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    I apologize to you all

    Seeker, I am suggesting that there is one particular preacher whose sermons are extremely worth listening to. Especially if you listen to his preaching on Romans, you might find he relates to your struggles. I find his sermons very compelling and promise-laden. His name is Bobby Hargraves and...
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    Salvation in a moment versus taking up one's cross

    Because I have religious OCD, I am tending to wonder whether or not I am a Christian. Therefore, this is being posted in “Struggles by Non-Christians.” A person with religious OCD has the OCD doubt machine attack their belief in their own salvation frequently. In my today’s Bible reading, I read...
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    Should the persecuted Christians in Nigeria be armed?

    The American Center for Law and Justice has been calling for armed intervention in some places where Christians are persecuted, such as Nigeria and Afghanistan. I have been hoping for the election of a politically conservative President who would do just that. A politically liberal President...
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    Should the persecuted Christians in Nigeria be armed?

    Christians in Nigeria are being killed by the thousands by illegal militant Islamist groups. It might be especially questionable for Christians to take up arms against a persecuting government; I don't know. But the Christians in Nigeria are being assaulted by criminals, not by the government...
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    Nuclear War, Israel and God

    In 1945, the first atom (fission) bomb was detonated. In 1952, the first hydrogen (fusion) bomb was detonated. But in between these two dates, the nation of Israel reappeared on the map in 1948, setting the stage for the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. This was the God of Israel saying to the...
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    Salvation, God's Will and My Will

    Thanks for asking. As time goes along, I spend more and more time thinking I am a Christian. Because of my OCD and wavering faith, I have had a severe doubt problem. In my weekly Bible study online that I attend, one man often prays something like this: "Lord Jesus, I believe you died on the...
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    Report on MSN about Christian persecution in U.S. and around the world

    Are American Christians on the path to severe persecution for their faith?
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    I am not saved, what should I do?

    Idonjohn's website that he mentions is excellent. I have been to it a number of times and have tried to follow it's advice. I have also found a tract based on writings by Josh McDowell to be helpful. The tract is called "In search of truth" and can be ordered from www.crossway.org. This tract...
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    Salvation, God's Will and My Will

    "There are already several Christian science organisation, biologos, answrsingenesis and creation.com, where would your magerzine fit inbetween these groups?" I realize that there might be no need for such a journal. It's just that in the mainstream science publications world, there are many...
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    Salvation, God's Will and My Will

    I post this in "Struggles by Non-Christians" because it refers to my decades long struggle to know whether or not I am a Christian. I was still in doubt as of last Tuesday, so please don't say this is irrelevant to "Struggles by Non-Christians." Through the months of July and August, I was much...
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    Has the Big Bang Theory Been Debunked?

    The following appeared on MSN just this morning: The Big Bang Theory Has Been Debunked? To note, I already just posted something related recently ("How Christians Should Respond to New Space Images"). I got into a somewhat prolonged argument with one Christian who believes in the Big Bang. I...
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    My response to DialecticSkeptic: You are guilty of the very thing I had pointed out in my last response, namely, you are equating a human interpretation (old-earth Big Bang/evolutionism) with divine revelation, as if they were the same thing. But they are not. There is a fundamental...
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    PS - It is not the job of most scientists to support standard theories of origins. Only a few, relatively speaking, build their careers on this. The rest of the mainstream science community members believe the official view because that is what they are taught. In their education and community...
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    You said: In light of this, as well as our current discussion, I have two questions: 1. What were you reading? 2. If the Bible is the word of God, why must standard cosmology be wrong? To elaborate on the second question, what is it about standard Big Bang cosmology that conflicts with the...
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    You say that God's word and the revelation of nature are a unified whole and do not disagree with each other. I agree. But you assume that assertions of the mainstream scientific community are at least as infallible as scripture. I disagree. Man's intellect is limited, fallen and prone to...
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    From the geneologies, one can figure the 6,000 years. The Jeremiah passage is a reference to God's dealings with Israel. Here is a link to a commentary: Does Jeremiah 4:23-28 imply that Adam and Eve were not the first couple? While talking about aliens is a whole other subject, let me just say...
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    You and I are going to have to agree to disagree.
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    I watched the video. Next you are going to tell me that Jesus was an old-earth evolutionist. (And, no doubt, a Mason, as well!) Ellen G. White was not the first to say the world was created in six days. Moses said it when he wrote the book of Genesis.
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    Young Earth creationism is as old as the Bible. What's new is Darwinism; The Origin of the Species was published in 1859.
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    How Christians should respond to new space images

    Just this morning, on MSN, I saw an article that was about how Christians should feel about new images of space, such as those from the James Webb telescope. The article includes an interview with a woman scientist who apparently is also a Christian. She seems to believe in the Big Bang and old...