Posted on 01/28/2012 7:14:20 AM PST by Babashane
If you haven’t seen this series I suggest you watch it. It’s called “Indescribable” . Louis Giglio shows just how unmeasurably small people like Chris Mathews really are compared to the universe God has created for our enjoyment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKtSKbWZUI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlroUGiihx8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCR-mvzCNs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxEThPNtlQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIoBCgRC7Uo&feature=related
If you haven’t seen this series I suggest you watch it. It’s called “Indescribable” . Louis Giglio shows just how unmeasurably small people like Chris Mathews really are compared to the universe God has created for our enjoyment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKtSKbWZUI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlroUGiihx8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCR-mvzCNs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxEThPNtlQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIoBCgRC7Uo&feature=related
The humorous yet serious nature of your question, combined with its very subject matter suggests to me you might really enjoy Chesterton's Everlasting Man. The full text is available online here: http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/chesterton/everlasting/content.htm
If you're like me, you'll want to buy a copy so you can highlight stuff and add some notes in the margins :-)
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
I believe that belief in a higher power is a natural state of man.
Maybe Chris Matthews believes that something came from nothing; symmetry, beauty,and order came from chaos; consciousness,free will, and reason came from matter; life came from non-life; anthropic coincidences from chance; and man from pond scum. That would seem to be what a troglodyte would believe.
>> I was an atheist and evolutionist before I was a Christian, and I enjoyed scoffing at Christians for what I regarded as their silly superstition.
As a life-long Christian, the “superstitious” aspects of the New Testament were secondary to Christ’s spoken message. I realized early on that it was a futile exercise to intellectually deconstruct the miracles.
Belief is a funny thing. Even something the honest secularist should admit as being occasionally miraculous.
It’s awesome you turned to Christianity. Regardless of the venue, Christianity is the ultimate gift of liberty.
>> Believing in God is so easy a caveman can do it.
LOL - that’s good.
Even in ancient Sumerian writings, the “gods” the people worshipped spoke of the “GOD” they themselves worshipped.
Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy how dumb can you be. It’s not the Christians you’re insulting, it’s Almighty God...once again you make me pray for you. That next tingling up your leg will likely be hell’s hot fire. There will be no place to hide, Chrissy. All will be judged whether you choose to believe it or not. All will be fulfilled and your fate isn’t real pretty right now.
From 1611 KJV Bible, Revelation 20:11-15:
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the books were opened: & another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it: and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire.
nothing is impossible for Christ.
Yeah, to Obama, just like George Carlin prayed to Joe Pesci.
I usually explain it like this....look at that building did it have an architect? carpenters? plumbers? electricans? Yes is the answer. How do you know that? I can’t see them. Well you just know. So who created the trees, the birds? If everything you see it needed a creator. Right? Aaaah Aaaah.
It’s certainly a good thing for Chrissy that no Black people are literalist creationists. He could have offended someone. [/sarcasm]
"The deep" was already a long-established concept in Sumerian and Babylonian (Chaldaean) lore before the Captivity. The Sumerians called it abzu (=> Gk. abyssoc), and it meant both the "underworld" and also the water table, from which one could draw endless waters by digging a well deep enough to reach the water table (not very deep in Mesopotamia).
That's basically what Big Bang-theorizing cosmologists believe; and quite a few of them are theists. Not many of them are epiphenomenal materialists, as the self-anointed "brights" would have us believe.
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