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I'm not sure I would say that they were all "lying" in the sense that they are intentionally trying to deceive people or that they do not believe what they say. There are clearly exceptions but generally, its quite the contrary, most professional scientists absolutely do believe what they say...

No, it is not! Look, I don't know who told you that but they are flatly wrong. A proper appeal to authority would be one where the expertise itself was in question, not the conclusions of his science. So, lets say that you offered some scientific evidence of XYZ theory is true and then someone...

Who cares what you believe? Why would I ever suggest otherwise? That's not entirely sound logic but, okay... If all you were doing was wildly guessing with no thought at all to the evidence, then yeah, you'd have a 50-50 chance of guessing correctly. So what? True. A claim is either true or...

I sort of doubt that its even as much responsibility taken on by carrying a gun than there is by driving a car. Treating a gun as though its a holy relic or something is a great way to end up doing something stupid with it like getting it taken away and finding yourself shot with it by the bad...

Agreed. Many of the biblical prophecies concerned whole groups of people which is very doable and with the level of precision that God knows the hearts of the people in any particular group, it would not only be doable, it would be easy. There's no need for any sort of magic or meticulous...

Why do you believe that its necessary to carry a firearm to be a good citizen? Bearing arms is a right, not an obligation. George Washington himself didn't carry a firearm with him as a civilian. The reason you don't carry very often is because you don't feel any need to do so and if most...

Interesting point. All that would be required there is for God to make sure that Abraham's Y chromosome made the cut when the action was happening in Sarah's womb. If you extend that same sort of control out to the rest of the genetic material, then perhaps there's all sorts of things that God...

God knows a very great deal about people the moment they become people in the womb. While there may be an exception here and there, whether some particular person is going to accept Christ as their savior is surely unknowable in most, if not all, cases. When the bible speaks about people being...

Wow! Change the subject much? I'm not going to go into any detail on this at all but Israel is the bride of Christ. God has even divorced Israel in the past. There's a whole book of the Old Testament that is God's divorce decree. They will, however, be remarried. God literally would not be...

Okay, seriously! What are you doing here, really? You actually believe that there were twelve Apostles by some sort of accident or coincidence? What possible benefit could you possibly be deriving from showing up to say the most amazingly insipid things I've seen posted here in years! (Not...

“Best practices for internet voting are like best practices for drunk driving” – there’s no safe way to do either one." I do not disagree with that point. I recant my earlier post.

As far as this issue is concerned it doesn't even matter whether the vision recorded in Revelation was of a literal city, with literally twelve foundations, each with the literal names of the twelve apostles, literally written on them, or not. The point is that there is no biblical reason to...

That's an interesting thought! The answer is that it very likely could do exactly that. The block chain system is quite good at ensuring that a particular digital item, whether it be a digital coin, piece of art work, or a vote, is completely unique and the fact that votes are counted very...

What b57 is trying to teach here is that God is arbitrary. Go ahead, ask him! He won't deny it. “God is moved to mercy for no other reason but that he wills to be merciful.” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 22, Paragraph 8) “… predestination to glory is the...

Before they were born, yes, but not before they existed. You'll end up giving away the whole farm to the Calvinist here if you aren't careful.

Okay, so you're post was really long and so I wanted to bring special attention to this particular point for fear that it would get lost in the length of your post. What a great response to Derf's argument! It shows a familiarity with the text that I envy. Great job! Clete

God cannot see what will happen in the future. Therefore, God is not omniscient. YES! It is! And what do we know about the self-contradictory? In other words, don't stop your mind at that point. What does the fact that its self-contradictory mean you should do with that idea except to declare...

It is surely your doctrine that prevents you from seeing it. The text of scripture is clear as can be. There is NOTHING in the bible, whatsoever, that would suggest anything other than that Matthias replaced Judas - nothing. You're stretching here. It doesn't make any difference how many people...

Interesting question. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any reason why there would have to have been a hard dead line. I'm content with believing that there was a transitional period when the growth of the Kingdom was diminishing while the growth of the Body of Christ was increasing. If...