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I hate to break it to you but I do not own a court house and in my country no court houses have lawns, but they do have the icon of Jesus.Did someone post the Ten Commandments on your courthouse lawn?
I would rather they be God loving instead of God fearing. After all to live a life in fear is not to live at all.Now everyone in town is a born-again, Bible believing, blood-bought, God fearing Christian?
You mean have similar design features. Genetics has not shown that humans evolved from apes. You may believe that some of their loose inferences are correct but that is all they are.
Absolutely correct. Each of us looks at the evidence and decides for ourselves which makes more sense; creation or evolution? The difference is, we have more evidence.
In addition to the easily seen structures of the world around us, there is an unseen and infinitely more significant existence that can't be constrained into a purely natural world view.
I hate to break it to you but I do not own a court house and in my country no court houses have lawns, but they do have the icon of Jesus.
I would rather they be God loving instead of God fearing. After all to live a life in fear is not to live at all.
Its all biological. Do you think genetics is not biological?What p;hysical evidence have you found that can be verified b iologically.
But we don't claim infallibility as a cloak. You guys do. You have nothing else. That is why I have told you over and over again that we don't prove anything in science.The same is true about the so called evolution that you think validates evolution. Fallible men interpreted the fossil record as reinforcing gradualism, but 2 of your popes, Gould and Mayr said that is not a valid way to use the fossil record.
Blatant falsehood. You have been shown the intermediates.Fallible men, Darwin, said the intermediate fossils would be found and all the evos said AMEN. Yete in over 100 years none have been found.
Whales didn't evolve from a dog. The intermediates you have been shown demonstrate that whales' rear legs became reduced over time, and now they are just tiny bones in modern whales. Close your eyes, though and say it isn't what it is.Fallible men found the bones of a whale and said the creature was once a dog-like land animal. They even had pictues drawn up to hsow the intgermediatge steps, but they for got one thing. The actual fossils that matched their claim.
They, made up a stgory we can call the tale of the whale.
The never eplain how a dog can geneticfally lose it legs for a million years and survive.
Whale evolution is a necessary ploy to give the faithful hope that what they have put their faith in had not been given by a false prophet.
Indeed! I honestly cannot understand them. Although most Christians worldwide do not fear God; the ones who do usually go to these commercialised mega churches where the pastor drives the fear of God into them with the threat of fire and brimstone and what not. These bible thumping preachers find it impossible to speak like normal humans; they scream and shout and throw people onto the ground.I'm with ya.
This whole "fear" thing never set right with me, when a God is described as all loving and all caring. Would a God with those features want to use intimidation as their motivation? One of the many many points of christianity that I can't reconcile.
Although most Christians worldwide do not fear God; the ones who do usually go to these commercialised mega churches where the pastor drives the fear of God into them with the threat of fire and brimstone and what not. These bible thumping preachers find it impossible to speak like normal humans; they scream and shout and throw people onto the ground.
Calling yourself a Christian is saying that God adopted you into His family.Of course it does. It's like saying I used to be Muslim, or Buddhist, or... See? Works just like that.
Calling yourself a Christian is saying that God adopted you into His family.
Saying you were a Christian at one time is saying that God adopted you into His family, but now you are no longer in His family.
Calling yourself a Christian is saying that God adopted you into His family.
Saying you were a Christian at one time is saying that God adopted you into His family, but now you are no longer in His family.
We make a distinction between reprobates (not saved) and backsliders (saved).If that is the way you want to put it, fine.
As was stated, people who had faith in many different Gods or religions and it was a legitimate faith to them, have come to realize their faith was misplaced.
There have been pastors who have preached for 30 years who have come to the same realization and to them, they also truly believed in their faith at one time.
It happens, just deal with it.
Did they? Did they, really?
A Whale of a Problem for Evolution: Ancient Whale Jawbone Found in Antartica.
None of the features in question are any evidence of an evolutionary relationship. Even evolutionists admit that most of the theoretical relationships built on the basis of anatomical similarities between animals are completely untrustworthy.
There is a big difference and if you were ever a Christisn, you still are. Yoou may be a prodigal but you are still a Christiasn. Once you are born physically, y ou cant be unborn. ONce y ou are born again, spiritually, the same is true. God gave u s that analogy for our assurnce.
Also remember what the prodigal son did. He figured out that being a hired hand for his father was better than living free without him
The father watched for his son ever day and God is doing the same for you.
Some Christians do say, "I think I am a Christian." Especially, new converts who have been taught that our conduct determines if we really are a Christian.
Perhaps you could climb down off your condescending high horse and look up the word "propaganda." Do you know what it is? Do you know what it means? Aside from the negative connotations, propaganda as it relates to journalism is quite simply the one sided presentation of information. Everything you post is propaganda because you only post one side of the argument. I simply post the other side. Your sources aren't unbiased because they hold the view that the earth is millions of years old and that evolution is factual. My sources aren't unbiased because they hold the view that the earth is only thousands of years old; that it was created by God; and that evolution is false. To think that either side would post interpretations of evidence from the opposing perspective is quite simply idiotic. Have we required that you cite creation science publications? No.Perhaps you could cite real scientific articles instead of creationist propoganda? Have you heard of peer review? Do you know what a peer review journal is?
Perhaps you could climb down off your condescending high horse and look up the word "propaganda."
Do you know what it is? Do you know what it means? Aside from the negative connotations, propaganda as it relates to journalism is quite simply the one sided presentation of information. Everything you post is propaganda because you only post one side of the argument. I simply post the other side. Your sources aren't unbiased because they hold the view that the earth is millions of years old and that evolution is factual. My sources aren't unbiased because they hold the view that the earth is only thousands of years old; that it was created by God; and that evolution is false. To think that either side would post interpretations of evidence from the opposing perspective is quite simply idiotic. Have we required that you cite creation science publications? No.
If you think "real science" only consists of scientists who say what you believe to be true then you have absolutely no clue what science is. For example, you post information showing webbing on a foot despite the fact that THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE to support the notion that the foot was webbed. Soft tissue doesn't survive fossilization. If you say that science proves the foot was webbed, then you are promoting a lie and your source is discredited. The fact is when scientists state things that are problematic for evolution your sources do not reproduce them. The statements are frequently picked up by publications with an opposing view.
When both points of view, properly sourced, are presented in a forum, people reading the forum have both sides of the story. By insisting that only your interpretation of evidence may be posted, you are completely removing your relevance in the forum. People don't need you're input to read Talkorigins.org.
No, but you'd know there was a God; whether you thought He was just or not.I find it incredibly patronising when Christians assume that I must not have been a "real Christian" at any point in time because, if I was, I would still be a Christian today.
I ... I ... I ... I ... I = five I's.I prayed, I read the Bible, I was involved with the Church, I held leadership positions, I even gave serious consideration to the idea of becoming a priest or pastor.
I find it incredibly patronising when Christians assume that I must not have been a "real Christian" at any point in time because, if I was, I would still be a Christian today. I prayed, I read the Bible, I was involved with the Church, I held leadership positions, I even gave serious consideration to the idea of becoming a priest or pastor. And yet I somehow wasn't Christian enough?
My personal speculation is that Christians only say this to reassure themselves that they are Christian enough to never lose their faith.
I ... I ... I ... I ... I = five I's.
Sound familiar?
Is Jesus in there anywhere?
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