Recent content by JediMobius

Food for thought. I find your argument well-reasoned, well-written, and well-supported; I won't suggest you're mistaken, only that there may be more to the story after the first resurrection and the second death.

Lately, I've had the same question: Universalism, why not? It seems to me, being the first fruits, that the elect will have a part in the spiritual parenthood of the lost children who will be saved as though through the flames. They'll have nothing to show for all the time and talents they had...

The Babylon Bee (Christian satire "news" blog) recently posted an article juxtaposing several well-known "prosperity preachers" behind a Shark Week promo mock-up. I noticed, however, a man included among them whom I had regarded as a Grace preacher, Joseph Prince. I did not know he considered...

False. Wikipedia has been demonstrated to be as reliable as encyclopaedia britannica for scientific articles. Other studies have also been done, and it seems wikipedia articles require no more skepticism than with any other source. A 2006 review[43] of Wikipedia by Library Journal, using a...

If any of us could completely control ourselves, we wouldn't really be human. Maybe you should pray that God will just use your bipolar disorder, to work through its weaknesses for his will...

That's just it. Cognitive biases affect what an individual even accepts as evidence, and what is rejected. This has less to do with the source or type of evidence, and more to do with subconsciously confirming and preserving firmly held beliefs, or, worldviews. Cognitive dissonance must be...

What hubris it takes scientists to declare non-coding DNA "junk" only because they don't know its function.

Normally, I avoid this method at all costs. But because the response lacks cohesion to the initial argument and certain points are misconstrued between points, I find it necessary to isolate these errors. So, please, try not to let the ensuing discussion become unnecessarily convoluted. As it...

Well, we can't have a conversation with someone who is asleep, or who isn't in proximity. Telephones and computers supplement the latter on earth, but we don't have spiritual devices for communication with each other. Such a device or mechanism would be necessary to communicate with those who...

Cite chapter and verse, as well as translation, and post the text here for exegesis.

This is what bias does. Focus on one piece to the exclusion of the whole. It should be clear that the assumed conclusion is not what I'm talking about in the context of my argument in its entirety. Evidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the...

I agree in principle. I'm saying that the creation of soulful man could satisfy the condition of new and individual creation, especially the individual part. Still, I haven't ruled out mankind's creation ex-nihilo, circa the dawn of civilization. As you say, God can do what he wants, his way...

Well, no, not anything. Anyway, the more common young-earth creationist view is that there were 7 God-days, which according to prophetic verses is "like a thousand years," therefor positing only a few thousand years of universal history. It is this YEC view that, by the relativity of time, is...

Well, you know, the publicized church...

Oh, AV, I've missed your particular brand of candor. :thumbsup: