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Apr 2 |
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In light of Mark 10, how can Christians in good conscience purchase luxury items? Doesn't keeping the economy running use up more of the planet's resources making, say, ride-on lawn mowers instead of something that could help the needy (e.g. solar panels and mosquito nets for various countries in Africa)? I don't think your reasoning works as is. |
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Mar 31 |
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What are the theological implications/problems with theistic evolution? Can you expand on (4), perhaps? In Theistic Evolution, not only did God create the natural process but had a special hand in guiding it to the desired outcome, so why is it any less glory-bringing? In Job, God makes a big deal out of how impressive the natural world is...being part of that world (as well as in the image of God) would seem to be a glorious thing. |
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Mar 31 |
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What are the theological implications/problems with theistic evolution? Are you claiming the order of events in Genesis is thought to be accurate based on scientific evidence? It's not wholly different, but the order is pretty scrambled. |
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Mar 31 |
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What are the theological implications/problems with theistic evolution? You need to provide more reasoning for "a value less", in the question body, for this to be a decent answer. A counterexample: "I tweaked things for thirteen billion years to produce you" sounds like a lot more care was taken (and thus the result was more valued) than, "Oh, one day I decided to create you, and poof! there you were." Hence, an argument is needed. |
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Mar 22 |
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Do miracles violate the laws of physics? @MarcGravell - If you stop the sun in the sky, why not also alter the Earth's inertial reference frame while you're at it, match the centrifugal forces, do something sensible with the tides, etc. etc...if you created the entire universe, surely that wouldn't be too hard. |
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Mar 7 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 12 |
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What evidence is there to support the position that the Bible is truly the Word of God to mankind? @AffableGeek - Attraction and pair-bonding in humans is indeed studied scientifically, and there are some remarkably interesting findings (see oxytocin, vasopressin, etc.). This is tangential to the points here, but it seemed a sufficiently large error to be worth correcting. |
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Feb 12 |
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Bible evidence in favour of creationism? Given that many denominations of Christianity favor only a very weak version of creationism (not what is normally meant by the term), including, arguably, the Catholic Church, I would not anticipate that your agnostic friend would be highly swayed by the content of the Biblical evidence. |
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Feb 12 |
answered | Why did the Catholic church stop supporting Genesis creation? |
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Feb 11 |
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What evidence is there to support the position that the Bible is truly the Word of God to mankind? Unless there is very little evidence indeed, this question is overly broad for a StackExchange site. People write entire books on this topic. Can you at least split it up into questions covering different aspects of evidence (historical, scriptural, scientific, cultural, etc.), or better yet, ask questions about each particularly good piece of evidence? |
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Feb 7 |
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Neurotheology and God @MattWhite - Neuroquantology (as currently practiced) is not taken seriously by any neurobiologist I'm aware of, including ones who switched to biology from physics. The leading journal in the field, "Neuroquantology", mostly contains a collection of articles wishing that telepathy, ghosts, and various other supernatural phenomena were real, and hoping that by dropping the word "quantum" or "electromagnetic" enough, they will be spared the chore of providing hard evidence. But whether or not brain activity is deterministic has not been shown and is too daunting to admit an answer soon. |
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Feb 6 |
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Neurotheology and God That science and technology has "failed in the end" is a strange statement given that we're hardly at the end of science and technology. How would you know so soon (unless you actually knew all along)? |
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Feb 6 |
answered | Neurotheology and God |
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Feb 3 |
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What arguments would you give to teenagers who are unconcerned about eternal life? @PeterTurner - I think my "they don't care" answer covers my opinion, in that case. Even if not fun, they'd probably agree it was better than the alternative. That might be enough, depending on what your goals are. |
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Feb 3 |
answered | What arguments would you give to teenagers who are unconcerned about eternal life? |
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Jan 25 |
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What is the power that Christians possess? How could one tell the difference between manifesting the power of sanctification and not (where presumably people would mistakenly say that things were sanctified, but they would not be)? |
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Jan 25 |
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Who believes in Mechanical Inspiration? You mean that the writers might not have been aware of the meaning or even the words being written, but they wrote what they were directed to write nonetheless? |
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Jan 23 |
answered | Could more miraculous works bring more persons to faith? |
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Jan 20 |
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Why isn't the cross considered an idol? @KazDragon - Some commandments are nonetheless given priority over others. |
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Jan 16 |
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Why isn't the cross considered an idol? @DJClayworth - I did look at the quotes, and they did not clarify the matter; the JW quotes are basically the same ones, or there are an equal number leading to the opposite conclusion. (To counter Num. 21:4-9, there is Exodus 32:4-8, for instance.) |
