Evidence for God from Science

Jac3510 wrote:My point is rather simple here. There is no way to tell between this so called "inner witness of the Spirit" and everyone else's (including our own) subjective religious experience. What is important is what the text says, not what we have experienced. Our experiences, after...

Sorry, my mistake. I meant to say intellectual belief, and a saving belief. The latter of which you called faith. Two different kinds of beliefs, but only one real "faith". I still wouldn't make this kind of distinction. Is it the quality of the faith/belief that saves or the object of th...

zacchaeus wrote:
From where will antichrist rise and come from?

FL wrote:
Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

FL, I certainly don't like what you're implying!!

(though there would have also been plenty of clean water for the survival of sea creatures too). So according to AIG not all sea creatures died, doesn't that contradict what was decreed by God in the Bible? Genesis 6:17 Dan One would think that any animals that remained alive after the flood, excep...

Their interpretation of 'Man's faulty ideas vs. God's innerant Word' is so ridiculous I laugh every time I see it :pound: Yes, because everyone knows YECs uphold the true Word of God against the compromisers! lol... During a debate I brought up the fact that YECs are ruining Christ's reputation. Th...

The Catholic church says that the sacraments are required for salvation. It seems more and more clear to me, that what some people call "believing", I call working. I would call it working, too, but that's because I disagree with their definition of faith. It is important to be fair with ...

RickD wrote:If that is what you and Byblos are saying, then I disagree. I believe we receive the grace of God, required for salvation, by believing on Christ, not by the sacraments. Jac3510 wrote: Do you think anyone, Catholic or otherwise, would say anything different? The question, again, is what...

Thanks to them, the secular world resists Christianity more than ever. YECs are so loud and persistent in their proclamation that you cannot believe in an Old Earth and hold to an innerant Bible, they have successfully provoked scientists into viewing us Christians as a bunch of nasties. We can onl...

A YEC I once met insisted Bombardier Beetles used their poisonous chemicals to help them eat seeds before the Fall caused them to use it as a defense mechanism. :ebiggrin: I always thought that the bombardier beetles used their poisonous chemicals to dissolve the falling rocks, before the rocks kil...

Thanks in no small part to B.W.'s book, the glaring image I get of hell, is

1) the complete, absolute finality of it.

2) the complete loneliness, and separation from God.

and

3) the realization that those that are there, are there by their own accord, not God's choosing.

Evangelist Ken Ham smiled at the 2,300 elementary students packed into pews, their faces rapt. With puppets and cartoons, he was showing them how to reject geology, paleontology, and evolutionary biology as a sinister tangle of lies. If a teacher mentions evolution, or the Big Bang, or an era when ...

Any comments? All the world be saved, lions no longer eat meat, the sky will be blue, heaven on earth and bliss... if but all accept a little Ham... I thought salvation came thru Christ's work alone? - - - B.W., salvation does come through Christ's work alone. As long as it's Ken Ham's Yec interpre...

What do you mean by "required for salvation", Rick? I mean "Do you believe salvation comes by God's grace, through faith in Christ, alone, or are you not saved unless you are baptized in water, perform the Eucharist, etc." If you mean that if you don't receive them you have not ...

Byblos, you're not seeing the difference. Our believing on Christ, takes a belief on our part. Same with forgiveness. Between the believer and God. Water baptism, the Lord's Supper(Eucharist) both take "work" done by someone other than the believer, and God, done by the hands of men. So, ...

I would suggest that the OP has phrased the question incorrectly. The proper question is not what is a work, but rather what is faith. Because otherwise, you can say, as many do across the theological spectrum (from Catholics to Calvinists to Arminians) that what I might call a work is actually an ...