To John, I truly appreciate your writings and your openess.When we look at the Garden of Eden, we see that it was good. Even the Tree of Good and Evil was there and it wasn't there to tempt man, but to test him. In order to be tempted, one must be enticed to do something, but God said that man should not eat from that tree. So God certainly never…[Read more]

I am trying to understand more about baptism and my thinking for now is that it is something we do physically that leads to a spiritual union with God. Of course the act itself cannot be what gives us salvation otherwise any unrepentant sinner could simply be baptized and be saved. Rather it is the inward working of God's Spirit and his Word and…[Read more]

Hi John, I am very open to understanding truth and I want to challenge what you have said in this discussion (your first post), not to prove you wrong or to prove I am right, but only to discover truth for all of us, even if it proves or disproves your words.Your point about evil seems to me to be summed up in this quote of yours.In order to have…[Read more]

Fair enough dude, I didn’t understand the "Jessie Ventura called christians gullible idiots" part, but I do now, even though I do not know who he is. I also thought that you acknowledged design, but not the designer part, so sorry if I misunderstood that.The bit about what fag means in USA and UK is true. I am from New Zealand and fag means both.…[Read more]

Is Hell eternal? Well we know that Hell is thrown into the Lake of Fire, so the real question is “Is the Lake of Fire forever”? And if so, will those who are thrown into it suffer for all eternity or will they suffer everlasting destruction?I believe the latter.For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son that who ever shall…[Read more]

Ok so you have given up with truth or logic and resorted to shallow accusations. If you reject the bible or God or advice, then that is your choice is it not. Would it not be foolish to believe that a 747 assembed itself from raw ingredients by pure chance. Yet the odds of that are far more feasible, than the complex atomic, solar and galactic…[Read more]

Kenny I am not resorting to name calling, my passionate pursuit in life is truth and I believe that those who do not believe in God are fools because that is what scripture says and I agree with it. I am not calling you a fool, I am saying that if you do not believe in God then you are a fool and you are saying to me that you do not believe in…[Read more]

It wasn't inevitiable that we ate of that fruit. It was put there to test man and we failed.Why should there be a test in the first place?It is because every son of God gets the chance to choose God. We have a choice because we are not a process or a robot, rather a thinking living being made in God's will. Like God, we have our own will and this…[Read more]

Good post MrBob, I agree.Sex, drugs and alcohol are from God and they are good.It is not indulging that is sin, it is why you are indulging.E.g. a) Sex with in marriage is good and is part of God's plan. He said to Adam and Eve, “be fruitful and multiply.”b) Sex outside marriage leads to unwanted pregnancies and disease for a start.a) Drugs from…[Read more]

A cause, principle or activiity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion is one of those meanings:1) Your Atheism is a cause that you are consciously devoted too. 2) The word God can be used to define anything that is worshiped, idealized, or followed: e.g “Money was their god.”3) The scriptural word for Atheist is fool. E.g. “The fool has said…[Read more]

Hi solosott, 1) How do we know that Jehovah and not Yahweh is God's name.2) How do you know that God's Spirit is not a person if the Spirit is referred to as him. You do point out that forces or things are often referred to as a person, but how do you know that the Spirit is not a person.I refer you to the following scriptures. An explantion for…[Read more]

Try the following link. It is the definition of religion from dictionary.com.http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=religionYou believe that God doesn't exist, you believe that the universe came about without a designer/God. Therefore the creation itself is your God. It made itself. Not all gods can talk and think. Even a piece of wood/idol can…[Read more]

I enjoyed your post as you ask a lot of good questions and your thoughts on some of the points seem good to me at least.In 1 Thessalonians 5:23May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.My thoughts on this are not conclusive, nor…[Read more]

In Response to one of dmateo's posts in another discussionHe said the following:to T8, Interesing question, are we created or are we partly created. Genesis 2:7 the LORD formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. What do you think of this part? The LORD created…[Read more]

Belief in no God is still a belief and religion is a personal or institutionalized system grounded in a belief . It is a belief system that says God doesn't exist. To believe in nothing is to believe in something. That something is nothing. The lack of something is still something that requires belief.It's like saying that you do not believe that…[Read more]

Try the following:https://www.heavennet.net/writings/enoch.htmhttps://www.heavennet.net/writings/hermas.htmhttps://www.heavennet.net/writings/polycarp.htm

Perhaps you didn’t read the whole article. I quote the following from that article:<font color=navy>I can respect that you may have chosen not believe in God without proof and in that sense you have chosen to be an Atheist, but your claim to be an atheist is not a scientific one, rather a belief or religion.</font>You made the same point to try…[Read more]

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