If you could view past events from any era, and had the option to witness what actually happened at momentous religious occasions in history (the birth of Jesus, the Crucifixion, the Exodus from Egypt, the flood and Noah, the events in the Garden of Eden, etc.) would you want to? Would your curiosity get the best of you, or would you just choose to continue believing what you believe? Would it be disturbing to you if "real" events seemed very unlike what you expected/what the Bible said? \n\nExplain your answer.
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Time travel at least in the sense of viewing the past events is possible. This can be done with meditation, remote viewing,scrying, Dream work, past life regression, psychic vision or hypnosis. Most people can learn. I have done it and know many others who have also done it. It is also possible to veiw created realities too. Yes psychic veiwing often reveals  things very different from the accepted view. \nFor example,remote viewing of the Crucifition shows around 40 crucifixions on the site at that time rather than three.\nThis is probably historically correct . \n Rather than being confusing this is usualy liberating and has a quality of rightness that was missing from the conventional version. Biblical  historical events are often quite different from taught versions. Some of these psychic perceptions have been confirmed by archeologists and historians.
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It's not a weird notion.  There is no evidence of a lot of things that transpired during the times of Christ.   Sure the Bible talks about it and is the ONLY accepted history of that time.   I'm inclined to think that the apostles did run with their interpretation of Christ's teachings.   I'm not so sure it was to create an alternate Jewish religion, but an alternate politically correct on of the time.   Jesus didn't come to Earth to have people worship him as God.  That was furthest from his teachings.  His teachings were to show people the way to the Father through his teachings.  Even the perverstion of "The only way to heaven is through Christ."   It simply means that to get to heaven is to be like Christ and follow his teachings.   It does not mean to worship him as God.   Never has, never did, never will.
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LOGIC! How refreshing! That and some of the disasters aren't recorded ANYWHERE else but in the Bible... Modern Christianity is based on misdirection and the threat of Hell.
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Well done for starting to think like a human.\n\nIt is pretty obvious that the bible is not true. It is a packaged product designed to create a religious truth with which to bind (and blind) people. \n\nBind in that you believe in 'God' and you have to take the bible wholesale (imperfections, contradications and everything). Blind int hat you have to ignore the real evidence of history in order to 'believe' and be saved.\n\nArcheologists do not tend to use the bible as source material because so much of it is false. There is no historical reference to Jesus outside of a few books in the bible. \n\nIn the ancient world myths were not seen as untrue in quite the way we see them today. Myths were a way of spreading a spritual idea or 'truth' through the telling of an allegorical tale that could work on many levels. \n\nThe Egyptians, for example, were prodigious record keepers. We have found written accounts for the tiniest minutea of their daily lives, and records for nobles and royal families stretching back many thousands of years. We even know the names of those kings that that they tried to have 'erased' from history. \nYet nowhere in any of these records is a high nobleman called 'Moses' recorded. And there is no mention anywhere of the Jews being held captive in Egypt, or of thousands of Jewish 'slaves' suddenly up and leaving via the red sea. \n\nRead the bible, by all means. But do not take it literally!
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I have no clue as to the story you've spoken of. \nIf you began to research, and have begun to read the bible in search of this tale.. why not continue reading the bible, and get the true answers you're seaching for. You may not even be aware of the right question.. but your answer awaits you, in God's word.
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Interesting theory....I'm not sure how well that's going to work for you, especially because so many people see so many things in the bible differently.  If you do find something let me know though, like I said, sounds interesting.
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I would be so freakin happy that they were made whole. I don't care if it's the worst person ever to walk the face of the earth. I love all, and I want to see all saved. I'm not sure about my stance on hell, I'm currently considering that, and looking in the Bible for what it teaches. I think there is a strong possibility that those put into the lake of fire will be obliterated rather than eternally tortured. If that is true, then they could not be freed. But, no, I would not feel cheated at all. I could not imagine being personally triumphant in the damnation of others.
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AS A JEWISH PERSON I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BEEN AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM WHEN THEY WERE PROTESTING THERE. AND I WOULD HAVE BITC.H SLAPPED THAT WOMAN SILLY.. I KNOW CHRISTIANS WHO WOULD NEVER DO THE CRUEL THINGS THIS GROUP IS DOING..THEY ARE NOT TRUE CHRISTIANS.. THOSE WHACKED OUT PIGS I AM SURE ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
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I believe that it happened but not exactly like its told in the bible...you should watch the documentary called the Exodus Decoded. It's really well put together and it makes you realize alot of things.
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It is all open to conjecture. Some of the characters or events are actual historical persons/events e.g. Mary Magdalene did exist..whether she was indeed the "wife" of Jesus is open to debate...the Knight's Templar did exist..whether they were privy to "the great secret of Jesus's marriage and blood descendants" is another story...same goes for Leonardo da Vinci. Dan Brown does not make claim that any of these events are in fact true; they are loosely based on historical facts. Archaeology and in deed biblical history/archaeology has a hard time reconciling events in the bible to factual historical accounts. This is because the bible was borne out of oral traditions. There is little that is "eye witness testimony". It is however safe to say that christian beliefs, rituals and practices are an amalgamation of other religious traditions since nothing is born in a vacuum.
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I read that this morning. It was very interesting. It made me wonder though if it had been written by some apostate of the period though. \nI am open to new scripture being found. I'm sure that all of Christ's apostles wrote their testimonies. But I want to read it for myself and see what it has to say before I decide if its truth or not.
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My views will change whether Jesus comes in my lifetime or not.\n\nI know that's not what you mean, but bear with me.\n\nMy views have changed over the years and I hope to have a much deeper understanding of God and how to apply His word to my life as time goes by.  \n\nI'm not afraid of the changes and I'm not afraid to examine new evidence.  I'm not going to jump ship every time some new fad, theory, book or movie comes along.\n\nJesus didn't condemn "doubting" Thomas for wanting to see His hands and feet.  He held them out for Thomas to see.  \n\nRumors, theories, elaborate stories are not going to persuade me.  If "proof" I'm wrong ever comes along, I want to see it.  I want to inspect it for myself.  \n\nUntil then, I know Whom I have believed.
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What would you call it if you were looking at a blank open field, and all of a sudden you were watching the super bowl taking place in that field? First a field then a stadium with players and people?  Kind of an explosive idea, isnt it? The Word says that the Lord "SAID" Let there be light, and there was light, so I can only say He spoke the world into existance.  Science is explaining more and more how biblical things happened, science just wont admit it.  As far as Darwin and evolution, look at the human being from conception to birth, we cover just about all stages in utero.
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Amazing...how hypocritial some people could be. They can easily believe in something that took place 2000 years ago, which was first recorded only 300 years after the event. And now, in modern times, if one of us (was a virgin and married...) used the excuse to tell our husbands that we are pregnant and God impregnated us...he'd laugh hysterically, before shooting us!
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Personally I find the bible lacking lots of information and require you to believe more than I want to believe just on incomplete information as well as things that don't happen today.\n\nI have no problem with Jesus having sex nor do I find in alarming that a man would take on a wife and father children.  \n\nI think it is asking too much of a healthy young virile young man not to experiment with in some form of the other especially with all the pretty girls I am sure that was around in his day,as there are now.\n\nThe bible ask me to believe two things that are not common today nor at any other time in recorded history.  One the bible as you to believe that a virgin had a baby. At no other time in recorded history has this happened. Two we are asked to believe that a young man would go through life without having sex of any kind or experiment with sex.\n\nThose are two of the many things I have questions about the bible.\n\nNow when some new information is introduced into your psych that has been conditioned to believe one train of thougth your entire life is a threat into your very core.\n\nI hope this has been of some use to you, good luck.\n\n"FIGHT ON"
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I think that many people will start to pray for you from making a statement like that...\n\nWell, I can't realy convince you one way or the other on this topic being that it's not a forum for discussion, just a single answer for your one question...\n\nI can tell you what i believe...  I believe in Jesus.\n\nI can also say, there have been many people in the past that sought to prove Jesus was either just a man, or that he's fiction, and many of them, after everything, became christians...\n\nOne other thing to note, outside of current events (and say for the past could hundred years), Jesus being real, dieing on the cross, then comming back is one of the most (if not the most) documented events in history...   The Romans, who at the time didn't care about Jews for the most part, even recorded it into their records of history...\n\nThat's all i can realy say for now with out discussion...\n\nThanks.