Evidence for God from Science

saxology wrote:hi just browsing with some atheists who think they can outsmart Mr. Deem =)

Looking forward to the post.

Hi Everyone,

I'm Gilligan. I have been interested in OEC for a while now. Glad to be here.

NOTE: If I go offline suddenly, it is because I use a public computer at a library (because I don't have one at home) and I'm only allowed two one-hour sessions daily, and my time ran out for the day. If I don't respond to an active post I'm involved with right away, I will within a day or two.

Gilligan wrote:Hi Everyone,

I'm Gilligan. I have been interested in OEC for a while now. Glad to be here.

NOTE: If I go offline suddenly, it is because I use a public computer at a library (because I don't have one at home) and I'm only allowed two one-hour sessions daily, and my time ran out for the day. If I don't respond to an active post I'm involved with right away, I will within a day or two.

Welcome to the board, Little Buddy!

Thank You. Skipper, the Professor, Thurston & Lovey, Mary Ann and Ginger all say hi.

Gilligan wrote:Thank You. Skipper, the Professor, Thurston & Lovey, Mary Ann and Ginger all say hi.

I thought the skipper, professor, and Mr. and Mrs. Howell are dead! Gilligan, are you writing to us from the nether regions?

Hi Everyone,

Yes I believe in God, and I guess most would call me a Christian, I however don't. For reasons I won't get into here.

I'm 55 yrs old and I got my first Bible(KJV) on my fifth birthday, from my Grandmother. I still have it. I have read the Bible from beginning to end more than I can count. Not because it's that many only that I honestly didn't care enough to count. I just wanted to read it to learn. I have just finished the OT, and I must admit I have learned more this time than any other. When I started I did it because I had run out of other things to read. So I decided to read it thru again. I had no thoughts of getting anything more than any of the times I had the other times.

I have many more questions now than before. However I have more answers also. I hope that's not too confusing. When I found this board and read some of the post. I felt this could be a blessing. I know I need somewhere I can go to talk about the many things in live and I hope this is it.

OneMan wrote: I guess most would call me a Christian, I however don't.

Then you should change your Profile to read that you are not a Christian.

And, welcome|!

FL

Welcome to the forum, OneMan.

And fwiw, me like cookie too!

Hi All

I am Mazzy, middle aged and I live in rural NSW and work as a social worker.

I returned to the Anglican Church about a year ago, after a long time being confused, although I am a baptized RC. I am still confused!

My current hobby is soap making, and it is the best, I reckon anyway.

I liked what I saw here re OEC and then found the forum. It was a breath of fresh air clearing some of the fog in my head. I am looking forward to some nice chats with you all. Thanks for having me.

Welcome to the forum Mazzy.

I love the name Mazzy. It reminds me of this beautiful song.

I'm 55 yrs old and I got my first Bible(KJV) on my fifth birthday, from my Grandmother. I still have it. I have read the Bible from beginning to end more than I can count. Not because it's that many only that I honestly didn't care enough to count. I just wanted to read it to learn. I have just finished the OT, and I must admit I have learned more this time than any other. When I started I did it because I had run out of other things to read. So I decided to read it thru again. I had no thoughts of getting anything more than any of the times I had the other times.

OneMan, Welcome!

Learning about the Bible is a life-long process. It has so many layers of truth and there are certainly many portions that are difficult to understand - especially if one has not has some basic training in how to most effectively read and interpret it. While the KJV is a very important one (and you may have others), especially, in it day, there are now far better translations, as the knowledge of the original languages, scholarship and illuminations provided by new archaeological, historical finds and methodologies involved have greatly increased gotten substantially better (in many ways), it would tremendously help if you would buy a good, foot-noted study Bible. Here's a good one http://www.amazon.com/ESV-Study-Bible-C ... tudy+Bible and others might suggest one. From a scholarship point, the Bible is the most intensely and comprehensively studied and researched book in history. And so the knowledge Bible scholar teams can now bring to some of the better modern translations has helped tremendously by offering ever-better historical, cultural and Scriptural understandings. The ESV has fantastic maps, historical contexts of the development of the canon. When I was a young man.

As for Old Testament understandings, I can't recommend enough "Is God a Moral Monster" by Paul Copan: http://www.amazon.com/God-Moral-Monster ... al+Monster

Mazzy

Welcome to the insane asylum, please enjoy your stay because you can never leave.......never.

Mazzy wrote:Hi All

I am Mazzy, middle aged and I live in rural NSW and work as a social worker.

Welcome Mazzy the social worker! Perhaps you could help danieltwotwenty? He lives in a cardboard box under a bridge near Hovells Creek, NSW.

FL

Furstentum Liechtenstein wrote:

Mazzy wrote:Hi All

I am Mazzy, middle aged and I live in rural NSW and work as a social worker.

Welcome Mazzy the social worker! Perhaps you could help danieltwotwenty? He lives in a cardboard box under a bridge near Hovells Creek, NSW.

FL

If Danieltwotwenty has little twotwenty's he can go to the nearest St Vinnies or Community Services Centre and they may give him a bigger cardboard box and suggest safer bridge options to live under.