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Chris Taylor said
Where do I see answers to the questions?
(Hint: Check the ‘Answered Questions’ page)
chris said
nobody’s asking any questions? how about this one-
) Jesus heals him, and then says something like, “can you see me now?” lol. and then the dude goes “everybody is blurry and they look like trees…” and Jesus has to heal him again. whats up with that?
one of the blind guys that jesus heals has to be like double-healed ( i couldn’t tell what gospel it in, and i dont have time to look right now
I believe that:
1. Jesus is God. Therefore, he is omnipotent.
2. He gave us an example…set the standard so to speak
3. One of the reasons he came was so that by studying him, we could see where we had gotten the wrong Idea about the Father. Jesus’s 3 year ministry was the Cliff Notes for “the complete idiots guide to God the Father”
Jesus was an “indeed” kinda guy. when he did something, he did it indeed.He knows everything, he knew we would read about it.By healing the man in this way, what is he telling me?
Chris Taylor said
Chris, I posted an answer to your question over on the “Answered Questions” page.
God Bless,
Chris
chillinatthecabstand said
How can divine preordination and free will co-exist?
If no man tempts god and god tempts no man (as the bible states), then why did god “design us” with daily temptations like lust and fury?
Where’s that response to “God is [a jerk]“?
edited due to adult language
Chris Taylor said
Hehe…been extremely busy this afternoon. I was working on the response to your 3rd question and I got totally sidetracked with a new post subject. But don’t worry, your response to #3, is on Part IV and will be up in a day or two. (I think)
Its funny you asked #1, because that is kind of where I got side tracked. Creating a post on it now.
chillinatthecabstand said
lol “God is [a jerk]“
Chris Taylor said
Chill,
Sorry, I hate to edit people’s comments, but I have kids that read this site. I hope you understand.
God Bless,
Chris
chillinatthecabstand said
I understand. I just find it entertaining.
chillinatthecabstand said
PS Thanks for putting “edited” at the end of it. Wouldn’t want people thinking I use a word like “jerk” lol
chillinatthecabstand said
If the point of humans is to worship God, what then is the point of God’s existence?
PS I elaborate on this question in my new post…
Chris Taylor said
Answered the question as it was put forth here.
Thanks,
Chris
chillinatthecabstand said
What makes theism any more valid than deism?
chillinatthecabstand said
How did god decide what’s moral and what’s not?
Keep in mind that he created everything (supposedly) to fit his tastes, so he could have changed anything he wanted, and keep in mind that nothing existed before him (and creation also didn’t exist) upon which he could base his morals and decide right and wrong.
chillinatthecabstand said
PS Why is it ok for god to break his own rules so much?
Isn’t he supposed to be all-good (and he set his own standards, so this is all the more inflammatory!)?
chillinatthecabstand said
If the Garden of Eden is essentially the same as heaven, why was the evil, tempting snake in it?
Chris Taylor said
Gee wiz Chill, you got enough questions??
Chris Taylor said
Questions (as asked) have been answered.
Chris
chillinatthecabstand said
Damn that was fast.
Chris Dills said
Wow, I’m glad I’m not the only one that chillin bombards with millions of questions.
chillinatthecabstand said
lol Yeah I’ve been hitting both you guys up with the same ones.
chillinatthecabstand said
How would you know if some facet of your religion were false?
(Not the whole thing, but one piece that you regard as truth on faith)
chillinatthecabstand said
Why is it wrong to live your life in sin and squalor and get forgiven on your death bed, since you are thus clean in god’s eyes?
sonicdeluxe said
Why do christian organizations feel the need to get involved in politics and in what should be taught in schools? Doesn’t the bible state that you are in this world not of this world? Didn’t Jesus say to give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s? Why do christians feel the need to change secular society when they became born-again while living in a secular society? Shouldn’t the Holy Ghost be able to do his job regardless of what society is like?
I know it’s more than one question, but they all go together.
Chris Taylor said
Chill wrote:
No sarcasm in that at all…. LOL
chillinatthecabstand said
Really, it was! It was like a day.
Chris Taylor said
I felt like I was behind LOL
chillinatthecabstand said
Why won’t god heal any amputees by regrowing their limbs?
squigs said
“Why won’t god heal any amputees by regrowing their limbs?”
I really detest this “Bible-blasting” question. It makes no sense whatsover. A whole website is dedicatated to it (whywontgodhealamputees.com) the site starts out talking about a girl who was miraculously saved from a rare case of rabies with no vaccinations, just prayer. but, simply leaving that story, the site says that we can prove prayer false by getting everyone in the world to pray for an amputee. The reason why God won’t heal amputees is because that is not a disease. God heals diseases. Now, I am not saying that it is beyond God’s power to heal amputees. He just doesn;t. Jesus did, once, in the Garden of Olives. But God doesn’t heal them because it isn’t a disease of some kind.
chillinatthecabstand said
Squigs:
It makes no sense that god would only heal illness that doesn’t involve having your limb(s) severed.
Chris Taylor said
I’ll have an answer up to this shortly.
Stay tuned,
Chris
sonicdeluxe said
You said in a post on Chill’s site that learning cannot apply to God. What then is your take on the Noah story?
Gen.6:5 The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Gen.6:6 The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.
Gen.6:7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth–men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air–for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Sound to me that God learned something. How about after the flood?
Gen. 8:21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
Gen. 8:22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
Again, it sounds to me that God learned something here.
Chris Taylor said
I editted this comment, becaues I realized my first comment, sounded way too harsh and arrogant. My apologies…
(part I)
It does seem that way, doesn’t it?
However, lets go through it.
I tell my son to quit fighting with his sister. He doesn’t do it. Now I have to punish him. I’m grieved that I have to punish him. Did I learn anything?
No, I knew I would punish him if he didn’t quit fighting, and I knew I wouldn’t punish him if he did quit fighting.
(part II.)
No, God knew He wouldn’t use that particular punishment again. There is nothing there to indicate He learned something (which is impossible for God).
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Lets take my assumption Perfect Knowledge and apply it.
(Part I)
I know that man will be wicked. I know that I will destroy him.
So years tick by for man, and tick by and tick by. Then comes the “time” for us – the moment, the event where I have to destroy man. Now that the moment is here, I am grieved. I am grieved that the time has arrived and Man will be destroyed.
(Part II)
I know that Noah will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving when he gets off the boat. I know what it will be and what it smells like.
I know at that time I will make a promise to not destroy man again as long as the earth endures.
So years tick by for mankind, tick, tick, tick, the moment arrives for us. Flood comes. Noah gets off the ark. Noah makes a sacrifice. the “moment” of God’s promise comes. So He makes the promise.
Does that help?
Chris
Anonymous said
So are you going to Deny this?
Moses ordered, to his men take children that didnt have there (Monthly period yet) as wife to themself? How old is a child at that age 9?
In old times it was totally Normal ESPECIALLY for Christians.
Can you explain this?
KING JAMES VERSION
NUMBERS: 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying
with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Chris Taylor said
Anon,
Are you familiar with Cultic law?
Definition:
Cultural (Cultic) Law pertains to a specific culture and as such ONLY applies to that culture.
Scripture contains both Moral (God’s laws) and Cultural laws (impurity, sacrifice etc)
Culturally, Israel was to be a “peculiar” nation – a nation that was different than their neighbors.
The passages you cite in Numbers (and also Leviticus) are cultural laws and are not considered moral laws – they pertained to the specific culture of Judaism and also specific to the time and place they were written.
When studying scripture is IMPERATIVE that you distinguish between God’s laws in relation to Him and in the cultural relationship of Israel.
Christianity only begins with the incarnation of Jesus Christ and pertains to following Christ’s commandments, not the cultural law of Israel.
Thanks,
Chris