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Ah yes, this sermon is quite familiar to me. I was attending Bethlehem when Pastor John preached this sermon, and it definitely helped me to understand the interplay between the commandment for believers in Jesus to show mercy and the wrath of God. I would certainly recommend it. As to the...

Uh, I know how a mass spectrometer works. But from the terminology you're using, it sounds like you're doing chemistry. Since I don't do chemistry and have never used a mass spec for my research, I don't know if I'd be of much help.

Since you're asking a bunch of Calvinists to help you because your father is becoming a Calvinist, can I assume you want us to accelerate his progress? You should join him. We have cookies, and they aren't transubstantiated!

Here it is, And God made the two great lights--the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night--and the stars. (Genesis 1:16) For a star to work, hydrogen fusion is required. This necessitates a release of heat, which causes an increase in the universe's entropy. Thus...

My friend, I used to have the same problem with CF. I've never been to a liberal church before, and it was on Internet forums like this where I learned about the existence of Christians and Christian churches that don't believe in the inerrency of Scripture. I suppose at some point, I stopped...

I think a lot of unnecessary confusion arises because people equate keeping the Sabbath with going to church. The Law prohibits any sort of work on the Sabbath day. But pastors work on Sundays when they preach. Those of us who volunteer at church are also working (I volunteer to watch babies...

I think it does run contrary to the truth. The "evidence" put forth by the Landmark crowd is not evidence at all. They make statements without supporting them with primary sources. Do you know of any primary sources which attest to churches that were Baptistic in the way that you say they...

Churches should really stop setting themselves up as enemies of the truth. I often wonder why some churches waste their time and resources trying to teach doctrines that run contrary to the truth and that aren't even tangentially related to the Gospel. It encourages lying and...

I have to agree with you. It sounds like this museum doesn't do justice to either Scripture or science (not that you would concern yourself terribly much with the former). I too think that this museum is a waste of resources and ought not to be open. But, as you say, it's a free country...

Perhaps you should define what you mean by the idea of "literal interpretation." At some level, most of us don't interpret anything literally, including spoken English. I read the Bible in the way that seems to most naturally agree with authorial intent. As such, I don't take things literally...

The special theory of relativity states that the speed of light is the same in every reference frame. This statement is not ad hoc, and follows directly from the classical theory of electrodynamics (i.e. it's based on the way electric charges and current-carrying electrical wires work). The...

I think the other brothers have put it best. If a church is worth attending, it's probably worth tithing to. I could perhaps conceive of some hypothetical case in which someone might attend a church and not tithe. But that person should examine his own heart and make sure that he's not...

I doubt the average American has to worry about putting too much emphasis on knowledge. :) I all seriousness though, this culture doesn't value knowledge enough, and most people are satisfied to remain ignorant. This is not virtuous. As for the issue of the hard work required in academia...

Wow, what an old thread. Anyway, it's funny running into this old post of mine. I've just finished my second year of grad school...three more to go. And what have I learned? My fellow American students are actually just as stupid as me, and the foreign students are smarter than all of us!

FYI (if you care about the hierarchy of particles): All particles are either bosons or fermions. Bosons have integer spin, and fermions have half-integer spin. This is actually an important distinction because of the Spin-statistics theorem. Quarks and leptons are both examples of fermions...

Ah, so you attend Bethlehem Baptist? I was part of Bethlehem back when I was in college (I went to the U of M, just across the street from the downtown campus). Bethlehem was actually the first church I ever attended in my entire life, and all of the people there, including John Piper, gave me a...

Well, this is at least a much better postion than the non-Christian who insists on receiving communion.

My church is quite welcoming to non-Christians. We would rather they be around God's people than anywhere else. To answer one of your questions, it would be a very, very bad idea to participate in the Lord's Supper (i.e. communion). This is not because it might offend anyone, but because...

May I ask why something coming from nothing is an issue for you? It says, By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. (Hebrews 11:3) It seems to me that the Big Bang theory agrees with the Biblical...

Hi Erfan. I believe you may have been somewhat misinformed about certain scientific matters, and I would like to see if I can help you to have a right understanding of them. Actually the Big Bang theory is rather well-respected. It is testable, and offers certain predictions. One of the...