I indented your responses along with italicisation, Don. Your responses are easily identifiable based on any reader's capability to distinguish your pronounced zeal from my responses.
It is absurd to think you aren't tempted by sin when ALL of us are.
Where is God? Look up. He doesn't have to prove Himself to you. He has done that already in His Creation, and He did that by sending His only begotten Son to die for His people.
BAH? Are you a fan of Scrooge?
He wrote the original autographs, I.e. The original documents. The boards of people who translated the Hebrew and the Greek and Jewish from the original documents wrote good translations in the dependable versions as no valid mistakes can be detected, at least none that change the meanings of the verses.
The ancient kingdoms knew God. He made Himself known by them. If you read through the Old Testament, you can see that. You say that Israel borrowed from other religions. It is no surprise that other nations knew Jehovah and His ways, or that those kingdoms worshipped Satan. Even Israel went astray from God.
"Their make believe nation?" Why do you hate Israel?
Buckeroo is looking for something like where he can look up and see that the sky is blue. Then he can agree that the sky is blue. In the old days before Columbus. Buckeroo would have been on the forum. If they had them back then. Saying the world is flat. I walk and see that it is flat. He would laugh at and mock at those who said the world was round. But if he looked in scripture like I believe some have said Columbus did. Anyways if he had looked in scripture he would have known that the world was round.
Because as Isiah says in chapter 40 verse 20
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Break out of the Jimmy Bakker/Jerry Falwell "Christian" duality mind meld, Don. You present a case of "dualism" wherein there is "Satan" vs. "God" or "Evil" vs. "Good" or "Lie" vs. "Truth" or some other disguised case of dualism. But you never touch on subjects that are "shades of gray" between the diametrically opposite poles of discussion; and this is where your religion enters the picture of interpretation about reality or the real world around us. Your picture of religious interpretation is based on your Sunday School picture wherein you have acquiesed to the mortal man standing behind the podium and interpretating the "Holy Bible" for you.
So, you run around the Internet playing christian evangelist spreading the "good word" because you heard it in a Sunday School presentation candy wrapped as "the good word" when in fact, it is nothing more than a interpretation at your church of worship. And you pay your 20% titheing as if you had a dime in your all-ready empty pockets. And you fill content and fulfilled as practicing as a "Christian."
Unfortunately, you havn't convinced me that you are any closer to "God" than a Jehovah Witness knocking on my front door anxious to give me a copy of the WatchTower; you havn't convinced me that you know anything about "God" any more than a cheap charlatan masked as a snake oil salesman at a Barnum/Bailey Circus Wagon trying to make a buck.
Earlier I suggested you maintained a fantastick sort of "pronounced zeal" which should have struck you as an obvious indicator of your patent attempt towards appealing towards some emotional characteristic that you identify with.
As for your dualistic question, you can answer that on your own.
As I look over your many posts about your self-acclaimed pedagogical approach concerning evangelical Christian ministerires, I see you can not answer simple questions. Yet, on the Internet, you have admitted to having many educational degrees of study about your faith, thus testifying to your committment of Jesus Christ.
Why can't you answer simple questions? Instead, you reply with some sort of common BS as italized, above.
God said it. He is the best one to know, since He is the center of righteousness and all other attributes of God.
Please explain how you know that "God said it." Don't you really mean to say, "you believe God said it"; please be precise within your communications skills without offering mere conjecture, speculation and other unsubstantiated ideas.
I know it because I know there is a God who is sovereign over His Universe. Anyone who has a relationship with God knows He exists. A child of Satan cannot believe because Satan has a blindfold over his eyes. I suppose you cannot understand this type of evidence, and I should be patient with you. Not only are you blind to God, but you are condemned and your eyes will be opened when you stand before God at His Judgement Seat. The best that any Christian can do for you is pray for you.
I know it because I know there is a God who is sovereign over His Universe.
Don - you have used redundancy and restatement as a method to provide support for your argument; if you allow me to parse your statement, I shall explain "why" ---
I know it
This partial sentence sets the foundation for your approach that you intend to establish ---
because
Sets the framework for supporting data within the context of your earlier foundation; this substructure of the sentence is the declarative or refinement of the conjugative context ---
I know there is a God
Is a restatement of the earlier foundation by mere substitution of "it" with "there is a God"; this is redundant and nothing more than restatement with substitution. You have ineffectively added to anyone's understanding about supporting mechanisms for your presentation. But you don't stop at your own nonsupportive discussion, you struggle by attempting to clarify your brief definition of "God" ---
who is sovereign over His Universe.
This is an unfortunate structural attempt at limiting "God" in the context of "His Universe" because your struggle for clarification actually confuses any reader of your post, i.e. infers other universes; furthermore your point infers that your belief of a "Satan" as the master of his or its own Universe may bridge all of humanity with God's eternal war against Satan with humanity caught in the middle of of "good" vs. "evil" battle which is a dualistic principle that I earlier introduced to you.
The obvious error with your attempt to explain or clarify God's role about the Universe is that you position God as far from being sovereign of or about humanity or the Universe since there is an interactive characteristic that reflects some sort of meaningful conflict between "His Universe" and some other Universe or even many other Universes; this means the conflict may have infinite relationships; which means God does not possess any more sovereignty about the world around us than anyone else, including yourself. In other words, if such conflict is true, you imply God is limited and therefore God does not possess the power that you profess.
I find your first statement to be redundant and revealing of a contradictory nature. For the rest of your post, I shall ignore altogether as you don't have the knowledge that you profess to have; you may believe your knowledge but you can't explain your way out of a wet paper bag to use a borrowed and often overused cliché.
I may well repeat things when you don't seem to be "getting it." To show you again, I do believe that God is the boss in His Universe. " I know it" is a partial statement to you. There is a subject and a verb which makes a complete sentence. If you are referring to "it," there is sufficient information to allow understanding the sentence. What is your educational level? I ask since you want to teach me how to compose a sentence in the English language.
I will forego reading or commenting on the rest of your post since your response is devoid of supporting your stand and is merely an attempt to impress me with your level of nonsense.
I may well repeat things when you don't seem to be "getting it." To show you again, I do believe that God is the boss in His Universe.
Donnie, Donnie, Donnie ... I understand your points; my issue is that you confuse your points to me and all the readership. So, lets parse your statement:
I do believe that God is the boss in His Universe.
What happened to the idea or the concept or the belief or the holy focus of an all powerful God being omnipotent and ever present in all things? Why do you limit the power of God by suggesting your above quote? Don't you see you have hampered your own opinion? This is what I question about you and you can not answer my question because you are so involved with using words words by your fellow trusted "Christian" compadres, you can not snap out of the mind meld.
Spare the viewing audience your own blastphemy by intentionally limiting the power of God.
You do know the difference between presenting an argument based on objective evidence opposed to stating assertions?
If you refuse to examine the Scriptures, then you are not debating said Scriptures but making assertions based on your subjective propaganda.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
You initiated this thread with some cheap "chick" kartoons. I have asked you questions with some historical tidbits about your frequently overused self-aclaimed degrees in Bible study and all you can say is:
You do know the difference between presenting an argument based on objective evidence opposed to stating assertions?
Man, you got balls. And this was YOUR thread. You are worthless to a discussion of and about your own presented material.
And I stand by my post. You do not present polemical arguments only assertions.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
Entirely possible......because the target demographic of this forum is: "Old, angry, white guys, who thrive on hatred and personal attacks, do not admit to wearing adult diapers, and haven't been capable of forming an original thought since those bastard dems brought down Nixon.
But I am hopeful that the absence of stone's regulars can be attributed to reduced computer time at the Arkansas nursing homes, and not anyone's actual demise.
Entirely possible......because the target demographic of this forum is: "Old, angry, white guys, who thrive on hatred and personal attacks, do not admit to wearing adult diapers, and haven't been capable of forming an original thought since those bastard dems brought down Nixon.
What is wrong with white guys. I'm white are you? Just curious.
Oh sure, Jesus just loves us like a little huggy bear leaving a Chick Tract as you do, everywhere you go. Sorry pal, you lose the debate and emotional appeal.
I will answer this post when you frame it in a manner showing some logic. Try it again.
Nope. As the thread title was created this is serious debate. And you do not understand that your "faith" about myths is killing any interest from political posters, but .....
Not a thing! I was simply framing the "tea party" and "conservative" majority demographic as being overwhelmingly old, angry and white.
I could care less about Nixon
Yeah, me too - But I actually heard this angry old white guy wearing a VFW hat and suspenders loudly bitching about something or other, who finished his rant with "...since those bastard dems brought down Nixon..."
LOL
What is old? You know how many years.
being old has nothing to do with years.....being old has everything to do with narrow-mindedness.....IMHO
Yeah, Stone mentioned this a few months ago. Miss O'l Biff Tannen. Last few weeks of posts from him he was deep in the epistles of Paul.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
But I am hopeful that the absence of stone's regulars can be attributed to reduced computer time at the Arkansas nursing homes, and not anyone's actual demise.
I have to say that was funny. I will note having a mother of nursing home age, with the Boomers heading to managed care facilities the demand for WiFi has increased. It better since the mean age of FR posters is about 65.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
Oh sure, Jesus just loves us like a little huggy bear
Well Jesus does love you buckeroo:
John 1:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
No. Most folks are seeking answers beyond myth, is all. They are tired of the rants in established churches of and about any faith. If there is a God, established man made churches of any faith are unnecessary for most. If you note, there is waning personal attendence across the spectrum of religion for most churches.
There is also waning belief in churches and increased weird beliefs in churches as well. That doesn't mean Biblical teaching is myth: It does possibly mean that we are in the last days as given in the Book of Revelation.