Ex Nihilo

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  3. Current Mood

    in Cultural Arts Archive

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    Grateful you've got excellent taste. Mumf is the best. They made a stop out here last June and I got to see them, I didn't think it was possible but...EVEN BETTER LIVE!!! They've put out a couple of songs while working on their new album. While my all time favorite is "Winter Winds", Here's a couple of favorites that didnt make it on their first album that I love:

    This one is a cover of a Vampire Weekend's "Cousins":

    SOOOOO many more great hits!

  7. Were Moses And Joshua Heros Or War Criminals?

    in Philosophy & Theory

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    From my standpoint being Christlike and accepting the Bible are two totally different beasts. Marcion who was the first known person to ever create a Canonical lists of Christian Writings, despised the Old Testament and anything associated with it.

    Wikipedia Notes:

    Marcion rejected the theology of the Old Testament entirely and regarded the God depicted there as an inferior Being. He claimed that the theology of the Old Testament was incompatible with the teaching of Jesus regarding God and morality. Marcion believed that Jesus had come to liberate mankind from the authority of the God of the Old Testament and to reveal the superior God of goodness and mercy whom he called the Father. Paul and Luke were the only Christian authors to find favour with Marcion, though his versions of these differed from those later accepted by mainstream Christianity.

    Marcion created a canon, a definite group of books which he regarded as fully authoritative, displacing all others. These comprised ten of the Pauline epistles (without the Pastorals and Hebrews) and Luke's Gospel. It is uncertain whether he edited these books, purging them of what did not accord with his views, or that his versions represented a separate textual tradition.[27]

    Marcion's gospel, called simply the Gospel of the Lord, differed from the Gospel of Luke by lacking any passages that connected Jesus with the Old Testament. He believed that the god of Israel, who gave the Torah to the Israelites, was an entirely different god from the Supreme God who sent Jesus and inspired the New Testament.

    Marcion termed his collection of Pauline epistles the Apostolikon. These also differed from the versions accepted by later Christian Orthodoxy.

    In addition to his Gospel and Apostolikon, he wrote a text called the Antithesis which contrasted the New Testament view of God and morality with the Old Testament view of God and morality, see also Expounding of the Law#Antithesis of the Law.

    Marcion's canon and theology were rejected as heretical by the early church; however, he forced other Christians to consider which texts were canonical and why. He spread his beliefs widely; they became known as Marcionism. In the introduction to his book "Early Christian Writings", Henry Wace stated: “ A modern divine… could not refuse to discuss the question raised by Marcion, whether there is such opposition between different parts of what he regards as the word of God, that all cannot come from the same author.[28]

    To orthodox christianity, Marcion is a heretic, declared so in 144 AD, for his rejection fo the OT and mutilation of the NT. Why would his opinion of the bible have any weight with me?

  14. Were Moses And Joshua Heros Or War Criminals?

    in Philosophy & Theory

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    It is my belief in a modern court of law that the actions of Moses and Joshua would have them sitting in a courtroom being tried and convicted of war crimes.

    Well, obviousy they are not war criminals in the legal sense according to the doctrine of Nulla crimen sine lege (No crime without a law). There was no recognized international law proscribing and punishing "war crimes". Given that they were the leaders of a theocracy and were "on a mission from God", led victorious campaigns against a better equipped enemy, and protected their peope's interests; they are probably best described as heros...at least to the nation of Israel.

  23. Moral's And Ethic's Roots

    in Philosophy & Theory

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    What about philosophy? To me philosophy is the root to all other bases of knowledge, moral or otherwise...It is the root of our worldviews. Because I have a theistic philosophical worldview, I am inclined to certain views about religion, property, fariness, and social harmony.

  24. Words From The Wise...your Favorites

    in Creative Expression & Cultural Arts

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    I don't really get your post Happy. I liked your quotes. I am very libertarian at heart and I support Ron Paul although I'll probably be pulling the lever for Gary Johnson since the Mitt has sown up the nomination...I like a good portion of what the Tea Party espouses but I think there needs to be a little more ideological unity within the organization before it can really exploit its interllectual and emotional power. Right now it seems like an uneasy alliance of libertarians, anti-taxers, social conservatives, militarists, and good old fashioned Obama haters who are united on what they oppose but far less so on what they support.

  25. Church Leadership

    in Hobby/Leisure Archive

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    The word God comes from germanic Godan (or proto germanic gudan which wasn't entirely gender specific) a name of the God Odin and specifically used by I believe the Lombards. Technically when you refer to God you are naming another diety of pagan origin and not your own. Your god has a name and it's not God. :)

    When ulifas(sp?) translated the bible into Gothic (an alphabet he made and then taught to the Goth's for this purpose, to avoid using the Runic alphabet of the heathens) he used the term God to denote the christian god for the first time. Probably made it easier to convert when the god in this new book bears a version of their chief/creator god's name anyway.

    when I use the name God I refer to the god that is invoked every eucharist: "in the name of God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" I am speaking of the triune god. Christianity has long adopted existing names and ideas that are not offensive to the faith in its missionary work. God in English, Jehovah's, Allah in Arabic...its all the Trinity to me.