Why didn’t God send his prophets to multiple regions around the world instead of just focusing on one specific region in the Middle East? I feel like this would have had multiple advantages
Universalism/Perennialism kinda solves the issue, but it creates a new issue of God sending contradictory revelations. What gives?
Why didn’t God send his prophets to multiple regions around the world instead of just focusing on one specific region...
Thomas Hernandez
Jason Hernandez
God knows what He's doing, user. Don't worry.
Josiah Turner
Even without prophets:
1. God has written the law into our hearts and we are judged accordingly Romans 2:12-15
2. God has given clear signs of his power and nature via his creation, Romans 1:20
3. God is always just and merciful so there is no need to worry about unfair convictions.
If God sent such diverse messages all he would have to do is make them inclusive, not extremely exclusive. Buddhist and Hindu and Greco-Roman religions quite open and inclusive…but Christianity/Islam/Judaism are very exclusivist, so Perennialism has a hard time making its case.
Jose Robinson
The Bible sure says so, but how come that when isolated tigger tribes are found in the bush they are almost always murderous, sexually immoral and practicing borderline demonic shamanic religions? Hardly seems like God's law to me
Noah White
because of the fall of man, our conscience and desire for God are operative but they are covered in a layer of ice, our hearts are hardened, we forget God.
Prophets come to remind us of God and what we should be like.
Jason Jenkins
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Carson Brooks
why do jews reject God's law when they were the first one to be given it?
Ian Ramirez
One word: Humility.
When great things come from humble and destitute beginnings, it demonstrates the power and authority of God. If God used the great and powerful to accomplish His will, people would attribute the glory to those great and powerful men/nations and not to God Himself, to whom all glory and honor is due. That's why God didn't choose Egypt or Assyria or Sumeria or Babylon or Greece or Rome. Instead, He chose a small and almost negligible tribe without a home to call their own (and arguably the most wicked and selfish people on the planet). From them, His religion has touched every culture and race on Earth. Have you seen Israel? It may seem grand when described in the Bible, but it was actually pretty pathetic. Who could make a great nation of them but God?
If God had revealed His presence to every nation on Earth through prophets to all peoples, either two things would have happened: either "science" would make some excuse to explain it away like some kind of literary theme or motif (like the Great Flood), or the proof of God would be so overwhelming that people could not freely choose to love Him through faith and seek the truth through love of truth for its own sake.
David Kelly
Underrated
Mason Harris
Mark 16:15-16:
Anthony Martinez
Because God uses blockchain
Charles Baker
There are some who say he did, but that they were misinterpreted.
Some examples are the Dacian prophet Zalmoxis who was supposed to have been a student of Pythagoras who preached about resurrection and life after death, but was later deified and had his doctrine changed into one of eternal return/reincarnation, and also the anonymous prophets of India and the celtic lands who had revelations of trinitarian deities.
Aristotle, Heraclitus and Plato were considered to be prophets, with the latter famously called "Greek Moses" because of how similar his philosophy was with what is in the Pentateuch.
Virgil was considered in Christendom as being a prophet as he wrote (obscurely) in one of his ecloques (number 4) about how a maiden would give birth to a king and a new era would begin
Lao Tsi and Taoism have some similarities with the Gospel too.
It doesn't, not because the revelations are "contradictory" (which is man's error of understanding, not God's), but because these deny both a personal God, and that such divine knowledge/sophia can ever really be understood by or revealed to man.
Henry James
You're not referring to the three priamry God's of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva is it? Surely they're not comparable to the Holy Trinity at all in relation to Tinitarian theology? (I don't know much about them but from what I do know I wouldn't think it would be the case)
According to whombst, may I ask?
Brandon Wood
Yes.
It's not directly analogous since they are considered to be both three gods (trimorti means three forms), and also single god at the same time )called Dattatreya) rather than one God in three Divine Persons.
I'm not getting bent out of shape trying to justify this, though. My point is that even in cultures like this where they still openly worship animals, there is some curious echo of the Divine still resonant, but dimly heard by the pagans.
According the Christian tradition up until the Reformation. This is not to say that they were inspired in the same way as Isaiah, Ezekiel or Jeremiah, but the it was long since considered too neat a connection to ignore that these men said things that came incredibly close to notions of God and the ethical life. Heraclitus even called the governing reason of the universe the "Logos".
James Cox
Cool, I remember the name from Bruce Gore's History of Philosophy and Early Christian Thought lectures on yt, look forward to leaning more about these guys
Jaxon Martinez
I can't help you. You have to untangle all the semantic issues with Christianity. You have to figure who the races were. You have to figure out why the Israelites were special and why God treated them the way He did.
The normie answer is God wanted to be cool like literallywho hollywood director guy and make da bad ones birth God. But if you've read your Bible and have an individual thinking brain operating at minimal capacity and don't just read what's upboated on leddit you know this is utter bullshit.
Asher Gonzalez
Isn't the proportions of the shadow a bit off?
I mean, the curvature of the Earth would distort it a little.
Mason Wood
Henry Brown
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Jose Butler
Also how Freudian do you have to be to think that the size of a place determines it's value?
Wyatt King
Except parts of Genesis.
Angel Sanchez
A poster here posted a study the other day about tribes in Africa without exposure to the rest of the world. They couldn't even fathom what homosexuality and masturbation were. They had no words for it and, when the process was described, they laughed in disbelief that anyone would actually do it. Adultery was known and disapproved of though.
James Sullivan
What about Ethiopia?
Christopher Edwards
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Adrian Jackson
Thomas (unbelieving Thomas) suddenly fell off the grid after Jesus' ascension into heaven. Interesting, isn't it?
That's because he went to India and started a church on the coast that still exists today.
Isaiah Richardson
Hermes , Zoroastro , Aristoteles and Virgilio
John Perry
According the Koran that's what Allah did.
Jacob Edwards
Because before the incarnation, the Christian prophecy was still being fullfilled and differences in language would have made it impossible.
Language does not mean what the dictionary dictates but rather the whole world of context.
Elijah Thomas
Maybe because