Showing posts with label jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jesus. Show all posts
Monday, March 27, 2017

The Ministry and Passion of the Humanist Jesus

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As you know my sources are strictly biblical .  I studied most of the religious and scholarly translations of bibles scholastically an...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Love Thy Neighbor

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beliefnet I can’t believe that one would seriously suggest that a widely believed good found in the text doesn’t exist.  “Thou shalt lo...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Bayesian Jesus

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beliefnet JC do you have ANY idea what the elements of this historical method even is?  Fact is that your dimissal of people's lif...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Positive Religious Memes

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beliefnet The guy most of the positive religious memes came from was executed in a joint effort of religious and secular authorities.  M...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Reinterpreting Jesus as God

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beliefnet Jul 15, 2015 -- 9:50PM, Blü wrote: Which brings us to this thread, where we consider a being who, the story says, lives i...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Hillel, Jesus and the Decalogue

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beliefnet christine3 wrote: "These are our highest most honesty-keeping rules and should be considered sacred. If you follow the...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Jesuism 2015

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Interesting that Christian atheists redirects to a rather useful article on Jesuism.  When I was looking for a title for a thread on athe...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Theistic Humanism

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I am convinced by long studies of Jefferson and Jesus the preacher man that both were theistic humanists.  When I was a kid in the UU trad...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Back to Jesus Christians

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The back to Jesus the preacher man movement in Christianity, in essence back to the synoptic Gospels, while not blessed by the hierarchy e...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Jesus was married.

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How could anyone with any understanding of the Jewish Culture in the first century decide J.C. was a virgin?  Any normal male with a trad...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Geometry and Truth

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beliefnet Abstractions don't work in reality. Hence neither do Euclidean plane figures, Euclidean solid figures, pi, or numbers...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

John B Christ

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 beliefnet So what you are saying (see christine3 below) is that it should be John B Christ rather than Jesus Christ.  That works for ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Source of morality

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beliefnet We all get our concepts of good and evil, right or wrong from the same place: The local society we grew up in, very slightly mod...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

More on Historical Jesus

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beliefnet A rational analysis of the available data admittedly limited to the Gospels and some recently discovered Gnostic writings, show...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Wishing for God

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Beliefnet Do you ever wish there was a jesus, a god, a day when all that is wrong will be made right? Do you wish there was a place whe...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Jesus, Theistic Humanist

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Beliefnet So what do you think was "out of the box"? Ken In the context of the time The Two Great Commandments were downrigh...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Was Jesus Extraordinary?

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beliefnet As you know I use the Jefferson Bible as my main source for the details of the ministry of Jesus, mixed with my own analysis of ...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Atheists for Jesus

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Atheists for Jesus Of course Jesus was a theist, but that is the least interesting thing about him. He was a theist because, in his time, ...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Jesus' Sources

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beliefnet There is nothing original about Jesus' "understanding." Virtually everything he said can be found in Cynic phil...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Jesus as theistic humanist.

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Jesus as teacher. - beliefnet Jesus was using the prevailing paradigm of God to teach, but the focus was on being a better human being to...