A similar argument to yours, Ziggy:
I never got proselytizing, and now it makes sense. To add to that though, the command was "make". We cannot make any one do anything, we can only "show" them. Horse to water.
PS.
Btw, the history science (or whatever) and archeology do find proofs of ancient "stories" that are mentioned in the Jewish sources.
So it shuts up all those "I-know-all-about-how-Jews-made-things-up" "historians" (usually idiots to say the truth actually) every here and there.
Can some one pm me the "short" version of the "historical" inaccuracy of the Jews? Thanks.
We have "God alone is" and "I am". If God is not alone, do we get "God Is"? That would settle everything.
Now "Alone God Is All":
Since my faith started when I was 2.5, it is hard to recall any experiences much before that. I bumped over a candle, and almost burned down the house. Fire is not good. I was hit on the head with my favorite red tractor that I would not share with the guy who hit me with it. Pain is not good. I also had knowledge of sex, it may have effected me or not, but that knowledge is there. My mom said that hell was fire and we do bad things and God saves. I got the picture and it is etched in memory. Now that may have been a weird way to get the picture, but to me from then on, you will have to "prove" to me there is no God. I have been thinking recently what could one do to prove that, and I have come up with a scenario. If I were to be mortally wounded and was brought back to life by satan, then I would cease to believe in God, because satan would have done something that only God could do.
Alone: Humans cannot compute "alone". We have always been in time and space. We can feel all alone, but we will never be able to describe emptyness nor eternity. A glass of water in the ocean may be close.
God: to paraphrase in the big bang God, at the start of time and space God created two things the earth (church got that one mixed up) and the heavens (not the earth). Now you can put a gap there, or your favorite theory.
Is: This is the point that seperates the earliest of "religions". If the earth was and the heavens were, then they cannot be God. What is God? No one knows, and our time and space is a limit to that knowledge. In the beginning the creation did know, but now we have forgotten. At times humans may have had the knowledge, but as a whole we do not know. There are too many historical evidences or lack thereof to go farther than that, and science has made great strides, but if God is, we cannot prove Him, but He would have to give us that knowledge.
All: IMO God is the "seed" that produces the all. Without Him nothing would exist. He is that force that holds everything together at the smallest particle that science has yet to discover. He is randomness and irrationality. He "designed" the laws that we have knowledge of. He is deterministic and perplexing, because He allowed the all and without Him the all would stop existing.
Now if any one can produce evidence to change my perception of God, I would be just as interested in it as Ziggy is in this. But remember I am irrational and I personally "know" when things jive with me and they do not. Not to sound rash, but you can take it or leave it. You can put me on ignore. It makes no matter to me, but I try to post things that make people try to think and question their ideas, just like I need people to question my ideas and help me expand my knowledge. Cheers.
After rereading those, I dug abut a bit and found that I drive by Gothmog's house on my way to work. Betazed I believe lives in England.
No it hasn't. As for the quantized redshift, see Tang and Zang (2005) and Hawkins et al. (2002) which had shown that there is no evidence for redshift periodicity.
