Evidence for God from Science

According to some, the "death" that entered the world with the Fall was the death of the mankind in the spiritual sense. That means that IF Adam and Eve hadn't sin and passed on that sin into the world ( the sin being the desire to be like God, to be separate from God, to not live for God...

True about any -ism or -ology. Some are more preadapted [to violence] than others Yes...that seems to be the case, anecdotally at least. A religion that says ''Sacrifice this chicken!'' (Hassidic Judaism) is going to appear more violent than Jainism which encourages its members to wear a face mask ...

There were some books of the apocrypha that were "good enough" to be cited by some NT authors ( Like Jude and Peter citing 1Enoch) and some that was even included in the oldest of codexes, the Sinaiticus ( Epistle of Barnabas, Sheppard of Hermas). The thing is that there really isn't anyt...

My thought was that men decided which ancient writingsmade the final cut to go in our modern Bible, so is it not possible that some apocrypha slipped thru? The apocrypha is still around if you want to consult it. With the exception of that contained in Roman Catholic Bibles, apocrypha is obviously ...

Ok, that makes sense, a person would write about the world as he knew it. I have a friend from the Philippines, who was so surprised when she learned after coming to the USA that the earth is actually round,like an orange. Might those who wrote the Bible not have likewise been limited in their know...

Kind of overgeneral for my taste. Depends on the religion, for one. Yes and no. Yes, I made a gross generalization but no, it doesn't depend on the religion. Even Buddhists in Sri lanka have started persecuting Christians, according to Voice of the Martyrs. Perhaps the Baha'i religion has yet to pe...

When it comes to evolution the evidence they use actually demonstrates that natural selection has no effect on life even when it is able to adapt and survive hostile environments.Take Bacteria it always remains bacteria even after it has adapted and survived a hostile environment.So where is natura...

It is my personal opinion, that the authors clearly favored a 6 day literal creation. And I think there is plenty to suggest that and hard to argue with. We know from evidence that is not the case. But even if we can argue around technicalities for a possible 6 day creation scenario, I'd say it sti...

We should look at outside sources, but only to determine authorial intent, which limits us to two ways of doing so 1. Looking at sources that the author had access to and had likely knowledge of. Moreover, it would need to be shown that the intended authorship had access to and likely knowledge of ...

Thanks for posting the references rick regarding yom, i am aware of these. Even if i grant that yom is an age in Genesis 1, that still makes no sense because the later writers didn't consider that when mentioning creation account , if it had been that apparent they would have. But as i said, its a ...

A Bond servent and a maid servent were criminals that could be bought to do work for you to work off their dept to society like chain gangs kinda.These were not innocent people being sold into slavery they were criminals and yet God still showed them mercy and gave them a chance for redemption beca...

I was raised with very strong positive values, no religion to any of it. Religion is optional to strong positive values. Actually, religion is more a guarantee of pride, self-righteousness and boundless evil, as history and current events attest to. FL :D Kind of overgeneral for my taste. Depends o...

Furstentum Liechtenstein wrote:OK...Thanks. Positive values are nice but you don't have to be Christian to have such values. Positive values keep the surroundings clean: Japan and Switzerland are good examples of neat & tidy countries.

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I was raised with very strong positive values, no religion to any of it.

"NO dog in that fight"

For me though, esp coming from a communist country... So...I guess you're not Audie Cornish of NPR. Which Communist country do you come from? I respect Christian values, Mormons in particular are such model citizens. Mormons are not Christians. Sorry. I hope I can be understood better than that. Yo...