Posts by Zechariah

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Edwards & Brown... what do you think???

by Tashawaa in

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has anyone seen/watch "crossing over" (john edwards) or seen sylvia brown?

i do believe there are scam artists out there, and i'm not prone to believing in psychics, but these two are very convincing.. i don't believe its demons, because quite frankly i think they have better things to do then get to know someone's life so well they can "mimic" them after death .

part of me is very attracted to "their message" - even the animals "cross over"... but the skeptic in me .

Zechariah

I have again this morning watched John Edwards "Crossing Over" program. I am always amazed at them. I am likewise affected by Sylvia Brownes appearances on Montel Williams.

I intended to start a new post about this but decided to do a search for previous posts about this. I found many. This is but one of them.

I am amazed that anybody seeing these shows can disbelieve the they are communicating with the spirit realm.

Sceptimism is an amazing phenomenon. The extent people will go to disbelieve is beyond comprehension.

Zechariah

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Where Have All The Pretty Women Gone?

by Englishman in

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to explain: i recall in the 60's and 70's driving down portsmouths commercial road during a lunch time.

in the summer, there would be dozens of pretty girls strolling along, enjoying their lunch breaks.. high-heeled, well groomed and shapely of leg and well turned ankle, these delightful creatures smelled as good as they looked and were a real tonic to an over worked young man such as me.. so where are all the pretty women now?

all i see these days are skinny women with their boobies pushed up to their chins and half a pound of shrapnel punched through their noses and ears.

Zechariah

HIDDEN EYES

To the spiritually beautiful woman

I look upon you with hidden eyes

On a plane in which most others are denied their sight

The eyes that look upon you see clearly and see true

Though they themselves remain unseen

For those who see you not as I do

Cast pennies in the cup they bear for they are blind

As I gaze upon your person I see bared naked to my view

A sight of beauty that the physical eye cannot behold

Although unclothed you be unto my gaze there be for you no reason for guilt or for shame

For it is only the beauty of the flesh that God restricts you in display

But the beauty of the spirit that you possess is in his likeness

And can freely be shared with all with the vision to see

So do not hide yourself from those who like myself are stimulated and satisfied by the sight of your rare beauty

Instead see yourself in the mirror of their eyes and be proud

For the beauty you see is the beauty you are.

From an admirer ....(Zechariah)

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Kangaroos and the Flood

by Zechariah in

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noahs descendants .

genesis 10. the table of nations .

the japhethites .

Zechariah

Larc,

Your assessment is perfectly correct. What unbelievers don't see is the are just as intellectually dishonest as I am. They are just biased to unbelief. They just wont admit it.

How else is it that unbelievers can not percieve any evidence provided by believers for God's existence as facts.

It is just their Go is evolution and not the true God.

Zechariah

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Kangaroos and the Flood

by Zechariah in

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noahs descendants .

genesis 10. the table of nations .

the japhethites .

Zechariah

Trauma_Hound,

I have faith in scientific Fact, not a bunch of paper, written on by a bunch of old sheep herders, thousands of years ago

All you guys that make this kind of statement are just jealous. How many of you have dead or alive had their writings internationally published?

Zechariah

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Kangaroos and the Flood

by Zechariah in

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noahs descendants .

genesis 10. the table of nations .

the japhethites .

Zechariah

Larc,

I didn't say that facts have no value to me. I only said I am not dominated by them. The are fine for what their worth. I will not however be changed by them in ways that are objectionable to the spirit.

I will believe nothing that does not benefit me. I am always confident that belief will prove itself. I am always encouraged and hope to encourage others who desire to believe but are confused about their obligation to the intellect.

There is nothing smarter one can do than trusting God. Even when you're wrong you are right because the bottom line fact is "God Rules."

Zechariah

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Kangaroos and the Flood

by Zechariah in

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noahs descendants .

genesis 10. the table of nations .

the japhethites .

Zechariah

Analysis,

Your object is to disprove the Bible which is unacceptable to me dspite what the facts say. I am a man of faith. I have no obligation to be intellectually honest. I am not dominated by the ego (mind/intellect). I am dominated by the spirit of God that lives inside me and teaches me. Any exterior facts that conflicts with what the spirit tells me are dismissed as facts. I trust the wisdom of Godfar more than that of men.

I am sorry that you no longer or never had that kind of faith. I only accepted Josephs evidence because his intent was to give support to the Bible not as your obvious intent to discredit it. Can you not see the difference?

My trust and faith in God and the Bible always pays off. I always gives to God and the Bible the benefit of the doubt. Whenever something comes up that might question the Bibles trustworthiness I pray and meditate on it for however long it takes for an answer. It always comes.

Believe me I was perfectly satisfied with my imagined scenario about how the Kangeroos got to Australia. No body could prove it didnt happen that way. My belief was still in tact. God has however rewarded my faith with greater understanding and enlightenment through the instrument of Joseph. I am thankful very much to Joseph but believe he was being a agent of God.

What you are trying to do by encouraging me to doubt the Bible is not motivated by the spirit of God. Your willingness and search for things that question God and the Bible makes you jump to accept faulty, untrue, and unreliable evidence presented by those who oppose God.

Your beleifs about mutations being the cause of diversity among creation is absurd. You are willing to accept its truth and reject God as creator without so much as a attempt to validate your facts.

Mutations are deformities. Deformities are never good. Six fingers or three arms no matter how perfectly formed they are would never be accepted as good. It would never make the creation more viable for life. As man we would never accept complacently mutations of any kind thinking we are evolving into something else. We would do all we could to correct the plus or minus mutations.

In the animal kingdom they would no doubt kill a freak of nature instinctively.

Reproductive diversity is a God given feature that has nothing to do with mutations. Every species of man or beast or plants for that matter has a wide range of genes that enter into a random selection at time of conception. You chose to give credit for this marvelous feature of reproduction to the Gods of evolution. It is a totally false and impotent creator . It in Gods eyes is idolatry certainly.

Each of the parents in the reproductive process has millions maybe billions of possibilities to choose from in the genes. If the parents are alike then the variations are limited. When unlike the variation possibilities increase a millionfold. Dog breeding as you contend has nothing to do with mutations. If you can prove that please do. If you breed two poodles you'll get two poodles.

If you breed a poodle and a cocker spaniel you get a cocker-poo. The possibilities are almost endless within kind (classifications) and by Godly design are impossible outside of kind (classification). The joy man has had in introducing different breeds of animals together as well as different breeds of humans together in interracial relationships is without bounds. To give that credit to the God of evolution has to be a sin. It certainly is not faith in God.

Zechariah

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Kangaroos and the Flood

by Zechariah in

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noahs descendants .

genesis 10. the table of nations .

the japhethites .

Zechariah

Joseph,

I see now where you are coming from and I do not disagree that a local flood could satisfy the scriptures. The earth as you suggested being the populated parts of the earth. You are correct also that the influence of the fallen angels only took place within probably the last several hundred years before the flood.

I apologize for being dogmatic about this but I mistook your statements initally to be a attempt to discredit the Bible along with unbelievers. But I know you better and should have realized that what you were saying indeed upholds the scriptures.

This makes it totally unnecessary therefore for them to have transported kangeroos to Australia.

I am well pleased to understand it that way.

Thanks for sticking with me while I understood.

I wasted a lot of time arguing a moot point that was better not argued. As my only purpose is to let God Be found true this way of looking at it does just that. Oh well. It happens some time.

It just dawned on me the significance of what you said about yhe animals on the face of the earth did not have to apply to areas ofthe earth not populated by man. Certainly it would not.

Sorry... Unbelievers... This is a no loss situation for me. I ws wrong but I still am right.

All things make sense if you look at it Joe's way.

Thanks Joe

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Evidence for Evolution?

by LucidSky in

all historical and archeological evidence aside, the biggest evidence that convinced me evolution is factual is speciation (also called "micro-evolution").

this is the transformation of one species into two such that the two can no longer interbreed.

there is no need for historical evidence to prove this -- cases of speciation have actually been observed.

Zechariah

REM,

I am through with trying to have respectful conversation with you. Your attitude stinks and I am tired of being disrespected and called crackpots and the like.

I am tired of having respectable highly educated intelligent men who wrote the Bible referred to as unintelligent goat-herders.

Find somebody with no self-esteem willing to put up with your insolence. I am putting you on ignore.

Zechariah

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Kangaroos and the Flood

by Zechariah in

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noahs descendants .

genesis 10. the table of nations .

the japhethites .

Zechariah

Joseph,
You say the problem is with men distorting the Bible.

There is no gray area about the scriptres I quoted. They beyond a doubt were talking about a global flood. Your reasoning abilities are seriously lacking if you don't believe the earth was fully populated by the time of the flood.
I don't know wat you mean by only a few hndred years when it was close to two thousand years that passed till the time of the flood.
You had men that lived upwards of nearly 969 years old who had multiple wives concieving for near as long as they lived.

Plus you had fallen angels and their supernatural offspring capable of living even longer. Each one of such men were capable of fathering a whole city of people by the time of the flood.

If anybody views what the Bible says as beyond reason he should just call the Bible untrue and not accuse believers of distorting what it says.

I am not a believer that everything the Bible says is to be taken literally. But things I can with desire rationalize as true I believe. There is many things I believe are allegorical like the Tower Of Babel for many reasons.

I would not have any problem as well if the evidence was not there in accepting the Flood as allegorical. The scientists and science I ascribe to is that which supports the literal truth of the Biblical account.

What you said about the sons of Noah spreading out over the earth you are correct on. The Bible was not implying that at the time of that scriptures writing the earth was fully populated. It only indicated that the process of fully populating the earth had begun.
It was not the same thing said about the earth prior to the flood.
Zechariah

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Kangaroos and the Flood

by Zechariah in

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noahs descendants .

genesis 10. the table of nations .

the japhethites .

Zechariah

Analysis,

I don't look for trouble. I don't search for reasons to disbelieve. My defense of the Bible on certain things is not for the benefit of sceptics. Rather it is for those who want to believe but who have been given some measure of doubt by unbelievers.

You are distorting things I have said. Never did I say that there has been no good changes in DNA. Diversity within kinds due to cross-breeding is not evolution. It is not changes due a totally random, unintelligent, impersonal yet totally magical evolutionary God.

It is not due to a series of positive mutations. What I did say was that there are no beneficial mutations. No mutations takes place in cross-breeding just allowable diversity placed there by the creator.

All those questions you are asking are interesting side points I to have addressed in past posts.

Carnivorous animals are all appropriately part of Gods design.

I am not a scientist but I have satisfied myself that there are many who attest to such a flood as described in the Bible would have cause Ice age conditions.

You had so little faith that you are willing to abandon belief just because tough questions are raised. Trust in God on these occasion will lead you to satisfactory answers.

It is reasonable to suspect the entire earth was populated to a great extent with great technology that matched or surpassed that of modern day. The reasons are numerous to believe this.

The Bible tells of transformed angels marrying the daughters of men and giving birth to supernatural sons who became fame ones in the earth. It is no doubt these were extraordinary not only in size but in but in intelligence. They no doubt ruled in most places and lived far beyong the normal lifespan of true humans.

It is possible this expanding phenomenon of angels taking over in a world God intended for mortal men was the thing that prompted the destruction that would wipe out the the perverted offspring of the Gods (wicked angels).

The ability the fallen angels had of crossbreeding together with their perverse nature to lower themselves outside their glorious station would no doubt extend itself to the animal kingdom.

There is ancient legends of the Gods having sex with animals and fathering crossbreed offspring which were half man and half beast. Von Daniken with his Chariots of The Gods gives much support to visitors from the stars which is what the fallen angels would have appeared to be.

Let God be found true though every man a liar.

Whether Noah was obligated to preach to them and warn them all I don't know but I would rather doubt it. If he was I am sure God provided him with a way to fulfill his requirement.

Zechariah