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I never said that God didn't institute death as the punishment of sin (which you obviously distorted my words). What God did back in the Garden of Eden was out of His love for us ... that is why He allowed death to infiltrate this world. You see it was not God's plan that man would be cut off...

I thought that the implication was clear as I wasn't one for being subtle this time... For those of you who really didn't grasp the point/direction/thrust of the question, allow me to extrapolate: Those who believe in evolution must, then, by implication believe that death existed *before*...

I would like to pose this question to theistic evolutionists in particular: Why is there suffering and death in the world and how is this consistent with a God of love? Cheers.

The 'mingled' part got me a little confused, but meh. I believe that Jesus was both truly and properly God and truly and properly man. The nature of how this is is, well, beyond me.

I agree with you. I too have trouble, well, to be blunt, I find it next to impossible to love swine that destroy other people's property for 'fun' or those that bash/murder/belittle other people, cut you off in traffic, etc. I believe that much of it is righteous anger (we get angry when one...

I feel that this thread has nothing at all to do with how to be saved or salvation in general. Let me elaborate. How do you love your neighbour and how do you love God? The Ten Commandments show us what not to do if we truly want to love God and our neighbours. For example, if you love your...

My grandparent's officer baptized me and a few others from their church in the local lake. I don't think it is that we don't have baptisms as much as we recognize that they are merely outward symbols of the internal change. My church and my grandparent's church often do communion and so on. I...

I honestly don't know. I can remember a few years ago, however, that a phone poll on Australia's [Channel] Seven's Sunrise said that about 50-60% of the viewers who responded believe that evolution is true. This is quite remarkable of course given that evolutionism is the only explanation...

I would agree that the serpent/snake is not Satan per sé, rather, an actual created creature as is clearly implied in Scripture (e.g. Gen. 3:1, 14). That said, I believe that Satan was using the snake (such as demon possession or put differently, Satan 'entered into' the serpent, sort of like...

I know how you feel. I guess the best antidote for confusion is just believing the promises that God has given you (some of which can be found here in specific categories, even when there are times when you don't feel like believing. And so I am *sure* that God who began this good work in you...

To be honest, I don't know what to think. Ironically enough, I'm more of a skeptic when it comes to such things. I was watching a show called Is There Life After Death? or something like that, but the issue was really only about NDEs. I think that it mainly has something to do with people's...

It's quite simple really; the sun is not needed for day and night. What is needed is light and a rotating Earth. On the first day, God made light. The phrase 'evening and morning' certainly implies a rotating Earth ... as the first three days are written exactly the same way as the next three...

What do you believe literalism to be?

MattTheAgnostic I don't care much for your mocking statements (though I request you stop), the point was to show that it was only by implementing the Bible's principles that John Adams brought about positive change on the island (specifically in that time). Also, you cannot be seriously...

I think that sometimes we make people out to be something that they are not. I admire his honesty to talk about his problems openly. His path isn't uncommon of many people who turn to alcohol to 'drown their sorrows' or those who turn to inappropriate content or to gambling to fill that hole in their lives [that...

Well, I thought it was a little disheartening ... breaking out of an American prison only to be locked up in a Panama prison. As long as they don't drag it out like Lost then I'll continue watching it when it starts again as I enjoy watching it. That said, I hope that season 3 is the final one...

In most Star Wars games I prefer the double-bladed lightsaber as it has 'more slaughter per swing', but in other FPS I prefer sniping because of the increased accuracy and the safety of picking off targets from a distance. That said, I don't mind assault weapons. :doh: Rocket launchers and...

Dear Muslim friends, I know that you are very adament about your holy book, the Koran, believing it to be the pure and true revelation from God, free from errors, and so on. While I disagree, it is of no importance, because I am not here to argue the issue as we'll go nowhere. Rather, I was...

I think that the question is perhaps one of the hardest to answer because we do not understand and can never even come close to comprehending the mind of an infinite God. The Bible tells us that God's ways are not our ways, that His ways are higher than ours, and that even the foolishness of God...