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It is true that our rights are God given but that is something of a figure of speech because it's not like God decided on a list of rights that people should have and then decided to "give us those rights" as though He could have rightly decided on a completely different set of rights to give to...

So what's the gist of the video?

Repeating yourself as though this nonsense hasn't been refuted multiple times doesn't make the arguments against you go away. It just makes you intellectually dishonest. Like I said, you idiotic belief on this issue does not have the effect of promoting make-believe gods into the realm of...

The difference being that Christians base their theological beliefs, including those concerning spirit entities, on biblical evidence and we don't rightly stiffen our necks in order to cling to the idea that mythological beings must be real in direct opposition to that biblical evidence. Have...

I wonder what it is that makes someone want to cling to a belief that virtually no one else in the entire Christian world believes in spite of not being able to respond to scripture that directly contradicts it nor answer even one of several common sense questions about it? What possible motive...

The difference is that if you could answer them, you totally would. Wild horses couldn't prevent you from putting me in my place if you had even the slightest opportunity. And, yes, of course it completely makes perfect sense for God to demand that you place no other god before Him if He's the...

They're quite real questions. I knew you wouldn't answer them when I asked them. You couldn't begin to answer even one of them even though they answer themselves, which was the point. Of course the gods that ancient peoples worshiped were not real gods. They were idols. The gods of Egypt were...

To what degree of stupidity must one INTENTIONALLY stoop to openly admit in public on a christian web forum the belief that there is more than one God? It is quite literally beyond my ability to comprehend. Tambora, why don't you just go start a brand new religion and make stuff up out of whole...

So just what are these other gods? Where did they come from and what could they do? Are they created beings? If so, who created them and for what purpose? Was this a separate creation event from that recorded in Genesis? If not, on what day were these gods created? If so, who did the creating...

So just what are these other gods? Where did they come from and what could they do? Are they created beings? If so, who created them and for what purpose? Was this a separate creation event from that recorded in Genesis? If not, on what day were these gods created? If so, who did the creating...

So just what are these other gods? Where did they come from and what could they do? Are they created beings? If so, who created them and for what purpose? Was this a separate creation event from that recorded in Genesis? If not, on what day were these gods created? If so, who did the creating...

I'm FAR AWAY from being any sort of expert on this topic and so maybe you can tell me whether what I've heard is right or wrong but what I've heard is that if you're one who likes to work out and lift weights then you need to make sure that you keep up a good intake of minerals while you're...

That's the archaic verb form of the word that I mentioned when I posted the definition. You're right that it also doesn't fit but I just didn't bring it up because practically no one uses the term to mean that anymore, including Catholics, and the point I was making is that we should strive to...

Who cares? What I'd prefer you use is the common meaning of common words, not some secret meaning that only the initiated understand. If this were a Catholic website where most everyone was familiar with the special meaning then productive discussion would be possible but here it's just a...

Which is precisely the reason I intentionally included the statement "so long as it isn't connected with a cult like Mormonism or the JW's". I mean that was the EXACT reason I put that in there! Why are you so impossible to have even a single iteration of productive conversation with? There...

Discussing doctrine is impossible with people who willfully redefine the meaning of common words. Penance: noun 1. voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong. There is also a verb form of the word but it's archaic and so isn't relevant to...

I don't and never have understood why the average person would care about such considerations. It just doesn't seem to matter much at all! There's not a single point of doctrine that I've ever seen anyone establish would be substantially different, based solely on which set of manuscripts where...

Umm, no. I've read some of his material and own a "Companion Bible" but no way would it be accurate to call me one of his disciples. I did not learn my doctrine from Bullinger and, in fact, I know very little about what his specific doctrine was. He was a contemporary of Calvin but was, in no...

Directly, not at all. Indirectly, as a matter of basic principle and as a general rule, it applies most of the time for most people. If I could find a body of people that fit the descriptor of "ourselves" in that verse, you couldn't hardly keep me out of the place! But just try to find someone...

The last couple of times I went to church, I went to listen to my son-in-law preach his first two sermons in a very tiny church that he helps lead. Both times were worth the time to attend. Prior to that, the previous several times I've been to a church, I got exactly nothing out of it other...