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- Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:35 am
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: I've been wondering this one for a while...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2440
These passages should help a bit: Ezekiel 18:23— Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live? Ezekiel 18:32— For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and liv...
- Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:53 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: Pastors reject apology order over Koran comments
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3314
- Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:46 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Explanations for the origin of the Universe without God?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2895
I'd disagree, and believe such things point to God. The inflationary theory for example points to God seeing as it says all space and time had a beginning. It sounds as though the person is just beginning to expand his knowledge on such issues since the inflationary big bang theory does indeed predi...
- Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:00 am
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: Pastors reject apology order over Koran comments
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3314
You are correct to point out the recieving of wives isn't necessarily found in the Quran, while the killing of blasphemers can be found. The general point I was driving at though is that violence and forced conversion is something that can be found in the Quran. So I see it as wrong for someone to b...
- Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:37 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: Pastors reject apology order over Koran comments
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3314
Deb, I've visited a seminar by Daniel Scot, another in Australia accused of vilification ( http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/10311.htm ). I can tell you that far from any sort of hate, there was much love for Muslims at the seminar. I find it amusing that Scot (former Muslim) was accused of vilificatio...
- Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:00 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Was Jesus Christ Really Resurrected?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11226
Examples of copycat? Examples of additions? The NT aside, the doctrine central to Christianity is Christ's death and resurrection. Now there is ample historical evidence for the Jesus' death and burial, the tomb being empty, people seeing Jesus alive after His death. Such evidence comes from source...
- Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:33 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Was Jesus Christ Really Resurrected?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11226
I can see how the OT can be trusted more because pagans don't have that but it just seems like the NT was a copycat of pagan roots and the church fathers of that day added to the NT to make it read more elaborate than anything else of pagan literature. It would have been better if God just started ...
- Thu May 26, 2005 9:54 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Discussions
- Topic: Why Are There Even Atheists?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 24869
It is also inappropriate, I think, to attack someone's religion on a message board, ask them to respond and then criticize them for even being there in the first place. I happened across this board by chance, as did others I'm sure. My response was, and I maintain this, not an attack at all but per...
- Thu May 26, 2005 6:22 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Discussions
- Topic: God's Knowing
- Replies: 75
- Views: 22863
Re: Take That!
See this is wear Calvinism goes too far in its total depravity approach I do happen to agree with Calvinism on a lot of things! Total depravity is fundamental to my relationship with God, (and it works out very nicely that way! Wouldn't have it any other way, and boy would it be hard for God to wor...
- Thu May 26, 2005 4:52 am
- Forum: Philosophical Discussions
- Topic: God's Knowing
- Replies: 75
- Views: 22863
We have absolutely no good in us before salvation that would enable us to choose God. That's not completely true. I mean, it is true that we have no good in us of our own before Salvation, but that's not the same as saying we have no good in us at all. See this is wear Calvinism goes too far in its...
- Wed May 25, 2005 8:03 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Evolution theory stickers taken off textbooks
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11893
Everything around us may have been designed. (I happen to think so.) But if ID is to be considered as a science, there needs to be an experimental means to determine this. How does one do this? Well first thing to do is to collects points of observations that exhibit intelligence. The science itsel...
- Wed May 25, 2005 6:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: God no longer talks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3372
I think it certainly valid that we shouldn't rule out schizophrenia as an option, but then I think we'd see a more extreme circumstances here, and certainly more consistency to hearing voices. For me I wouldn't even call it a voice, but it rather came all at once. Now there is something I'd like to ...
- Wed May 25, 2005 5:44 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Discussions
- Topic: God's Knowing
- Replies: 75
- Views: 22863
Kurieuo, you fail to look at the context of those Romans verses! And he was quite obviously not being hypothetical in the sense that you meant. He was in the passage I was dealing with, which was just after the portion that deals with Pharaoh (which is the only part I was focusing on). 11Yet, befor...
- Wed May 25, 2005 4:56 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Discussions
- Topic: God's Knowing
- Replies: 75
- Views: 22863
- Wed May 25, 2005 4:28 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Theistic Evolution and Genesis
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2620