When is it appropriate to share your religious faith with others? - Page 18

cyberpi · 06-09-2008, 05:41 AM

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Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld. HEBREWS 11;1

I would say Faith is in the will. Nothing can be assured except by the will. Hope can be in anything, material or spiritual, but Faith is in the soul.

Tao_Equus · 06-09-2008, 01:02 PM

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CCS, Would the turtle snapping their neck into the shell... be like the one knocking on someone else's door, or like the one making rules of who can knock on their own door? I imagine the turtle with a sign on the shell that says something like, "NO Solicitors!"

Would the turtles snapping in their heads be fairly described as having a sign saying no solicitors when they are here eating of the lettuce of good and evil?

mee · 06-09-2008, 02:01 PM

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I would say Faith is in the will. Nothing can be assured except by the will. Hope can be in anything, material or spiritual, but Faith is in the soul.

mee likes what the bible teaches

Tao_Equus · 06-09-2008, 02:14 PM

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mee likes what the bible teaches

To lie, cheat, steal, murder and give over your daughters to gang rape?

mee · 06-09-2008, 03:20 PM

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To lie, cheat, steal, murder and give over your daughters to gang rape?

NO MORE LIKE THIS ONE.
And a voice came out of the cloud, saying: "This is my Son, the one that has been chosen. Listen to him.

And it is very good

By this all will know that you are my disciples, if YOU have love among yourselves." john 13;35

bob x · 06-09-2008, 06:11 PM

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Doh! Oops! This

...should be this:

The way I see it, this is just a ploy by bob x to get me to do his homework for him.

Doh!

You think it is my job to write a comprehensive textbook for you, educating you starting from a junior-high level, when you obviously have zero interest in listening anyway?

How would you discuss religion with someone who started out, "Oh, I know all about Christianity. That's the religion where the girl claimed to get pregnant from a pigeon. Well duhhhhhh, a pigeon isn't even the same species, how dumb is that?"

Tao_Equus · 06-09-2008, 06:15 PM

So it should not read:

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mee likes what the bible teaches

but:
Mee likes the nice fluffy bits of the bible.

seattlegal · 06-09-2008, 06:24 PM

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You think it is my job to write a comprehensive textbook for you, educating you starting from a junior-high level, when you obviously have zero interest in listening anyway?

I said I'd be more than happy to discuss the finer points of punctuated equilibrium with you, and I meant it.

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How would you discuss religion with someone who started out, "Oh, I know all about Christianity. That's the religion where the girl claimed to get pregnant from a pigeon. Well duhhhhhh, a pigeon isn't even the same species, how dumb is that?"

Hey, if you want to start a conversation about Christianity with me with that line, I would also be more than happy to do so.

Dondi · 06-09-2008, 08:07 PM

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I'll represent! This world is illusion... at least the solidity of it is illusion. Our bodies are 99.9% empty space... The only reason we can touch objects is because of electromagnetism. If it wasn't for electromagnetism, we'd fall right through the ground to the center of the earth. If you strengthen the electromagnetism on the surface of water, you can walk on it. I was thinking about that this morning, but of course I don't know how to do that. What you see as solid objects are clouds of energy consisting almost entirely of empty space. The world is but a show.... spirit is so much more real.

Don't think it's advisable to mix water water with electricity. Bad things happen.

Joking aside, this is called surface tension. I do not know if electromagnetism will increase the surface tension, but isn't surface tension caused by gravitational forces rather than electromagnetic forces?

bob x · 06-09-2008, 08:51 PM

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I said I'd be more than happy to discuss the finer points of punctuated equilibrium with you, and I meant it.

First demonstrate that you have any grasp of even the grossest points. You have managed to copy the words "punctuated equilibrium" without mis-spelling them: do you have any concept what they mean?

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Hey, if you want to start a conversation about Christianity with me with that line, I would also be more than happy to do so.

So tell me why I wouldn't be stupid to believe in pigeon-impregnated women.

seattlegal · 06-09-2008, 09:37 PM

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First demonstrate that you have any grasp of even the grossest points. You have managed to copy the words "punctuated equilibrium" without mis-spelling them: do you have any concept what they mean?

Basically, the premise is that isolated populations within a species have a greater rate or speed of speciation than species with a large interactive population. (The higher population numbers and interaction tends towards stablizing the species.)

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So tell me why I wouldn't be stupid to believe in pigeon-impregnated women.

Is this a supposed to be a conversation or a dictating session?

{While I dictate what the bible says:}

Basically, a betrothed virgin was approached by an angel and asked if she wanted to be overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and have a son who would be called Son of the Most High, to which she gave her conscent.
Luke 1:26-33

Likewise, the virgin's betrothed husband also had a vision regarding this:
Matt 1:18-25

Miraculously, everyone was OK with this...

mee · 06-09-2008, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

So it should not read:
but:
Mee likes the nice fluffy bits of the bible.

thats because the theme of the bible from Genesis to revelation is all about the KINGDOM .

and it is the heavenly kingdom goverment that will bring peace to the earth and it is very good Daniel 2;44 ISAIAH 9;6-7

bob x · 06-09-2008, 11:18 PM

That sounded good until I looked into it and found out it was all about pigeons.

path_of_one · 06-09-2008, 11:25 PM

I have to laugh about this thread- it has so degenerated into several streams of conversation only marginally (or not at all) related to the OP... It's a fascinating look into how humans think- talk about tangents!

mee · 06-09-2008, 11:30 PM

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That sounded good until I looked into it and found out it was all about pigeons.

Because of the pigeon’s soft, gentle appearance and disposition, it has become known as "the sheep of the bird world." Its trusting nature has made it easy to train and to enjoy. Since this same trusting disposition could lead to easy entrapment, Jesus appropriately balanced his words about being "innocent as doves" with the counsel to be "cautious as serpents."—Matt. 10:16.