also he never chastised the jews for not identifying themselves as jehovah`s witnesses following isaiah`s statement at ch.43 :10-12 , so many years before hand.. and he had ample opportunity to do so on numerous occasions .. jesus himself never used the divine name /jehovah or any other equivalent , in any of his sayings attributed to him by his contemporaries .. sure he acknowledged god as his father and that he did his fathers will , but he never acknowledged him by a personal name such as jehovah or anything like it.. and lets not forget acts 11:26 it was first in antioch that followers of jesus by divine providence were to be called christians , not jehovah`s witnesses,.
smiddy.
YHWH is used nearly seven thousand times in the OT.
The NT comes along and Yahweh's name is dropped like a dirty shirt. Not only does this make no sense theologically, it gets worse, the transition to not using Yahweh's name is never discussed in scripture.
Could the bible be a just a collection of discordant religious texts?
the iconic steam engine the flying scotsman has been restored and is back on tour along the east coast main line between london and edinburgh.
this evening it crossed the royal border bridge in berwick-on-tweed for the first time since it was put out of service in january 1963.. here are few shots.. .
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
Just saw Perry's post on "fine tuning". Worst argument ever?
Using the words "fine tuning" is misleading loaded language.
If the cosmological constants have tight tolerances (what is actually being described), so what?
Tight tolerances are proof that tight tolerances exist. NOTHING ELSE. Is Perry a real Christian or a troll?
healthy skepticism and a bit of effort is essential to avoid believing bad science.. ....
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
Yo Perry,
I don't know where the singularity came from, I don't know what caused it to expand. It would be awesome to find out. You got anything better than magic? Obviously not.
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
Perry,
Please demonstrate what caused the singularity (that the universe expanded from) to exist.
250 million years ago a plume of molten basalt gushed up from the earth's core.
it erupted in an area now known as the siberian traps - back then it was part of the supercontinent pangaea.
a curtain of lava a mile high and hundreds of miles long lit up the sky.
I was so hoping to see a decent counterpoint to ANYTHING in Cofty's OP here. Nada.
Hey Cofty, I know the last mass extinction shows to be caused by an asteroid off the Yucatan peninsula. It would be nice to see the causes listed in the BBC summary.
my lds, long-time, friend sent me article at www.pinktruth.com -- adult children of dysfunctional families: the perfect recruiting pool for the mlm industries.
it's a good read how people are automatic victims to mary kay cosmetics -- makes perfect sense.
makes more sense they're easy prey to cults thus the success of watchtower and mormonism.
Yep CyberJesus, there is a such thing as bad businesses.
MLMs, if you support them, you still have a lot to learn and have more waking up to do in life.
first off i do believe there are some evidences of evolution or i should probably say adaptation.
i do believe this exists in various forms.. however the deal breaker for me with evolution is the chick or egg problem.
there are tons of theories that get passed around as proof of evolution however these are usually examples much further down the evolutionary chain.. what i mean is let's start at the beginning!
cofty -
It's more concrete than that.
It's like the murderer is caught murdering by the police, it's on HD video, and confesses, but his defense lawyer says "since there is no evidence for how he arrived at the murder scene, all the evidence and his confession about the murdering is irrelevant".
socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.
everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.
god calls this greed and envy.
