LOL, It's my job man. Card carrying member of the Curmudgeon Club.
folks who post large personal iconic graphics with every single post they write (see Sabertooth, Atomic Possum, etc.)
You mean like this one?
Posted on 12/10/2004 7:08:12 AM PST by Michael_Michaelangelo
NEW YORK -- A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes in God -- more or less -- based on scientific evidence, and says so on a video released Thursday.
At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone interview from England.
(Excerpt) Read more at nynewsday.com ...
betty boop: Indeed. That would be both unreasonable and uncharitable.
It appears that Mr. Flew was significantly persuaded by Gerald Schroeder - an Orthodox Jewish Physicist we cite now and again on various science threads.
IOW, it appears to me that Mr. Flew was sensitive to an intellectual argument for God. But that is not the same as the Christian witness spoken of in so very many passages throughout Scripture – namely, letting our light (actually, His Light) shine, loving our neighbors, kindness and such. Jesus honors us by allowing the unbeliever to hear Him through us. We can do nothing on our own (John 15). And not every unbeliever can (or is willing to) hear Him (John 10).
IMHO, it is rarely successful when a Christian beats an unbeliever over the head with a five pound Bible – however, a “surgical” mentioning of passages applicable to the unbeliever’s quandary of the moment – or even just leaving the Scriptures here and there (Gideon’s approach) - is always effective (Isaiah 55:11).
LOL, It's my job man. Card carrying member of the Curmudgeon Club.
folks who post large personal iconic graphics with every single post they write (see Sabertooth, Atomic Possum, etc.)
You mean like this one?
Where is the evidence to the contrary?
"If they are not equal, then what happens if they disagree or overlap ?"
They never disagree or overlap. They all have thier set functions that take care of everything in the universe. (more complete guessing)
"Where is the evidence to the contrary?"
The burden of proof is not on me. It is on the one making the claim that thier IS a heaven.
Nothing. I forgot to do it. Normally I do, but this time I was in a hurry and posted it without checking. I apologize.
It's nice to know you are policing the boards, though.
How did they get their assigned functions ?
Dan
(c;
Geez! thanks SO MUCH for an image that I'm sure will haunt my ENTIRE DAY!
Dan
8^D
It is not my place--nor intent to convince anyone of anything.You are entitled to your fuzzyheaded suppositions.
I find comfort in Scripture that bit about They shall know the truth and the truth shall set them free." I personally
find it B.S. that any unbeliever should embrace the false
doctrine of secular humanism.for that is against Nature and
Natures God.
It's not so hard nor does it take so long
to look through the threads posted the previous day.
I, for one, want to know what others might have said about a topic that interests me.
It's more than a bit of a pain in the a**
to go back to look for other threads that have discussed the exact same article
and to follow the discussion on two (or more) different threads.
If you are taking the contrary position, yes it is. The "There is no afterlife" argument is not self-evident.
I haven't read the whole thread and don't even know the man, but my first thought on reading the title was ------How many people did he influence with his previous belief?
Maybe God turned the switch on. Maybe he didn't. Only he knows.
The Pope is not making this claim on his own and he is not the source of the claim. This claim was demonstrated by Jesus Christ, by his words and his resurrection.
Now troubles are many, they're as deep as a well.
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell.
Swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell,
But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell.
Yes only my dying will tell.
Yeah, only my dying will tell.
Blood, Sweat and Tears
A little dose of love with every helping of abuse. :^}
The Atheist's dilemma...
Granted. But laziness overcomes me more often than not. Plus, on second threads you don't get the same mix of opinion on the topic previously discussed, and it's entertaining to see the divergence of opinions, to me.
Canucks fan, or one of those frozen-tundra easterners?
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