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- Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:23 pm
- Forum: New Page Critiques
- Topic: Genetics and Homosexuality: Are People Born Gay?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 90204
Re: Genetics and Homosexuality: Are People Born Gay?
I think the big problem here is the massive gap between these two worldviews. The first issue is taking into consideration what exactly is sin. To people with more secular or liberal beliefs, a sin is anything that harms or disturbs the progress of society in a potentially negative way, this includi...
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:27 am
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: death of america
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1245
Re: death of america
Every day, I have to answer questions on social ethics with responses like, "In a secular nation, we have to respect everyone's rights..." or, "The Constitution was wrong in regulating that based on a secular code...". Along a "secular" trend, the concept of morality is...
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:20 am
- Forum: Christian Theology
- Topic: The Price to Pay
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1116
The Price to Pay
Here's a concept that we should cover. Christ died for our sins, correct? He paid the price of our sin with his own blood, and that is the reason it is just for us to accept God's gift and allow ourselves to become "imperishable". Now, here is a question: Why would people need to be punish...
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:04 pm
- Forum: Moral and Ethical Affairs
- Topic: Is fiction evil?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4638
Re: Is fiction evil?
Many of the problems in fiction actually rise from the cruel inability of language to express a concept. It is a problem with a word, not with, necessarily, a piece of literature itself. Take Harry Potter. The word "magic", to, for example, a hardened fundamentalist might mean "the pr...
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:52 pm
- Forum: The Bible and Scripture
- Topic: Question about flat earth
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21173
Re: Question about flat earth
You have to remember the the Bible isn't all a textbook describing how things are. Job here was describing the glory of God: "He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads...
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:13 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: The wind made the waters recede?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2417
Re: The wind made the waters recede?
I can't remember from whom, but someone on this forum introduced me to the idea of the flood being partially attributed to the gap at the Straight of Hormuz breaking. This being the case, water would rush out and cover land for miles and miles above the former land level, and a strong wind, I suppos...
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Theology
- Topic: Negation of Free Will
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5040
Re: Negation of Free Will
Refer to the end of the last book of The Chronicles of Narnia. The dwarves demonstrate this idea very well.
- Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:15 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: thank you, everyone
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8896
Re: thank you, everyone
Praise the Lord! Welcome, Echoside!
- Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Bible and Scripture
- Topic: Flat Earth Theory
- Replies: 89
- Views: 24955
Re: Flat Earth Theory
Excuse me, Isaiah 40:22 .
- Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:01 pm
- Forum: The Bible and Scripture
- Topic: Flat Earth Theory
- Replies: 89
- Views: 24955
Re: Flat Earth Theory
I think that a distinction must be made between figurative language and descriptive language in the bible. Job 9:6 is followed by Job 26:7-9 . The first says that the earth is suspended on pillars, the second says on nothing, and it is written by the same author in the same book. Why? Perhaps becaus...
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:16 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: The Epicurean paradox
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8014
Re: The Epicurean paradox
Eternity, can you comit evil in this place? Does the thought even occur into your mind? I doubt it, since it is paradise. So if either free will is lost in heaven or you're to blissful to comit it, your first paragraph in my opinion is disproven due to the fact that heaven would be evil-free since ...
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:35 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: The Epicurean paradox
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8014
Re: The Epicurean paradox
This is, unfortunately, a very 2-dimensional point of-view. "If God doesn't stop evil, then he is either wicked, or not God." Obviously, God looks at the whole picture. The final world after the suffering and evil has abated will be far better than if would be if there had been none at all...
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:25 am
- Forum: Moral and Ethical Affairs
- Topic: marriage hall
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2283
Re: marriage hall
It's too bad that our government completely overlooked that fact that marriage is still by majority a religious institution, not a legal contract... shame. But, after all, I suppose it is just a word, and nothing more until you assign meaning to it.... there are many different definitions throughout...
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:42 pm
- Forum: New Page Critiques
- Topic: Critique of "Can Christians Use Drugs?"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 63482
Re: Critique of "Can Christians Use Drugs?"
^ Not to mention the wasted money on buying all of those drugs...
- Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:59 pm
- Forum: Politics and World Events
- Topic: Rick Perry
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2806
Re: Rick Perry
I'm going for Cain. He seems like he has his ideas set and clear, and doesn't try to beat around the bush when he's questioned.