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  1. Didaskomenos

    Glad to see people still here!

    Hi all! I joined the forums in 2002. I was active on them for the next 4 years or so, but eventually "fell away" so to speak (but I did always appreciate the happy birthday emails from Erwin!). This place, especially the crevo and bibliology forums, significantly contributed to my theological...
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    Minister, Doctor, Lawyer Joke

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    The Big Bang and Relativity

    I have a friend who pointed me to this article http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/arti...1309990017&cid It's the study that said that the universe inflated in less than a trillionth of a second. My friend then demands to know how all that mass could have travelled faster than light. My...
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    The Big Bang and Relativity

    I meant to post this in the Creation & Evolution forum. Please consult the thread by this name in that forum.
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    For those interested in the inerrancy debate...

    I posted this a few days ago but still have not received any relevant feedback. Since this topic is generally hot among those involved with the origins debate, I thought I'd link to it here for your perusal. http://www.christianforums.com/t2457600
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    An inerrant Bible vis-à-vis the Immaculate Conception

    I was talking to a hyper-fundamentalist friend of mine earlier today. He brought up the fact that Catholics view Mary as sinless. He was much indignant about this, so I offered to him the reasoning behind it. The reason Catholics believe Jesus must be sinless is that she was ordained to bear...
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    Is God a liar?

    Note: this is a spin-off of a thought I put into another thread that is deserving of its own thread because of its centrality to the debate. God commissioned every one of us to tell others about the Gospel and spread the Kingdom of God. Hopefully no arguments there. But read closely: is God...
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    He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (a parable)

    Here's a story. A man who was to go away for a long time on business left his business in the charge of a younger man who understood the way he thought and his way of doing business. The young man was left as supervisor in charge of training new employees that the owner would be hiring from...
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    Calling all TE's: Symposium on TE Strategy

    I have really enjoyed learning from you all. This has been a great experience, with me starting off a few years ago a timid post-Creationist to someone who really knows what I believe and why. I credit you all with contributing to my understanding. Every post brings home something new or in a...
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    Time for a Lewis update!

    I periodically present quotes from the theologian C.S. Lewis, partly because he is championed by evangelicals and partly because he said things much better and thought things through so much better than I. Here, for your reading pleasure, is a passage from Reflections on the Psalms.
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    Especially for the more conservative TE's

    There's an interesting thread going on in the CO forum. It's about Scriptural difficulties with death before the Fall. http://www.christianforums.com/t877639 I'd like to hear what more conservative TE's think about that, since the more liberal ones dismiss those Scriptures as simply errors or...
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    "Simply" myth

    PotLuck, you posted a statement in passing about why you dismiss the possibility of Genesis containing mythology. You said that you refuse to regard Genesis "simply as a myth". Problem is, no one ever said that it was "simply" a myth, especially if you're using "myth" as slang for "popularly...
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    A gap in the theory?

    Genez on another thread was giving Mat 19:4 as proof that Jesus was not an evolutionist, but a gap theorist. The NIV says, "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be...
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    Source-criticism analysis of LOTR

    This from Mark Shea's website. Regardless of what you think of source criticism (I think Mark's poking a little fun), it's excellently done and a good read! http://www.mark-shea.com/LOTR.html :D
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    C.S. Lewis on inspiration

    Beg your pardon if this is a common subject (I'm fairly new to this forum), but... C.S. Lewis, the great people's theologian and apologist of the 20th century, champion of thinking evangelicals, held some pretty non-fundamentalist views on Scripture. Thus, a great number of Christians who...
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    Wheaton's John Walton on Genesis 1

    Although this flash reproduction of a conference talk at Wheaton College might take a little while to load and then to watch/hear, it's worth the time, because it is truly one of the most remarkable insights/interpretations I've seen lately. It is a literary observation, and lends itself to no...
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    Theological/Political coincidence?

    From what I can tell, the theological liberals tend to be political leftists, and the opposite for conservatives. Is this the case for you? Why do you think that is? I personally am rather liberal in theology, and libertarian in political persuasion. I abhor the leftist mindset, and although I...
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    "Bush's Illegal War" Questionnaire

    I got this from boortz.com. I can't wait for all the answers from the "anti-war activist" types. Then again, I probably shouldn't even bother. 'Bush's Illegal War' Questionnaire Please answer as many of the following questions as you can, and as many with a straight face as...
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    Christianity and evolution - great link!

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/religion/faith/index.html A Catholic, an Anglican, a leading scholarly evangelical, and a Jew weigh in on the faith vs. evolution debate. Check it out.