/lit/ - Literature

>>5040145
No more than any other religion.

Nothing is necessary to read. You just gotta believe.
Believe in any old thing and it's true (enough)

>>5040159
>No more than any other religion.

>implying there can be varying degrees of truthness

ayyy lmao

>Read the old testament
>think of it only in terms of Sun Gods and the Ark being a piece of their technology
>????
>profit

Yes, everything in second testament is literally true. Especially the stuff that contradicts the other stuff.

The Left Behind series

>>5040168
You forgot the "i"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=truthiness

>>5040175
>The "tower" of Babel was a rocket-ship!

>>5040159
belief =/= truth

>>5040183
>the tree of knowledge was, um, well... I'm not qualified to say really

>>5040145
Yes, with a capital T.

That's at your discretion.

>>5040197
An old myth and only a metaphor.
What is this post?

>>5040188
Sometimes I believe a friend is picking me up at a certain time, and it comes a fact, or truth.

>>5040222
Oh so you think metaphors in the bible just represent concepts rather than actual events and things?

>>5040229
Yes they're all metaphors if it's retarded or explained by science but don't ask me what they actually represent because I will maneuver an imaginary hat at you

Christianity takes Platonism and completes it, because where Plato could not truly identify the Form of the Good, Christianity recognizes that this is God.

It also manages to unite Platonism and Aristotelianism, because it gives equal weight to both Universals and Particulars in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus was one particular man, but he was equally the Universal God of the Cosmos.

>>5040222
>Sometimes I believe a friend is picking me up at a certain time, and it comes a fact, or truth.

What an awful analogy.

protip: God isn't coming down from the clouds to say hello and isn't going to come a fact.

>>5040145
>What can I read to help me find God?
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

>>5040229
And you believe the opposite?
I think some of it is record keeping and some of it are old myths from these peoples history. All of it kept rather sloppily and later stuffed together with a cult of personality which never suited it. All the facts point to this.

>>5040251
It's an example of where your sense faith can be a reliable thing. Not trying to invent god. I'm an atheist.

>>5040145
Who Moved The Stone
Confessions, by St Augustine
Some Thomas Aquanis
Kierkagaaurds spiritual writings are fucking amazing and some of the most passionate Christian writings I have seen, which is saying something
The Bible of course
The Year of Living Biblically is all about 'how can I understand the bible' which is close to what you're looking for

>>5040259
>Who Moved The Stone
>Oh the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!

>>5040292
Forgot this..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgiU_rNDxs&feature=kp
A'ight. Out.

>>5040258
Indeed, many of these myths stem from a complete misunderstanding of who the Sun Gods were, but it is being discovered today they are more powerful than we could have possibly imagined this whole time, and still do not fully grasp the intricacies of their technology and interactions with us.

>>5040303
>Julian: He knew.

>>5040310
did he know more than Plato?

>>5040145
Henotheism is healthier than Monotheist ideals

Are there any good bible commentaries out there?

I'm looking for one with a more historical and academic leaning than a religious-"this is another prophecy fulfilled by Jesus Christ"

>>5040329
>Henotheism
worshipping chickens is never healthy

>>5040168
0x0=0

>>5040341
Nearly all the great Doctors of the Church wrote commentaries on the Bible, but of course they're all looking at it from a Christological perspective.

You might try some of the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh.

>>5040222
>Sometimes I believe a friend is picking me up at a certain time, and it comes a fact, or truth.

What the fuck? It does not become a fact because you believe. You believed and it happened to come true although in this case you were probably going off precedence and know that it is quite likely that your friend will show up on time because they have done it before.

>>5040251
>protip: God isn't coming down from the clouds to say hello and isn't going to come a fact.

Oh okay so let me just believe that he used to all the time and once raped a chick and got tortured to death leaving 0 evidence because of love and also ooga booha you'll go to heck

>>5040349
>>5040364
Why is everyone going on about Chickens ?

I think it is perhaps true in the "most right" sense -- though that is to say nothing of god.

>>5040145
Nope. The proto Indo-European religion is true.

Pretty much every other modern religion is a devolution of this original belief system.

>>5040145
Idk but you can read The way of the pilgrim and it might help.

>>5040145
Kierkegaard and Chesterton should do it.

Orthodoxy is an amazing book, I don't agree with all of it but it's a book I'd recommend for anyone feeling down. It just cheers me up so much.

>>5040159
Differently of any other (major) religion, instead of a X prophet, we have the son of God

>>5040145
Go ask somewhere else, faggot.

>>5040903

>>5040145
nope it's total horshit

>>5040145
No.

God is a spook.

>>5040324
Well he was an neoplatonist. Maybe.

>>5040396
It's only fact afterwards. Didn't mean to imply there was a fact in being picked up until it happened. Before it happens I sit and wait for this friend. Do I believe she is on her way or doubt her heavily. Just a scenario of valid faith.

>>5040449
It's faith in one god when you also believe there are others. It is healthier.

>>5042708

>>5042981

>>5040145
>Is Christianity true?

The question is, is Christianity true for you?


>what to read

Read The Perennial Philosophy by Huxley,
Read Meister Eckhart
Read Kierkegaard * <---
Read Jackob Bohme
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>>5040156
what does this mean?

Selective reading,

>>5040259
>>5040872

Read things stated in this post and nothing else

>>5040378
fedora x tip = le angsty teenage atheist funny joke

>>5044794
>angsty
>atheist
Pick one.

>fedora x tip
Broken math equation. I think what you want is: Fedora+tip motion x 1000 = [Your puny-ass joke]

>>5045660
This is what happens when you namefag, you fail to see little shit like multiplication being repeated addition