Stu.One of the following is the answer as they cover all the bases.The cosmos was created by God.The cosmos came from absolutely nothing.The cosmos is made up of something that is eternal, a sort of substance or thing that has been transforming itself from eternity with the latest stage being the cosmos. Feel free to add another option, but your…[Read more]

In other words Stu it boils down to this.Of the 3 options 1) Cosmos was created by God.2) Cosmos came from nothing at some point.3) Cosmos has always existed in some non-living form.You ridicule those who believe the first one and you will not admit to which of the other 2 you hold to because by doing that you open yourself up to ridicule too.So…[Read more]

Quote (Lightenup @ Sep. 26 2008,04:00)Hi t8 and Tim,I go to a church, a Baptist one, and I disagree that all churches exist to feed itself.  Good grief what a judgement!  The church I go to reaches out to missionaries with financial support and physical support all over the world, lots of them and to each other.  We have survived over two years wi…[Read more]

I agree. It exists to feed itself.

Quote (charity @ Sep. 17 2008,17:20)I bet on Far lap   or if I can grow my hair long enough, I can i be RapunzelI went to a museum here in Wellington and saw Phar Laps skeleton. His heart is also preserved, in a museum in Melbourne. It was sad to hear that he was poisoned with arsenic, just when he was ready to take on the big American horse…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Sep. 24 2008,22:04)t8It is the same science on which is based the last antibiotic you took, or the doping of the silicon that leads to the chip that processes your typing here.  If Alexander Fleming and his colleagues had needed such a 'foundation' for their work then we might still have the rates of death from bacterial infection…[Read more]

I know little of American politics, but to say that it would be cool to see an African American as president someday, if only to prove that the USA gives all 'a fair go' (as we say in this part of the world).Of course it should really be that the best man gets the job, and race shouldn't be a factor at all as that is akin to judging by the outward…[Read more]

I know little of American politics, but to say that it would be cool to see an African American as president someday, if only to prove that the USA gives all 'a fair go' (as we say in this part of the world).Of course it should really be that the best man gets the job, and race shouldn't be a factor at all as that is akin to judging by the outward…[Read more]

Yes that is a bit of a worry. Where did the money go and what will happen in the following months?

Yes that is a bit of a worry. Where did the money go and what will happen in the following months?

Quote (Tiffany @ Sep. 22 2008,22:10)Nick Interesting thinking, all come on here to debate, but not about Politics of America? How many European are on here? Are not most here Americans? We are aloud to debate about God, but not about Politician?  That just does not make sense to me. And unfair to Samuel, He is being made feel sorry, real…[Read more]

Quote (Tiffany @ Sep. 22 2008,22:10)Nick Interesting thinking, all come on here to debate, but not about Politics of America? How many European are on here? Are not most here Americans? We are aloud to debate about God, but not about Politician?  That just does not make sense to me. And unfair to Samuel, He is being made feel sorry, real…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 25 2008,13:13)No, that would be less accurate. Didn't they want to make Jesus king?“They refused to take any active part in the civil administration or the military defence of the empire. . . . It was impossible that the Christians, without renouncing a more sacred duty, could assume the character of soldiers, of m…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 25 2008,13:13)No, that would be less accurate. Didn't they want to make Jesus king?“They refused to take any active part in the civil administration or the military defence of the empire. . . . It was impossible that the Christians, without renouncing a more sacred duty, could assume the character of soldiers, of m…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 23 2008,18:28)Quote Hi Samuel,I do not think that introducing American political choices here is relevant or helpful sorry.The earliest Christians didn't vote or hold political office and were considered “no part of the world,” Satan's world.  They were separate.  They looked to God's kingdom as their hope, not human g…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 23 2008,18:28)Quote Hi Samuel,I do not think that introducing American political choices here is relevant or helpful sorry.The earliest Christians didn't vote or hold political office and were considered “no part of the world,” Satan's world.  They were separate.  They looked to God's kingdom as their hope, not human g…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Sep. 25 2008,07:14)“God is a reality” is your unsupported assertion.Stu.”God is not a reality” is your unsupported assertion.I have my proof that God exists, but you have no proof for yourself either way.

Quote (Not3in1 @ Sep. 25 2008,10:13)Quote (Nick Hassan @ Sep. 25 2008,06:53)Hi Mandy, t8 does not mean it that way. He is by nature a very kind, gentle and considerate man. He was agreeing with you that withdrawing from the difficult threads may help you heal.Yes, you are probably right Nick.  Thanks.I'm sorry t8.  I shouldn't have assumed and t…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Sep. 25 2008,06:53)Hi Mandy, t8 does not mean it that way. He is by nature a very kind, gentle and considerate man. He was agreeing with you that withdrawing from the difficult threads may help you heal.That is true Mandy.All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable.When debating affects your faith to the point of…[Read more]

Hebrews 9:22-2622 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made…[Read more]