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06-04-2006, 08:52 PM | #101 | |
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What about those that channel spirits? Or autonomic writing, channeling and then writing things not of your own. I've seen somebody autonomic write, it was scary as thought she was in a trance. What is going to stop Satan from destroying confidence in God? |
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Sorry for the digression. It's just so frustrating to wade through 5 pages looking for "Extra Biblical Evidence For Jesus" as promised in the subject, only to find talk about Satan manipulating history to undermine confidence in God. |
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By faith we Christians do things, and speaking of which it takes more faith to believe in what you do. Life arising out of primordial soup. Remember the mocked Noah for 125 years, laughed at him and jeered him, until the water came and swept them away. Christians suffer the same ridicule simply standing up for what they believe. Which is a shame. It is extra biblical that Pilate washed his hands of the deed. Here is a good song, sympathy for the Devil Rolling Stones. http://www.lyrics007.com/The%20Rolli...%20Lyrics.html |
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Do I need to believe Dianetics in order to disprove Scientology? Do I need to believe the Quran in order to disprove Islam? You get the idea... Quote:
What you're missing here is the possibility that the source for the global flood myth has some rather mundane, non-wrath-O-god origins, and there's nothing wrong with accepting that some of the stories in the Bible might be metaphors based upon poorly-remembered oral traditions. |
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Did you miss the fact the earth is covered with 75% water? Yes it is possible for the flood to have happened, and in the fossil record we find fossils of fish with snapped necks, gasping for air. Didn't look like a slow process. Jesus of Nazareth existed, you just want to question His Divinity, that is the only reason you even bring him up. The most central figure in Christendom. Go for it, it isn't going to get you any closer to watching Primordial Soup springing into LIFE. Which I think it is good and all that He spends so much time catering to the ideas and what they think of him, when these same know it alls will be dead in a few short years. We all will be dead, so prepare to meet thy maker!!!! You can rest assured of that. You can prepare your worm food box just the way you like it. I'll just be in mine for a short while. A quick nap and back in action. |
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It requires faith, something apparently you have alot of, to believe monkey's can transform or mutate into human beings, both male and female, and reproduce one human male to another female. Another thing that supports the biblical account is the amount of different languages out there. Supports the Tower of Babel, that would explain so many different tongues in the last few thousand years, just as an egg needs a fully formed mother, a child needs a mother with which to get ministered from and to learn her tongue. It's not something you learn in primordial soup. Of course evolution scientists will come up with the best explanation to tell me how language evolved. In fact he might just be coming from a meeting of scientists that vote on the best answer to each new delma facing evolutionary biology/spiritual evolution. Yep that's right folks and any information that does not fit within the context of the framework, or back bone of the Modern Synthesis, gets thrown in the garbage, right where Christian ideals are. |
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There is also no inherent contradiction between being a Christian and believing that life arose through natural processes. Lots and lots of Christians accept evolutionary theory and assume a natural process for abiogenesis. Quote:
Noah was a fictional character, dude, and you aren't being persecuted. Suffering a little ridicule for advocating preposterous, ill-informed and provably false beliefs is not going to kill you. Quote:
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