judaism - has run its course? The new path, more accessible to Gentiles and hellenized Jews, is internalized, a la Jeremiah, & no longer reliant on a worldly "Kingdom." I'll ju...
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:15 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33772
Re: What is hell?
I'm not sure I believe that hell is a literal place or even a condition. It might be a metaphor for irrevocable separation from God or for annihilation. This has become a popular belief in Christianity recently as sensibilitiers have changed. Nowadays the idea of eternal torture is considered moral...
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:15 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33772
Re: What is hell?
I'm not sure I believe that hell is a literal place or even a condition. It might be a metaphor for irrevocable separation from God or for annihilation. This has become a popular belief in Christianity recently as sensibilitiers have changed. Nowadays the idea of eternal torture is considered moral...
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:40 am
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 62031
Re: Christians and Sabbath
Someone might suggest - & people have suggested - that the new form, "Xianity", was more like "the heart and prophetic soul" of Judaism, ie taking things all the way back to Abraham, as Paul often does, & stripping away layers of unnecessary ritualistic & nationalistic wrappings.... This internaliz...
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:40 am
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 62031
Re: Christians and Sabbath
Someone might suggest - & people have suggested - that the new form, "Xianity", was more like "the heart and prophetic soul" of Judaism, ie taking things all the way back to Abraham, as Paul often does, & stripping away layers of unnecessary ritualistic & nationalistic wrappings.... This internaliz...
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:03 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 62031
Re: Christians and Sabbath
Christians have rationalised ignoring all the Biblical laws they find inconvenient. Paul was the first to do so (as in Romans 14, as Met says). At that time they were trying to sell Chrstianity to the pagans, and the idea of circumcision was a major barrier. Christianity was kind of Judaism Lite - y...
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:03 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 62031
Re: Christians and Sabbath
Christians have rationalised ignoring all the Biblical laws they find inconvenient. Paul was the first to do so (as in Romans 14, as Met says). At that time they were trying to sell Chrstianity to the pagans, and the idea of circumcision was a major barrier. Christianity was kind of Judaism Lite - y...