Credulity and religion
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:06:17 +0200
Mitochondrial DNA and fossil evidence would seem to suggest that 'modern'
humans have been around for the best part of a quarter of a million years.
But let's say a mere 100,000 to err on the conservative side.
So why, over a period of 97,000 + years, did the Christian deity look down
with indifference on the ...
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Re: Some Questions
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:56:30 GMT
On the back of a receipt from Mike Tucker's self-drive cow rental John
Cooper had written:
> And so we see that Jesus' death was predetermined by God, and he also
> holds people responsible for the dastardly deed.
Exactly. Once you twig that the transtemporal nature of God means that he
knows about completel ...
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Re: Some Questions
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:30:28 +0100
On 2009-10-13, Phil Saunders wrote:
> "Adam Funk" <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote in message
> news:137eq6xjlf.ln2@news.ducksburg.com...
>> On 2009-10-12, Phil Saunders wrote:
>>
>>> "Adam Funk" <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote in message
>>> news:v8ccq6xhf4.ln2@news.ducksburg.com...
>>>> On 2009-10-12, Phil Saunde ...
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Re: Am I an Intellectual?
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:34:08 +0100
On 2009-10-12, Alwyn wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2009-10-12, Alwyn wrote:
>> a few are episcopalian.
>>
>> Anywhere except in Germany?
>
> According to Wikipedia:
>
> 'The Reformed Church in Hungary, as well as its sister church in Romania
> and daughter church in the United States (Hungarian Reforme ...
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Re: Some Questions
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:04:35 GMT
On the back of a receipt from Mike Tucker's self-drive cow rental Phil
Saunders had written:
> Despite this God has decided to save some of us and He has predestined
> us to be conformed to the image of Christ. That is what the scripture
> teaches.
For some read all. Once you accept that the gospel is univers ...
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Re: Some Questions
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:06:25 +0100
On 2009-10-12, Phil Saunders wrote:
> "Adam Funk" <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote in message
> news:v8ccq6xhf4.ln2@news.ducksburg.com...
>> On 2009-10-12, Phil Saunders wrote:
>>> Mark is incorrect, there is no support for the idea that one can be saved
>>> more than once which the arminian view requires since ...
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Re: Am I an Intellectual?
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:59:43 +0100
On 2009-10-12, Alwyn wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>>
>> What's the overlap (in a sort of Venn diagram sense) between
>> Presbyterians and Calvinists? Is Presbyterianism in the UK the same
>> as in the USA?
>
> I've always thought of Presbyterianism in terms of a certain systemm of
> church government:
><htt ...
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Re: Some Questions
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:22:39 +0100
On 2009-10-12, Phil Saunders wrote:
> "Ripon43" <ripon43@spam.net> wrote in message
> news:0t16d59c4ucilrivr25ddc9ds0ud819tm1@4ax.com...
>> As Mark pointed out, there is support in the bible for both the
>> calvinistic view and the arminian view, and the discussion helped be
>> understand your view better.
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Re: Am I an Intellectual?
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:21:52 +0100
On 2009-10-12, Mark Goodge wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:36:44 +0100, "1st Century Apostolic
> Traditionalist" <broadband1234[remove]@ntlworld.com> put finger to
> keyboard and typed:
>>Now explain the 'apparent contradictions' which are an obvious problem to
>>you, but are nothing but pure clarity to me.. ...
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Re: Am I an Intellectual?
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:09:23 +0100
On 2009-10-11, Mark Goodge wrote:
> Contemporary groups who teach both predestination and infant baptism
> (such as some Presbyterians) would generally disagree with Calvin on
> the question of election being conferred on children of the elect.
> Rather, they have modified their theology of baptism so that it is ...
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