Posted on 07/17/2009 5:37:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Go back to your top, silly little man.
Name calling, eh?
The heavens declare the glory of God. The Bible declares Who He is.
From nature alone, whether you are looking with the naked eye, a telescope, a microscope, or the naturalist’s notebook, should tell the observer that there is a supreme intellect behind it all. You see design. Rocks can’t turn into people, I don’t care how long you give it to occur.
The Bible tells us that God cares about us, that He wants to communicate with us, that He wants to have a relationship with us, that He wants to redeem us. Furthermore, the Bible proclaims projections about the future. Dozens of those predictions were fulfilled to the letter in the first Advent, the appearance of God in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ. Gainsay it if you wish, pooh-pooh it if you wish, pish-tosh it if you wish, harrumph about it with other atheists all you wish; but it happened; and many good people who witnessed it were martyred with the truth of it still on their lips.
Furthermore, the same Bible that reveals Who God is also predicted the scattering and regathering of a people, the Jews, over a period of some 2600-3300 years. And it happened — in a day — you cannot make this stuff up; nor can you say it and bring it to pass. It is unprecedented and it is incontrovertible.
None of this has anything whatsoever to do with unicorns or Santa Claus or spaghetti monsters or anything of the kind.
Do the research with an open mind, and I guarantee — if you are a true seeker, you will find.
Are Christian websites being overtaken by conservatives or does it only happen the other way around?
When it comes to these things, how can anyone tell if someone really believes something, or they just say they believe?
Is it possible to make yourself truly believe something that is considered by most, to be unbelievable?
The bible doesn’t claim that the rational man believes in God. In fact the opposite is true. The rational man lacks the spirit and without the Spirit, that man is blind. In your example, the man with the watch can “see” more than the manager. The manager’s blindness to his true surroundings does not make the existence of God false. It simply means the manager is not equipped to see God’s hand in the world.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
One truth seeker discovers Vishnu, another finds Jehovah, and a third person believes in Allah, which religion is the true one?
A beautiful sunset is nothing but light shining through atmospheric dust.
Gal 5:22
I recommend the One I mentioned in my post. None of the others even remotely qualify.
This is probably the number one problem with the conservative movement. My Jewish and Black friends are more concerned about the 'Christians' who are in charge of the conservative movement than they are of the Libs.
Here’s my problem. A person gets in a serious car wreck. She barely escapes with her life. But she thanks God that she lived and only has a broken back. Excuse me, serious question here. If God was looking out for her why did he let her get in a car wreck at all? It makes no sense.
Oh people might say, God let you be in the wreck so you can learn something from it. Really? Would you let your child get 3rd degree burns all over his body, so he learn something from it? No of course not!!
I don’t think anyone really knows one thing about God or God’s motives. He always seems far less than Godlike and loving than God would really be, if there is a God.
“But Faith is only as good as the OBJECT of your faith. Yes, faith is the basis of Christianity, but it has to be faith based on good evidence and reason, not just faith alone.”
No it doesn’t have to be based on “good evidence” and “reason.” Paul said it real well when he said what he preached was foolishness to the Greeks. And it was foolish to the Greeks. Some guy gets executed, you think he’s come back to life and if you believe in him you will live forever. Yes, the Greeks of that day were ROTFLTAO.
Yet, Paul and millions of other people believe. Instead of Santa, think of “love.” Could you prove that “love” exists? Would not the easier argument be that sexual love is based on hormones, and that family love is based on a genetic tilt in favor of preserving your gene pool.
And, you will never really know if there is such a thing as “love”, until and unless it happens to you. So, have you ever felt that feeling? If so, and I am assuming you are a male, is there really any evidence that one female is somehow special when compared to all the other females in existence?
Probably not the kind of evidence you are seeking here, for a belief in Jesus, or God. But, in your own heart, you know what you know. If you have been in love, you know it is something different, and it fills you up.
Try to explain it to me with “evidence” and “reason.” You can’t. I can relate only if I have felt love.
And if you have never felt love, and do not distinguish it from some really hot sex, is your mind closed to the possibility that such a thing exists? If it is, you may never find it. If you are open to the possibility, you may.
parsy.
The one that is unique. There is only one that doesn't require me to be a good person and puts the burden of saving me on God and not on me.
I'm not talking about a movement, I'm talking about a website.
‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness’, is that an answer? Doesn’t it require a certain belief in the bible?
I agree.
well here’s my short answer: it is unequally rational - Santa is a cultural icon and God is the object and subject of 3 major religious belief systems(Christianity,Judaism and Islam) with milliions of believers throughout the world.
Personally, i think the posting is immature and your questions somehow weirdly juvenile .
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