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| location | Waterloo, Canada | |
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What's the justification of eternal torture in hell? Hell is implicitly a place of suffering. So if you accept Hell as being consistent with the divine, you should have no trouble with people suffering in it. Also God no more has to give you an answer that fit in with your conditions than you have to tell your five-year old why he should pick up his room in terms that satisfy his conditions. |
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What biblical references explain the idea that Jesus is God's “only begotten Son” other than John 3:16? No, Yahweh has been identified with God the Father from the start. The things Jesus said about his Father would have been blasphemous had they not been about Yahweh, and the reactions of the Jews clearly indicated they did not understand it that way. |
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How can we be sure the Old Testament is accurate if Elijah was the only prophet left? deleted 3 characters in body; edited title |
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What's the justification of eternal torture in hell? You understand that on this site, all the answers you are going to get will be from a Christian perspective? |
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Torah and the Old Testament deleted 1 characters in body; edited title |
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What's the justification of eternal torture in hell? As far as I am aware, God is not a signatory to any United Nations convention. |
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answered | If loves/desires 'point' to something beyond our imagination…what of enjoyment for fictional villians? |
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How is Sabbath a metaphor of Jesus Christ? deleted 3 characters in body |
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Why are there so many First Congregational Churches in the US? I've always assumed that when the Congregational denomination comes to town they call their church "The Congregational Church". When second one arrives, either by growth or (more likely) schism it renames itself "First Congregational Church" to distinguish it from latecomers. |
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Jun 11 |
answered | How is Sabbath a metaphor of Jesus Christ? |
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How is Sabbath a metaphor of Jesus Christ? Could you ask the preachers you heard it from? |
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At the greater emergence of democracy in Europe during the 'Enlightenment' did the papacy support democracy? There are some interesting points well made here, especially the Church's opposition to 'divine right'. However I would disagree with your characterisation of democracy as not existing until the 20th century. In England at least, the monarch required at least some support parliament to rule since the 16th century; the balance of power shifted over the next few hundred years, but it clearly rested with parliament by the 19th century. |
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At the greater emergence of democracy in Europe during the 'Enlightenment' did the papacy support democracy? "The emergence of democracy" is earlier than people seem to think. England had an elected Parliament in the fifteenth century. Is that the time period you are thinking of, or are you deliberately asking about US institutions? Separation of Church and State is almost entirely a US issue. European democracies mostly didn't have the concept. Some had a state church, and some - like France - were vigorously opposed to the church. |
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At the greater emergence of democracy in Europe during the 'Enlightenment' did the papacy support democracy? added 2 characters in body; edited title |
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Why do churches always need money? edited tags |
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Why do most churches meet on Sunday? edited tags |
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Why do churches have steeples? edited tags |
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Is confessing to a priest the only way to be forgiven? edited tags |
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Why are some miracles hard to explain and some are not? "in the case of the Red Sea, we learned how He did it". Actually we have not. We we have is a proposal by someone of a possible mechanism that might have resulted in what was recorded. They haven't been able to test even that it's possible for the wind to do that, let alone prove that is what actually happened. |
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awarded | Nice Answer |
