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Posted on 03/02/2007 6:43:36 PM PST by Pyro7480
Catholic ping!
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I'm not a Christian, but the believers should realize that Christ would not have ascended with his mortal body.
Why isthe Gnostic view given any credibility on the level of the traditional view of Christianity?
Jesus said that a tree is known by the fruit it bears. What fruit have the Gnostics harvestest the last 2000 years? Jesus also said let the light shine bright on a stand so that all might see it. He didn’t say to hide it for only those in the know can see it.
The traditional view Christianity, pracited in the open to all see made the west advnace and brought about concepts of freedom civil rights, democracy, a fair judicial system and a general tolerance of human kind.
If the Gnostics were right and were allowed to be the dominant voice in religion, what do these people think the world would have changed , do they think that slavery would still exist, would Christians be free, or more free than they are today? Seems their purpose, is not to offer an any fruits, but it could only be to tear down the branches that bear the real fruits of Christianity!
Jesus' Body post-Resurrection is glorified. It obviously isn't governed by the same natural laws as ours are. However, the tomb was and still is empty.
Don't forget the DaVinci Code was "just" a book and "just" a movie...the saga continues.
I think that's a mistake. The natural laws are as much God's as well as ours, He created them, and all things happen by natural means. Granted there is much our science doesn't yet understand.
I just don't think a Christian should feel his belief should be altered regardless if the remains of Chist's body were to be found or not.
Why not? Was there a problem with the transporter system?
Paging Scotty, paging Scotty...
Actually, I always thought that Jesus and Enoch and Elijah were merely taken away and then zapped outside the space-time continuum. The "rising into the sky" was merely how the onlookers interpreted the disappearance. God uses "simple" things to explain these things to us who are not rocket scientists...
Works for me.
Cameron and his ilk just want Christians to doubt their faith, as evidenced when the media said "if this will discredit and prove Christianity as false"?"
Let's see how tough they are. Will they do the same kind of disrespectful thing with Islam?
Cowards.
But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
1 Cor 12-14
And why should we realize any such thing??? What do you base that knowledge on???
Simply that the mortal body does not survive outside the confines of this earth. As I said in a prior post, God does follow His own laws. My point was that, if Christ ascended, it would have been his spirit and not the mortal body leaving this plane.
"I'm not a Christian, but the believers should realize that Christ would not have ascended with his mortal body."
You aren't a Christian, yet you state what believers shouldn't believe?
Aw, come on...that doesn't even make sense...
I state what the laws of physics are. We can choose to believe them or not, I suppose.
That's where faith has to kick in, when things cannot be explained.
That's where faith has to kick in, when things cannot be explained.
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