Evidence for God from Science

I've recently started reading the OT again and when I got to Genesis 29 I had this strange feeling that it's a parallel to Jesus' resurrection. Is this a prophesy or am I reading too much into it? Look first at this: When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away f...

Is smoking a sin? Let me clarify...is smoking cigarettes a sin? No. Being a slave to an addiction is a sin - because you are serving another master. Same with alcohol - same with eating. IMHO of course. Yes, by smoking and drinking you may discover the afterlife quicker and find out whom you have s...

I've recently started reading the OT again and when I got to Genesis 29 I had this strange feeling that it's a parallel to Jesus' resurrection. Is this a prophesy or am I reading too much into it? Look first at this: When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away f...

Thanks with helping me in making a point I was round about getting at with questions I knew the answers to. Although, I am not sure I totally agree with your take on Revelations 20: 14. I will have to look up that book you mentioned though, "Hell Under Fire". God Bless You Michael Bluesma...

That has been my point. Maybe, just maybe, we can discover how these gel together and are blended one with another. One problem in understanding these is how we focus only on the linear set by step concepts of learning and neglect the circumspect methods of seeing the interrelated whole. I think we...

Welcome to the form. Much of what you have asked can be found on the sites home page as well as looking on the Theology Thread. We have diverse opinions and may not agree on everything but we let others express themselves. Sorta of like a cyber forum family :lol: If you are seeking either inductive ...

It's funny but I grew up thinking Calvin was a good 'un. The same with Martin Luther who was also guilty of reprehensible actions. Blacknad. Luther was no saint either. St. Paul consented in the murder of Christians before conversion. Maybe people are slaves to their times and cultures. Calvin's cr...

Was the American led invasion of Iraq right? Blacknad. From a tactical aspect, you need a base of operations in which to fight Islamic Terrorism and smoke them out. Wars are won by bloody attrition. That is a cold hard fact. You would need a place in which Islamic srewballs can have easy access int...

Hell is fire, an esoteric term for cleansing, purging, refining. Metaphor is spiritual language that corresponds to underlying spiritual principles. We don't have a language of spiritual phenomena because our eyes are fastened to the realm of particulars, sense experience. This is recognized by vir...

Is someone able to answer this? A person I know of who was a Children's Pastor, decided to be a homosexual this past month. She had accepted Jesus Christ into her life. Since Homosexuals won't go to Heaven (1 Corinthians 6:9). 1. Does that mean she isn't saved? 2. Did Jesus Christ come into her lif...

Thanks everyone for the insight, but this is perplexing - Should Jacob have stayed in Shechem for ten years before moving to Bethal? Did God meant for him to do this? Gen 34:1-31 Was Dinah's rape a predestined event by God? Did Jacob have a choice to stay or go. If he left earlier, then would have ...

Question:

What Churches have become liberal? During my sales travel's, I went to a Presby Church and it lost its reformedness for sure.

Anyone else know what demoninations have gone off the deep end into liberalism, New age-ishness, wacky World Church-ism?

Seems like many have...

Humor - Off Topic Point- Well, I know a few spirits who need to be in prison: Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Old Grand Dad, Jose Creuveu, etc... these all made a wild turkey out of me and ruined a many of lives - these should be in prison. Sad, we cannot do this as the 1920's era proved :( On topic Point-...

Well, if everyone is dirty - then all need a bath! If you think you do not need a bath - all you get is wet. Well, the thief on the cross next to Jesus was not baptised and he was the first convert to christianity. You do not need to be baptised to become born again but you do need a bath! I was bap...

Predestination and Election is a confusing topic that was bound to come up on the Christian Theology Line. I know it has before, but I have some questions regarding it. Did God - or does God - pre-select people to damnation and Hell? Did God make the serail Killer to kill and the child molester to m...