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Old 08-14-2018, 05:19 PM   #7696
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I have provided you with a list of books. Do you want it again?

Personally my "animus" is for the religion, not those who believe it. "Hate the sin and love the sinner."

Scripture proves nothing.

Wrong. All of the above is subject to revision, refinement, even outright rejection should evidence require it.
I don't want a list of books. Just provide the direct hard evidence that abiogensis is a valid theory.
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Have you read all these "other religious books"? If not then how could you possibly know?
I don't have to. Those worldly ideas have no message of salvation for mankind, unless you count self-help ideas as such a message -- which, again, would make the bible unique because the bible isn't about what man can do to earn God's favor, but what God has done to actually save many.
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I don't want a list of books. Just provide the direct hard evidence that abiogensis is a valid theory.
It's in the books.
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I don't have to. Those worldly ideas have no message of salvation for mankind ...
Straw Man! Since you have not read the books how could you possibly know that? You can't! You are are expressing an idea for which you have no evidence.
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Straw Man! Since you have not read the books how could you possibly know that? You can't! You are are expressing an idea for which you have no evidence.
Not true! I have an abundance of evidence: How many people have come to your house to evangelize you on Zeus , Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes,Hestia or Dionysus. And this is the pantheon of just Greek gods. We could go down the list of hundreds, if not thousands of other gods and ask the same question and get the same answer.

Heck...even Jews don't evangelize. Muslims don't either. The closest anyone can come to evangelical Christianity are a couple of cults (JWs and Mormons, primarily), who go door knockin'. And that's to be expected; for most in those groups will be those who have professed Christ, yet on the last day will hear those dreadful words of Jesus in Mat 7:21-23.

But because Christianity truly does have good news to share with the world, both Christians in full time ministry and not preach the gospel all around the world. The Christian's God is truly unique and has something meaningful to say to the lost in the world, other than "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" or some equivalent.

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It's in the books.
But not on the web?

Here's a clue for you, Dumpty: Abiogenesis is another fairy tale. It never happened and no one has any hard, direct evidence that it has .
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Not true! I have an abundance of evidence: How many people have come to your house to evangelize you on Zeus , Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes,Hestia or Dionysus. And this is the pantheon of just Greek gods. We could go down the list of hundreds, if not thousands of other gods and ask the same question and get the same answer.
I repeat, how can you know if you have not read their books? You can't.

It's still a straw man. It's convenient that you listed the gods of a religion that few practice today. Try Hinduism.
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Abiogenesis is another fairy tale. It never happened and no one has any hard, direct evidence that it
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  • Genesis: the Scientific Quest for Life's Origin by Robert M. Hazen. ISBN 0-309-09432-1
  • Atomic Evidence: Seeing the Molecular Basis of Life by David S. Goodsell ISBN 978-3-319-32508-1
  • The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell ISBN 0-387-97846-1
  • The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart A. Kauffman ISBN 0-19-505811-9
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I repeat, how can you know if you have not read their books? You can't.

It's still a straw man. It's convenient that you listed the gods of a religion that few practice today. Try Hinduism.
I never had a Hindu knock on my door either spreading their good news -- not even their sacred cow manure. Nor have I ever heard of a Hindus evangelizing.

I omitted a lot of religions because, as Hcap is so fond of pointing out to us so often, they share this common behavior (in this case), in that none of them have any good news to share with the world. No, not one! But Christianity is unique. Christians have the greatest news in the world to share with the world!
This is why we try to share the gospel of forgiveness whenever we can.

And the Far East religions/philosophies are no better. Have you ever been evangelized by a Buddhist? I haven't. And what great news do they have to offer -- that's it's the religion of 1,001 chances in case none of us get it right in this life? And if we don't, then we can all get to look forward to do this life over and over and over and over...until someday we do? That's the good news?

All those books out there that I haven't read have this in common: Not one of them teach that God so loved the world that he took on human flesh so that he could die and pay the penalty of sin for all those who would believe on him. Not one of these religions can say about themselves what Paul said about himself, for example, that the grace of God was poured out on him abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ (1Tim 1:14).

If any of these books taught these kinds of things, the believers would be compelled by God's grace within their soul to share that kind of great news with their fellow man. I don't have to read all the world's religious or philosophical books to discern the best from the rest. There is no religious leader under heaven whose wisdom can begin to compare with Christ's.

I mean...look at how the story that got off to a rocky start in the Garden of Eden, nonetheless it finally winds up with a very happy and glorious ending in a new and even better Eden! The infinite wisdom of God is such that he can work his will and purpose for all his created imagers, through their very corrupt free wills, to achieve his objective -- to reach his intended goal. He can work his will through us in spite of our sinful hearts, which is also the seat of our volition.

Tell me, Mr. Actor, which other god in any other religion has done such a thing? But if Hcap's "wisdom" is emblematic of the world's, Hcap would have had God do a huge do-over. He would have had God abandon his idea of creating creatures made in his image. He would have had God admit defeat, and start over again. But would a defeated God been worthy of our love, adoration, faith and obedience? Wouldn't the serpent god who gained the victory in the Garden been far more worthy of our loyalty?

If for no other reason at all...God is worthy of our love, adoration and reverence just for his pure genius -- just for his infinite knowledge and wisdom and his power to implement his will -- in spite of all his fallen, hate-filled, rebellious imagers resisting him and even outright rejecting him. To my mind, that kind of God is more than impressive. I'm awe-struck by such a loving and all-wise God.
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Well...then...at least they're civilized. I mean...even John the Baptist's head was served up on a platter.
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I never had a Hindu knock on my door either spreading their good news -- not even their sacred cow manure.
That's because manure is used for farming more so than spreading biblical "good news"

Btw, Hinduism pre-dates all youse edu-macated Christ-dus.

Scholars regard Hinduism as a synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no single founder. The history of Hinduism is often divided into periods of development, with the first period being that of the historical Vedic religion dated from about 1900 BCE to 1400 BCE.

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I omitted a lot of religions because, as Hcap is so fond of pointing out to us so often, they share this common behavior (in this case), in that none of them have any good news to share with the world. No, not one! But Christianity is unique. Christians have the greatest news in the world to share with the world!
This is why we try to share the gospel of "forgiveness" (oh bother!)-my edit- whenever we can.
You're correct. No other religion or more correctly, interpretation of religion, has their deity licking it's chops murdering infants as some sort of divine "justice"

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