I had posted stats with no source.... For the life of me I couldn't get back to the exact one. It's hard to really go completely on stats. I mean if the mob killed 50k people and dumped them in the ocean to never be found, murder couldn't be proven or even investigated. Numbers can be misleading.
Ok, for actual morality to exist it needs to be universal. If it is not universal then it cannot exist because it stems from each person's individual opinion and therefore has no leg to stand on. Once again, assertions mean nothing. Starting things as fact also mean nothing. You have done...
Throwing out a short alternate theory to explain away an obvious truth is not correcting, it's refusing to take the data at face value and refusing to acknowledge historical evidence. And if your arguing that morality comes from people... You have no foundation to even argue morality at all. If...
If you need to deny the origin of this country to explain away God that's fine but it's abundantly clear that's not the case. I could just as easily say that Christian morality beats secular morality but that gets us no where without evidence. Secular morality can't have objective morals with...
I know most people here don't believe me when I said this nation was founded on the Bible... Above is an extremely small sample of quotes. Don't listen to me... Listen to the people who actually founded this country.
“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.”
– George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
– George Washington
The...
Ok friends I must concede for now. Once again, I hate arguing. I joined this forum because there are things I think I know and there are things I want to know better. There are many things in the Bible I have trouble with. I have zero interest in coming up with counterarguments...Im afraid many...
I think that abiogenesis, and the majority of the theory of evolution as it pertains to origins is unfalsifiable, unprovable, and unrepeatable. Therefore we have left science and entered into philosophy. Insisting it is a fact is not proof and assuming it true is to the detriment of attention...
It's a reason not an excuse, t's my personal opinion based upon my hours of study. Why is it ok to point out a discrepancy but then say the response to that is an excuse? Have you actually studied the events in the Torah, because I have. If you asked why I wasn't responding to your sign language...
I don't actually, there's way too many factors shaping America right now to blame everything good or bad on any one issue. I believe it is a factor... And maybe a large factor. Since 1960 violent crimes are up 200%, murder is actually the same, take is up around 32%, robbery is up about 25%, and...
I have actually studied the Bible a bit, the laws evolved because God took His people out of bondage from a foreign land. They were in culture shock and I'm assuming laying His entire plan on them all at once would've at best been difficult.
The "enlightened" natural law that the strongest survive? I find it quite odd that your arguing about the lack of morality of the Bible when random chance processes can not explain morality. You can argue the evolving social morality I hear so much about but there have been millions murdered...
I maintain it's extremely important where the idea of good comes from. If good comes from God then it is universal and doesn't change. If it comes from man then there are no absolutes thereby"good" is in the eye of the beholder and there's no real way to to say whether anything at all is good or...
It's easy to revise history, where do you think the idea of all men created equal came from. It wasn't from the people driving slaves, which can't be supported from scripture. I also never said the founders were Christian although many were deists.....I said the foundation was Christian and if...
I'd like to add something here....I believe it absolutely matters where "right" comes from. If our country was founded on the Bible, which it largely was, that means it's foundation is the Bible. We have now surgically removed the Bible from basically everywhere which means the foundation, and...
The majority of the people on here seem to be against the idea of a young Earth. We're all looking at the same evidence. I'm fairly sure that most of the people mocking the idea of a young Earth have no desire for the Bible to be accurate. That's perfectly fine with me, but just because a...
I have heard it said that The Bible is a spiritual book, written by a spiritual being to Spiritual beings. You can't understand it physically. Everytime I see an apparent contradictory in the Bible, upon further study I find something important. I think of it as fingerprints of the Holy Spirit...