What Do Christians Believe: Some Odd Things! Questioning Belief
Abstract
Is it true that Christians savaged Pagan scholarship, by closing schools and libraries, murdering or banning Pagan teachers and refusing to reprint Pagan books, or even destroying them? Was Jesus the Messiah? Are Christians Hypocrities? Do Christians ask these questions? More important, do they answer them honestly? Questioning Belief
If Christians have a personal relationship with God, as they always boast nowadays, then why do they submit to the tyranny of priests and preachers? Read This.
Is it true that studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls indicate that
the Sermon on the Mount is an Essene service. Yes! Read This.
I read on Christian websites that “similarities” and “points of contact” between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Christianity mean VERY, VERY LITTLE. Is this true? Absolutely not! Read This.
Is it true that Christians savaged Pagan scholarship, by closing schools and libraries, murdering or banning Pagan teachers and refusing to reprint Pagan books, or even destroying them? Yes! Read This.
It makes good evolutionary sense for children to have fantasies of scary, monsters. In a world stalked by lions and hyenas, such fantasies help prevent defenceless toddlers from wandering too far from their guardians… Those who are not afraid of monsters tend not to leave descendants. Eventually, over the course of human evolution almost all children become afraid of monsters. But if we’re capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn’t some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifyin, as adults?
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