Recent content by Derf

But that's why I said "the right part of government". That can be taken to mean whatever part of the government that has the proper authority to go after criminals with deadly force, if appropriate. Is deadly force appropriate for pedophiles?

Here's the article: https://www.icr.org/article/garden-gods-product-flood/ And here's the pertinent paragraphs: Great Unconformity Exposed Just south of the park and west of the town of Manitou Springs is an exposure of the Great Unconformity, a global erosional surface. Here we see...

We attended an ICR event in Colorado where Tim Cleary took us to see what he thought might be original granite crust material under Pikes Peak. It wasn't striated, but was solid for 20 to 30 vertical where we could see, with no intrusions of other rock.

That seems fair, but that makes it sound like Jesus will be a sort of superman, who intervenes right before the criminal can effect his dastardly deeds. I imagined, rather, that when someone committed a crime, the full force of the law would be applied against him, with perfect justice. No...

But those who hate God of necessity hate their fellow men. And if you hate someone in your heart, you are guilty of murder, and all those people will be executed before Satan gets there.

Ok, then the judgment would be the same as for murder, right? So there wouldn't be any murderers left when Satan is released. And no liars and no adulterers and no thieves, and no one disobedient to parents, and not even anyone who covets. So where does Satan find all these people to attack the...

Then the government can't fire missiles at enemy aircraft. Why not?

Ok. But God wouldn't dispense judgment for pedophilia on those not guilty of it. Like the airplane in the example. It belongs to someone outside the government that is allowing pedophiles to use it. Which means they have His authority in those things designated to them. So if a government is...

Murder won't be possible? Are you saying lust won't be possible? Just looking for clarification. Edit to add: Maybe you're saying that the mere lust or hate that are the beginnings of adultery and murder will be dealt with by the rod of iron?

I don't know what to make of that. Of course the vengeance of God belongs to God. I think you've admitted my point much more than I.

Do you think murder will be punishable by death penalty?

Yes, but whose? If the government is able to claim the property of criminals because it is illicitly obtained in the first place, then the government official can destroy such property. I'm not claiming that. Which goes back to an earlier question. Does God have moral authority to kill in...

Why would the camp of the saints be so small compared to the people of the nations that Satan stirs up against them, if Christ, the perfect king, rules with a rod of iron through his people Israel for 1000 years? And during that 1000 years, I would assume (I could be wrong), that the now...

Right, that's what I'm talking about. Then this happens: Revelation 20:7-9 KJV — And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to...

That's fine, but can you suggest how the people of Israel, who are the camp of the saints, as you are saying, I think, who have been ruling over the world for a thousand years with Jesus at their head, physically sitting on David's throne, can be so completely isolated from a world that quickly...