I'm a master's student in theology. AMA.

[Greatest I am]

One of my favorite scholars is Bart Ehrman.

He began as a believer but the more he learned, the less he believed.

Has that been your experience?

Regards
DL

[Greatest I am]

My type of faith, that man is above God, was also bolstered by studying Gnostic Christianity as well as the Jewish Karaite religion.

I see Jesus as saying with his, --- And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: ---

http://biblehub.com/mark/2-27.htm

 -- as fitting nicely with the notion that religions and Gods were created for man and not man for them.

Thoughts?

Regards
DL

[Greatest I am]

My type of faith, that man is above God, was also bolstered by studying Gnostic Christianity as well as the Jewish Karaite religion.

I see Jesus as saying with his, --- And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: ---

http://biblehub.com/mark/2-27.htm

 -- as fitting nicely with the notion that religions and Gods were created for man and not man for them.

Thoughts?

Regards
DL

God is our Creator and Lord. Jesus can set norms for Sabbath observance because Jesus is God. The verse quoted does not mean "do whatever you feel like".

If Jesus is God, then he could not have died.

No one said that the quote meant to do whatever you like.


Regards
DL

[Greatest I am]

What are the irreconcilable differences between Buddhism and Christianity?

Do any of those differences make one religion better than the other (in your opinion)?

If I may.

To a Buddhist, like the Karaite Jews and Gnostic Christians, man is greater than God. We recognize that Gods are man made.

To Christians, God made man and is thus above us.

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To us, God is to serve us and Jesus indicated that as he said he came to serve.

To Christians and Islam, idol worshiping cults, we are to serve the Gods.

That goes against what Jesus taught.

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To us, God never condemned his perfect works. We just look for that perfection in the spark of God within us.

Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect:

To Christians, we have always been imperfect and in need of a savior.

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Christians see God as a loser because Eden was screwed up, the rest of creation was also screwed up and God had to use genocide to reboot and even that got screwed up so he had to send Jesus to die instead of just forgiving us outright.

We we see God as a winner who never had to kill anyone.

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Those are the main things.

Regards
DL

[Greatest I am]

Why do people bother replying to Greatest I am?

They seek the truth and are fed up with liars.

Regards
DL