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This is a tricky one... I have a few ethics books in Logos, which cover topics like capital punishment, euthanasia, divorce etc. Slavery is not covered. This is an issue. To me it seems that slavery is universally considered unethical in 2018, ye…
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No worries. I took the liberty to delete the duplicate. I don't think anyone but admin users can do so.
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Do you have any evidence that these peoples believed that their "gods" remained "gods" while they were in their "human form"?
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I disagree. The Bible is not contaminated. What humans make of it - yes, it very often is contaminated (see above quote by Thomas Aquinas for example).
The Quran, on the other hand, is mostly contaminated. Just look at Sura 9. …
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Bill, you've evaded the question.
Can the omnipotent God, if he chooses so, become human without ceasing to be God? -
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This is not a contradictory belief. "Jesus is God and Jesus is not God" would be a contradictory belief.
Judging from nothing but God's omnipotence, can God become a man?
If you say yes, then there's no contradiction in…
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I think I've been clear about "truth" throughout this thread. Truth needs to correspond with reality, especially with observation of creation. If Christianity is not able to provide evidence that it corresponds with reality, it would h…
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Also, don't forget the IRA terror, which is explicitly based on a trinitarian world view.
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Part of the problem is that Christians tend not to play by the rules when it comes to the origins question, and work apart from the scientific method.
This is something that can be done and must be done, especially now that the…
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Likewise, most terrorism can be linked to the Muslims' rejection of Christ's divinity. They would not only cease to terrorize the Jews, but also the Christians, atheists, and the free world in general.
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I'm not so sure that this couldn't be reconciled without actual contradiction, such as Jesus being God and man, or us being elect as well as free creatures, or communion being bread and wine as well as body and blood of Christ.
Wikipedia describes Unitarianism as a Christian movement. I suspect most Unitarians would call themselves Christian. I have 452 results on Unitarianism in Logos. It clearly is a Christian topic, and as such allowed in this forum. Judging …
(Quote)I've never said other worlds don't exist. I've said that the case for their existence is extremely weak.
(Quote)I believe I have. Equalling the Adam factor with the universe factor leads into absurdity.
The likelihood of having one planet that supports any form of life in this vast universe is so extremely low that more and more scientists struggle to explain our existence by natural means, and come up with fantastic theories such as an infinite…
(Quote)We also don't know whether pine tar would fall under bitumen in Greek, even if it does in English. We don't even know whether in the Bronze age Middle East people knew how to make pine tar. There were plenty of tar pits in post-flood C…
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(Quote)All of these arguments are thoroughly refuted in the video.
I absolutely believe this. When Dawkins said that even the second coming of Jesus wouldn't convince him of the existence of God, as it would be more likely a hallucination, that's pretty much one of the highest expressions of religious conviction…
(Quote)CM has already quoted Hebrews 4:4 which makes the connection between God's Sabbath rest and the 7th day of creation. Viewing them as the same thing is only an interpretation of this text, and according to my standards which I already s…
Wich co-incides with God's Sabbath rest (Hebrews 4:4).
(Quote)So how could we enter God's Sabbath rest, if he actually is no longer in his Sabbath rest?
I don't think that the 7th day is complete yet. God is still resting. "There was evening, and there was morning" is missing from the 7th day in Genesis. Also Hebrews 4:10 tells us that the 7th day is not over yet.
(Quote)So why have Christians in general rejected the geocentric worldview after science has discovered that it is flawed, despite a literalistic reading of Scripture clearly dictating a geocentric worldview?
What about the usage of "…
(Quote)You're forgetting something. Whereas Scripture itself is inspired and infallible, interpretation of Scripture is the product of the same reprobate carnal mind as science.
(Quote)When we look at objects (stars etc.) through our telescopes, we actually are looking back in time. When the object is 1 billion light years away, that means we're looking at the object as it was 1 billion years ago.
Assuming th…
(Quote)No, because the speed of light makes it impossible to observe an object at 1 billion light years away in real time.
(Quote)I do believe the creation account literally. "Yom" can be literally translated as a long period of time.
I literally believe that God created ex nihilo whenever the Hebrew word "bara" is used, in Genesis 1:1 (the heavens and th…
(Quote)Why have Christians universally once held a geocentric world view, and now (almost) completely reject it, despite a literalistic reading of Scripture clearly describing a geocentric view? Psalm 104:5 for example.
