Posts by Sea Breeze

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Professors and Students Defend Evolution

by Sea Breeze in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_w9vtzj0a&ab_channel=livingwaters.

Sea Breeze

The "Problem of Evil" is no problem at all. What is "evil"? That depends on your cultural upbringing.

I believe atheists have trouble identifying evil and figuring out what to do about it.

In an interview in The Times magazine on Saturday (Sept. 7), Richard Dawkins, 72, he said he was unable to condemn what he called "the mild pedophilia" he experienced at an English school when he was a child in the 1950s.

Referring to his early days at a boarding school in Salisbury, he recalled how one of the (unnamed) masters "pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts."

He said other children in his school peer group had been molested by the same teacher but concluded: "I don't think he did any of us lasting harm."

"I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours."

Amino acids form a single, one-celled life form....That one-celled life form turns into a complex lifeform over millions of years

truth_b_known,

Can you point to any observable science that supports these conclusions?

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The Cross in Pompeii & Herculaneum in 79 AD

by Sea Breeze in

can someone please tell the wt janitor to turn the lights off when the last jw leaves the watchtower after learning that early christians used the cross as a christian logo of sorts?

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Sea Breeze

FFGhost,

What facts would you like considered on this topic?

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Professors and Students Defend Evolution

by Sea Breeze in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_w9vtzj0a&ab_channel=livingwaters.

Sea Breeze

If evolutionist can't give absolute proof of evolution, neither can Christians give ABSOLUTE PROOF that the the bible is inspired of God.

Pistolpete: In a sense I think you are confirming the gist of the interviews: And that is to demonstrate that in the absence of observable evidence, atheist evolutionists live a life of faith, just like any other religion.

But it is much bigger than that. The larger umbrella of Materialism states that it only allows for material causes and testable scientific evidence. It holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things are results of material interactions.

So, the atheist, materialist, evolutionist worldview is objectionable on grounds of being inconsistent, arbitrary, and contradictory to itself.

Because:

1. It goes beyond observable science

2. Regularly recognizes and uses things that are not material such as:

- Ideas

- Codes like DNA

- Consciousnesses

- Mathematics

- True false statements

- Faith

- Information

- Evil

- Morals

- Ethics

These are all non-material things selectively used by materialists to try and prove materialism. This lack of congruity is contrasted with Christianity, which is a much more consistent worldview. For instance, evolutionists have a problem finding a basis for describing evil and dealing with evil.

Many universities either have a class called something like "The Problem of Evil" or at least spend some time on this topic in Philosophy.

There is no "problem" of evil from a Christian perspective. God can either 1.) Enable evil by forever doing nothing about it. 2.) Prevent it by taking away our free-will. 3. Or Judge evil.

Christians maintain that evil will be dealt with by option # 3 - Judging it. What makes Christianity so spectacular, is that Christians maintain.... with much evidence, that God took on human flesh and judged evil as worthy of death and actually took the punishment for it Himself.... because he loved us so much that he couldn't bear the thought of us having to pay the penalty for it ourselves.

To prove it all, He walked out of a tomb and presented himself openly and thus changed the course of human history forever.

Born again Christians will testify (which is powerful evidence in a court of Law) that Jesus is actually living inside of them, sculpting an image of himself from the inside. So, they know God as much as they know their wife, boss, friend or husband and don't doubt his existence and less that anyone else they know.

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What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?

by Sea Breeze in

i was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.

in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.

her husband was a ms. both were df'd.

Sea Breeze

Second, two elders were basically wife swapping - although they weren't aware of it initally.

I am tempted to try and make sense of this statement, but somethings tells me to leave it alone.

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The Cross in Pompeii & Herculaneum in 79 AD

by Sea Breeze in

can someone please tell the wt janitor to turn the lights off when the last jw leaves the watchtower after learning that early christians used the cross as a christian logo of sorts?

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Sea Breeze

All powerful evidence of Christianity spreading with lightening speed with a god who was crucified as a criminal by his own people and likened to an ass by the general culture.

Truly one of the most unlikely and fascinating series of events in all history.

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Professors and Students Defend Evolution

by Sea Breeze in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_w9vtzj0a&ab_channel=livingwaters.

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Mickbobcat,

I’m curious; Which of the questions that the interviewer asked was offensive to you?

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Professors and Students Defend Evolution

by Sea Breeze in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_w9vtzj0a&ab_channel=livingwaters.

Sea Breeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_W9VtzJ0A&ab_channel=LivingWaters

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The Cross in Pompeii & Herculaneum in 79 AD

by Sea Breeze in

can someone please tell the wt janitor to turn the lights off when the last jw leaves the watchtower after learning that early christians used the cross as a christian logo of sorts?

.

Sea Breeze

Fisherman,

Are you familiar with the Alexamanos Graffitti?

Roman Literature | The Alexamenos Graffito - YouTube

The Alexamanos Graffito, dating from c.200 or earlier, is an interesting early parody of Christianity.

This early graffito (wall-scratching; singular of graffiti) was discovered in 1857 in a guardroom on Palatine Hill near the Circus Maximus in Rome, and is now in the Palatine Antiquarian Museum.

The drawing shows a man with an ass's head being crucified, to which a youth is raising his hand as if in prayer. The text in Greek reads:

ALE XAMENOS SEBETE THEON

which means, "Alexamenos worships his god."

Before Christianity, the Jews had already been charged with worshipping an ass; this was probably the basis of this accusation being directed at Christianity.

The criticism is mentioned in several early pagan and Christian works. Minicius Felix sought to refute the pagan notions that "the religion of the Christians is foolish, inasmuch as they worship a crucified man, and even the instrument itself of his punishment. They are said to worship the head of an ass, and even the nature of their father" (Octavius, IX). Tertullian mentioned that the pagans think "our god is an ass's head" (Apology, XVI).

The graffito also represents how contemptible and absurd the idea of a crucified god was to pagan thinking. Perhaps a century earlier, St. Paul had remarked that the crucifixion was "unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness" (I Corinthians I.23).

The "Y" in the upper right of the picture might be a representation of a cry of anguish. As a "Y" has also been found on a tablet relating to the worship of the Egyptian god Seth, some initially argued that the graffito shows a worshipper of Seth. This does not seem to be a commonly held opinion today, however.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, this drawing is also significant in that it shows the crucifix was in figurative use by Christians at this early stage, which is where the caricaturist would have gotten the idea.

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The Cross in Pompeii & Herculaneum in 79 AD

by Sea Breeze in

can someone please tell the wt janitor to turn the lights off when the last jw leaves the watchtower after learning that early christians used the cross as a christian logo of sorts?

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Sea Breeze

More info here.

Also, Bruce W. Longenecker who is professor of early Christianity and W. W. Melton Chair of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, (also formerly taught in Britain at St. Andrews, Cambridge, and Durham Universities) makes a solid case for Christianity in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The apostle Paul reports Christians just a few miles away... so there is attestation. Supposedly he found 18 crosses.

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What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?

by Sea Breeze in

i was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.

in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.

her husband was a ms. both were df'd.

Sea Breeze

At the last congregation I attended, a good friend of mine (who had three kids) had his wife run off with an elder (who had several kids). She apparently wanted an elder husband and my friend was far to down-to-earth to ever be an elder.

He left the troof. About the time I returned to town from going to college, I was riding a crotch rocket motorcycle and pulled up next to him in a convertible at a red light. We both looked and each other and said at the same time "pull over".

It was game on after that. We had a good time hanging out for a while. He remarried not too long afterwards. Me too about 5 years later.

His ex wife and her elder husband successfully destroyed the lives of 7 kids for a while... but hey; they are still in the troof. That's all that matters right?