Last week, went to Williamsburg to crash with Aminda. Then drove with Emily and CJ to Ariel's. Then drove with Emily and CJ back down to Williamsburg for Amy's recital
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Afterlife is a really confusing thing, since no-one's been able to come back from it and tell us what it's like. Except for maybe Jesus, but He had other things to do than tell the disciples stories about "And then I was in this tunnel heading toward a really bright light
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About the Kingdom, you're right, and actually the Jesus scholars (members of the Jesus Seminar) have noted that the Kingdom of Heaven was never referring to the afterlife. So everything you said was right in line with what Jesus was saying.
I like your use of the resurrection to explain the afterlife. I hadn't thought of that before.
This is great, actually. Much of the theology you mention can be used in the non-literal sense.
This is why I like the resurrection afterlife: It isn't about me getting up out of the grave. It's about me being alive forever to my God because He is my God.
But I know that's not what you were getting at. The eternal and detachable soul is what it seems like you were talking about. Still I like what you said.
I wouldn't worry too much about the afterlife. The way I see it (from my theist point of view) is that I'll find out when I get there. And if it doesn't exist, there's probably a reason, since there's probably a reason for everything.
I like your evolution perspective.
Go to the article I recently linked and read just a bit of it. The condescension evident in so many voices saddens me. Nobody should presume to answer for another person's soul--this is why the idea of proselytizing bothers me.
I was at a talk recently, and the speaker said something very interesting: that the real definition of Fundamentalism is someone whose actions line up with their ideals. I like this definition.
Is it really true that the Church invented the prostitute thing to defame Mary Magdalene? That sounds like Dan Brown hooey to me. My own (totally unresearched and unsupported, so I know I'm full of it too) theory is that the women in the gospels just sort of naturally smushed together since there weren't that many of them.
We're all full of it sometimes. It's OK. Actually, the Mary Magdalene conspiracy was the one part of Dan Brown's hooey that was true. The papacy declare in like 300 or something that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. Some scholars believe that this tradition may have been started by people in the early church who were threatened by Mary being a church leader
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You basically summarized what I've always heard about the 40 Days: it's too popularized, it's not very scholarly, but it does say some good things at its heart. I have found that description to be true for a lot of American Evangelical phenomena. I just need to get past my elitism and closed-mindedness phobia to see the truths that are so well brought out and respected in those circles.
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About the Kingdom, you're right, and actually the Jesus scholars (members of the Jesus Seminar) have noted that the Kingdom of Heaven was never referring to the afterlife. So everything you said was right in line with what Jesus was saying.
I like your use of the resurrection to explain the afterlife. I hadn't thought of that before.
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This is why I like the resurrection afterlife: It isn't about me getting up out of the grave. It's about me being alive forever to my God because He is my God.
But I know that's not what you were getting at. The eternal and detachable soul is what it seems like you were talking about. Still I like what you said.
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I like your evolution perspective.
Go to the article I recently linked and read just a bit of it. The condescension evident in so many voices saddens me. Nobody should presume to answer for another person's soul--this is why the idea of proselytizing bothers me.
I was at a talk recently, and the speaker said something very interesting: that the real definition of Fundamentalism is someone whose actions line up with their ideals. I like this definition.
Is it really true that the Church invented the prostitute thing to defame Mary Magdalene? That sounds like Dan Brown hooey to me. My own (totally unresearched and unsupported, so I know I'm full of it too) theory is that the women in the gospels just sort of naturally smushed together since there weren't that many of them.
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