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um, my point was that big bang has nothing to do with creation/origin. something had to exist before something went boom; He created the heavens before He stretched them out like a tent. minor semantics

Nicene Creed: "We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen"

no that would be after the beginning. 'big bang' is not and never has been an origin theory; it is not concerned with creation itself but what the cosmos appears to have looked like in the earliest moments after creation.

John 1:10 - - the cosmos ((universe)) was made through Him.

OK i had to go looking.. here's "the SDA Indiana Jones" and his wife posing with a replica he made ((because he claimed he saw lots of stuff in a cave and then never went back)) ... and here is what actual swords from Palestine circa 1000 BC look like ((Assyrians and Egyptians favored a...

not you saying anything like this, of course, but just that the view you have lends itself to it. if i am saved but the person next to me isn't, and all else was equal except i made a better decision about responding to the gospel, then i could brag that i was smarter than the other person, i...

it occurs to me your argumentation might be improved if you get this part straight: not "or" "=" God ((Jesus)) says what He means.

i hoped he could be saved, when i was younger, because i thought if he couldn't be, what hope did i have? later when i understood more, i came to see he definitely isn't. in fact, i think now he will return: that he is in fact the antichrist. i still have growing up to do probably haha - - in...

Merriam Webster: ironic implies an attempt to be amusing or provocative by saying the opposite of what is meant. your answer to Mark 4 is that Jesus Christ, The Truth must be understood to be telling boldfaced lies as a literary device to get a smirk from His audience?? because your theology...

Whoah whoah whoah you're saying that when Jesus in very plain language told us in Mark 4 that He specifically taught in parables in order to keep some people blind and deaf, He was essentially lying ??? that's your explanation for clear scripture that contradicts your presumptions? Jesus...

if you know of something in Leviticus that contradicts the plain meaning of Haggai 2, that maybe i am forgetting, please quote it bro :confused: :)

Haggai demonstrates that holy things under the law become defiled if they touch or are touched things that are unclean. ((hence even if people are partially good and partially not, they are evil because of that which is not good - "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump" )) but Christ is God

Haggai 2:10-14 On the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth [month,] in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Now, ask the priests [concerning the] law, saying, "If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with...

if the old creature was fine, there was no need for a new one ;)

like what? i ain't saying he's 100%, but he sure has his wits about him, and worth a read.

it's really not until 9th to 11th century that 'catholic' even begins to have anything to do with what we call the rcc today. Rome was just one of 7 bishoprics, increasingly less and less influential, until the great schism and it became an entirely different church altogether from what is now...

gonna go out on a limb here and suggest we read both Erasmus and Luther before we start making statements about which was right or wrong.

hmmm why does God call them evil if He didn't mean evil? maybe His command of language is lacking, ha! and the second verse i put? if no one is good but God alone, we are all... what? kinda good?

that's the way we like it :love:

unless of course, as Christian orthodoxy states, He was given the grace to respond well, such that, he does not boast of his inherent merit or good decision-making, as your view would suggest he should, but instead of Christ Who transformed him... i can find the latter sentiment in his...