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    What does it mean by One God?

    Being that we are created in God's image, the best analogy might be that since we are composed of mind, body and spirit, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, each represent one of those aspects. So in the same sense that we are one in 3 distinct parts, He is One.
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    Atheism and Health

    You have free will and can choose to believe what you will. Do you believe the earth is a ball? That was a choice because i suspect you have never taken a space flight around it to determine the "proof" of it. Your will to believe it is based on the "witness" of scientists and astronauts. Most...
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    Coronavirus pandemic: God’s punishment or meaningless bad luck?

    I don't know if it is a punishment for anything specific other than at the very least not following the clean and unclean laws in the OT. I realize the churches preach that we are exempt from them but considering the plagues we have experienced through the past 2000 years, I would wonder about...
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    Atheism and Health

    Depends how close minded you are and whether you are willing to seek. Out of curiosity, by who or what measure of morality are you going to compare His morality to?
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    Atheists debates - is it worth it?

    If you do a google search for "Jesus visions" there are quite a number of hits for people who have seen him since His ascension. This link lists quite a number over the past 2000 years recorded by the Catholic church alone. Appearances
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    Atheism and Health

    It is not for me to give you sufficient evidence that a god exists. All I can do is share my own testimony which you may or may not accept as enough of a substantiation to consider doing your own experiment. I do have confidence that if you did follow the methodology that I did with the same...
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    Skeptical theism and the evidential problem of evil

    or 4. Therefore, an omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent God is not the god of this world..
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    Atheism and Health

    Is it really explicable? Did you realize when you became an atheist that you were going to be taking on a worldview that would lead you to be statistically more prone to depression and other mental health issues, more prone to substance abuse and higher rates of suicide? From what I have seen...
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    Atheism and Health

    Maybe not but it does point out that both the quality and quantity of life is better for the theist which is something promised to them and is statistically verifiable.
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    If Christianity the true religion, how is it observably different from other, false, religions

    I'm saying that the Pentateuch gave the Israelites (and Christians by extension), the practical applications of both germ and dietary theories 3500 years ago. Long before the sciences behind either had any inkling of them. It is also good as a response to your own requirement in the The...
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    Should We Teach Creation As Science In Public Schools?

    In Canada we were still doing the Lord's prayer up till 1988 in public schools. A couple of provinces still retain the right but don't exercise it because of the cost of defending against human rights violations. Prayers
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    If Christianity the true religion, how is it observably different from other, false, religions

    The OP hasn't been on in 3 weeks so if you are taking over the thread for him by rebutting arguments then perhaps you could do so for post #68 . :)
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    How do you get God to ACTUALLY help?

    I know it can be hard to see during the times of trial but this poem reminds me what the reality is:
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    Should We Teach Creation As Science In Public Schools?

    From Strongs Hebrew Dictionary: tôhû From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness. bôhû From an...
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    Should We Teach Creation As Science In Public Schools?

    Verse 1 and 2 clearly indicate that the heavens and Earth preexisted Day 1 when God called for Light. There is nothing in verse 3 or subsequent ones that mention at what point the earth, water and the heavens were brought into existence. Right and using that analogy lets follow it with how the...
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    Should We Teach Creation As Science In Public Schools?

    Though I would quibble with the translations used, it could still nonetheless be pointed out that verse 1 and 2 are two differing snapshots of creation before the start of the 7 day construction event at verse 3. Verse one instead of being a summation for the rest of Genesis 1, is better...
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    suppose Darwin deeply wrong

    I get antsy when christians start calling each other liars because they have differing viewpoints or interpretations. Just doesn't strike me as being a Spirit led accusation.
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    Which came first: Adam or the Child Adam?

    Not wanting to quibble over it but the verse is pretty specific that He increased in both wisdom and stature. If I am understanding you correctly, your thoughts are that He was growing up among those who were wise? As to Adam's wisdom, I still have to wonder at his wisdom and maturity. Though...
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    suppose Darwin deeply wrong

    Well it is not a personal interpretation but one that comes out of a deeper study of the words used to describe the events of Genesis 1 and 2, as well as other verses spread through the bible that refer to them. What that previous world looked like isn't stated so perhaps it was the evolutionary...
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    suppose Darwin deeply wrong

    No reason the Creation cannot be taken literally, just not superficially. Until I was about 10 or 11 I understood Genesis 1 and 2 as a simple 7 day creation event 6000 or so years ago. Then I came home from school one day with a textbook full of stories of cool dinosaurs that supposedly lived...