AndyBaker

AndyBaker

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Reply to God's deliberate design flaw in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

And, why let evil into the Garden in the first place if you know the outcome? InfoGeek, you forgot about the ultimate outcome - that good overcomes evil. This is as good as done from God's point of view. There are

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Reply to What happens after Death... in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Perhaps you can understand it if I use a simple analogy. If you take a computer and hammer it to bits, the component parts certainly still exist in some form -- but the computer would no longer funct

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Reply to What happens after Death... in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

What 'feels' are the nerves, what thinks and stores memories is the brain. How do you expect to continue feeling or thinking things when these fleshy parts of you have decayed?

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Reply to What happens after Death... in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

The so called "spirit" is nothing more than electric energy. Like all electricity, it eventually finds it's way to ground. Can electricity experience life and appreciate intrinsic value and goodness? Can electricity feel pain, sorrow or joy? Is electricity a

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Reply to God: The Ultimate Intuition? in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

The concept of God is not intuitive or as certain as human consciousness. It requires a thought process received from impressions garnered from induction. One cannot logically conclude that I think therefore God is within me without a long chain of reasoning predicated on the power and awe of nature I p

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Reply to Stepping Away from God in Religion JoeUser Forums

"The Kingdom of God does not come visibly. No one will say 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!'; because the Kingdom of God is within you.” - Jesus, (Luke 17.21) I think the Church and social pressure can sometimes lead us away from our own centre. Texas, what are you feeling guilty about? Every moment is a walk in grace. Enjoy the ride, and try

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Reply to What happens after Death... in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Understand? - If no, then your not going deep enough I agree. Science has concluded that energy cannot be destroyed; it will always exist in some form or another. Consciousness and self-awareness are definite forms of energy, yet they elude scientific weighi

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Reply to Let Me Believe What I Want! in Religion JoeUser Forums

Carebear, I'm sure God doesn't mind whether you go to confession or not. Don't you think God's forgiveness flows at all times? How old are you, if you don't mind me asking?

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Reply to Creationism & Evolution--Parallel Worlds? in Religion JoeUser Forums

The creation of single cell organisms from a primal soup is not proven. many of the required stages have been shown but the full process has still not been shown Solitair, I understand your point about the theory o

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Reply to Prove God or Shut the #$*@ Up in Religion JoeUser Forums

Prove God or Shut the #$*@ Up Having no proof of God's existence is half the fun. It all adds to the adventure, the drama, and the yearning. All of which common wisdom knows as "life". Proof of God's existence already exists anyway. We're just loo

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Reply to Creationism & Evolution--Parallel Worlds? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Evolution is a theory concerning species as they were and have become by virtue of cell production; it is not a theory on how the universe came to be. Creationism, on the other hand, is a mythical or religious treatise of cosmology and the mir

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Reply to Evolution: A Tortuous Process in Religion JoeUser Forums

No God, other than those conceived by traditional believers, would willingly cause earthquakes resulting in the recent tsunami or horrible disease so often plaguing humankind throughout history to th

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Reply to God is an inconvenience! in Religion JoeUser Forums

I believe in the power of the word of God. I believe that one needs to have a personal relationship with the Guy upstairs Ziggy, I agree. JC is a Righteous Dude, and He's always there for us. <TABLE cel

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Reply to God is an inconvenience! in Religion JoeUser Forums

If you started a barbeque...and had a whole bunch of charcoal in a pile and lit it....it would stay pretty warm and toasty for quite a while. If you took one coal and lit it and put it by itself...it would die out fairly quickly. We are like the coals and need to be around a church body, for spiritual strength and growth </T

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Reply to A CREATOR MIND in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Small, naive minds do not shine due to playing with mumbo jumboes and unsolvable, as intelligent and nobles do, when they are working on the most basic questions. This reveals the distinction between a creator of the mathematics and a mathemat

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Reply to The community spirit in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Hi Sally, how are you doing? You've been a bit quiet latrely, and it's not quite the same without your regular articles. I hope all is well. Even though you were saying you felt a little detached from the community lately, you're still one of the big guns on JU in my eyes. You have a big presence and interesting views, which is nice. Even though some of your recent ones were a little obscure and over my head, personally, they still made an interes

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