My faith provides me with an understanding of where I came from, why I am here, and what I can expect after this life is over. It provides me with a moral compass and a fellowship with an ethical and like minded culture and community. I do indeed derive comfort from the understanding that as...
When you use the phrase: "valid, reasoned and supported arguments", I think you might need to consider that the evidences being considered as such are very different between the theist and atheist camps. For the most part, atheist have limited themselves to a large extent to exclusively...
There is no doubt but that credibility is in the eye of the beholder. I consider the eye witness reports of the prophets as collectively (each corroborating the other) recorded in scripture as credible while it is obvious that you do not.
"Why would someone do that?" I'm not saying that you have; what I am answering to are experiences I've had. The only 'why' I can come up with is the pride of the "intellectual" elitist... the: 'I'm smarter than you' syndrome.
The Jews are not Christian because, in using their agency, they choose not to be. Of course they will deny that Jehovah and Jesus Christ are not the same being. They would necessarily have to wouldn't they? Christ, in the New Testament, identified Himself as "I AM" for which the Jews wanted...
Oh, but I do ignore it. The question was: what would and insult be. That you want to say that derogatory remarks like that that I have paraphrased do not have the ring of truth is in itself another insult I'll have to ignore because it suggests that I'm making it up... that I am a liar. Oh...
I know, you're from the school of: If I can't see it, it doesn't exist. The evidences I have are the reports of people who claim to have seen and have had revealed to them the truthfulness of the things I relayed. These collective claims from several people (some of whom are centuries apart)...
You are making an invalid assumption that Paul is not speaking concerning the gospel of Jesus Christ. A further mistake you are making is that one does not parse and interpret scripture the way that you seem to think that it can be. Any part of scripture must inform all other parts. Another...
I just want to respond to a couple of things I've read in the dialog here. First there was a comment stating:
"It sickens me to be honest that people still feel that God would create them in such a way and then loathe them for it."... and:
"God did not create to hop from one foot to the other...
Jo... I just now noticed that you had been talking to me... I hadn't noticed you back there in the back of the bus. I can understand your not giving a damn about my opinion. The degree of your not caring is evidenced by your rant. But to respond to a couple of things. There are no practicing...
Omg. Has it really come to this? That people refuse to recognize a valid use of language? 'Your grasping' in this case means your activity, the activity being... grasping.
In this case 'your' is possessive. 'Your grasping' means the grasping that you do... that you own. So pick your self up off the floor a read a grammar book.