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Recent content by grantdenning

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    The problem of evil

    I don't have the time to look at your extremely long list right now, however I have said previously that the only Gospel that I think is reasonably reliable is the gospel of Mark. It is not necessary to believe that everything in the N.T. is the inerrant word of God, because the writers of the...
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    The problem of evil

    If the bible is going to warn us against, protect us from, and punish us then it should do a better job at defining evil. If slavery isn't evil, or genocide isn't evil, then I don't know what is! I don't think I need to conform to YOUR view of Christianity to call myself Christian. There might...
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    The problem of evil

    I believe that people make there own choices as to whether to do good or bad things. I believe that some things appear evil, such as slavery for instance. Yet in the Biblical context, slavery is not considered evil. It isnt even considered bad! So 1st we have to define what evil is.
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    The problem of evil

    Maybe there is no evil (spirit). God does many thinks in the O.T. that we would consider evil if a person did it, & of course people do things that we consider evil. That does not mean there is an evil spirit causing or encouraging people to do evil. I don't think that in orthodox Jewish...
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    Pastors and Lamborghinis

    If a person purchases a $200K car from money they have earnt honestly, & paid tax on, & is upfront & transparent about where the money came from it is nobody's business but theirs. However if the 200K car is financed from a tax free pastors allowance, & the fact hidden from the public & church...
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    Pastors and Lamborghinis

    Again you are totally missing the point. The pastor who was building the big mansion wasn't doing anything illegal. He could have been perfectly open about it, & face no legal ramifications at all. However the fact that he tried to hide behind a veil of secrecy shows that he KNOWS that what he...
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    The problem of evil

    I don't know if animals have free will or not. I know many of them have personalities just like we do, but have not given free will much thought. What does it prove if they do or don't? Do you think god cant create a talking snake with free will? When you say Lucifer, do you mean Satan? You seem...
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    Pastors and Lamborghinis

    When we turn a blind eye to evil, it encourages more evil. In Australia, we have recently had a royal commission into institutional child abuse. It showed that child abuse was rampant in the catholic & other churches. Many of the churches knew that the child abuse was happening, however their...
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    The problem of evil

    It says nowhere in Genesis that the Serpent was Satan. Maybe god just put a talking snake in the garden. I don't think that Jews believe the snake was Satan. That is a Christian concept. If Satan was cursed by God & evil, why was God asking Satans opinion in the book of Job?
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    Do an Experiment - Obama fired Mattis

    BobRyan: I put Obama fired Mattis in Google search with no quotes, & straight away every single listing on the 1st page was about Obama firing Mattis. Maybe you aren't using Google, or maybe some hackers friendly to Obama hacked in to your computer & changed your search settings (I suspect you...
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    Disney, magic and witchcraft

    Perhaps one shouldn't watch any movies with Tom Cruise or John Travolta in them because they are scientologists. We also better not watch any Woody Allen movies because he is a Jew. I also don't know if your description of Rosicrucians is accurate, & even if it was, Walt Disney himself is long...
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    The problem of evil

    At what time in history did Satan rebel? He certainly hadn't rebelled when God used Satan to test Job!
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    Pastors and Lamborghinis

    So just because they claim to be of the same religion, we should turn a blind eye to them being unethical & rorting the system do you? They aren't doing anything illegal to be sure, but when the pastoral allowance laws were introduced, the average pastoral allowance was about $30,000 per year...
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    Pastors and Lamborghinis

    It appears to be common amongst the mega churches. Probably not so much the smaller churches, because they aren't raking in millions of dollars per year like the large mega churches. I don't think its as common with the denominational churches either, because most of them are probably centrally...
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    Why do Christians continue to celebrate Christmas?

    Yes, I do believe that it is!
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