Koen G > 19-03-2024, 02:48 PM
pjburkshire > 19-03-2024, 03:29 PM
(19-03-2024, 02:48 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The problem is how those opinions are formed. Writing the post about Heavenly Jerusalem took me and Cary several months of research: reading papers, looking up existing illustrative traditions, looking into primary sources, analyzing relevant biblical passages... I would love to see any or all of my points rejected, but not just because someone has a different opinion. Which argument of mine do you disagree with and why? In which ways is your argument to be preferred? How is your evidence better?
This is the way we might move forward - not by comparing interpretative narratives, but by comparing evidence.
Koen G > 19-03-2024, 05:35 PM
pjburkshire > 19-03-2024, 05:46 PM
(19-03-2024, 05:35 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If you want to make a poll, I suspect you will need to make a new thread. Deciding things by popular vote kind of goes against everything I've been trying to explain here though.
R. Sale > 19-03-2024, 08:04 PM
pjburkshire > 19-03-2024, 10:21 PM
(19-03-2024, 08:04 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."Ensoulment" is somewhat of a novel interpretation, certainly a possibility, but I am not "familiar with the literature" as they say. Opinions are great, but where is the evidence, what are the historical sources? Does the VMs represent some sort of formulaic process, or are the pictures just the artist's idiosyncratic opinions? Given that the process is imaginary in the first place.
pjburkshire > 23-03-2024, 02:15 PM
(13-03-2024, 12:32 PM)pjburkshire Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Here is a deep question. When was the decision made on which particular soul was to be sent to Earth to be the child of a particular set of parents? Was everything planned out from the Dawn of Creation? Or was the decision made at the start of the new pregnancy?