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• ‘Killing Jesus’: Bill O’Reilly to Pen New Book About Jesus Christ’s Murder

  February 22, 2013 at 5:34am

  In reply to jman-6.

  Christ is Omnipotent:
  Philippians 3:20-21:
  “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.”

  Christ is Omniscient:
  Colossians 2:2-3:
  “that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

  Christ is Omnipresent:
  2 Corinthians 2:14:
  “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.”

  Christ is the great I AM:
  John 8:58:
  ” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” ”

  Christ will judge mankind:
  2 Corinthians 5:10:
  ” For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. ”

  And so much more.
  I’m sorry dear, but the NWT is not a reliable translation. If you truly are a seeker of truth, then please seek this out for yourself. If your bible is defensible then it will hold up to scrutiny.

  This is an excellent critique:
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• End-Times Christian Movie Series ‘Left Behind’ Set for Hollywood Reboot (& Starring Nicolas Cage?)

  October 22, 2012 at 3:08am

  In reply to Pigpen.

  @MODERATIONISBEST:

  Once again, you make a mistake concerning Christianity. Adam’s sin only caused the relationship between God and man to be broken because very simply put, man is given free will and often chooses to go his own way and do it his own way. From then on, each person is given their own choice to follow God, who has provided a way back to Him.

  Please understand, the God of Christianity does not judge anyone based on the sins of others, but based on each individual choices a person makes, and God IS just.

  We are all sinners because we just cannot stop sinning. We are all guilty of that, myself just as much, if not more than most.
  I’ll bet you that you know this in your conscience, let me ask you:
  Are you familiar with the Ten Commandments? They are God’s moral standard.
  - Have you ever told a lie?
  - Have you ever used God’s name in vain?
  - Have you ever looked at a woman in lust? Jesus said that was adultery in your heart.
  - Have you ever hated anyone? Jesus said that is the same as murder in your heart.

  I’ve broken all the commandments, I’m guilty, and I break them almost every day, as hard as I try not to, I always fail. How can God forgive a liar, blasphemer, adulterer at heart and murderer at heart?
  Yes, God’s law is impossibly morally perfect, and we ALL fall short of his standard. But the beauty is that you don’t need to be perfect, leave that up to Him. That is Christianity.
  Noone is judged for anything else but their own sins.

• End-Times Christian Movie Series ‘Left Behind’ Set for Hollywood Reboot (& Starring Nicolas Cage?)

  October 22, 2012 at 2:11am

  In reply to Pigpen.

  @MODERATIONISBEST:

  Also, Faith and belief in God is so misunderstood if you are foreign to it. People assume it is a blind jump of faith into the unknown, with no communication, no feedback, no changes. Of course if it were so I agree with you it’s kind of crazy!

  But about you saying that you do not live by faith or belief; that is impossible!
  Everyone makes assumption and lives by faith in all sorts of areas in life.
  There are countless examples of things we believe, trust and assume without even being aware we are doing so. Everyone has a specific set of beliefs in all areas of life.

  Here’s an example I think kind of resembles a person’s faith in God:
  If you marry your spouse, you are choosing him/her and believe him/her to be great for you based on what you know of her character, personality, past choices, etc.. How do you know he/she won’t cheat on you? Because you trust him/her!
  Once you know God, it is quite a similar experience. The faith you place in Him is no greater leap than the one you place on your spouse.

  I hope I’m not coming across as trying to force my beliefs on you.
  Blessings :)

• End-Times Christian Movie Series ‘Left Behind’ Set for Hollywood Reboot (& Starring Nicolas Cage?)

  October 22, 2012 at 1:58am

  In reply to Pigpen.

  @MODERATIONISBEST:

  I understand.

  In defense of Christianity, I don’t think you understand it fully.
  The ultimate ethic in life is love. That is the supreme ethic. There is no ethic more supreme than love. But necessary to love is the component of the will. You cannot have love without the freedom to not love. Otherwise you have conformity, compliance; you really don’t have love. So if love is the supreme ethic and the freedom of the will is indispensable to love, then the greatest gift of God is the gift of the freedom of our will in order that we can love.
  But with the greatest gift comes the greatest possible calamity: when you violate that love, the entailments actually follow. So both good is reality and evil is a reality.

  Concerning judgement, most people consider themselves generally “good”, and assume that if God is good, then he will forgive their shortcomings and human nature.
  If a man is accused of murder and appears in front of a judge and is found to be guilty. He tells the judge: “Your honor, I know I’ve made some mistakes but you’re a good man, and you should forgive me”
  Only a corrupt judge would release a guilty man! You see, it is exactly BECAUSE God is just and good that He must judge all justly. That is His nature.
  God is great and He has provided us a very easy way to find forgiveness outside of our own efforts, which involves His sacrifice and us only making the choice to love Him and come to Him as we are, with all our shortcomin

• End-Times Christian Movie Series ‘Left Behind’ Set for Hollywood Reboot (& Starring Nicolas Cage?)

  October 21, 2012 at 6:50pm

  In reply to Pigpen.

  In one of your previous posts, some of your claims about polar opposites made a lot of sense.
  However, think about this:

  Many people today, much like you seem to be doing, make the assumption that truth is subjective. “Whatever is true for you is yours and whatever is true for me is my truth.”
  This is illogical, it just can’t be this way, because truth is either right or wrong. There are no degrees of it. It MUST be absolute.
  First we must ask: Is there an absolute truth in life? Or is it all just chaotic? We find absolutes in all things in nature, yet when we look at human life it’s very difficult to agree.

  What I am suggesting, in effect, is not political. I am suggesting that not all religions/worldviews can be true. More specifically, no TWO religions can be true. I am suggesting that if there is even a very tiny possibility that God really exists and that he became human and came to dwell among us some 2000 years ago, claiming to bring us absolute TRUTH, then I think it might be worthwhile for everyone of us to find out for ourselves if there is a chance that the one who made the world and everything in it might have some answers for us.

  I apologize for taking so long. I realize most people are not interested in knowing more about this, so I will stop here. If you would like to know more don’t hesitate to let me know and I would be happy to talk about it with you.

  Take care. :)

• End-Times Christian Movie Series ‘Left Behind’ Set for Hollywood Reboot (& Starring Nicolas Cage?)

  October 21, 2012 at 6:50pm

  In reply to Pigpen.

  @MODERATIONISBEST:

  I would like to apologize for anyone who has misrepresented Christianity to you and caused you to view it in a negative way. However, I would like to encourage you NOT to judge Christianity by the actions of people who claim to follow it but only by what it really teaches.
  What I am saying is that each person, including you, should have a skeptical but curious approach to finding out what each worldview teaches, without being influenced by men.

  From what I understand, you have tried to read certain Bible passages and they appear foolish to you, but let me just say my opinion: The Bible WILL appear strange and illogical to any reader unless they begin to comprehend the bigger picture. Like anything we learn in life, we cannot really grasp themby learning random bits of it here and there, we must understand the overall picture.
  Christianity NEVER made sense to me until I began understanding the whole picture.

  So what is this whole picture?
  I believe it starts with knowing God, who He is, what He is like, etc… You see, if we could know Him personally like we could know another person, say a husband or a wife, it might provide insight on so many questions, and we would understand why so many things in the world are the way they are.

  - More in next post

• Scientist Bill Nye Hammers Anti-Evolution Republicans: ‘Betrays the Best Use of Our Brains’

  October 17, 2012 at 12:15am

  In reply to Bugleboy99.

  @VOTEBUSHIN12:

  3) Concerning the darkness: you must pay attention to the frame of reference to understand the darkness mentioned:
  The Spirit of God is ON the earth right above the waters, therefore the earth could be seen as dark from the point of view of the surface. It makes no claim as to the sun existing or anything else.
  You can argue two points to disprove what I am saying:
  a) That the earth did not have water before the continents formed.
  b) that when the atmosphere initially formed, it was transparent and that there is no way the light couldn’t have broken through.

  Answer to both:
  a)Now we know today from science that during the formation of the earth, gases began forming the early atmosphere, which led to the formation of water on the earth; the planet was essentially a water world before the continents ever formed by tectonic activity.

  b)On the subject of the atmosphere itself, scientists are not entirely certain on whether earth’s early atmosphere was translucent or transparent. Actually, a recent scientific article published just this year has found that the early earth’s atmosphere was hazy due to methane and other organic materials present before oxygenation occurred.
  (See: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n5/abs/ngeo1425.html )

  Conclusion:
  Based on the scientific findings so far, we cannot say for certain that the atmosphere of early earth was not initially hazy, and it simply CANNOT be concluded that the Biblical account is wrong

• Scientist Bill Nye Hammers Anti-Evolution Republicans: ‘Betrays the Best Use of Our Brains’

  October 17, 2012 at 12:13am

  In reply to Bugleboy99.

  @VOTEBUSHIN12

  I’m sorry your argument are plain wrong and you misunderstood my arguments.
  Let me explain again:

  1) When I said that the Bible is not a science book, this never implied that its contents are not true. An English literature book has plenty of accurate and truthful information to teach about English literature and is not scientific.

  With that said I’ll move on to your claim:
  2) Concerning the Big Bang:
  I believe that the Bible supports a big bang model of creation. There are several Bible passages that refer to the universe being expanding, which supports the big bang.

  Genesis clearly states that the heavens and the earth were created “in the beginning”. The Bible does not say when this happened. There is an unspecified amount of time during the beginning.
  “Heaven and earth” means the entire universe (including matter, energy and time, which, btw, the statement implies that everything began at some point, including time. Science confirms this.)

  We know that the sun produces light, and so it is clearly understood that the Bible’s first verse explains that it WAS indeed created in the beginning.

  MORE

• Scientist Bill Nye Hammers Anti-Evolution Republicans: ‘Betrays the Best Use of Our Brains’

  October 15, 2012 at 4:09am

  In reply to Bugleboy99.

  @VOTEBUSHIN12:

  2) [God created the earth 7000 years ago]
  Nowhere does the Bible make ANY claim about the age of the earth or the universe. Again, this is the interpretation of some Christians based on their opinion of what the Bible says. Not every Christian agrees.
  For instance, the 7 days in Genesis don’t have to be actual 24h periods. There are many different interpretations. I believe it could very well be 7 different ages that are divided. I believe that makes a lot of sense. Even today you would understand if I say “In the day of the dinosaurs..”, that I’m not referring to a 24h hour day period of the dinosaurs, but the age or era of the dinosaurs. Or if I say “back in the day..” I’m not referring to a single day, but a larger period of time in the past. You get my point.
  The other reason some Christians come to the conclusion that the earth must be only thousands of years old is because there are genealogies mentioned in the Bible, that some Christians assume are complete genealogies. The Bible does not claim they are complete or that they mention every living human that lived and therefore, this assumption does not mean anything. You should not discredit the Bible based on the opinions of others, but rather try to read it yourself and see if it can make sense. I believe that it can and does.

• Scientist Bill Nye Hammers Anti-Evolution Republicans: ‘Betrays the Best Use of Our Brains’

  October 15, 2012 at 4:08am

  In reply to Bugleboy99.

  Verse 2 then goes on to describe the earth at the moment of its creation:
  2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was[a] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
  Most people here fail to understand the frame of reference. You see, Verse 2 says that the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. This here shows that the frame of reference is just above the surface of the water. This means that God Himself is present here to create everything. And therefore, when God begins “speaking” in verse 3:
  3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
  We must understand that verse 3 does NOT claim that the sun was created or anything of the sort, but rather that the light can be seen from the earth (the frame of reference where the Spirit of God is. So what does this say so far? That when god created the earth it was dark, (thick clouds), and that when he spoke “let there be light”, light was able to pierce through the clouds and be seen from the earth for the first time. It is also understood that the light comes from the sun, a unidirectional source and that the earth is spinning on its axis, since there is evening and morning, day and night.