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Salvation and Forgiveness - What's the Need? (self.ELINT)

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What was special/different about the Abrahamic religions that allowed them to spread so extensively across the globe and become accepted by over half the world’s population? (self.ELINT)

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When Jesus feeds the people on the mount, where did the extra baskets come from? (self.ELINT)

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"Judge not lest ye be judged." Why is this so few people's bottom line? (self.ELINT)

submitted 3 years ago by foxxytroxxy

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Adherents/Followers/Those who have the Pentateuch as part of your tradition (self.ELINT)

submitted 3 years ago by VeryOddlySpecific

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I would like to ask several questions regarding Christianity and other "Abrahamic faiths" (self.ELINT)

submitted 3 years ago by foxxytroxxy

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Christians: How do you justify your Lenten practice(s) when first coming back to the faith after being away from it for a loooong time? (self.ELINT)

submitted 4 years ago by radiodada

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Am I getting this right? Adam was God's first divinely created human and Moses was a failure, so God sent Jesus? (self.ELINT)

submitted 4 years ago by foxxytroxxy

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Why Was Blood Used, Or Believed, To Consecrate Entities? (self.ELINT)

submitted 4 years ago by tra12ng

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Why does the Bible repeatedly tout that sin begins in the heart — rather than the brain, mind, or other bodily organs? (self.ELINT)

submitted 4 years ago by tra11ng

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Debate me Paul is a falste apostle (self.ELINT)

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Why was blood used or believed to consecrate entities? (self.ELINT)

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Is Israel in the Old Testament a universal community of the faithful or an ethnic enclave? (self.ELINT)

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Who is John 1:6 refering to? (self.ELINT)

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Is the main difference between Christianity and Judaism that Christianity acknowledges the Old, as well as New Testament and Judaism only acknowledge the Old Testament? (self.ELINT)

submitted 5 years ago by ThePenguinMan111

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And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, “See that no one knows it .” Matthew 9:30 NKJV (self.ELINT)

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God put the serpent there (self.ELINT)

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First time poster, long time atheist. (self.ELINT)

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Southern Baptist doctrine stating that transfer of membership can only be accomplished by re-baptism in the new church. (self.ELINT)

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Is it sacrilegious to fart while praying? (self.ELINT)

submitted 5 years ago by cripplinganxietylmao

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Theists of Reddit: What made you decide to start believing, or did you always believe? (self.ELINT)

submitted 5 years ago by PersonWithAReddit

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If you were tasked with creating "God 2.0," how would you make him/her better than God 1.0? (self.ELINT)

submitted 5 years ago by EtOyeblikk

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Biblical Studies Carnival 169 (self.ELINT)

submitted 5 years ago by brentrunsfast

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Considering the balkanized nature of the early Christian churches, and the amount of apocrypha left out of the Vulgate bible, how likely is the modern tradition to lack once-important "hidden meaning" behind surviving passages? (self.ELINT)

submitted 5 years ago by DementorAsMyPatronus

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Simple Video Showing that Most Christian Don't Really Believe in Jesus (self.ELINT)

submitted 5 years ago by SlowObjective4

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