in thread "Is Unitarianism the true religion of the coming civilization?": This idea makes perfect sense. God took human form to teach humanity, his children, how to behave. Lead by example. A loving God could do no other, and God is love. Jesus Christ is literally God. Seems pretty simple and logical to me.... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4 This idea makes perf (view hidden) retry 4 4 bUt wHy diD gOd cHoOsE tO bE a PaLesTiNiaN cArpEnTer tWo ThOusaNd yEaRs aGo... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 2 2 8 8 bUt wHy diD gOd cHoO (view hidden) retry 2 2 8 8 Jesus Christ explicitly supersedes this view—while thoroughly and completely co-opting it to great success. (That's why it's called the New Testament and the new covenant.) Let me blow your mind: I claim Jesus Christ is the first "right-unitarian."... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6 Jesus Christ explici (view hidden) retry 6 6 They aren't magical, they are just a description of the strange and constant experience of being conscious and acting with free will and agency. They are necessary because such an obvious and hugely strange fact of existence needs to be explained and conte... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 2 2 They aren't magical, (view hidden) retry 2 2 To be clear I am not taking the position that "even if it's false, it's metaphorically true." I am taking the position that as a Christian you take on faith which is an act of love for God that it is literally materially true, while remaining legitimately ... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 2 2 To be clear I am not (view hidden) retry 2 2 Furthermore as a matter of metaphysical argument about love: God ought to be to Mankind as a father is to his child. To imagine God as the impersonal Gnon/Nick Land/right-unitarian quasi-Islamic unitary non-interventionist force of existence who simply let... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1 Furthermore as a mat (view hidden) retry 1 1 Got cut off:... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1 Got cut off:... (view hidden) retry 1 1