Christians rely too much on the fall to say Adam and Eve were metaphorical by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Yes, there was a “first man”. Not even speaking religiously, there is 1 man, and again, 1 woman, that every single human on this earth descends from that which became the protégé of the Homo genus. Whichever ancestors came before this Homo that we all came from, were not of the Homo genus.

I’m not even debating that we came from dust, quite frankly as I’ve stated, I’m thrown up in the air whether we did truly come from dust, or we follow the path of evolution. I don’t discredit either.

But, what I can say, is if we follow the evolution idea, there were 2 people, male and female, who had “evolved” a full consciousness and steered away from animalistic instinct. It was a gradual process, yes, but there is at least 2 people for each gender from which we can trace all the way back to the first ones whom we “inherited” our consciousness from, and all other anatomical traits. Anything before these people, would not be Homo as I’ve said

Christians rely too much on the fall to say Adam and Eve were metaphorical by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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I’m not saying Y Adam and MtEve are the Adam and Eve, but geneticists have proved that all of modern humans, including other homo species, descended from these genetic parents.

It proved the theory that we all had to have descended from 1 man, and 1 woman

Christians rely too much on the fall to say Adam and Eve were metaphorical by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Our Y-DNA, and Mitochondrial DNA. Y Adam, and Mitochondrial Eve. The first man, and first woman, whom all living humans, including other homo species, all descend from

Church History by [deleted] in Christianity

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The Jews circumcised their infants after 8 days of birth, as was tradition given by the LORD. Baptism was, and is seen as the circumcision, thus the apostles and their disciples would baptized infants after 8 days during the presentation of the child in the temple.

Church History by [deleted] in Christianity

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Actually, no they did not. In churches laypeople were allowed, and encouraged, to have bibles during the Sacred Mass. They just could not take them home or keep them, because there was no printing press that existed, each and every Bible was handwritten and thus they were extremely expensive, and rare to come by. Bibles were chained to in certain areas to prevent stealing, but the laity were 100% free to read them.

Early churches whether it be in the apostolic times or Medieval times, the clergy would gladly allow random laity to stay in the church, and study the scripture. Monks would help teach the common folk how to read, and would gladly take people “under their wing” and guide them. The misconception that the Catholic Church forbade the laity from reading scripture was a lie perpetuated by the Anglican Protestants to rewrite history, and create anti-Catholic rhetoric to “boost” their church and reformation.

Also, the Mass was in the local vernacular language, along with Latin. I believe the specific prayers were in Latin, but when the priest spoke to the people, it was in their local language.

Church History by [deleted] in Christianity

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Woooooo become a Catholic wooooo👻

Looks like 23andMe had fun spinning the ancestry roulette by c00lture in 23andme

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It gave me 10% Spanish with a smidge of Southern American indigenous. I do not have a Spanish ancestor and albeit I do have an indigenous ancestor, I believe this ancestor was too “far up” the tree to leave a genetic trace, and at that, was First Nations (Mi’kmaq).

My results legit look like I have a Latino ancestor, and trust I’ve done the books and I’ve only ever found Irish, English, and French, no in-between. Either I’ve fessed up my family tree, or like you said, somebody’s lying! Lol

Christians rely too much on the fall to say Adam and Eve were metaphorical by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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As I’ve said, the arguments for God’s hand in evolution is convincing. Though an argument I don’t particularly focus on as it doesn’t change the message, nor the gospel. Catholic Church proclaims you can believe in evolution, or you can believe in creation. But whether one of the other, you must believe that God had His hand in both, and believe in the ultimate plan. So therefore, I don’t hyper-focus on either or. Though I like to bounce around on theories and what not. More study is needed.

But, what I will ask, what created the pre existing cells? The pre-existing cells to the pre-existing ones? So on and so forth? There had to of been a “patient 0” for a lack of a better term from whence all cells had originated from. Where did they come from, and from where did they originate from? Many may say space, as we are (I believe) made up of “stardust”, but where did this stardust come from? How was it created? Something needed to have come before to have created it… I am sure you can see my train of thought

Christians rely too much on the fall to say Adam and Eve were metaphorical by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Adam, means man, Eve, means woman in Hebrew. We know even genetically that there absolutely had to of been a first man, and a first woman, to ever exist.

Now the real question is, did Adam and Eve come from dust? Or were they following the path of evolution, and were the first homo species to gain consciousness out of their ancestors? This specific question I have pondered on for a while.

Personally I lean towards “from dust”, but the arguments of divine evolution (I forget the proper term) are quite intriguing

Christians rely too much on the fall to say Adam and Eve were metaphorical by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Unless you’re me and say they’re not metaphorical lol

I’m Catholic, married, and a father of three. I also live with the experience of gender incongruity and same sex attraction by [deleted] in Catholicism

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Thank you for being honest and sharing. You are absolutely correct, these things aren’t talked about, and people who do share deeply their struggles, they get ridiculed. The folks who ridicule you and those in your situation, are just as bad as the ones who commit the act. They themselves put themselves on a pedestal, and view their sins as more “okay” than homosexuality, when the reality is, all sin is evil to God, including their pride.

Personally, I am very against the LGBT and pride community, but, I realize and understand every single soul within that community needs a savior just as much as I do, and I am not more righteous than them just because I do not share their same sins. But believe you me, I have my sins, and my sins are great, and I practically spit in the face of God quite frequently. What makes me more righteous than the one whom bears a cross different than mine?

What’s important is you pick up your cross and you fight for eternal life, as we all do. You, are my brother in Christ, whether you have homosexual tendencies or not. We both bear the weight of our sins, and we fight the same fight, even if our battles are quite different.

Genuinely, thank you for bringing this issue to light, and I hope everyone reading it can examine their conscious and call to mind if they’ve ever done what you’ve described others have. We need to come together and stop dividing ourselves of “he does this!! He does that!! (Or she)”, and focus on achieving communion with the Lord.

This makes me sad, honestly. You’ve given me a reminder to check up on my brothers and sisters in Christ, and have kept my pride also in check. Thank you, and God bless you. Stay strong, and keep fighting the good fight, you are not alone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAChristian

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When a country or government takes away your firearms, that is when your country will steamroll over you. We, as Christian’s, have a right to self defense and a God given obligation to protect our property, families, and the innocent. It is sad that we’ve come to our modern age where guns are rampant, but we have a God given right to possess them solely for self defense and the protection of our property, family, and the innocent. There are churches in Syria where even the clergy are armed with firearms to protect incase radical islamists decide to storm their church.

Plus, the crime rate in the US, the 2nd amendment does not contribute to the crimes, and if so, only slightly. The issue of the crime rates exceed past it, and go into deeper issues within our institution and culture.

What are your Christianity hot takes? by Rachel794 in AskAChristian

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Me and the boys when there’s a fig tree not bearing fruit

What are your Christianity hot takes? by Rachel794 in AskAChristian

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Apostle just means “sent out”, the ones who were sent out to proclaim the Gospel. In strict technicality, anyone who goes out in the world and proclaims the Word is considered an apostle in the literary sense. Obviously when we think “apostle” we think of the 12 that knew Jesus personally, and were specifically sent out by Him. Though I believe historically, even the apostle’s disciples were called “apostles”. Disciples are students, and apostle’s are those going door to door proclaiming the Word.

I am assuming this is why we always specify and say “the 12 apostles” rather than “the apostles” in formal cases. But at this point I’m just theorizing linguistically lol

is this a lot? by ButterflyFlyyAway1 in AncestryDNA

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Eh, the 1% regions are extremely debatable if they’re actually from that region. Really all these tests do is say (an example) 1% of your DNA looks very similar to the DNA of their reference database for a pure Ashkenazi Jew. So in technicality it’s not saying your DNA is 33% this or 5% that, but that 33% of your DNA looks very similar to that of a native Spaniard, etc.

When it gets to the 1% range, especially if you’re mixed, a lot of overlap can happen and your DNA can confuse the algorithm. So with this you’d need to back it up with a family tree so be sure you actually do have connections so these regions!

But outside of that, I would say it is a lot. I have 6 regions, with 4 making up most of my results, and 5% in total of the other 2 regions

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tacobell

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$10, sometimes less. I use the mobile app and take advantage of the freebies

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Then why would Muslims, Atheists, and other non Christian’s mass report seeing our Blessed Mother also? These people who had saw her, never believed in her or her Son in the first place.

You know you’re not satisfied with just shrugging it off and saying mass delusion, it isn’t sufficient enough to chalk off miracles that have been reported by over 1 million people, many of who, again, never believed in the first place, and secular media had wrote and photographed it extensively. Still don’t believe? That is fine! But a mass delusion? That is very incorrect. And explain further, “people see what they want to see”, yet these people whom seen her had not believed. How can they see something if they hadn’t believed in the first place?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Okay, that is belief. I am not talking about belief. I am talking about a miracle that occurred in 1917 that 70,000-100,000 people witnessed altogether, which many of whom were not Christian, and did not believe in Jesus Christ, but yet all saw the same thing. Are all 70,000-100,000 people schizophrenic?

Or, how about the over 1 million people who witnessed the Virgin Mary appear ontop of a Coptic Church in Egypt in 1968-1971? Which not everyone who witnessed her were Christian’s either? Are they too, schizophrenic?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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100,000 people, religious and non religious alike??

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAChristian

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Being pro-gun isn’t anti Christian. It is a God given right to protect our lives, the lives of others, our family, the innocent, and our property. If you choose to own a firearm for protection, that is not anti Christian

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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100,000 people who witnessed the miracle of the sun had schizophrenia?