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What is the biblical counter-argument to the expression "the Universe provides"?
To treat of the creation as if it was a person capable of communication and able to answer a request for provision is idolatry :
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the ...
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What is the biblical counter-argument to the expression "the Universe provides"?
You could start with "Evey good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change" James ch1 v17, ...
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What is the biblical counter-argument to the expression "the Universe provides"?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? - Matthew 6:26
We do not know for ...
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What is the biblical counter-argument to the expression "the Universe provides"?
The Lillies of the Field (Luke 12:22-31; Matthew 6:24-34, KJV)
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ...
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How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?
Empirical Thomas "Empirical" Thomas, aka 'Doubting Thomas', did all of mankind a favor, if not just for the scientifically-minded modernists. No one can say that the disciples were just ...
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HOW does the existence of the Universe make those who do not worship God to be "without excuse"?
Most readers stop at vs 20, as does the OP. But the period at the end of this verse is artificial. The verse is actually the first half of a new sentence, not a conclusion to what has gone before:
So ...
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HOW does the existence of the Universe make those who do not worship God to be "without excuse"?
There are many good answers, and I'd like to add St. Thomas Aquinas's natural theology to the mix, but the best answer is if we can find one from St. Paul himself. And we do. St. Paul goes on to speak ...
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