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Date Posted: 13:07:16 09/16/05 Fri
In reply to:
Tom
's message, "Re: If the forum gets out of hand...deletion?" on 10:50:03 09/16/05 Fri
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>>>So, God is a tyrant? By whose standards?
>>The dictionary standards.
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>God didn't write the dictionary. Man did. So you're
>forming your opinion of God based on man's opinion,
>more specifically, the people who edited that
>dictionary. I listen ONLY to what God says about
>Himself.
Do you read the Bible? This is the same thing, rather you've raised the bible to a level of a god.
>>What fact? You've yet to present any, so far its all
>>claims for what appears to be a god of gaps to give
>>death and suffering meaning.
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>If you are looking for God through scientific data,
>such as physical proof, sure, you'll find lots of
>evidence pointing toward creation and events in the
>Bible, but that's it.
Creation has a long way before becoming a scientific theory.
>>[God] came from the Bible, and judaism.
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>That's what you believe, and that's what lots of
>people believe. But I know it's not true, and so many
>others know it's not true. Those who know God have
>allowed His divine intervention in their lives. If
>you willingly choose to reject God, then yes, you'll
>remain one of the many who believe God is just a
>concept of man recorded in an ancient text. God gives
>you that choice.
So does countless of other deities, there is nothing unique here.
>>People in the middle ages knew the earth was the
>>center of the universe, and the stars nothing more
>>than tiny dots.
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>That makes no difference. The Church taught the
>concept of an geocentric universe. Even though they
>were wrong, the thought had some merit, since God did
>create the Earth as a special, unique place in all the
>universe on which he would create life. But
>regardless, the earth and heavens are wonderful
>examples of His handiwork, and that hasn't changed
>since creation.
My point is knowing didn't change reality, knowing is just a mental process that has no affect outside of the mind.
>>Did you actually research into evolution, or just
>>believed it?
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>Both to an extent. I accepted the theory of evolution
>because I was fascinated by earth science, and because
>I didn't entirely believe in the God of the Bible. I
>knew a higher authority might exist, but because
>evolution was taught as science in school, I accepted
>it as the most plausible reason for our existence.
I find that hard to believe when in a different thread you claimed evolution attempts to explain how the universe, and life formed. Evolution explains the genetic change in the generations of lifeforms, abiogenesis is the origin of life, neither have anything to do with the big bang.
>I think a lot of skeptics are afraid to accept Christ
>because it will mean having to give up their old
>lives.
Its not fear, rather I find it pointless. It would be like me trying to convert you to become Hindu, you don't believe and it doesn't fit with how you perceive reality.
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