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by wrain62
Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:58 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: The Epicurean paradox
Replies: 26
Views: 7649

Re: The Epicurean paradox

@Empty Lord Remember, and this is critical, that when God created the world it was not as we experience it today, he created it without sin. It was a blissful existence in the garden of Eden. That changed when Eve chose to eat of the fruit. Death came as a result of the fall of man. I think that th...
by wrain62
Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:03 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: The Epicurean paradox
Replies: 26
Views: 7649

Re: The Epicurean paradox

Maybe atheists of the world are being brainwashed somehow to believe we are stupid no matter what we say. Us Christians are one to talk about being brainwashed, because it only supposed to happen to us with our blind faith; us as humans cannot believe without evidence so we must believe in naturalis...
by wrain62
Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:09 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: The Epicurean paradox
Replies: 26
Views: 7649

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 al...
by wrain62
Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:07 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: The Epicurean paradox
Replies: 26
Views: 7649

Re: The Epicurean paradox

"God loves you" If so, whence come pain, sorrow and evil? For all who preach here, I give you Epicurus "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is wicked. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he...
by wrain62
Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:44 pm
Forum: The Bible and Scripture
Topic: Interesting Reddit thread
Replies: 4
Views: 2006

Re: Interesting Reddit thread

:clap: As good as an athiest can be I would say. This guy is giving people a better view of the bible and a positive view of Christianity. He says quasi-positive and absolutly positve things about the religion like: "Do you think that Christianity as it is written in the Bible is a positive or ...
by wrain62
Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:11 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Christopher Hitchens passed away
Replies: 34
Views: 8066

Re: Christopher Hitchens passed away

cubeus19 wrote:This may be slightly off topic, but since Hitchens was part of the "new atheist four horsemen" who do you think will take his place?
ThunderFoot maybe? A lot of people like him.
by wrain62
Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:06 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Christopher Hitchens passed away
Replies: 34
Views: 8066

Re: Christopher Hitchens passed away

Thanks for that, you make some good points.If my reasoning came across as somewhat cavalier, it wasn't meant as such, rather it was in reference to the particular debate I was referring to -- the person in question can't come to terms with a God that would send someone to "hell". As you p...
by wrain62
Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:55 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Christopher Hitchens passed away
Replies: 34
Views: 8066

Re: Christopher Hitchens passed away

I think one of the many mistakes atheists make is in thinking Christians take delight in telling folks they might be going to hell. I was having a very heated debate with someone on another forum surrounding this very topic. Now I know there are some Christians who do get up on their pedestal, but ...
by wrain62
Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:37 am
Forum: Christian Theology
Topic: Judgement Day
Replies: 3
Views: 1429

Re: Judgement Day

We are talking in something outside of our existence. Say we were in 2d and were trying to think in existence in 3d. Although it is possible to project an illusion of 3d in a 2d plane, we would have to know the nature of 3d in order to project it. And even that takes some skill. Unless we get to exp...
by wrain62
Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:03 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Christopher Hitchens passed away
Replies: 34
Views: 8066

Re: Christopher Hitchens passed away

Did he have any last words to record?
by wrain62
Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:12 pm
Forum: Christian Theology
Topic: What is hell like?
Replies: 101
Views: 23219

Re: What is hell like?

Zacchaeus wrote: "They are cast into Hell where they live alone in unquenchable fire, utter darkness, and unmanageable pain for eternity." Some of the descriptive terms of hell seem contradictory: "utter darkness" and "unquenchable fire." How can it be totally dark and...
by wrain62
Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:42 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Brian Greene and religion
Replies: 1
Views: 8026

Re: Brian Greene and religion

The ideas like religion is not the root of evil (in fact it is the root of science) was nice. But something in his underlying dogma makes me uncomfortable... "The answer is, and it's so simple, respect for others' rights. Sure, you can think that you are right and everyone else is wrong. But wh...
by wrain62
Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:45 pm
Forum: Christian Theology
Topic: Free thinkers
Replies: 26
Views: 7483

Re: Free thinkers

Free thinkers....one wonders what that even means nowadays. I have noticed that those so quickly to disbeleive in God and Christ, even to the pointo fsaying there is no evidence for Christ even ever having existed, will quite openly admit they believe in "paralell universes", and intellig...
by wrain62
Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:28 pm
Forum: Questions for Christians
Topic: What does Christmas mean to you?
Replies: 18
Views: 4661

Re: What does Christmas mean to you?

[What does Christmas mean to you?] i asked my daughter and was surprized they do actually tell them things at school like Jesus was born who was our savior Jesus as savior taught in school? You must be American! To me Christmas is a Royal Annoyance. I wish it were January 7th already. FL Are you ta...
by wrain62
Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:11 pm
Forum: Questions for Christians
Topic: Why is Porn Bad?
Replies: 26
Views: 8790

Re: Why is Porn Bad?

I am specifically looking for how it negativily affects society according to changes in sexual norms, though.I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, wrain, but if you search on how pornography, is kind of like a gateway, to opening up the mind to all kinds of filth. Someone told me that ma...