Michaelll said:How do you try to have faith? God doesn't send anyone to Hell. You send yourself there. God has done everything He possibly can to keep you out of Hell and still leave you as a person with free will and not just a robot. That's the way He made us--after His image, after His likeness, the power to say “yes” or the power to say “no,” the power to reject our own Creator, and of course to take the consequences.
One said:So if people don't believe, then thats why God created a Hell?
Yet the devil was once a trusted angel, and before his down cast, was there a hell?
No, the idea was based off of one arc angel.
Idk, I will have faith for the remainder of my life, but I will always have my questions, as any other human being.
Wisdom said:I don't know, I just feel that if bad things happen then God can't be real. Because if he was I think he would help is.
I don't know, I just feel that if bad things happen then God can't be real. Because if he was I think he would help us.
Fever said:Nice read OP, I believe in God. But it's slamming your head against the wall telling people over the Internet about God. Anyways , in the bible it's says that the bible isn't for none believers . Because it's illogical, it's based on faith. The mind of a man can understand only so much. Man denies what it can't understand .
Cannabis said:Is there really any way to prove the existence of God? It’s possible that either you believe or you don’t. Two separate paths branch out before each of us;
~~Token fallacy of people arguing for God, the false assumption that there are only two choices. To be an Atheist and burn in hell for all eternity or believe in God. Then what of Buddhism? It teaches, not the worship or affirmation of any deity, but rather reflection and introversion for the purposes of making your self, and ulitmately, the world around you a better place.
the path of atheism on one hand and the path of God or gods on the other. One path denies accountability to any superior being other than that of nature’s collective consciousness. The other requires obedience and ultimate accountability to the government of a higher power. Atheism teaches that all things including our own existence are the result of chance.
Theism (belief in god) ascribes design and order to supernatural intelligence. “Which do I choose?” is not really the most important question. Instead, the really big question is, “How do I decide,” or “How do I determine which one is the truth?” not “truth for me” but actual provable fact.
It’s rather ironic when you think about it, but there really is only one safe choice. If you choose the path of atheism and it turns out your wrong, you’re screwed! But if you choose the path of belief in God and it turns out you’re wrong, you’ve simply hedged your bet. You lose absolutely nothing by being wrong and you gain everything if you end up being right. As clearly rock solid as this logic may be, it still doesn’t answer the question, “What is the truth?”
It’s been said that the existence of a supreme being is self evident. But what does that really mean? I’m afraid I’m probably going to step on some toes here, but consider this. NASA sends a ship into outer space, to the moon, to Mars, wherever they want. Would you say that these spacecraft and their missions are the result of intelligent design and planning or merely the fortunate consequences of natural selection and chance? I realize that I’m being absurd here but I’m proving a point of self evident truth.
How does it make any logical sense to attribute the existence and technology of spacecraft, computers, automobiles, and the like to intelligent design by human production, while at the same time pointing to the complex living mechanisms of this planet and asserting they are the result of natural accidental luck?
Unlike modern technology, these creatures cannot be reproduced or duplicated in even the most technically scientific laboratory,
~~Oh really? http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/d/dolly_the_sheep.htm
I’m sorry, but logic and common sense does not tolerate two opposite conclusions to both be reckoned as truth. If intelligent design is responsible for all sophisticated and technical machinery, then there is a God.
~~Parts of a whole are not always equal to their sum.
If all complex machinery organic or mechanical can be attributed to random chance then there is no need for a supreme being. The truth is self evident.
There are some amazing prophecies in scripture that offers proof of God.
Here's one that predicted the exact year that Jesus would come as the Messiah.
~~Using part of an argument to prove a different part of the same argument is bullshit and a fallacy of logic.
Daniel 9 says you are to count 69 X 7 from the command to restore Jerusalem until the coming of the Messiah. (69 x 7 what? counting from when, by what interval? I see no evidence at all.)
Daniel 9:25, "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."
The Hebrew literally says "sevens," translated as weeks. If you count these sevens as years,
~~Why would you count a week as a year? Last I checked, a year was 365 days and a week was 7 days.
69 X 7 = 483 years. The command to restore Jerusalem was given in the seventh year of Artaxerxes reign (Ezra 7:8-13). Historians date that as 457 BC. If you count 483 years from that date it comes to AD 27.
According to Luke 1 Jesus began his ministry as the Messiah in the 15th year of Tiberias. Tiberias was ruling over the Syrian province at that time, and according to the Syrian calendar his 15th year was AD 27.
Daniel 9:26 states, "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. . . ." That is after the first 7 weeks; so, after those 69 X 7 Messiah is "cut off." Isaiah 53:8, ". . . for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken."
The word Messiah literally means "anointed one." [bIn Abrahamic religions, Messiah is the savior or liberator of a group of people.[/b]We read in Acts 10:34-37 that Jesus was anointed at his baptism, and from there began his ministry as the Messiah. This was in AD 27, the exact year Daniel predicted his coming over 500 years before it happened.
Other proofs can be found in predictions of Jesus' death for our sins in old testament prophecies.
Psalms 22:16-18 states, ". . . they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."
In the NT they cast lots to divide up Jesus' clothes while he hanged on the cross.
Here is the prediction of Jesus dying to make intercession for our sins.
Isaiah 53:8-10 states, "He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. . . ."
Isaiah 53:12, "because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
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If you are an atheist or some sort of non believer, please take 1 minute out of your life and pray for God to reveal himself to you, and mean it, and he will reveal himself.
"since only a small percentage of the earth's surface obeys even a … portion of the geologic column…the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rock/life/time…over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance.” -Woodmorappe, John, "The Essential Non-Existence of the Evolutionary Uniformitarian Geologic Column: A Quantitative Assessment," Creation Research Society
“This supposed column is actually saturated with "polystrate fossils" (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame. "To the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation."
“It is now possible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood.”
“World population growth rate in recent times is about 2% per year. Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number. Wars, disease, famine, etc. have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years. Starting with eight people, and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noah's day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people. However, application on an evolutionary time scale runs into major difficulties. Starting with one "couple" just 41,000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089."
Daniel 9: 23-27"At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew; for thou greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Know therefore and understand, from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
Daniel 9"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and
unto the end of the war desolations are determined."
Cannabis said:1) >Implying nothing, in the billions of years of its existence, nothing could possibly cause a planet's rotation to change. Nothing, not asteroid, not comet, not planet, not giant chunk of rock, could have been flying through space and hit the planet hard enough to cause it to change the direction of it's spin.Therefore it must be God.
No. The Big Bang Theory is just that. A theory. So is God. Nothing more than theory. I don't know how the universe was created and I can't claim to know as I don't have evidence to support an explination. The BBT, how ever true or untrue it maybe, has evidence and reasonable speculation based on scientific fact to support its claim.
2.)What flood are you talking about? The Noah and his Ark flood? Is there any evidence of that actually happening? As for aging, look the hell around you dude, 100 years ago you didn't live to be much more than 60 if you're lucky. Now average life expectancy is over 75 years. There are some who have lived to be 120+ years old, something that would be impossible 100 years ago.
3.)If you understand the princples involved, it's nothing more than a parlor trick. The as a Grandfather pulling a coin from a child's ear. The coin was never in the child's ear but the child is amazed nonetheless due to their lack of understanding.
4.)Quoting scripture to support scripture. So God created water before he created light did he? Last I check it was light and dark, then water.
5.)Then why did God deem that the T-Rex should have teeth shaped to eat meat but damn it to eating leaves? And why were we lied to exactly? Link me to evidence please?
6.)Before we had the technology of farming, we had to gather what we could and kill what was available. If you tried to live off gathering alone, you didn't make it through winter. If we're not supposed to eat animals, why do we have teeth to tear flesh? Why can we digest the meat? Why, then, in every culture around the world is the practice of eating meat?
7.)Why are the fossils burried at different depths then?
8.) We live on a giant magnet. Ever heard of a compass? It works because the need is magnetized and then atracted to the Earth's magnetic North.
9.)So you're saying there would be just over 2000 people in 41,000 years time if Evolution is correct?
10.)You calculate war,famine, desease, etc into the Theistic argument, but not the Evolutionary. If you get rid of the thousand year gap left by the Christian Dark Ages, it is reasonable to assume we would have the technology of today 1000 years ago.
Will update later, I have to go to work.
Michaelll said:Is there really any way to prove the existence of God? It’s possible that either you believe or you don’t. Two separate paths branch out before each of us; the path of atheism on one hand and the path of God or gods on the other. One path denies accountability to any superior being other than that of nature’s collective consciousness. The other requires obedience and ultimate accountability to the government of a higher power. Atheism teaches that all things including our own existence are the result of chance.
It’s rather ironic when you think about it, but there really is only one safe choice. If you choose the path of atheism and it turns out your wrong, you’re screwed! But if you choose the path of belief in God and it turns out you’re wrong, you’ve simply hedged your bet. You lose absolutely nothing by being wrong and you gain everything if you end up being right. As clearly rock solid as this logic may be, it still doesn’t answer the question, “What is the truth?”
It’s been said that the existence of a supreme being is self evident. But what does that really mean? I’m afraid I’m probably going to step on some toes here, but consider this. NASA sends a ship into outer space, to the moon, to Mars, wherever they want. Would you say that these spacecraft and their missions are the result of intelligent design and planning or merely the fortunate consequences of natural selection and chance? I realize that I’m being absurd here but I’m proving a point of self evident truth.
How does it make any logical sense to attribute the existence and technology of spacecraft, computers, automobiles, and the like to intelligent design by human production, while at the same time pointing to the complex living mechanisms of this planet and asserting they are the result of natural accidental luck?
Unlike modern technology, these creatures cannot be reproduced or duplicated in even the most technically scientific laboratory, I’m sorry, but logic and common sense does not tolerate two opposite conclusions to both be reckoned as truth. If intelligent design is responsible for all sophisticated and technical machinery, then there is a God. If all complex machinery organic or mechanical can be attributed to random chance then there is no need for a supreme being. The truth is self evident.
There are some amazing prophecies in scripture that offers proof of God.
Here's one that predicted the exact year that Jesus would come as the Messiah.
Daniel 9 says you are to count 69 X 7 from the command to restore Jerusalem until the coming of the Messiah.
Daniel 9:25, "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."
The Hebrew literally says "sevens," translated as weeks. If you count these sevens as years, 69 X 7 = 483 years. The command to restore Jerusalem was given in the seventh year of Artaxerxes reign (Ezra 7:8-13). Historians date that as 457 BC. If you count 483 years from that date it comes to AD 27.
According to Luke 1 Jesus began his ministry as the Messiah in the 15th year of Tiberias. Tiberias was ruling over the Syrian province at that time, and according to the Syrian calendar his 15th year was AD 27.
Daniel 9:26 states, "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. . . ." That is after the first 7 weeks; so, after those 69 X 7 Messiah is "cut off." Isaiah 53:8, ". . . for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken."
The word Messiah literally means "anointed one." We read in Acts 10:34-37 that Jesus was anointed at his baptism, and from there began his ministry as the Messiah. This was in AD 27, the exact year Daniel predicted his coming over 500 years before it happened.
Other proofs can be found in predictions of Jesus' death for our sins in old testament prophecies.
Psalms 22:16-18 states, ". . . they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."
In the NT they cast lots to divide up Jesus' clothes while he hanged on the cross.
Here is the prediction of Jesus dying to make intercession for our sins.
Isaiah 53:8-10 states, "He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. . . ."
Isaiah 53:12, "because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
If you are an atheist or some sort of non believer, please take 1 minute out of your life and pray for God to reveal himself to you, and mean it, and he will reveal himself.
Michaelll said:By using the conservation of angular momentum, we can prove the big bang theory did not happen. Scientists believe the the universe started with a dot. No bigger than a dot on a piece of paper. Then, large amounts of dust started spinning, or, rotating around it. Now, if it was spinning around it, it was spinning in a certain direction. We do not know which directing. Then BANG. Huge explosion, and all the planets and universes came spinning out, all ion different directions.
According to the law of physics, the conservation of angular direction, if some thing, a certain object, is spinning, and a piece of it brakes off, it will fall in the same direction as the object was spinning. E.g, if you were on a merry go round, and you fell off, you would fall in the same direction was spinning. If it was spinning clock wise you too would fall clock wise.
So when the bang happened, the planets caae flying out of the dot. SO, all the planets should be spinning in the same direction as the dust was circling the dot. But.. Why are Venus, Uranus and Earth rotating in opposite directions than all the other planets? Why has Saturn got moons spinning in both directions?
Beats said:But I learned that you don't have to believe that God is real but that you just have to have faith.
Cann!bal said:The universe started with a particle, which was infinitesimally smaller than an atom.
"Then, large amounts of dust started spinning, or, rotating around it," seriously?
It was not an explosion, it was an expansion.
"And all the planets and universes came spinning out."
I don't think you can get anymore wrong than that. I want to stop you right here seeing that you have no scientific understanding of the big bang. Who are you using as your source?
That makes absolutely no logical sense.
Beats said:It doesn't to you because you are an Atheist.
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