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Recently Discovered Mayan Pyramid Confirmed As One Of The Largest Ever Seen
Misterious Earth ^ | 6 May 2016

Posted on 05/06/2016 7:31:17 AM PDT by Fractal Trader

Researchers have confirmed that the Mayan pyramid excavated at the Acropolis of Toniná, Chiapas is one the largest pyramids ever discovered. Discovered in 2010, Emiliano Gallaga and his team began their excavation under the impression that the pyramid was built on the top of a hill. It was not until recently that they’ve managed to fully assess it and truly see what they’re working with.

Wighing in at 75-meters tall with seven distinct districts all with their own purpose – such as Temples, palaces, markets, housing, administration – the magnitude of the Toniná pyramid compares even to that of the Tlachihualtepetl (artifical mountain) pyramid of Cholula, Puebla, roughly 70 meters in height. Researchers have hopes that further translation of the hieroglyphics may uncover the reasons as to why the Mayan civilization collapsed in this region. Containing over 300 ancient hieroglyphic texts so far identified, the Toniná pyramid has been classified as one of Mexico’s most significant historic land marks.

“It’s a big surprise to see that the pyramid was done almost entirely by pre-Hispanic architects and therefore is more artificial than natural… it was believed that the entire structure was a natural hill, but recent evidence has revealed that the structure was almost entirely built by ancient inhabitants.” said Gallaga

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chiapas; emilianogallaga; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; maya; mayans; pyramid; tonina
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To: ckilmer
...which in turn correspond to the sudden elevation of homosexuals in the culture.

Correlation is not causation.

121 posted on 05/09/2016 1:45:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Reverend Wright

I guess that puts them a cut above the Carthaginians who sacrificed the children of low status parents.
..........
The Carthegians were a phoenician colony—ie caanites. Both high status and low status children were sacrificed. Its thought that some were done for purposes of post natal birth control.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9111841&fileId=S1047759400012678


122 posted on 05/09/2016 5:34:01 AM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: Elsie

Correlation is not causation.
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True except that the correlation of human sacrifice with homosexuality in the priest hood is just about 100%.


123 posted on 05/09/2016 5:36:21 AM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: ckilmer; Elsie

human sacrifice or not, when the ruling class accepts male on male sodomy as more or less normal behavior, those societies are going into the tank.

eg Edwardian England, Pre-Revolutionary France, ancient Rome... etc.


124 posted on 05/09/2016 9:43:58 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
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To: Reverend Wright; Elsie

What I find to be interesting is that all the old protestant denominations with the low view of Christ as well as catholic parishes/seminaries that preach the low view of christ—all have accepted or been accommodative to homosexuality—especially in their priesthood.

The reason that this is interesting and germane to the conversation is that the low view of Christ makes Jesus into a human sacrifice. Not really morally different than the aztecs cutting the heart out or the moches bashing in skulls.


125 posted on 05/09/2016 12:44:20 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: ckilmer

‘low view’ is a new term to me.


126 posted on 05/09/2016 3:18:19 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ckilmer; Elsie

I belong to a group of Anglican/Episcopal churches that broke away from the authority of the North American bishops, and put themselves under the authority of African or Latin American bishops.

The decisive issue in the break was that our churches were unwilling to go along on the gay marriage / gay priests issue.

The protestant view is that the penal substitution atonement theory of Christ’s crucifixion is central to any protestant theology that still submits itself to the authority of the Bible.

( I believe that ckilmer is describing the penal substitution atonement as the “low view of Christ” ). Pls correct if i am wrong.

http://www.the-highway.com/cross_Packer.html
J. I Packer is an influential theologian in our churches, and in the link he explains the evangelical anglican view of the atonement.

If people don’t like the penal atonement view, and want to understand the Crucifixion in terms of extra-biblical explanations, or want to modify the meaning of the Crucifixion according to human preferences - that’s fine.

But in our group of anglican churches, we follow the bible and accept that we might not like it.


127 posted on 05/09/2016 7:42:35 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
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To: Reverend Wright; Elsie

I’m not episcopal. My background presbyterian.

The low view of Christ means that Jesus is considered to be fully man but not fully God.

The low view of Christ takes the Arian position that was anathematized at the council of Nicea. We recite the Nicean creed because of the disputes of the 325 AD.

In the modern age the low view comes through higher criticism school on the continent—where it took over the protestant seminaries after 1848. It jumped the pond for presbyterians in the 1890’s. And completed the takeover in the 1930’s;

the double speak that came out of the seminaries since then would put the communists to shame.

If you want to see how it happened in the presbyterian church—there’s a good author/pastor from the period called Gresham Machen who wrote a book called christianity and liberalism. you can read it online here.
http://www.extremetheology.com/files/MachenLiberalism.pdf

The USA was fertile ground for the higher criticism school because of the work of Issac Newton back in the 1600’s. He was a unitarian. He held to the low view of christ. He was something of a demigod in the anglo saxon world during the 18th and 19th centuries. People simply deferred to him. If the master said it. Well then it must be true. the theological boundary between the liberals and conservative founders of the USA was defined by who they thought Jesus is.


128 posted on 05/09/2016 8:59:24 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: ckilmer; Reverend Wright
This all seems a bit much for me.
 
It's no WONDER that the early church came up with creeds to cut to the chase!  Who He was or what He is can be left for another day.
 
1 Corinthians 2:2 
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
 
 
 
 

Did Jesus of Nazareth provide enough evidence to show that He was God?
Yes.
 
 
FULLY God?   Can the mind of man even GRASP what this means?
Not mine.
 
 
Did He die for MY sins?
Yes.
 
 
 
Did He rise to show power over the grave?
That's what the book says.
 
 
 
Did He say...
...go ye into all the world and have endless discussions about My Nature?
I don't see it in the Book that has described Him.
 
 
Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:15
 

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. 
Matthew 28:18-20
 


There are folks in my congregation that appear to be on the lower end of the IQ curve. 
These 'views' would fly over their heads like the hand of Peanut.
However; they are just as saved as the next fella.
 
Romans 14:1  
Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.
 
 
I know we are not arguing over this topic, but trying to explain; as another blind man has placed his hand on the hide of the pachyderm and made an assessment.
 
 
I appreciate learning about this subject.
Thanks.
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

129 posted on 05/10/2016 4:06:13 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ckilmer

thanks for the clarification.

Here is the Anglican description of Jesus, right from the 39 Articles:

II. Of the Word or Son of God, which was made very Man.
The Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man’s nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance: so that two whole and perfect Natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man; who truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men


130 posted on 05/10/2016 7:38:51 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
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To: Reverend Wright; Elsie

I have for some years laid the decline of the western Christianity at the feet of decartes—whose categorization of the sciences is the basis for all higher education. alas decartes placed theology as a branch of philosophy in the same group as witch craft. Alas, whereas witchcraft if a primitive science that mostly botches cause and effect—theology does not belong on the tree of knowledge at all—because it begins in God. Whereas philosophy begins in man.

Packer lays the decline—at least in reformed theology for two centuries— at the feet of a unitarian polish theologian named Socinus. (however Socinus church converted Newton)

Here’s the passage:

The almost mesmeric effect of Socinus’ critique on Reformed scholastics in particular was on the whole unhappy. It forced them to develop rational strength in stating and connecting up the various parts of their position, which was good, but it also led them to fight back on the challenger’s own ground, using the Socinian technique of arguing a priori about God as if he were a man — to be precise, a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century monarch, head of both the legislature and the judiciary in his own realm but bound nonetheless to respect existing law and judicial practice at every point. So the God of Calvary came to he presented in a whole series of expositions right down to that of Louis Berkhof (1938) as successfully avoiding all the moral and legal lapses which Socinus claimed to find in the Reformation view.2 But these demonstrations, however skilfully done (and demonstrators like Francis Turretin and Hodge, to name but two,3 were very skilful indeed), had builtin weaknesses. Their stance was defensive rather than declaratory, analytical and apologetic rather than doxological and kerygmatic. They made the word of the cross sound more like a conundrum than a confession of faith — more like a puzzle, we might say, than a gospel. What was happening? Just this: that in trying to beat Socinian rationalism at its own game, Reformed theologians were conceding the Socinian assumption that every aspect of God’s work of reconciliation will be exhaustively explicable in terms of a natural theology of divine government, drawn from the world of contemporary legal and political thought. Thus, in their zeal to show themselves rational, they became rationalistic.4 Here as elsewhere, methodological rationalism became in the seventeenth century a worm in the Reformed bud, leading in the next two centuries to a large-scale withering of its theological flower.http://www.the-highway.com/cross_Packer.html


131 posted on 05/25/2016 8:02:42 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: ckilmer

Quite an abundance of words


132 posted on 05/26/2016 8:30:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

True.


133 posted on 05/26/2016 8:33:21 AM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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