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Laurent's avatar

Just rediscovered you after you you got detwittered. As a theologian, I’m not sure atheism excludes spirituality. Spirituality is sensitivity to the subtle aspects of existence. I think that came from David Bohm. That understanding served me well through my graduate studies without being challenged and it did appear to help others come terms with a lot of conflict among religions and even dialogue between religion and economics as well as science and religion, the latter being my area of research. Thanks for posting and allowing your voice to be heard again, even though I’m a bit late to the party.

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Bob Miller Immune to Hysteria's avatar

We always seem to think that Christianity may be built upon other preexisting belief systems. What if the older societies were reasoning, stumbling, searching towards the truth of Christianity, which was clarified in its current form by the Son of God making a substantial and definitive visit.

It might be that God has made himself manifest on earth and spoke to prophets of pre biblical times on other occasions. Visits we know of in the Bible are the appearances to Abraham just before Sodom and Gomorrah, and also the mysterious and brief appearance of Melchizedek. Other references are made also, which are not noted to be angels but a man who eats with Gideon and another previously wrestles physically with Jacob.

The Unseen Realm (Heiser) is an interesting read that covers some of the previous "visitations" ideas.

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