[quote]I'd rather the American politicians and the people decide when it is over than the Iraqis.[/quote] The iraqis don't get a say in which militaries are active in their country?
If this entire planet was created for the sole reason of testing our souls then why should god bother as he will be able to figure out what each of us would do in any given situation and simply put us in the correct afterlife? Unborn people who die because of miscarriages. Will they passed or failed their tests when they have had no chance to do anything?
But didn't god make satan and designed him to do the things he does now?
I would also be instrested in hearing the answer to that question. KFC - god made Adam and Eve (and set up the world for the rest of us) knowing that he made them in such as a way so that they would make the choices they made which include the choice to eat the apple - when he made them he made them to make their choices and he must have know how they would make them. In the bridge analogy the maker made the saftey net knowing that it would never be used as the bridge/peo
But he did make them in such as way so that they would. If I make a bridge without enough supports who is to blame for it falling down the bridge or the maker?
But god created us with the brains that we use to decide what we do, god could have created us with brains that have free will but a greater desire to worship him. God must have set up in our brains the desire for some people not to worship him and therefore to be punished for it. He must have know that when he made Adam and Eve that they would fall as he is perfect and knows every consequence of his action.
How does eating Kosher prevent any of the following 'Plagues spread, earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, and fires'?
Don;t get me wrong, I'm not saying that the consensus is right just that there is one! I think we might have to agree to differ on this Paladin77....
'We have been lied to! We were told that there was a consensus among climatologists that man is the cause of global warming. If you have even one person that does not go along with this view then there is not a consensus' No, if one person does no along with the view it is not a unanimous view. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consensus</a
Sorry paladin77 but if most of the scientists agree and a very small number disagree then that is a c onsensus . A general view is a view held by most people, not every person.
Almost correct. You are only allowed to keep Hebrew male slaves for six years. If you buy a Hebrew slave, [B]he[/B] is to serve for only six years- Exodus 21 But females? When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. Exodus 21 And non Hebrews? 'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary
And while we are at it how about the slavery? The bible, as quoted above, says its fine and even gives rules for how it is to be done. What does Secular Humanism say about it?
In that case I must have misunderstood Zechariah13 ‘And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother, to whom he was born, will say to him, 'You must die, because you have told lies in the LORD's name.' When he prophesies, his own parents will stab him.’ And ‘Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inher
Actually I missed this one. Deuteronomy 13:7-12 'some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him . Your hand shall be fi
[quote who="erathoniel" comment="5"] I think you'll find religions offer plenty of reasons to kill, steal or destroy. Western Judaism/Christianity/Islam in particular offer lots of reasons, ranging from the sins of those you smite to the righteousness of slavery. Excuse me, I've never heard of a command to kill. [/quote] But how about slavery? King James version (american) Lev 25:44 'Both your slaves, and your bondmaids, which y
You may seriously doubt what he meant I thought that we had to go by what he wrote otherwise we open up the entire bible to interpretation
[quote] However, if you study God's Law, there is no contradiction between it and any law that is not a gross violation of human rights.[/quote] oh. How about 'Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.'
Sorry but are you saying that the bible isn't the exact way god wanted it to be but was actually influenced by what was happening at the time?
Sorry, you still haven't explained to me where in the passage from Paul there is that option. There is nothing in there about 'Assuming that it does not violate God's Law'.
If the king makes an unjust law then he is going against god's law but it is still god's word that people obay it.
There is no qualifier to that passage that I can find. Please tell if there is one. It doesn't not say 'apart from the following', it says all.
It is actually Peter 2:13 ' "Submit yourself to every ordinance of man...' http://www.tektonics.org/lp/obeylaw.html or
But the law of god is to obay any and all laws. Going against the 'ordinance of man' is itself going against the law of god.
Sorry I'll try again, perhaps my question was a little complicated. Where in the quote '"Submit yourself to every ordinance of man" is the word just?
He must agree with it as the guy has a blog on his website,in just the same way as Brad agrees with everything everybody on this says.
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