He is currently sustaining your being. So that to wish Him into nonexistence is to wish yourself into nonexistence.
"Are you outraged at this intolerance and banning of your religious holiday?" Outraged? Not exactly. But if I lived in that country, I might be....
God is not bound by time. Time is not an invention of man. Time is an invention of God. He is on no one's time.
Yes, indeed, I am. It may be one thing to accept religious experience only on a subjective basis; and then it may be true that some reject religious...
This, however, raises the potentiality for, perhaps, the greatest mistake ever: Is there, in fact, not any one specific way to interpret the Bible?...
Actually, the only time I ever made use of anything which needed biblical support were two times--who was there at the tomb and what they saw, and...
Sure. Many people in the age of science and reason can fabricate thousands of high-minded stories about other worlds and fantastic happenings....
Hold on? I thought that that sort of thing didn't matter on sciforums.com... What happened? I thought that ignorance of religion and of scripture...
I think maybe you missed my point or we somewhere along the way got off topic. Remember that I was suggesting that the Bible is a "compilation" of...
Let us think for a moment, shall we? Which makes the likelihood that the Peloponisian War ever took place more probable: if one historian writes...
If they are poor and uneducated, can they read? Isn't there a difference between one being killed for something and killing oneself for...
I do not have any extra-Biblical evidence. The Biblical account is--in theory--supposed to be enough. I think that part of the problem is that, in...
I never suggested "I" had anything of the sort. But perhaps the subject for which this thread was begun would be a fair example.
Toché. However, I don't know that I ever meant to make a comment about the dialogue in that; I think I probably was making a reference to myself, as...
I don't know that the Bible is 100% historically accurate, per se, but should one be a fool to consider that at least some of it is historically...
First of all, all of the things you have listed have absolutely nothing to do with "doctrine." When we speak of "doctrine," we are speaking of...
You're stuck in a box.
Catholicism teaches that God can forgive your sins through certain men who are ordained by God to carry out said task. As far as baptizing infants...
Because for those who earn money, said money is taken away from in order that those who do not earn money receive it. A man sells his freedom for...
I'm sorry, but you're quite wrong. Other branches of Christianity, as a rule, don't know what they're saying. And as for these dumb Catholics you...
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