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How can some you guys post here for years without losing some of it? For example, I am amazed that some posters are still posting so prolifically after years and their posts are pretty much the same as years ago. Still threatening people with Hell, heckling anyone who earnestly tries to know what they are talking about.

Their heads must be host to a particularly virulent meme,that keeps trying to replicate.
 

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How can some you guys post here for years without losing some of it? For example, I am amazed that some posters are still posting so prolifically after years and their posts are pretty much the same as years ago. Still threatening people with Hell, heckling anyone who earnestly tries to know what they are talking about.

Their heads must be host to a particularly virulent meme,that keeps trying to replicate.

Are you kidding?

A thousand years ago, people 'settled' their arguments about religion with swords, fire, and nooses.

Frankly, I think things have gotten much better!
 
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How can some you guys post here for years without losing some of it?
We call it: keeping the faith.

2 Timothy 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; ( for he is faithful that promised: )

Revelation 2:25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

For example, I am amazed that some posters are still posting so prolifically after years and their posts are pretty much the same as years ago.
To me, that's a compliment. I don't want to think that I have compromised anything.

Proverbs 27:17a Iron sharpeneth iron;
 
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Are you kidding?

A thousand years ago, people 'settled' their arguments about religion with swords, fire, and nooses.

Frankly, I think things have gotten much better!
Good point!
 
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We call it: keeping the faith.

2 Timothy 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; ( for he is faithful that promised: )

Revelation 2:25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.


To me, that's a compliment. I don't want to think that I have compromised anything.

Proverbs 27:17a Iron sharpeneth iron;

It is not so much you being a Christian, I am talking about. It is your steadfast denial of any evidence that supports modern biology geology, and physics (to name a few)that is troubling. I have seen the most well intentioned people attempt to reason with you to be hand-waved away without consideration.
 
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Are you kidding?

A thousand years ago, people 'settled' their arguments about religion with swords, fire, and nooses.

Frankly, I think things have gotten much better!
This manner of settling religious disputes is still widespread in developing countries.
 
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It is not so much you being a Christian, I am talking about. It is your steadfast denial of any evidence that supports modern biology geology, and physics (to name a few)that is troubling. I have seen the most well intentioned people attempt to reason with you to be hand-waved away without consideration.
Then I'm sure you've seen why I handwave some people away 'without consideration'.

They're usually trying to provoke me to wrath, or just using me as a steppingstone to vent their anger out on God, or some other self-fulfilling reason.

If I don't 'handwave them away', as you put it, I put myself in jeopardy of being moderated.
 
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Then I'm sure you've seen why I handwave some people away 'without consideration'.

They're usually trying to provoke me to wrath, or just using me as a steppingstone to vent their anger out on God, or some other self-fulfilling reason.

If I don't 'handwave them away', as you put it, I put myself in jeopardy of being moderated.
Note I did say reason with you. I wasn't speaking of anyone, who is rude to you.
 
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Note I did say reason with you. I wasn't speaking of anyone, who is rude to you.
Then you've just narrowed the field down to just a handful of people.

I'm basically a friendly guy, but I do have my moments.
 
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Then you've just narrowed the field down to just a handful of people.

I'm basically a friendly guy, but I do have my moments.
All right then. Let's have a reasonable discussion, without rudeness or flaming. Perhaps, you can restore a bit of my faith in humanity.
 
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All right then. Let's have a reasonable discussion, without rudeness or flaming. Perhaps, you can restore a bit of my faith in humanity.
Fair enough:

I'm trained not to rely on evidence, when it comes to the things of God.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Let me paraphrase that for you:

Paraphrased 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through evolution and vain deceit, after the tradition of men like Darwin, after the evidence of the world, and not after Christ.
 
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Fair enough:

I'm trained not to rely on evidence, when it comes to the things of God.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Let me paraphrase that for you:

Paraphrased 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through evolution and vain deceit, after the tradition of men like Darwin, after the evidence of the world, and not after Christ.

There is no tradition of Darwin. Science follows evidence, and thus will change to accommodate new evidence. Darwin would be thrown in the dustbin of history were there a more valid theory than evolution.
 
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There is no tradition of Darwin.
God says otherwise.

Had Christians heeded that verse, Darwin wouldn't have been given the time of day when he wrote, The Preservation of Favoured Races.
 
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God says otherwise.

Had Christians heeded that verse, Darwin wouldn't have been given the time of day when he wrote, The Preservation of Favoured Races.

Darwin is mentioned nowhere in you preferred KJV version of the Bible. So now you speak for God?
 
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Darwin is mentioned nowhere in you preferred KJV version of the Bible. So now you speak for God?
Yet again -- with emphasis:

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
 
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Yet again -- with emphasis:

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

So who determined that the Theory of Evolution is either philosophy or vain deceit? You?
 
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