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I just realized I have found a way to spend all day on these forums, without doing what I should be doing, and without bothering my conscience! Call Social Security and get put on hold! What's more, this shows I am capable of multi-tasking after all! Of course, if they ever answer, I may be...

I have given descriptions of what seems reasonable to me, similar to the below, but has been consistently rejected by better and more educated minds than mine, but I still don't understand why. I'm hoping that my earlier renditions/applications just weren't clear enough. So I thought I would...

I suppose I'm just ignorant. I don't get it. What are these so-called "blessings"? What do they signify? What are they for? Why do we even have them here?

Psalm 26 8 Lord, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells. Tell me about this place. What do we know? What can we know at present about it?

This is a well-reasoned and easy to follow description of the difference between God and everything else. It is a good introduction for, among many other subjects, the philosophical question of objective morality. R.C. Sproul: Before the Beginning: The Aseity of God - Bing video Edit: post #8...

I'm posting this under Kitchen Sink, because I want those not claiming Christianity to be able to contribute. Within what I say here, I want it understood, though, that I am assuming the meaning of 'God' to be, among other things, the absolute Omnipotent, a person, (i.e. not a mere mechanical...

Many times, in many threads concerning, in particular, the question of whether God deciding all things makes him the one to blame for sin, and turns erstwhile free-willing agents into robots programmed to 'choose' what they do, and makes their choices mere illusion. In these threads, I have...

I have received this notification when I tried to answer something @wendykvw said to someone else, but can't find why: Christian Forums - Error You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action. So I'm here opening another thread: @wendykvw said, "We have a common goal. To...

I hope this link works right, and continues to. I don't know how else to do it. (10) Funny Video | Facebook It shows a guy with a real hand hidden, a fake hand shown, whose brain is being trained to see the fake hand as the real one. Hilarious.

This is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, caricaturistic, hyperbolic even. Don't get upset. Ok, try not to get upset. In order of their placement on a scale of simple-to-complicated-thinking concerning causation: —Atheists: Long, long chain "Science!" —Agnostics: Weak links "Maybe there was"...

This is brought to mind upon reading Humble_Disciple's submission: God chose YOU to bear fruit... What the Holy Spirit does in us is something we could never do: We do not know what we do when we 'give him our hearts'; we are weak, silly, ignorant of the horror that sin is, ignorant of the...

There ought to be a single word that references the fact that God drinks up our sin like water. I'm referring to the forbearance and grace of God, who apparently, though he requires obedience and holiness, is not surprised by the sin that so easily besets us, including the horror of outright...

These thoughts are offered in the hope that they may begin what logical defense of Christianity does not always do: To those who don't know HIM, you have maybe some vague concept of the agony of separation from God, and the joy of closeness to Christ. Maybe you have some experience with guilt...

What does it mean, that Jesus "was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin." Hebrews 4:15 Friedrich Rubinstein says, "It is impossible that God could have created humans with a true free will who had not given in to temptation sooner or later. No creation of God could ever have a...

Many times on this site I have seen protests to the notion that God would predetermine sin, (and related matters), as though he sat aloof, running things like a video game for his enjoyment. We think of the injustice of man against man, and when we run into verses like these, they seem a bit...

Maybe it's time to define, "Fall Away". Does it always carry the same meaning/use, in Scripture?

Why is "fallen short of the Glory of God" said in the same breath as "all have sinned"? I mean, it's rather obvious that sinning is falling short of God's command and short of the Law, and short of so many other things about God. But his glory? Why does it mention his glory? Is it as simple as...

When it says in the Bible that we were made in the image of God, what is it talking about?

I was just now reading a post, and reading the first paragraph I was thinking, "WHAT AN ABSOLUTE IDIOT!!!, then I got to the next paragraph, and realized, "No, I was just reading that paragraph out of context" On reading further, I was thinking, "Wow! This guy is GOOD! He thinks just like ME...

According to Dictionary.com Fideism: noun exclusive reliance in religious matters upon faith, with consequent rejection of appeals to science or philosophy. Wikipedia says: Fideism (/ˈfiːdeɪ.ɪzəm, ˈfaɪdiː-/) is an epistemological theory which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or...