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- Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:33 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: Are Prayers Ever Really Answered?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2300
Are Prayers Ever Really Answered?
If prayers are really ever answered and anything more than mere coincidence, how can we explain so many more unanswered prayers than answered prayers? Is there any proof that they are ever really answered?
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:31 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Sovereign?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 993
Sovereign?
If God is sovereign, then there is nothing outside his control, nothing he doesn't govern. That means that everything happens because he condones it. Everything. How can you reconcile that with him being a loving and kind God? How do you? I am having alot of trouble with this. I just can't.
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:45 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: ...a dozen healthy infants...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3858
Re: ...a dozen healthy infants...
Silvertusk: Yes, but those experiences, which led them to Jesus and those experiences which predispose them to accepting him are out of their control. Reactionary: You misunderstood me. Genetics doesn't predict behavior, but a history of learning and environmental circumstances does. That is where t...
- Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: ...a dozen healthy infants...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3858
Re: ...a dozen healthy infants...
I suppose that is the point. Man has no freedom. You say we are responsible for our acts of freedom, but if God has predetermined everything, how are we responsible? And we can take that predetermination to a very basic level. Suppose there are two children: A and B A grows up in a loving home, with...
- Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:52 am
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: ...a dozen healthy infants...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3858
Re: ...a dozen healthy infants...
What I was trying to say is that we are more like robots than free beings. It also is pretty obvious what causes homosexuality: environment and genetics. What else is there?
- Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: ...a dozen healthy infants...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3858
...a dozen healthy infants...
"Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his...
- Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:38 am
- Forum: Moral and Ethical Affairs
- Topic: isolation and dealing with single life as an adult
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1961
Re: isolation and dealing with single life as an adult
So sad. Hope things get better. You have no contact with your kids?
- Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:02 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Please help
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2230
Re: Please help
Read the ScrewTape Letters a long time ago. Maybe I'll look through it again. Thanks for the suggestion.
- Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:37 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Please help
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2230
Re: Please help
Thanks for posting before me! I am afraid that the same is happening to me. More often and often through the day I am having thoughts that He doesn't exist. I don't pray anymore and I don't know why. It might be that I am angry at Him. It might be that I don't trust Him anymore. It might be that He ...