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The Apostle Peter told us, speaking of Jesus Christ:
Act 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
All others will be Judged by God Himself.
Why do you think that what you were raised to believe is likely to be true?I was raised that the Bible is accurate and true, the problem is that people have different interpretations so we need to determine who's understanding is accurate and true.
If that is the mind of Christ, I'm not sure I want to join! It seems like you're in a cult of irrationality.We have the mind of Christ and the Divine thoughts of God. This is what it means to be born again and to become a new Creation in Christ.
If science couldn't answer the questions, maybe nothing can answer them! Just because the Bible claims to have answers that nobody else does, doesn't mean that the Bible actually knows more than everybody else.I became a Christian because I was looking for something that worked and science had nothing to offer. I could ONLY find the answers and solutions I was looking for in the Bible. I looked everywhere else first.
You need to get your eyes off of man and onto God. We are taught by the Holy Spirit of God, He guides us and leads us into the truth. We do not follow man and his thoughts and opinions, we seek to follow God and His ways.If that is the mind of Christ, I'm not sure I want to join! It seems like you're in a cult of irrationality.
Of course the Bible knows more because the Bible was inspired by God. You should take a basic 101 Bible course to learn a little bit about the Bible. I see people on here with Phd's in science but their a third grader understands the Bible better then them. People should at least have a fifth grader understanding of the Bible before they attempt to argue with people that have a graduate school level of understanding. If I had a third grade level of understanding of science it would be absurd for me to try to argue with someone that has a Phd level of understanding.If science couldn't answer the questions, maybe nothing can answer them! Just because the Bible claims to have answers that nobody else does, doesn't mean that the Bible actually knows more than everybody else.
My father was a medical doctor for over 50 years. He worked 12 hour days six days a week all of his life. I maybe the first to say that the medical profession does not know what they are doing and they do not know what they are talking about, but that would be against the rules of this forum. MD's go beyond PHd's because they have an internship and residency. That gives them a substantial amount of on the job training. I was being taught how to read xrays, set broken bones and stitch people up when I was as young as three years of age. My mom was a bacteriologist so I learned about that also. She believed if you want to find a good husband then you have to take the right classes at the university. It worked because she had two doctors propose marriage and she picked the one she thought was the most handsome. You may think the family of a doctor does nothing, but it's the family that has to deal with all the pressures, stress and issues of the job. Both my brothers are doctors so we all have very interesting conversations when we get together.Why do you think that what you were raised to believe is likely to be true?
I maybe the first to say that all the great con artists have learned how to stitch people up, but that might be against forum rules.I maybe the first to say that the medical profession does not know what they are doing and they do not now what they are talking about, but that would be against the rules of this forum. MD's go beyond PHd's because they have an internship and residency. That gives them a substantial amount of on the job training. I was being taught how to read xrays, set broken bones and stitch people up when I was as young as three years of age.
And we know that the Bible is true because...
The Scoffers/Evols of the last days are following the flawed godless ToE as ll Peter 3:3-6 told us more than 2k years ago:
2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
See why I identify the Scoffers as Evolutionists? They preach that all things continue as they were from the beginning, to innocent little children as FACT. What they don't know is that God has prepared a more terrible punishment for those who offend little children who believe in Jesus. Mat 18:6 Mar 9:42 Luk 17:2
2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world (Greek-Kosmos) that THEN WAS, being overflowed with water, perished: (Greek-destroyed totally completely)
These Scoffers forgot about the flood that totally and completely DESTROYED Adam's small Earth. This means that their false theory is incomplete, untrue and cannot tell Humans of our true origins, since it is willingly ignorant that Humans began on the world that THEN WAS.
2Pe 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, WHICH ARE NOW, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Anyone with a 4th grade education knows that the world that THEN WAS is NOT the same as the heavens and the earth WHICH ARE NOW. Do you?
And we know that the Bible is true because...
How does one determine which understanding is accurate and true?
2Peter1 "20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from the prophet’s own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever brought about through human initiative, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."Is that Peter talking, or God?
Problem is that a lot of people do not even have a third grade education when it comes to the Bible. Perhaps the world would be better if everyone was required to at least have a fifth grade understanding of the Word of God.his may be true, however, if you make it to 5th grade you are introduced to the facts.
Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.Problem is that a lot of people do not even have a third grade education when it comes to the Bible. Perhaps the world would be better if everyone was required to at least have a fifth grade understanding of the Word of God.
The trouble is that is such a huge volume of material. Unless you are proposing a biased, prejudiced, narrow-minded restriction to only the Christian expressions of the Word of God. I don't believe that would be justifiable on ethical grounds.Problem is that a lot of people do not even have a third grade education when it comes to the Bible. Perhaps the world would be better if everyone was required to at least have a fifth grade understanding of the Word of God.
This may be true, however, if you make it to 5th grade you are introduced to the facts.
Even if the claim that the bible was inspired by a deity was demonstrably true, that wouldn't mean that the bible was an accurate source of information on the real world. Many works of fiction are inspired by real things. Consider the Stephen King novel Misery. It's inspired by the time the guy was run over by a car, with the main character being also partly based on himself. Yet, the story does not depict a real sequence of events and the characters are not real people.Of course the Bible knows more because the Bible was inspired by God.
-_- learning about the bible is why I don't believe it is an accurate depiction of reality. It's extremely patronizing to act as if the only reason a person couldn't possibly believe the same things you do is because they are more ignorant about a subject than you are.You should take a basic 101 Bible course to learn a little bit about the Bible.
-_- doubtful, given that all of the most popular versions of the bible are of reading levels that at or beyond that of a person 14 years old. The NIV even can't usually be comfortably read by someone younger than 12, and the KJV, which many people on here promote as "the true bible version" generally won't be comfortably read by someone younger than 17. Although, individual books of the bible do vary a little in terms of reading level.I see people on here with Phd's in science but their a third grader understands the Bible better then them.
-_- you should actually demonstrate that you have the latter, and the former is not asking for enough.People should at least have a fifth grader understanding of the Bible before they attempt to argue with people that have a graduate school level of understanding.
I agree with you on that.If I had a third grade level of understanding of science it would be absurd for me to try to argue with someone that has a Phd level of understanding.
One cannot assume facts, one can substantiate them and demonstrate their interrelationships.Correction: Assumed Facts, since the ToE is not fact but the incomplete assumptions of godless men, whose truth is only a part truth, a half truth, believed only by Evol Religionists. Amen?
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