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dogrelata
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Message 20 of 91 (522684)
09-04-2009 1:25 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by ICANT
09-04-2009 11:36 AM


Re: Heaven
ICANT writes:
In message 4 I gave you all the requirements given by God who was with us.
Any other requirement is man made.
I read The Case For Jesus by Lee Strobel some years ago. I seem to recall one or two of those supplying expert testimony going to great lengths to explain how Jesus ‘emptied himself of his divinity’ on many occasions, in order that he be no more than his fellow human.
Purely out of curiosity, how do you differentiate between those proclamations that were attributed to Jesus when he was simply a human, and those made when he was the embodiment of the ‘holy spirit’?

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dogrelata
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Message 70 of 91 (523593)
09-11-2009 11:12 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Teapots&unicorns
09-03-2009 11:10 AM


What is this obsession amongst believers with heaven anyway?
In the Christo-Judaic tradition, the ‘heavenly’ account of the Garden of Eden in Genesis would make us wonder why. Adam and Eve seemed positively underwhelmed by what their god had to offer them in their earthly paradise and wasted little time making their escape. The subsequent sales pitch to lure them back doesn’t seem like it’s going too well eitherit’s been two thousand years since the second coming was imminent, but still no sign
Jesus is probably chomping at the bit to get back down here (where the action is), but the old fella keeps telling him, You better wait until some interesting people sign up for this gig.
Edited by dogrelata, : Typo

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