02 Sep 09
Originally posted by robbie carrobieTo state that to believe so much without a shred of evidence requires brainwashing from an early age is to state the obvious. Did you suddenly. of your own volition, decide that this book was sacred, or were you led into believing it by your religious teachers. Were you required to repeat the mantras of your faith until they became embedded into your brain, much like your multiplication tables. Were you told that people who didn't believe would go to Hell, and that this was your only salvation? I keep asking for evidence to support your assertion that this book is in any way inspired by divine intervention. Give me one example that proves that your beliefs are founded on anything other than faith.
i am not pandering to your misconceptions and construed claims of, read the text and the answer will come from within????? what are we some type of mystics, get a grip man! you have made the claim that the Bible cannot be inspired, that to think otherwise is brainwashing and ludicrous, with what have you substantiated your claims, nothingness! it is a veritable desert region, a tundra of emptiness, outside a lone coyote howls.......etc etc etc
02 Sep 09
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Originally posted by acb123yes quite, but this preoccupation of yours is based on an assumption, for example i myself did not adopt Christ as a model until i was twenty three years of age, therefore everything that you have stated with regard to youth is irrelevant and non applicable, look what you have assumed with regard to the teaching of 'hell' (which i do not believe the Bible teaches), all is folly, because it is self evident that it is assumed, and as we know, anything based on an assumption, is very precarious indeed!. I myself hold the view that the application of Bible principles in ones life are evidence of its worth and in my opinion, inspiration.
To state that to believe so much without a shred of evidence requires brainwashing from an early age is to state the obvious. Did you suddenly. of your own volition, decide that this book was sacred, or were you led into believing it by your religious teachers. Were you required to repeat the mantras of your faith until they became embedded into your brain, m on. Give me one example that proves that your beliefs are founded on anything other than faith.
(Matthew 11:19) . . .All the same, wisdom is proved righteous by its works. . .
04 Sep 09
Originally posted by RBHILLANSWER: True. If the population of the world was split up into families of 4 and each was given a piece of land 50' x 53' the entire population of the planet would fit neatly into the state of Oregon. [ The Unseen Hand, Ralph Epperson]
104. True or False? The entire population of the earth could fit in the state of Oregon.
Side note my own. If everyone could live forever then we wouldn't need to care about population control.