Let me guess, you also think that Satan is a red and is the warden of hell? Pop-culture has made you think that God somehow lives in the clouds. Jesus only mentioned that he would ride on clouds, but in no way that he said that his kingdom was on the clouds.
Repent from your sins anons, and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ
Jackson Ortiz
Ian Watson
>The jewish scribes who wrote the New Testament were hellenized.
Jewish scribes wrote the new testament? who told you that?
>The Church Fathers granted neoplatonic attributes to the christian God. Paul and Augustine snuck henosis into the religion.
Ok so you're going by catholic pagan theology i see. If you read the leters of Paul he clearly warns against the foolishness of greek philosophy.
Eli Sullivan
>Jewish scribes wrote the new testament? who told you that?
Read Martin Hengel. He's the go to scholarly source on this question. Christianity was the inadvertent product of conflict between Hellenizers and Judaizers (rabbinical orthodox jewry) during the period of the Second Temple. There's a clear Hellenic influence in the New Testament, it's more evident in the pauline epistle than the synoptic gospels though. The Hellenizers moved too quickly towards reform and provoked the Jews into a aggressive reaction. Obviously Jesus was important, but there was no baseline orthodox Christianity to begin with, it was an arena of competing "heresies". Paul completes the hellenistic process.
>Ok so you're going by catholic pagan theology i see. If you read the leters of Paul he clearly warns against the foolishness of greek philosophy.
He specifically rejects epicureans and stoics. Not platonism
Jaxon Brown
Yes but how do you fit in belief in God with modern advancements in science
Hunter Jenkins
That's your problem user, you put your trust in the theologians more than the word of God. Bible scholars in particular are some of the biggest atheist i've seen. They edit the bible to fit their manmade doctrines, and turn away from the solid foundation of scripture.
Xavier Thomas
Sola scriptura, huh? Don't tell me you're a proddie. I find the history of religion to be just as important in attaining a comprehensive understanding as the substance of doctrine itself.
Ian Flores
Even in Genesis man thought that technology somehow refuted God; mankind invented brick and they somehow taught that they knew everything. When God confronted Noah, God showed him the universe and it's complexities, and showed him the biggest dinosaur he created. Think of science as man trying to study the mysteries of the universe God created.
Camden Richardson
I don't side with denominations user because that will force me to pick up their manmade doctrine that is not from God. If you're going to base your christianity on what theologians like to call "church history", just remember that even in the days of the Apostle Paul the church was dividing and falling away into false doctrines.
Bentley Foster
How do you account for the differences between the teachings of Jesus and Paul? Where do you stand on the question of mosaic law?
Landon Nguyen
>How do you account for the differences between the teachings of Jesus and Paul?
Paul was an apostle of Jesus, and Paul taught the message of Jesus. I've yet to see how Paul contradicts Jesus, of course apart from verses taken out of context.
>Where do you stand on the question of mosaic law?
Jesus is the fulfillment of the law, because no man can fully obey it.