Evidence for God from Science

Sort of like when Israel asked for judges and kings, right?

We believe because it is a matter of faith. In life you must have faith in someone or something. If you don't have faith in anything to make sense of the world you live in, then what is your purpose in life? Do you then have a true life? Since when is faith a pathway to truth? In what other part of...

So when a tyrant like Nero, an Ivan the Terrible, or a JFK is instituted into a position of power and authority, who is giving him that place? Did you just call JFK a tyrant, in the same sentence as Nero and Ivan the terrible? :shock: No, but it does read that way, doesn't it? It was deliberate on ...

As early as 1917 Harvey W. Scott wrote "That there is no definite affirmation, in the Old Testament of the doctrine of a future life, or personal immortality, is the general consensus of Biblical scholarship." The modern scholarly consensus is that the canonical teaching of the Old Testam...

Martin Luther and the Anabaptists. Their view is that the soul dies, with the body to be recalled to life at the resurrection of the dead, or that the soul is not separate from the body and so there is no "spiritual" self to survive bodily death. In both cases, the deceased does not begin...

Could Christianity have become -for lack of a better term- the dominant "religion" in the west, and through it through out the world if it hadn't been to an extent because of such religionist practices?

So when a tyrant like Nero, an Ivan the Terrible, or a JFK is instituted into a position of power and authority, who is giving him that place?

I guess we're always going to have racial or cultural differences in any congregation., it goes back to the first century Christians in Jerusalem, the Hebrew Jews and the Greek Jews, and then soon after the Gentiles became a factor in the congregations.

Who caused Pilate's wife to have that dream?

Who or how was it decided what "nature" God was to have?

Starhunter wrote:
Christ would have been killed without Pilot's decision, and I believe if no one lay a hand on Christ, He would have gone to the temple and died lying on the alter of burnt offerings.

How do you figure that? ^ ^

When he (Pilate) sat down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him saying, "Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.” (Matt 27:19)

RickD wrote:Outlaw,

You're making yourself look foolish.

Lol @ foolish get rid of the avatar Rick Dee's

Is JC king of an invisible, spiritual kingdom only? Or is He king of all flesh and bones as well? Is He king of the earth as well? And are earth's kingdoms also His? Explain in layman's terms why He answered to Poncio Pilato "My kingdom is not of this world?" And why satan tried to offer H...

jlay wrote:There is a part of Christendom that need die.

Which part would that be, jlay?