Abrahamic Religions - Science topic

Paul Kuei-chi Tseng Do you want to submit a chapter proposal for this book? If so, please email me at paldi16@gmail.com. Thanks!

Wishing you success Alexander Ohnemus

To start a journal of Jewish studies, one could begin by choosing a specific focus or theme such as Torah, Talmud, or Jewish history studies. Then, you can create a structure for your entries. This could include the date, the topic you're studying, key points learned, and any thoughts or questions you have. Incorporate references to specific texts or scholars for further exploration. You could also note down personal reflections on how the study impacts your daily life or understanding of faith. Regularly review and update the journal to track your progress and deepen your understanding.

Maria, Socrates or Plato then devised particulars to cover your contingency. But, yes, an absolute eliminates other possibilities. within this, the particulars create a whole, such as gods and monotheism. But monotheism eliminates so much!

good question. But I have no comments yet.

Based on the initial review of your book, "The Improbability of and Danger in Believing in Reincarnation," here are some constructive criticisms focusing on text size, formatting, citations, and other observations:

These suggestions aim to enhance the readability, academic rigor, and impact of your work. Tailoring the book to address these areas can significantly contribute to its success and the broader discourse on reincarnation and its implications across various fields of study.

About the study itself. Make sure to include data such as regional locations, and applicability of the paper in a universal manner. Do not just consider humans? Maybe an extremely interesting pooint would be to examine this as if you were from another planet. Now that would be novel.

I hope this helps you in your reseach, and feel free to ask any other questions.

Why Christian in particular? Why is Jesus needed for your argument against reincarnation?

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Hi,

While AI can mimic aspects of understanding and feeling through algorithms, it lacks true human-like consciousness. Its abilities are rooted in programming and data, not genuine self-awareness. The prospect of AI gaining advanced traits like 'theory of mind' remains a subject of ongoing debate and research.

Just shared my thoughts.

Good question, follower

No problem!

If necessary to survive or restore a human life, any products driven from pig or dog is applicable.

Point 1:

There are many arguments:

1- Pig or dog driven products will be considered as a part of human body when they become inserted, injected or implanted.

2- Saving human life is perior to any issue.

3- Animal driven products become transubstantiation as the part of human body.

Point 2:

Not only pig or dog, but also any forbidden (by Islam) animal for eating are under above arguments.

Point 3:

"Necessity" appears when a life-threatening issue occurs and there is no any alternative option to resolve that problem. The diagnosis of such necessity don't be resulted by only physicians or scientists.

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I love Jon's answer and I find Ahmad's answer particularly intriguing. One man's morality may be another man's immorality, and we should be careful passing judgment on "flaws" (or even worse). On the other hand, when we understand an artist to be flawed (or even worse), there's no reason why we can't admire the demonstrated skill without admiring the person who demonstrated it.

I think, hard-working solidarity and unity supported by technology-based inquiry eradicate poverty. Moreover, the world great thinkers shift from Negativism world to positivism to get new insight.

There can never be academic freedom when we work under ideological structures, well laid out structures of education, nationalism and producing knowledge to add to regimented fields of knowledge. Curiously to go beyond all these with all imaginations and ideas running free from fear is smashed.

Dear James Gary

Thank you for your good response

I hope you read this book

God's Guide to the Expanding Universe, 40 American Scientists Announce Their Positive Views of Religion

أرجو أن تتكرم بقراءة بحوثي العلمية التي أتحدث فيها عن التسامح والرحمة في القرآن الكريم والإسلام

Dear Anne-Marie,

In addition to Ajit's advice, please consider:

Please see my study guide for more information.

Can't we improve our religions and thereby ourselves and create a conclusively, if that's possible, ethical one without the violence of the Abrahamic books. What's wrong with a jolly religion?

I notice when discussing the Bible, etc, as divinely inspired the good parts only are selected for proof and reverence. In fact do they not also contain immense violence? Massacres and genocides? Are these too divine and approved of and adherred to events?

2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

Few children torn apart in the name of YHWH-doesn't matter maybe?

Dear Kirk, I think the differentiation makes no sense. All scriptures finally are "Gods Word" in "Human words", because there is no "Divine Language" or if there is such thing, to understand it we have to translate it into human language. To differentiate an instrumental from an intrinsic makes no sense, because all forms of communications finally want to come from a sender to an receiver with the end that the receiver understands something, if not, it is a senseless communication, and than even the question if it exists or not, if it is possible or not, is irrelevant. So talking about Gods Word always implies a sense and therefore never can be intrinsic. The other term "instrumental" or "funcional" is for me a missleading conception, because does not appreaciate sufficiently the human nature with it's liberty. We should conceive revelations more in dialogic model or structure.

Empires by heir nature not only promote globalization but also help in the transfer of technology and culture.

yes you can check with the word dajjal or al-masih al-dajjal

I suppose it depends how we define ineffable. My inclination is to say that something ineffable cannot be completely described, not to preclude imperfect and incomplete attempts. And this leads to big problems, in practice.

Anything that is (said to be) beyond our comprehension cannot help but be ineffable. Any omniscient, omnipotent, eternal being is certainly not something that we can comprehend or describe completely. Isn't that why there are as many different ideas of what God is as there are humans on earth?

And this is easy enough to demonstrate. Cheap shot, no doubt, but we can see a whole spectrum of acts committed in God's name, from the sublime to the unspeakably atrocious. Common sense might suggest what makes sense and what makes no sense, but not much more than common sense. People like to make claims about what is the "true" God, or the "true" teachings of any particular religion. Don't these claims always come across sounding self-serving? We simply state that "truth" lies where we want it to lie, we use it to "justify" our thoughts and actions, but our claim is no more valid than the next person's. Not when it comes to religion.

The best we can do is to observe the results. Some are positive, leading to a more peaceful coexistence, and too many are negative, leading to atrocities. (Our perception of) God's ineffability is problematic. Clearly.

I believe that in order to answer this question we should consider the symbolic elements that make up Christianity. The Most Holy Trinity is a clear representation of the unifications that Catholicism had to make in order to incorporate pagan religions into the "orthodox doctrine". Sun worship, for example, coincides with the birth of Jesus. The representation of the trinity is a very interesting topic to address. Particularly the version I like the most is this one

Formulation of the Trinity is attributed to the Gnostic teacher Valentinus (lived c.100 – c.160), who according to the fourth century theologian Marcellus of Ancyra, was “the first to devise the notion of three subsistent entities (hypostases), in a work that he entitled On the Three Natures.” The highly allegorical exegesis of the Valentinian school inclined it to interpret the relevant scriptural passages as affirming a Divinity that, in some manner, is threefold. The Valentinian Gospel of Philip, which dates to approximately the time of Tertullian, upholds the Trinitarian formula. Whatever his influence on the later fully formed doctrine may have been, however, Valentinus's school is rejected as heretical by orthodox Christians.

Perhaps you can consider the following pointers:

Inhabiting the Cruciform God (Gorman)

Cruciformity (Gorman)

The Mind of the Spirit (Keener)

Don't neglect the classic treatment by A. Harnack, Mission and Expansion of  Christianity in the first three centuries. Sometimes newer is not necessarily better!

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As a survivor of my Mothers traumatic death, I was asked to be a speaker for a bereavement course and to integrate some of the things I had learned through my grief journey with a group psychology students. During this time, I integrated some of my insights from having been a researcher on a suicide / traumatic death study as well as my insights from a Christian faith perspective that aided in my journey. I am uploading you a document I created for myself  which outlines some of the scriptures that relate to the ritual of tearing / rendering clothes as an expression of grief in the Old Testament as well as a New Testament perspective (taken from a pastoral website) of the temple veil being rended as an expression of Gods grief after the death of Yeshua (Jesus).  I hope this gives you some place to start in understanding the ritual of rending clothes as an expression of grief. The insights certainly helped me on many levels and I do believe that such traditions and practices are helpful for the mourning process.

There is also a nice article on Habermas in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/

thanks Amadi

I recommend the Earth Bible series with Norm Habel: we have an early career academic on faculty Dr Anthony Rees who has made some contributions in the area, with specific reference to the OT and environmental concerns.  There is also a Tongan OT scholar Rev Dr Jione Havea, who is very interested in this area. These academics are specifically interested in your question

Gerard

The obvious candidate is the legendary Saint Sarah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sarah), aka Sara la Kali or Sara la Noire.

This is a very general question. Could you be more specific? As the question is stated, about all I can give is a sort of theological overview. We know little about what Abraham thought, and not much more about what he said. We do know what he did, which showed that he was a man of faith, obedience, loyalty to family, and also that he was subject to some of the prejudices of his time: he was certainly not perfect. We know much of what Moses said and did, but little of what he thought, except as revealed in his words. He, too was a man of faith and obedience. His perspective seems to have been that of one to whom nationality was paramount, over the individual and over the family. Having been raised in the house of Pharoah, the needs of government for social stability were second nature to him. Moses was not perfect, either. Jesus  (here I must confess a strong Christian bias) was not only a man of faith and obedience, but also of love. He perceived the Father, Abba ("Daddy", in Aramaic) as being first and foremost a being of love. Jseus loved the Jews, the Gentiles, the Samaritans, the "great unwashed" (to use Edward Bulwer-Lytton's phrase). He even loved the legalists and fundamentalists of his time who ultimately convicted him and manipulated Pontius Pilate to sentence him to death. He loved the "evil" Roman invaders, including Pilate. When trying to explain his mission to Pilate, Jesus said, "I am come to bear witness to the truth. For this purpose I have come into the world." He knew that Pilate had been trained in Greek thought, so he described his mission in words that such a person could understand, rather than using the terminology he used among his Jewish countrymen. By doing so, he gave Pilate the greatest opportunity he ever had to really learn true knowledge and wisdom. But as we know, Pilate let the opportunity pass.

I will be glad to reply to any more specific questions you may have.

Dear Sid, 

There are some new papers on Karl Barth: 

Your Welcome and I would be honored to help in what ever way I can. My experience in parishes is that emotional dislikes (usually illogical) as to the way things are or run, fester and become anger that starts looking for excuses to come out for unexplained reasons that are very disruptive to congregations.  I am seeking ways to help congregations identify such anger and surround the people (usually more than one) to help them identify their feelings driving their anger (and often accompanying depression). This also gives the congregation a sense shared healing power.

One last thought I have found often anger has a partner secondary emotion called denial. Have you found interconnection between them?

Bill  (call me Bill please)

Glad to help, though for me the story is much more an exemplar of Jesus exhortation to "Judge not, less you be judged".

Sorry for the hopeless typing "the most 'god words'"