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[Aragajag Profile]

constabul is right.
We are pretty easy going but this site is being used more and more as a platform to preach from not talk about spirituality your own personal walk, without the need to reference a religious book.
Everyone who visits this site is well aware of religious choices in this world and can go to the appropriate one if they so desire.
Stop diluting this site with your nonsense.

The word preaching in the rules of the site is pretty clear as to what the owner wanted when you all agreed to them to join.

[Eliakim Profile Website]

If that is the case then, Jesus probably died in Japan where they found all of those hebrew scriptures mentioning the same thing. Specifically, that he went on his enlightenment conquest to finish his teachings in the orient. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingō,_Aomori#Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ

So if you, kim, think you are good to go being a bible follower,

Bible follower?

LOL

but spite the others

What on earth are you talking about?

'spite the others'

Can you heal it?

Seek within

The word 'spite' does not exist in my reality. It clearly, does exist in yours.

"in the same sense they do your self because of your books"

Indeed can you own it?

, you still have much to learn.

You certainly do.

Seek within.

[Bleever Profile]

constabul is right.
We are pretty easy going but this site is being used more and more as a platform to preach from not talk about spirituality your own personal walk, without the need to reference a religious book.
Everyone who visits this site is well aware of religious choices in this world and can go to the appropriate one if they so desire.
Stop diluting this site with your nonsense.

The word preaching in the rules of the site is pretty clear as to what the owner wanted when you all agreed to them to join.

Ok I take personal responsibility here and did not know the rule. I meant it as debate amongst various believers of the Bible. I will word it differently next time. Thank you Arag and Const. for pointing this out.

[Iamthatiam Profile]

2j. Preaching: Do not promote or push religious beliefs on to others, we have visitors from all over the world of many different faiths and we ask that all beliefs be respected. Using the site to preach to, convert other members or to 'advertise' a belief system is disallowed, this board is about letting people decide for themselves what to believe.

The word 'preaching' is a Western concept and almost nothing to do with a text or the intent of the original meaning of the word in its original translation.

It is also a term that one never hears in common language in the UK. However, I can understand why it became what it did in the USA. And the USA do love their aliens. LOL.

[Cia212 Profile]

Outside of the bible, there is no historical references to Jesus being an actual man.

That's not true...it's a modernish Theosophical notion.

The truth is that there are problems with every ancient text because the original texts rarely survive and, with Josephus, for example, there are words that are clearly edited.

The Josephus text says, "He was the Christ." Something Josephus probably didn't say or write, but, even when we throw out these statements, the remaining text still mentions Jesus, Pilate, Jesus' followers and the whole bit.

Even Alice Whealey - A Berkeley phd - not exactly someone who would be inclined to admit the historicity of Jesus said in her 2003 work "Josephus on Jesus, The Testimonium Flavianum Controversy from Late Antiquity to Modern Times" critically analyzing the passage from Josephus that mentions Jesus Christ called the "Testimonium Flavianum", that Josephus did mention Jesus as an actual historical figure. Probably didn't call Him "the Christ" or describe any moral attributes of the man, but did indicate that he existed. It's worth a read. Same goes for Géza Vermes' work and the majority of historians.

We are free to believe whatever we want about the man, but there is testimony outside of the Bible that he existed.

[Mrmcnuggets Profile]

If that is the case then, Jesus probably died in Japan where they found all of those hebrew scriptures mentioning the same thing. Specifically, that he went on his enlightenment conquest to finish his teachings in the orient. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingō,_Aomori#Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ

So if you, kim, think you are good to go being a bible follower,

Bible follower?

LOL

but spite the others

What on earth are you talking about?

'spite the others'

Can you heal it?

Seek within

The word 'spite' does not exist in my reality. It clearly, does exist in yours.

"in the same sense they do your self because of your books"

Indeed can you own it?

, you still have much to learn.

You certainly do.

Seek within.

Yes bible follower, as in the book where your core beliefs rely. Since you quote the bible more than the Kaballah, or the Qur'an, or anything else.

I surely have much more to learn, im still young, and we are not born with ultimate knowledge of everything.
But you certainly preach about trusting in Jesus/God/Christianity/Catholicism than anything else.

Spite is not exactly a word in my vocabulary, I hold people to their actions. Indefinitely.
Spite is a word in the worlds dictionary, and is jumped to when pushed on religion more than healing it. In fact, with the zionists thinking they are superior to everyone, and the same with the Islams, ect it is a wonder we are even here today.

Can you heal it? Can you look into your self to see what needs to be done for the salvation of man kind? Certainly if you cannot, you are in no position to look down upon others and their views. I pointed out what you said, and brought conclusion to your point. Can you heal it though? So far, it just looks like you spin your self in circles like a dog looking for a tail he doesn't have.

[Iamthatiam Profile]

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