First of all, I want to make it 100% clear that I am not anti-vax, but does not the fact that there are around 150,000,000 folks in the US (not all dunderheads as often portrayed, let's keep it real) who apparently don't trust the government or our healthcare system give reason to pause and...
God is often portrayed as a rather coarse individual in the Old Testament. Some incredibly grizzly things are said to be done by God. He is said to encourage the Israelite warriors to basically rape the women taken captive in the many wars they had with surrounding nations after killing all the...
The creation story of Genesis is often used as "proof" that the Bible is false. Of course it is true that the universe is constructed in a way that is not even close to what is said in Genesis. But is it reasonable to think that God should have told the people about atoms, leptons, quarks...
"The Big Bang theory is a cosmological model of the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The model describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of extremely high density and high temperature, and offers a comprehensive...
God made a promise to Noah right after the flood abated.
Gen 8:22,
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
I don't see climate change there. No need to fear, God is here!
The Greek word "logos" is used 256 times in the New Testament. As far as I can tell, with the exception of John 1:1 & 14, there would be few Christians that would say any of them refer to Jesus. They all are clearly seen as meaning a well thought out and reasoned communication using words, which...
I think the most hateful speech of today is that against Christians, and it comes from those who supposedly eschew hate speech. Their inclusiveness is rather narrowly defined to include those whom they deem worthy, apparently those without an independent mind. It is not clear what their standard...
Apparently there are many Christians who do not believe Jesus' last words, "it is finished." They must think that they must do the real "finishing" of their redemption by acting in an appropriate manner.
It also appears they don't believe Peter when he wrote:
1Pet 1:23,
Being born again, not...
Speaking about his second coming, Jesus said,
"But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." Matt 24:36.
I understand Trinitarians say that it was the "man part" of Jesus that didn't know the day and hour. Scripturally, it's not the best argument...
According to Aristotle, "Life in the first instance, is formed by the inherent energy of the primary elements such as: Earth, Water, Air and Fire which molds and organizes inert matter into living things."Some examples of this idea are fireflies developed from the morning dew, bedbugs and lice...
Since it can not be proven there is no God any more than it can not be proven there is a God, it would take no less faith to believe there is no God than it would take to believe there is a God.
Without faith in one or the other, the only true thing someone could say is they don't know if there...
I can understand how an intelligent individual may have problems with the creation account in Genesis. What I don't understand is how that same intelligent individual has no problem whatsoever believing everything we see in the world somehow came from the so-called primordial soup.
Not only...
I am trying to see what people who have not read the Bible, or who have read it only a little, understand about the nature of Jesus. I don't care if you believe it or not, just trying to get an idea of what people think it says.
Do people already "know" that Jesus is God before ever cracking...
Throughout history there have been an untold number of atrocities supposedly committed by those who hold to the scriptures (Bible). Christianity is considered by many to be the worse thing that could have ever existed. But is Christianity really to blame?
Since the end of the first century...
A common conception of the Bible is that it contradicts itself. It sure does look that way. I can't argue that. And yet it claims to be the truth,
John 17:17,
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Well, there is something in the Bible that doesn't even need "interpretation."...
Speaking of his return to set up the everlasting kingdom on earth, Jesus said,
Matt 16:27-28,
27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which...
NOTE: The following post is not meant to preach, proselytize, or convert anyone. It is meant to stimulate thought and discussion. It is simply what I believe God wishes to communicate to the world. I urge anyone interested to do as the Bereans did in Acts 17:11, "...searched the scriptures...
γίνομαι ginomai
1. to cause to be (“gen”-erate).
2. (reflexively) to become (come into being).
3. (of events) to happen.
John 1:14a,
“And the word was made (γίνομαι ginoma) flesh...”
Does this mean the word of John 1:1 was Jesus in the beginning? Was the word flesh, i.e. Jesus, before...