Benjamin Taylor
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Benjamin Taylor commented on Re: What is your question? on February 14, 2008, 10:24 PM
I support completely Mr. Carter's statement--and I'm paraphrasing here--about being willing to admit and embrace the posibility that I may be wrong, about many things. When we take a position on something, why must we feel the need to have an argument as opposed to host dialogue. It is going to be a collectively achieved policy that will be most binding and truly reflect the needs of the people.
Benjamin Taylor commented on Sharon Gannon on the New Enlightenment on February 14, 2008, 10:16 PM
Enlightenment is not the oneness of being, but what does that statement actually mean? How is it attained under those pretenses? Enlightenment should be defined as the progress one makes in understanding the purpose of their creation. Does anyone have another definition?
Benjamin Taylor commented on Re: What is your question? on February 14, 2008, 5:24 PM
I support completely Mr. Carter's statement--and I'm paraphrasing here--about being willing to admit and embrace the posibility that I may be wrong, about many things. When we take a position on something, why must we feel the need to have an argument as opposed to host dialogue. It is going to be a collectively achieved policy that will be most binding and truly reflect the needs of the people.
Benjamin Taylor commented on Sharon Gannon on the New Enlightenment on February 14, 2008, 5:16 PM
Enlightenment is not the oneness of being, but what does that statement actually mean? How is it attained under those pretenses? Enlightenment should be defined as the progress one makes in understanding the purpose of their creation. Does anyone have another definition?
Hey everyone, my name is Benjamin. I am a worshiper of God and His Son Jesus Christ who basks in the glory of the Spirit. I am a former Marine and a student at the University of Colorado. Rock on brothers and sisters!
Benjamin Taylor commented on where do non-catholic christians get the nerve? on February 19, 2008, 3:37 PM
The "first Christian church" according to the Bible refers to the ministries which the apostles of Jesus Christ established in Judea, Cesarea, Asia Minor, Greece and eventually Europe (Rome).It is because of some of the apostles (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul and others) that we have a written record of Jesus Christ. Christian literaly means, Christ ones, a term imposed upon the first followers of Christ by Saul (later called Paul) in Antioch (Acts 11:26). During that time it would have been necessary to distinguish those who were sympathetic to the new ministry of the apostles (led by Peter and later co-led by Paul) so that they could comfort and protect one another during the Roman occupation and upcoming destruction of Jerusalem. Today, the term Christian has been so diluted and distorted by churches whose only desire seems to be adding followers to fill their coffers. This renders the term Christian at best ambiguous. Nowadays, when someone says, "I am a Christian" they usually define it differently than another. This is counter-intuitive because it supposes that Christ himself is as divisable as the churches are and it was Christ himself that said, "Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated, and no city or house having been divided against itself, doth stand," (Matthew 12:25).