Because that particular fairytale isn't part of their religion, but was made up long after the Bible was written? Seriously, this question is like...
[Fundamentalist evangelical answer:] Because it says so in the Bible, aka Word of God. Given that you'll watch them anyway, I wouldn't be so...
AFAIK the rabbis who set down the Talmud were a little divided over the issue. All/most believed the "Gehenna of fire" will come -- which Jesus also...
Short answer: No. Somewhat longer answer: Telekinesis violates the basic physical laws of conservation of energy and momentum. Precognition...
This one's something of an urban legend, I think. The name and general personality Santa Claus was around before Coca Cola adopted him for their...
This stuff here is too incoherent and unrelated to any part of the post you're supposedly answering that I can't for the life of me make any sense of...
Of course, by IQ testing. Here, though, I was merely using a turn of phrase.
The Qumran documents, which include fragments of all the books of the Old Testament save Esther, and most famously an almost complete copy of the...
I don't think it goes farther back than the Semitic family, or at least I haven't heard of it if so. From what I understand it probably originated in...
Yes, I am aware of this. The article quoted by S.A.M. made a claim to the contrary, identifying Yhwh with Ugaritic Yam/Yaw (Yw in the Ras Shamra...
What's your point with pseudepigrapha and the Letter of Aristeas? We have extant copies of the books of the Hebrew Bible themselves in the original...
You aren't sure there was a Hebrew Bible?? There is one today. We have writings from it that are dated as before 0 AD by both paleographic methods...
Back to the OP. Most of it is just regurgitated Marxist tripe, but this bit is interesting, and IMHO forms the crux of his mini-essay: Basically,...
That is still very much under debate. From the explanation of the name in Exodus 3, some want it to be something akin to "The Causer To Be", ie a...
Not that I wish to attack anyone, but I would seriously question the scholarship in a lot of that. First, this translation is overly...
The obvious counter-argument would be, the same hypothetical almighty god has also created (or allowed to be created) man-eating crocodiles, yet it's...
According to fundamentalist evangelicals, both go to Hell -- Gahandi for being a Hindu (=Satan Worshiper, in their parlance) and Torquemada for being...
Fundamentalist (Christian) answer in brief: Because of Original Sin (Adam, Eve, Serpent, Garden of Eden, Tree of Knowledge), we're all sinners and...
The absence of all the depressing stuff?;) Human effort is useless, but outcomes are determined only by chance (9:11); the more you understand about...
Christian theology and the New Testament would reject such an interpretation out of hand, seeing that they consider Jesus of Nazareth to be that...
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