But sex isn't just for procreation - it's for pleasure, too. Besides, not all people want to get married. Some people are happy to simply live together, and others don't even want to settle down.
Sex is indeed pleasurable, and it is a pleasure reserved for marriage. It has been taken out of its proper place, and has been abused because of the pleasure it brings. Either way it goes, many a problem would not be in existence if sex were left between a Husband and his Wife.
But wouldn't it be kinder and more charitable to share what you earned with those who can't go out and earn?
Those who can't or those who won't? I have no problem with supporting people who aren't able to support themselves, so long as I'm able to support my family as well.
Ohh, I've heard of him, yes. He's an illusionist, though, like David Blane or Derren Brown. He even says himself that he doesn't believe anyone has supernatural powers: "no one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead."
Again, people say "illusionist" and that makes it all better. I don't go there. You can't explain away walking on water as simply an illusion. But of course I don't foresee the man just coming forward like "Oh yeah, I'm in league with the devil".
But editing it would benefit people; it would benefit those who were pushing the idea of religion, and trying to convince people it was true. That statement isn't meant to be offensive, by the way. I can't really word it in another way, that's all.
The flaw in that logic however is that there are many other prophecies in Isaiah which came to pass.
War is unnecessary, though. It's just a 'legal' way of saying "We're going to invade your country, and if you stand in the way then we're going to kill you." That's not right, is it? Why would God be an advocate for that?
War is completely unnecessary. I agree with you on this 100% And God, for a time, chose Israel to not only be a light to the world, but also a sword against His enemies. How God opts to execute Judgment is His prerogative.
Adultery doesn't make someone a criminal, though; it just makes them unfaithful. What about working on a Sunday? That just doesn't make sense! If we stuck by that, then half of the world would be wiped out!
Like I said, sin is like a cancer. Adultery does make you a criminal, for the law commands you to not be one. Thus if you violate the law, you are a criminal. And a whole hosts of issues can be introduced through unfaithfulness. Our world is in part, the way it is, because we advocate unfaithfulness on one hand, and honor in the other. And working on Sunday is just fine. "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work...". Sunday is day 1 of 7. A regular working day. And the reason why the world still continues on is because God is still working to save people. The thing is that people try to make it so cut in dry when it comes to God's dealing with Israel in the desert. "You sinned, you died". But that's not the way it was at all. God is merciful and loving and desires the sinner to repent so that they won't be lost.
Microevolution: "Microevolution is simply a change in gene frequency within a population. Evolution at this scale can be observed over short periods of time for example, between one generation and the next, the frequency of a gene for pesticide resistance in a population of crop pests increases. Such a change might come about because natural selection favored the gene, because the population received new immigrants carrying the gene, because some nonresistant genes mutated to the resistant version, or because of random genetic drift from one generation to the next."
Now, this is evolution that CAN be observed. If this is possible, then you can see how evolution itself can't be a lie?
I do believe that people can adapt to their environments, and changes can take place from generation to generation. I don't believe that has anything to do with "evolution". The quote you used spoke of "natural selection", which I believe is their substitute for "God". In other words, God designed our DNA, so anything that happens in regards to that, is by design.
But why don't you want to find out? You live on this planet, so surely discovering these things are important to you?
I've discovered the one true thing that matters. God
He is the Creator of all there is and has promised me an eternity with Him so long as I'm faithful till the end. Men lie. They deceive to forward their own agendas. God however is not man that He should lie. I'm quite comfortable with waiting to hear from the Master Teacher personally.
Alright - but if God created light on the first day, then how could the sun and moon have been invented on the fourth day?
The same way there was a "mass of something" here before creation. Genesis says "the earth was void and without form, and the Spirit of the Lord moved upon the face of the waters". There's a pattern here actually if you look close. Something is there, and the God gives it form. The sun has a distinct form which it received on the 4th day. It's substance was what was created on day one.