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Got anything to back any of this up except your SO assumptions?
 
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Okay, dad. Let's suppose for a moment that the Universe at some time in the past was not as it is right now. Why should I believe that this different past-Universe was as YOU say it is? Why should I not believe that the past-Universe was made of custard? You have no way to prove otherwise, yes?

And you still haven't disproved the Rhinobee.
 
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Okay, dad. Let's suppose for a moment that the Universe at some time in the past was not as it is right now. Why should I believe that this different past-Universe was as YOU say it is?
You can believe what you like, just don't pretend it is more than that! I'll take the bible, and it's detailed, unassailable accounts breathed down to men by the Almighty.
 
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Spirits are on earth, and in people and all around. We have guardian angels, and there are demons, and all kinds of spirits. Just because they are seperate at the moment from us, does not mean they do not come here!!! You bet they do, miracles happen all the time! God is alive and well, and working here. His agents and messengers abound. The PO is overridden at His leisure, as needed locally. He answers prayer, and changes things. The normal physical course of events, like sickness, and even death can be overruled.

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Got anything to back any of this up ...?
If you do not belive in God, and miracles, and angels, and demons, and a spiritual, then nothing will back it up for you, even if one rose from the dead, and returned to you. Your mind is made up, no need to confuse you with the facts. You will just have to consider most men who believe such things, they think, for good reasons as sadly mistaken. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, all you can do is speculate the PO past and come up with conclusions that are mischievous monkey level madness, while trying to cast stones at the sound of reason!
 
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Being a church member, as I see it, is nothing more than having a bank checking account, or being a Cosco member, sorry. I have talked to some leaders of denominations who did not believe the bible at all. They could not accept even that Jesus was a man, a male! Some are better than that, no doubt, but really, anyone can sit in a pew. Hitler, Bush, Netanyahu, Saddam, Iran's leader, etc etc. Kind of like peace talks, sound noble and all that, but often, it is just a cover, and war is in their hearts. If you believe in Jesus, great, I care not what church or club you belong to. Jesus was not in with the church crowd of His day.

Is that simple enough for you, or are you still uncertain, because I really can’t see how much more plainly any one could make it.
Is that simple enough for you, or are you still uncertain, because I really can’t see how much more plainly any one could make it.


Not true. Orgins is a small part of my belief in His word. Millions and millions agree the bible is true, and God made the world when He said, and how He said! Deducing exactly how, using the bible, and evidence is just an attempt at determining how He did it. The main thing is believing He did, one way or the other. Jesus agreed there was a real flood, and spoke of it. The new testament also refers to the garden. Rather than throw out the bible as fables as many churches have done, I try to see where men's knowledge was lacking.

Those are assertions not evidence.
No, absolute bible facts. Start with New Jerusalem, it comes from the sky, in a new heavens, do you believe that?

How on earth is it possible for you to be so in the dark about what Christians believe? Of course I believe Jesus body was both spiritual and physical, but then we believe all bodies are both,
No, we don't, really if you think about it, in the same sense, at all! We have a soul, or spirit, yes, of course, but it is seperate from our physical body, and just resides there while we are here. Jesus had His ressurected, immortal body, and it was not like yours or mine. It appeared and disappeared, flew up into the sky, rose from the dead, assumed disguises, and many things, so we know it was spiritual. Yet it also ate food, and was physical as well, both. Surely you see the difference.

however, you are trying to claim that some how that means physical laws may not apply in the physical world, the world you yourself call “Physical Only”.
Those with ressurected bodies are not physical only, neither those in New Jerusalem, or the new heavens coming, that are eternal. When the rapture occurs, we will have eternal ressurected bodies, don't you believe this?



Actually there is a lot of evidence for a PO past,
No, none at all. Present decay is not evidence of the same process in the past, that is only assumed. The fossils are not evidence we came from a bacteria like lifeform, just that some adapting occured, etc etc. You need to learn the difference between evidence of something and assumptions about the evidence.

what you can claim is that no evidence has been provided that can falsify a merged past, not quite the same.
I can do that too, but more importantly, you can not prove a physical only past, as is assumed. This is important, because others who are not christian, or even believers in anything spiritual, are left to be unable to evidence this is all there ever was or will be.


So you now think that heaven is coming here and is going to change? Rather than heaven being elsewhere and being eternal?
This universe, or heavens we see all around us will pass away, it says quite clearly. The city of God will come down to earth, from God, very clearly. It will be after the new heavens are revealed, very clear. It will be different than the present heavens and earth, absolutely, and very certainly and clearly. It is not here now, so, we can think of it temporarily as being, as you say 'elsewhere'.


I would have thought that my answer was patently obvious even to you Dad. Of course I believe in heaven, Christians do you know.
Not some I have met, at least not New Jerusalem, and mansions, and pearl gates, and gold streets, and precious stone walls, etc. Others, like JWs I met, seem to think it is full as well!! There are all kind of ideas out there from christians. Not in the bible really, if we look closely, however, it is a much narrower range of options there.

Good, so then, do you believe in New Jerusalem, and the place Jesus said He went to prepare for us? If so, you must admit it is not just a ghost town, but has real mansions, trees, people, and river, and materials, and light, etc.

You implied it, and its no secret, I just honestly didn’t think you could genuinely be asking.
I meant believer, really, in the bible, not whether you were a believer in Jesus, and saved. That's easy, many are save who really don't know hardly a thing about the bible. Knowledge is not some criteria for salvation that I am aware of. Many mentally challenged people are saved. But I do ask people who seem to think the future is physical only, because I want to point out that it cannot be if God, and angels, and us live there, and everything is different almost. I could see where christians would not belive it could be that way in our past. But not the future.

I don't really know, and am not some expert there. It is my understanding that some seizures are spirit related. I also believe that people can be inspired, or possessed by good or bad spirits. Do you? Or do you think it is all in their head? I can discern when, usually some are bothered, or even overun by bad spirits, and I know that the medical profession in general attributes these things to physical and mental things only, which is false. Just as they try to explain away similar things in Jesus' day!


So your term “Physical Only“should be amended then.
Yes, if that's what you thought it was supposed to mean, that angels and spirits were not all around us. I was trying to point out the differences in the past, where God walked and talked with us, and sons of god married women, etc. to show it is seperate now. They can come here, but we can't see them, or go there at the moment, unless God let's us for some reason.
 
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dad said:
Being a church member, as I see it, is nothing more than having a bank checking account, or being a Cosco member, sorry.

Fair enough.

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Not true. Orgins is a small part of my belief in His word. Millions and millions agree the bible is true,

No one is disputing that, what I am disputing is that very few people share your interpretation of it, not that they don’t accept the bible itself.

Not that its relevant of course, since popularity has no bearing on truth. You could be the only person ever to believe a certain way and still be right.


I am fully aware of the difference thank you very much, I’ve been asking you to do me the courtesy of presenting some of yours, would there be any possibility you could perhaps do so? I don’t mean just repeating your “reality was different before” shtick, I mean some actual evidence that supports it.

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I can do that too, but more importantly, you can not prove a physical only past, as is assumed.

Nor can you falsify a PO past, or it would seem, provide any evidence of an alternative.

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Not some I have met, at least not New Jerusalem, and mansions, and pearl gates, and gold streets, and precious stone walls, etc

Yes well there is a big difference between not believing in heaven and not believing that it has pearl gates, gold streets and stone walls. I don’t think many people believe that.

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Others, like JWs I met, seem to think it is full as well!!

Ah well I had forgotten about the JW, they tend to steer clear of my area, its more the Latter-day saints that do the door to door evangelising here, and they have a much more firm foothold than the JW.

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There are all kind of ideas out there from christians.

Sure, i agree, but I don’t think there are any that deny the existence of some form of heaven are there?

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Good, so then, do you believe in New Jerusalem, and the place Jesus said He went to prepare for us? If so, you must admit it is not just a ghost town, but has real mansions, trees, people, and river, and materials, and light, etc.

Do I believe that heaven is literally, physically similar to Earth only without death and suffering? No. Do I believe it is allegorically described in terms people will recognise? Yes. Probably not the answer you wanted to hear.
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I meant believer, really, in the bible, not whether you were a believer in Jesus, and saved.

That depends what you mean by “believe in”. In my experience when literalist say “believe in” they mean “as a literal description with no allegory”. In which case no, I don’t believe the bible is literal in its entirety.

Actually whilst we are asking questions, as you do seem to think the bible is literal what are your views on the Apocrypha? Do you also believe that is literal? Do you think as it is scriptural it should never have been split off from the Cannon? Or do you believe that the council were doing a spot of editing under the direct guidance of God and were banishing from the cannon things that should not have been in it? Or do you have another hypothesis?

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I don't really know, and am not some expert there.

Okay fair enough.

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It is my understanding that some seizures are spirit related.

I’ve heard people say so, but I’ve never seen one that didn’t correspond to much more mundane cases.

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I also believe that people can be inspired, or possessed by good or bad spirits. Do you?

Well I like to try and keep an open mind, but I must admit I find it very hard to. I’ve seen seances and spiritualists and what not and they invariably prove to be fakes. I’ve seen seizures but they always prove to have a physical explanation. I’ve heard of cases that are supposed to be possession and inexplicable by any other means, but I’ve never seen one first hand and I’ve also heard people who think God was a space man who came here on a UFO and that Pyramids are landing sites.

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Or do you think it is all in their head?

Well I’ve certainly seen the odd case of schizophrenia that mimics the descriptions of posession and spiritual attack.

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I can discern when, usually some are bothered, or even overun by bad spirits, and I know that the medical profession in general attributes these things to physical and mental things only, which is false.

Well there we have to agree to differ, because I’ve never seen an incident of this kind that I didn’t find the evidence of physical or psychological causes to be compelling.


Then I don’t see why you would call it “physical only” if you don’t actually mean “physical only”. To me, I believe the physical world is governed by the laws of physics because that's what God created the laws of physics for. I also believe there is a spiritual world, but I believe it does not come into the physical world o warp the laws of nature, or at least not with any degree of frequency.
 
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Exactly. As far as I'm concerned, your ramblings through this entire thread are at precisely the same level as the belief that the Universe came from custard.
If you had some evidence of how it seems to you, it would have some weight. As it is, your beliefs seem very strange to me as well. What is important to many people on a christian thread, is what the bible says, and what the actual evidence says, not just the unsubstansiated opinion of a poster that seemingly thinks the spiritual is all in the head!
 
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