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| bio | website | johansens.us |
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| location | Michigan | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | Feb 17 at 21:51 | |
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Mar 23 |
answered | Religious justification for creating a large angry scene with the ostensible purpose of making people not gay |
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Mar 21 |
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Why does Paul pay special attention to the sexually immoral in 1 Corinthians 5:9-11? Note the passage you quoted included the phrase, "not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral". He is saying that Christians should not associate with someone who calls himself a Christian but who engages in flagrant, unrepentant sin. He then clarifies that he is not talking about people who do not claim to be Christians. As you say, if we did that, we couldn't engage in any sort of missions. |
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Mar 21 |
answered | Does the act of sex constitute marriage in God's eyes? |
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Mar 21 |
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What are the “correct” steps for a layman to be a Christian? I'm happy to discuss it if you care to spell out what you're driving at. |
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Mar 17 |
answered | How was documented dialog observed? |
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Mar 17 |
answered | What are the “correct” steps for a layman to be a Christian? |
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Mar 17 |
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Are there any atheists in the Bible? (... continued) unconvincing. But if a group of Smith supporters have a campaign planning meeting, it would be a waste of time to debate who they support: they all already agree. In that context it would not be surprising or unproductive for someone to say, "Why are people being fooled into thinking that Smith's policies are bad for the environment? How can we straighten out these confused people?" That's a context similar to Paul's comments in Romans 1. |
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Mar 17 |
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Are there any atheists in the Bible? I absolutely agree that if you are debating some question, and your key argument is, "If you don't agree with me, you're a moron", this is not helpful and is unlikely to convince your opponent. But in the quoted passage, Paul is not presenting an argument for the existence of God or trying to convince atheists that there is a God. He is addressing people who already agree with him on this point, and going from there. If we were debating, say, whether people should vote for Mr Smith or Mr Jones for president, then calling Jones supporters "fools" would be unproductive and (continued...) |
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Mar 17 |
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Are there any atheists in the Bible? Umm, Shredder describes an actual experiment. This is the DEFINITION of empirical evidence. Sure, by itself it's not conclusive: there may be other explanations, his observations may be flawed, he may be flat lying for all I know. But it is empirical evidence. What is NOT empirical evidence is when someone says, "Science has proven that miracles are impossible. You say you performed an experiment and observed a miracle? You must be lying or mistaken, because we know that miracles are impossible." |
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Mar 14 |
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Did the gospels really copy from each other? Matthew and John were eyewitness to much of what is in their Gospels. But Mark apparently was not an eyewitness: he got his information from Peter. And Luke appears to have gotten his information by interviewing others and reading other sources. I'm not sure if there's any evidence -- internal to the book or from external sources -- that Mark and Luke were eyewitnesses. I don't think anyone besides Jesus and Satan were present at the temptation in the wilderness, e.g., so all the accounts of that must have come from Jesus. |
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Mar 14 |
answered | Did the gospels really copy from each other? |
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Mar 14 |
answered | Where did Jesus go after he arose from the grave? |
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Mar 14 |
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Why haven't we revised the Bible in centuries? @El'endia But then Affable's comment would be incomprehensible. |
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Mar 13 |
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Why haven't we revised the Bible in centuries? @Affable Oops. At least you know who I meant. |
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Mar 12 |
answered | Why haven't we revised the Bible in centuries? |
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Mar 11 |
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Was Jesus recorded on the census? Okay, I find Tertullian's books on line, here's Answer to the Jews: newadvent.org/fathers/0308.htm, and Against Marcion: newadvent.org/fathers/0312.htm. |
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Mar 9 |
answered | Was Jesus recorded on the census? |
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Mar 7 |
answered | Did Adam and Eve's Progeny Commit Incest? |
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Mar 7 |
answered | What is so special about sitting at God's “right hand”? |
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Mar 7 |
answered | What is the purpose of describing who is son of who? |
