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i am a nonbeliever, though i grew up in a fundamentalist christian home. i live in a very religious part of the US, and most of my peeps are christians. and the psych, anthropology, history and politics of christianity & other religions are super fascinating. so i need to continue to learn about this stuff...
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Mar 21 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Feb 21 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Sep 2 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Aug 1 |
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What reasons does Christianity give for “Why There Must Be A God?” @degausser - painful as it is, your families issues with your non-belief have very little to do with whether you should believe - that should be based on whether you find evidence or reason on your own. |
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Jul 29 |
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In which country is the Garden of Eden located? 3. The new rivers were named for older rivers 4. This is made up |
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Jun 6 |
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Christian significance of Tolkien and CS Lewis putting “heaven” across the sea? TRiG - I've been reading the Chronicles of Narnia to my daughters over the past year, and they seem very consistent to me. As well as extremely beautiful. God should have had CS Lewis write the Bible. |
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Jun 6 |
accepted | Christian significance of Tolkien and CS Lewis putting “heaven” across the sea? |
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Jun 6 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jun 5 |
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Christian significance of Tolkien and CS Lewis putting “heaven” across the sea? spelling error! |
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Jun 3 |
asked | Christian significance of Tolkien and CS Lewis putting “heaven” across the sea? |
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May 2 |
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How is it that an unchanging and omniscient God can have “regret”? he can't be completely unlike us if we were made in his image. |
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Apr 24 |
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How is it that an unchanging and omniscient God can have “regret”? @warren - well, this is why people arguing I should believe in God because he's behind everything that's good and beautiful sound ridiculous. God sounds like an *** to me. |
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Apr 23 |
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By what mechanism could the Bible be inerrant? What was the point of doing that if we were allowed to create so many bad translations (e.g. some translations of Deuteronomy 22) and to confuse and disagree with so many details? To me this is like God produced an HD, 3D video of THE TRUTH and then released it to 1st generation Youtube quality. If he really wanted to send an inerrant message then why put it out into such a low fidelity, poorly transmitted medium? |
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Apr 23 |
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Are there any studies on why some doubters quit faith and others double-down on it? @DoubtingThomas you may be right. |
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Apr 23 |
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How do schisms in the church fit into the plans of a monotheistic God? @Jon, thanks -- if anybody wants to take the core of my answer and run with it, I'm cool with that. Since I dont believe in a monotheistic God, I feel like its not appropriate for me to give a real answer :) |
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Apr 23 |
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Are there any studies on why some doubters quit faith and others double-down on it? To answer "Well, God works in peoples hearts" or something like that is probably not a good answer -- I want to know what Humans have learned about such phase changes in belief |
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Apr 23 |
asked | Are there any studies on why some doubters quit faith and others double-down on it? |
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Apr 23 |
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How do schisms in the church fit into the plans of a monotheistic God? The cliques in a HighSchool divide students into competing groups that look down on each other, and often have negative outcomes. The clubs in a highschool though give everyone a place to thrive based on their natural skills, histories and perspectives. I think God would want different Churches to be more like clubs in this respect, but humans go cliqueish anyway. Worth noting: I'm an athiest, but this is how I see many types of exclusive groups -- when divisions are used to help diverse individuals to grow, that's good; when they cause fights and holier-than-though attitudes thats bad |
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Apr 23 |
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How is it that an unchanging and omniscient God can have “regret”? @warren - how is it Just to execute nearly every human being alive, including the kids, no matter what their sins? thats what seems unhealthy to me |
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Nov 29 |
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Significance of virgins in the Catholic church +1 for "1st grade". My question was maybe a 4th grade question, but anyway... :) |
