Again, you and I may have a different understanding of what we're engaged in here. This isn't a court and no one is trying to convince anyone to make life-changing decisions. At least I'm not. It's an online discussion forum; the world doesn't hang on our posts.
That said, I don't think your...
No, the knowledge persists through the questioning. If a nonbeliever gets nothing substantive from his believer counterpart it is likely because the nonbeliever prejudices every question with his own religious beliefs, which are presented and protected as the standard of truth. While not...
We all live in God's creation. We can see that it works. If the Bible record of how it was done doesn't conform to what we understand about orders of operation, we are still living in God's creation, and we can still see that it works.
I guess I don't understand; it seems like this thread...
Well, it is an event, not a moment. The light of his coming, and his voice, will be seen and heard by all. Prophets have described the effect of the brilliance of his presence at that time as causing the mountains to "flow down." No one will miss it; it will not be an event anyone will sleep...
He said that his atonement (suffering, death and resurrection) was the completion of his "preparations":
"For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; Which suffering caused...
I don't know that all will recognize him as Jesus immediately, or even as God for that matter. Those who aren't waiting and watching for his coming will have or seek some other explanation for the event. But he will also announce himself at his coming:
"And the Lord shall utter his voice, and...
Well, no, the market here is a mess due to the imposition of socialist policies onto our free-market system. If it were untrammeled, costs would be more reasonable.
Either way, only compulsory socialism is evil. Voluntary socialism is morally benign.
I get the same feeling, except for the "big bag of money" part. When I interact with the medical service industry, I'm reminded that I'm a "little bag of money."