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Questions for Christians about the Christian concept of God
Thirteen:
what's strange is if you take any kind of religios course in college, you learn that certain stories in the bible and koran existed in other forms... Noah and his arc was a story similar to one tha ancient greeks used to tell, except it was their gods that caused the flood and that it wasn't noah and his family that built the arc...there were other stories but i can't remember them now
Shallow:
--- Quote from: Needles Kane on May 01, 2005, 07:26:50 AM ---what's strange is if you take any kind of religios course in college, you learn that certain stories in the bible and koran existed in other forms... Noah and his arc was a story similar to one tha ancient greeks used to tell, except it was their gods that caused the flood and that it wasn't noah and his family that built the arc...there were other stories but i can't remember them now
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Although I agree with you I must add that it may have been the Greeks that changed the story after hearing the Noah story. The Hellenic era came much later than the time of Moses.
Deeez Nuuuts:
People should not take the literal meaning of the religious texts.
I am not a Christian or a Muslim, but according to the bible, God created the universe in 7 days, but if nothing had yet been created, what is one 'day'? (As in - one day is the time it takes for the Earth to spin around, but the Earth or Sun had not yet been created, so how could it have been a day) The point I am making is that these are not 24 hour days, they have more of a metaphoric meaning, and one 'day' could even be millions of years. The meaning of these texts have been watered down, for easier understanding. Also, I heard that God did not 'rest' on the seventh day because he was tired, but rather chose not to do anything as he had completed his work.
rafsta:
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Famous Orthodox Icon representing three angels that visited Abraham as a symbol of the Trinity.God is a single being. The Hebrew Bible lifts this one article of faith above others, and surrounds it with stern warnings against departure from this central issue of faith, and of faithfulness to the covenant God had made with them. "Hear O Israel! Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is one" (or "Jehovah alone", Deuteronomy 6:4) (the Shema), "You shall have no other gods before me" (Deuteronomy 5:7) and, "This is what the LORD says- Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God." (Isaiah 44:6). Any formulation of an article of faith which does not insist that God is solitary, that divides worship between God and any other, or that imagines God coming into existence rather than being God eternally, is not capable of directing people toward the knowledge of God, according to the trinitarian understanding of the Old Testament. The same insistence is found in the New Testament: "there is no God, but one" (1 Corinthians 8:4). The "other gods" warned against are therefore not gods at all, but unequal substitutes for God.
So, in the trinitarian view, the common conception which thinks of the Father and Christ as two separate beings, seems to be a profoundly mistaken one. The central, and crucial affirmation of Christian faith is that there is one savior, God, and one salvation, in Jesus Christ, to which there is access only because of the Holy Spirit. The God of the Old is still the same as the God of the New. In Christianity, it is understood that statements behind a solitary god are intended to deviate from the polytheistic views where power is shared between several beings. Instead, the power exists in one being that exists in all three forms somewhat like the way light can be a wave or a particle.
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found this, maybe it will help answer your question.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity
ZILLA THA GOODFELLA:
--- Quote from: Shallow on April 30, 2005, 09:55:29 AM ---
Actually the 7th day accepted by all three religions that used that system is was and always will be represented by Saturday. Christians go to church on Sunday because that is the day Jesus arose from his tomb and ascended to heaven. If you read the gospels you'll notice that Jesus acknowledges the Sabbath as the same day as the Jews and never attempts to imply that Saturday is the wrong day.
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so if Saturday = Sabbath, why don't christians keep it "holy" like it says in the 10 commandments? It's suppose to be from sunset on Friday till sunset on Saturday, right? You're suppose to rest and give the day to the lord, right? Why is it that only 7th day adventist christians do this? Why don't majority of Christians?
I asked this once in a thread of my own and didn't really get no difinite answers.
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