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I think that analogy is unfair. Religion is not meant for people to pick and choose what they think is right, then ignore the rest. I know it happens (as it happens with scientific theories), but I...
What sort of experiments and observations suggest that there is no God? I can understand how someone could say there is no evidence that must necessarily be attributed to the existence of God, but I...
Here's something from Revelation that talks about God being a big, angry looking, white, hairy guy.
"And standing in the middle of the lampstands was someone like the Son of Man. He was wearing a...
No. It has never been proven that there are absolutely no psychics or telepaths in the world.
If you know everything about what you're looking for, why research it? I'm saying that a person knows a little bit about something, so he creates something that he thinks can observe properly so that...
What's to say that some of the current methods of observation are not just as flawed? Humans make tools used to see things they don't understand. What if, due to the lack of understanding of the...
Amen.
Christians who remove all the instructions about good works are removing most of what Jesus was about.
Pseudoscience or not, you have to admit that people put trust in things they only know based the word of someone else.
If they were planning on going to the church to be cured, they would not need to go to the doctor. The doctor wouldn't know.
There are several different definitions of miracles, and I think...
I guess that could depend on one of two things:
-What makes something reputable? Wouldn't a medical journal lose reputation if it claims to not know something? Therefore it would be impossible for...
Pendragon, I understand what you are saying. I think everyone who lives has faith in something, because no one knows everything. The main difference is where people are willing to place their faith....
There is no way that any human could know what you claim. You have not read all medical records. I believe that you've never heard of any case like that, though.
The Old Testament has...
Here's what I've found.
Origen, Contra Celsum
Celsus lived in during the 2nd century, CE. Origen is refuting him in the 3rd century. Celsus' writings no longer survive in tact, but we have...
I don't understand what you are trying to communicate.
Do you mean that maybe the believer doesn't know that faith is nothing more than imagination (thus indicating that perhaps the non-believers...
All the sources I find translate the word "prostasis" into "helper. Even in the KJV; when it uses succourer, that word means helper.
The Strong's reference book defines it as:
1) a woman set over...
I'm not familiar with the "guardianess" of Paul. I can't find that in any of his letters, or in Acts.
In Acts 20:17, Paul called the "elders/presbyters" (they are the same word in Greek) of the church in Ephesus together and began talking to them. He continues to talk to them, and in verse 28, he...
What of the possibility that the stories came from the same source, but Babylon documented them first, making no one a thief?
And how did Babylon date their documents so that you know they were so...
I think there might be trouble with that, though, since elders are supposed to be the "husband of one wife" (1Tim 3:2).
I disagree. Since history cannot be scientifically proven (there is no way to repeat and test history), the theory that God approached a man and said, "Hello, now believe in me," is equal in...
I think you've got it right on the button. I couldn't agree more.
That term doesn't include any authority. That's the difference. The apostles and elders of the churches were given the authority.
I understand what the term means, it's just not a concept taught in the Bible. We are all in need of Christ's salvation because we all sin. We have natural desires to sin, and no one abstains from...
The Bible says that sin is not inherited, and that we condemn ourselves when we sin, not that we are condemned automatically by existing. This thing you are calling "original sin" (which I gather...