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@Stephen
well everything could be considered " a fact or situation which is observed to happen" but all i'm saying is that there's no real mystery to it. People accept Christ for a number of reasons, just like people decide atheism is the way to go for various reasons.
People become set in their ways from their youth by holding on to beliefs and ideas acquired through various means. Myself i know i retain many things from my teenage years, including the music i like and at least some of the attitudes i had back then.
There are many people who cry out to a God on thier death bed , but often it is a nonspecific God so whether they become Christian is questionable.
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@Stephen
For me, it was the evidence from fulfilled prophesy and the lack of evidence for any alternative to ceation by an intelligent creator.
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@Stephen
Maybe you could rephrase the question, as i don't see any mystery about this phenomenon. It is most often young adults who turn to Christ because the older we get the more set in our ways we become and are less likely to become Christians. Deathbed conversions are extremely rare.
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@Stephen
Having Christianity foisted upon you does not make you a Christian, it is an individual decision once one is at the age of understanding.
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@Jarrett_Ludolph
As far as origins is concerned the two are obviously contradictory
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@Checkmate
can't speak for everyone but i have never used terror tactics to teach my children about anything
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@Checkmate
By teaching them that their actions bring consequences whether it be from lying or any other wrong doing. Teaching about hell does not need to be terrifying for them.
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@Checkmate
How you teach them about hell is more important.
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@WaterPhoenix
It goes without saying and most people know that science refers to the scientific community.
Any scientist can attest that science cannot prove anything since they can never be sure they have all the evidence,many facts iin science have been overturned by the discovery of new evidence and this is why scientists almost always use tentative language when reporting their findings.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Racism is wrong and people who discriminate against any group of people are wrong. Don't see your point.
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@Stephen
Never said that science or scientists believe Darwin to be racist and that would be an appeal to authority, but his various writings speak for themselves.
Nature is not racist, it does not discriminate who or what it kills and it is not always the strongest that survives. Racism is a human concept since there is no biological basis for race, we are all humans with the same blood the same DNA structure and only really minor differences in outward appearance.
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@Stephen
Read Darwin's books and letters, it is clear he meant favoured races, it is even in the full title of his most famous book.
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@WaterPhoenix
Ithinkyou missed something, I said science is racist if
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@fauxlaw
Actually, I think the cancel culture is ridiculous, although I don't care about statues,
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@ILikePie5
If science believes what Darwin believed about' favoured races' then ,yes, science is racist.
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With all the statues and images being destroyed I haven't heard about any Darwin images being cancelled.His books and other writings are about as racist as anything I've read.
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@ludofl3x
Reading and understanding are two different things . Most atheists objections indicate that they don't understand grammar, or read very carefully.
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@BrotherDThomas
Only the true vine (John 15)
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@crossed
Well, revelation 22.2 says the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations , so it would not be surprise that medicines are present in plant material and many ,if not all medicines are derived originally from natural sources.
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@zedvictor4
If the natural order was different every day how could one formulate anything lasting?
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@janesix
Couldn't do science in a chaotic universe.
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@Stephen
Since all my posts are pro- Christian it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what I consider to be myths and the one I don't.
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@Stephen
Most, if not all of these have been refuted, for those who are open minded enough to search.
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@Melcharaz
A 4 sided triangle would not be a triangle, and why would God make something he couldn't lift, this kind of thinking is just grabbing at straws.
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@zedvictor4
So, no evidence, just asserting a perceived absolute.
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@zedvictor4
Atheists cannot prove that a God does not exist, just as theists cannot prove that a God does exist.
The above statement is an unequivocal truism....So who amongst our Dart theists is prepared to agree?
What evidence supports these claims?
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@zedvictor4
Atheists cannot prove that a God does not exist, just as theists cannot prove that a God does exist.
Can you prove the above statement. Atheists may not have found the evidence that God doesn't exist yet.
The above statement is an unequivocal truism....So who amongst our Dart theists is prepared to agree?
If you can't prove that atheists can't prove that God doesn't exist and theists can't prove that God does exist then how is it a truism.
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@Dr.Franklin
Is this some kind of reply to someone?????
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@RationalMadman
It could also be part of the birth pangs leading up to the tribulations.
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@Alec
If God didn't have all these attributes, he wouldn't be much of a God.
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The plain reading of Genesis does not support the "Gap Theory" or "Progressive creationism" and reads as nothing other than real history and it takes grammatical acrobatics to make it say otherwise. Jesus also only treated it as real historical events.And since creation and the flood are mentioned or alluded to in every book of the Bible, this can give a better understanding of the rest of scripture.
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@ludofl3x
Actually nothing the evolutionists do or say makes me uncomfortable in the slightest.
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@ludofl3x
So, if that is true then why do evolutionists try to keep looking further and further back in time, if not looking for origins. Evolutionists have also proposed things like the "big bang" as the origin of the universe.
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@ludofl3x
So if evolution doesn't deal with origins then any claim that we were originally apelike creatures is invalid, as would be any claim about where we originated from.
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@ludofl3x
Anyone is free to believe what they want but should look at all the evidence, including the different interpretations of the evidence to decide what to believe.
Evolutionists allege that modern humans originated from apelike creatures and, before that from single cell organisms, so this is still dealing with origins.
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@ludofl3x
Which is one reason why evolution and creation creation are incompatable, evolutionary science can not tell us how everything originated, but God tells us in plain straight forward language.
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@ludofl3x
Darwin believed it could be applied to origins and one of his influences said he wanted to "free the science from Moses", so these men were convinced that evolution could explain the "Origin of Life".
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@ludofl3x
So, evolution is a creative process, so why could it not create life?
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@secularmerlin
So then evolution cannot create anything, right?, including new species.
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@secularmerlin
The ability to create, in order for something to change( evolve), it first has to exist. So, is evolution a force that is able to create everything?
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@Dynasty
That is the appeal to authority fallacy, just because someone has a series of letters after their name doesn't necessarily mean they know what they are talking about.
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@Dynasty
if by evolution, you mean adaptive change, that is an observable phenomena, if, on the other hand you mean that evolution is a creative force, that is not what we see.
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@Seth
It doesn't, it is atheistic scientists that have made the claim
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@Dynasty
Which version of evolution are you referring to?
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@Mopac
We certainly respect scripture as authoritative.
Then why so many anti Biblical practises like considering Mary co-redeemer with Christ, which I know you will deny but that is what is done
However, sola scriptura leads to 30,000 plus denominations that don't know the God they worship. Scripture detached from the church is removed from its proper context.
Only if it is taken out of context and rules of grammar are ignored. The gospel message can be understood by anyone without any Church being involved.
The Orthodox Catholic Church is the very church of the apostles, and we have preserved the teachings. This is evident by the enlightened doctrine that the church has consistently maintained for millennia.
The proper conclusion of the reformation is reunion with the Orthodox Church. The Latin church had been broken off from Orthodox Christianity for over 500 years by the time the reformers left them.
Yes the Catholic Church was very true to Christianity, but has strayed far from it, such as when they supported the Nazis in order to protect their wealth.
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@Mopac
Most Jewish scholars consider Genesis as being a literal account of creation and although the Bible is not a science book, wherever it touches on scientific subjects it is 100% accurate.
No matter what fallible humans (the Church) think, it is Scripture that should be a Christians authority.
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@Salixes
Quite the contrary, I have been to many churches due to numerous moves,Baptist, pentacostal, free Methodist and my wife attended catholic church
and none of these incited hate toward anyone.
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@Salixes
What many fail to grasp is that it is not denominations that go to heaven, it is individuals and even though Christians are advised to fellowship with other Christians, not all in any denomination are truly saved, they all have some who don't walk the walk. There are also those who spend a lifetime serving in the church who have no clue about the actual gospel message. In that respect, yes, many who call themselves Christian will not go to heaven. As for 99.99%, only God knows the percentage.
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