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How do Christians who reject Young Earth Creationism respond to the "God is not a liar" argument?
To put it simply, Old Earth proponents do not believe "God is a liar" but that YEC proponents have misunderstood the Bible.
YEC insist on a literal interpretation of Genesis (they call it &...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
There was a gap of about 400 years between the two Testaments, with the OT covering a vast time span, from creation till then. Taking the time from after the Flood, that alone has been variously ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
If you read the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation, you'll notice:
God's consistent character, who is compassionate and merciful to those who love and fear Him but who pours out His wrath to ...
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Do Mormons actually believe in any sort of supreme being/ultimate reality/"Absolute"?
Short answer is that the Mormon God, Heavenly Father, is as supreme as it's going to get.
On your misconceptions on the Mormon belief about God:
Not creating matter - you are correct in your ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
Wrath is an important part of God's nature. I think a good way into answering this question is to ask the question, 'What did Jesus save us from?'
They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve ...
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Mormonism doctrine of a flesh & bones God
Good question.
God is a spirit as we are spirits—each human has a spirit residing within a mortal body. Likewise, Mormons believe God is a spirit residing within a perfected, glorified, and immortal ...
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According to the Catholic Church, why is God called “Father” (and not, say, “Mother”)?
The short answer is that, from the Catholic Church’s perspective, God did not merely choose to reveal Himself as Father. Rather, He is Father by nature, in two respects: through the eternal generation ...
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How is God's omnipotence compatible with His inability to sin/do evil?
Secular Definition: An omnipotent being is one who has unlimited power and is able to do anything:
having unlimited power; able to do anything. - Oxford Languages
having the power to do anything: - ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
Paul explains there are two covenants. First we need to understand them.
Galatians 4:21-26
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham ...
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Why were ousia and hypostasis synonymous in the Nicene Creed?
This response has been extracted from a longer article of mine on the subject (linked at the end) , hence the discontinuous numbering of its sections.
1. Ousía in Greek philosophical discourse
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How do Trinitarians respond to the objection that God cannot be a man based on Hosea 11:9?
Hosea 11:9 says "I am God and not a man." But it says neither "I am God and cannot become a man" nor "I am God and cannot be a man", which the OP has put in the title ...
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Does God ever answer prayers from non-believers?
First, you can rest assured God answers the prayer of an unbeliever or non-Christian when they call upon the name of the Lord in faith. I'm assuming of course that the Holy Spirit has brought the ...
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What is the Biblical evidence that God exists outside of time?
It is common to hear phrases such as "God exists outside of time"
I prefer to put it a different way: time is an attribute of the created universe. If we then accept that God created the ...
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What is the source of this quote from St. Augustine?
The problem with references to church fathers is that they get paraphrased from time to time. Sometimes you will just have to look in Augustine for similar terminology and see if you can find the ...
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From a trinitarian perspective, how do you biblically reconcile Jesus dying and Jesus being God?
The Doctrinal Position
Trinitarian position usually includes the doctrine of Jesus's having two natures in one person (Hypostatic Union). Armed with both the doctrine of Trinity and the Hypostatic ...
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Is Jesus the only son of God?
1. Jesus is uniquely begotten from the Father, and so is uniquely the Son of God in that sense. See Luke 1:35
"The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power
of the Most ...
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How can one counter-argue this argument against the existence of God?
Mark had a good answer, to which I will add a separate angle.
The word "perfect" can mean essentially two things in English:
Flawless/pure; and
Complete/finished.
It appears to me that the ...
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Psalm 88: does it apply to the New Testament's Christian God?
The Psalm does not describe God as "a God that abandons his children and could care less about them being fruitful and having support etc.", since it does not say the response that the ...
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In which writing(s) did Augustine assert that God exists outside of time?
Augustine addresses this question in at least the Confessions and the City of God. In book 11 of the Confessions he deals with the subject of time extensively, and ultimately he decides that it is ...
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Is God's sovereignty a term associated with Reformed theology?
While the idea of God's sovereignty is closely associated with Reformed theology, other traditions also deal with it. Here are a few examples from prominent authors from various traditions.
Lutheran: ...
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Is it Biblical for a Christian to say that God is a tyrant?
From Brittanica.com:
Tyrant, Greek tyrannos, a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or
inherited such power. In the 10th and 9th centuries ...
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How can one counter-argue this argument against the existence of God?
Even as a heathen atheist and cultural Jew I can see the problem with this. Any argument based on "God is perfect" presumes that we're able to judge what perfection is. The argument you ...
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Trinitarian Christianity says Jesus was fully God and Fully man. Did Jesus (the man) know this to be the case?
Did he know he was human?
He repeatedly referred to himself as the Son of Man, through the Gospels.
Did He know He was God?
"I and the Father are one." (Jn 10:30)
"He who has seen Me ...
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In Trinitarian theology who created the world?
In Trinitarian thought, God has one will and one action. Everything is accomplished by the Three Persons of the Trinity acting in unity. This applies to creation as well. The typical language is along ...
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Do Catholics eat the substance of the Father during "communion"?
Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation is a Latin word consisting of trans (a transition or change) and substantia (substance, or what [makes a thing what] a thing is). Properly, then, it means '...
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How do Trinitarians explain John 17:3?
That scripture verse that you mention was used by Arius to maintain that Jesus was not of same nature as Father. However, his objection was resolved.
St. Thomas explains the difficulty you mention in ...
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What is meant by Living God? Why is Lord Jesus the True Living God?
The term "Living God" was in common use in the Old Testament, and when Jesus came He was naturally called the "Son of the Living God".
As you indicated, "Living" means ...
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