Religious Cults & False Prophets~ Discussions and DebatesFalse Religions and the AfterlifeYou don't hear it because you have no desire to hear. 1 st Kings 19:11-13
Then He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; 12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
13 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave.
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1st Corinthians 1:20-25
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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Who were the first western "scientists"? Greek philosophers. Atheism is not new, Greek philosophers searched for a naturalistic explanation for the world we live in. Our western philosophical tradition began in ancient Greece in the 6th century BCE. The first philosophers are called "Presocratics" which designates that they came before Socrates. The Presocratics were from either the eastern or western regions of the Greek world. Athens -- home of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle -- is in the central Greek region and was late in joining the philosophical game. The Presocratic's most distinguishing feature is emphasis on questions of physics; indeed, Aristotle refers to them as "Investigators of Nature". Their scientific interests included mathematics, astronomy, and biology. As the first philosophers, though, they emphasized the rational unity of things, and rejected mythological explanations of the world. Only fragments of the original writings of the presocratics survive, in some cases merely a single sentence. The knowledge we have of them derives from accounts of early philosophers, such as Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics, The Opinions of the Physicists by Aristotle's pupil Theophratus, and Simplicius, a Neoplatonist who compiled existing quotes.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/greekphi.htm
When you study the early history of Christianity you will find that the Greeks who controlled the church after the death of John used Neoplatonic and Aristotelian philosophical concepts to interpret the Bible. The whole concept of dualism, which the Greeks probably got from Zoroasterism is where the church got the concept of an immortal soul that is destined to an eternity in heaven or hell.
Those amputees who might have the type of faith that Jesus referred to also understand that God works all things (including the loss of limbs) to their good. They understand they are aliens in this world but will rule with Jesus in the next with a fully functioning and complete glorified body.
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