Posts by sweet2silver

I like to use pita's to make a tuna melt. I add a little bit of mayo to light tuna, stuff it in the pita and top with cheese. Then, I just stick it in the toaster or toaster oven. Yumm.

Doritos for sure.  I could probably eat the whole bag if you just set me in front of the TV with some Pepsi.  So good!

Original Post by azirra:

Original Post by sweet2silver:

I can say confidently that every proposed contradiction can be disproved.

S2S - If you could go ahead and clear up the proposed contradictions between the bible and the bible, as well as those between the bible and science, that would be great. Thanks in advance!

Done: http://kingdavid8.com/Contradictions/Home.htm l

Put in context, there are no contradictions. Here is the link to number one; I have also answered previously in another post: http://kingdavid8.com/Contradictions/Genesis/ 09GodSatisfied.html

Here is the answer to number 2: http://kingdavid8.com/Contradictions/Chronicl es/04GodDwellTemples.html

Number 3: http://kingdavid8.com/Contradictions/Kings/09 GodDwellLight.html

You can look up the rest if you like.

Additionally, I am unsure if you are showing me pictures of animals, humans or both. I do believe we have a young earth (around 6,000 to 7,000 year old), but I truthfully do not know enough to argue.  No matter how old the earth is, I am confident in knowing God created it and that we were created as humans. How was man first given breath?  Do you see the beauty of creation (mountains, ocean, etc.)? What about our bodies and the perfect way a man and a women fit together to enjoy pleaseure and have the ability to reproduce? What about the intricicities of our eyes?  Our human minds can't even reproduce these things. Our universe screams intellegent design.

Original Post by azirra:

Genesis 1:31 - God was pleased with his creation.

Genesis 6:5-6 - God was not pleased with his creation.

In Genesis 1:31 was saying exactly that, that he was please with his creation.  In Genesis 6:5-6 God was speaking of a world that was now filled with sin and people who were going after selfish desires. These are different circumstances and therefore not contridictory.

So often, people take the Bible out of context and say that there are contradictions. I can say confidently that every proposed contradiction can be disproved. It takes a long time to understand the God of the universe.  Logically I think that's what we should expect. I understand that if you don't believe in the Christian God or the Bible, I'm not about to persuade you to believe otherwise with only my writing. I simply ask that you consider giving the Lord a chance.  He may just change your life. He changed mine.

You skipped over my main point.

What Im really wondering is this: how does a perfect being become disappointed by its own creation? Why didnt he see it coming? Why would anything surprise him? Why would anything turn out differently than the way he planned it?

God's goal in creation was and is to glorify Himself. For through creation He makes His glory known. God knew the choice man would make. This didn't surprise Him. God has a plan, but we were given free will to choose His way. In the end, God's ultimate plan will never fail. The Lord can chose to step in or let things happen. He allowed man to sin because he gave them free will. However, God's plan was to have Jonah preach to the people in  Nineveh.  When he refused, God put him into the belly of a fish until he agreed to go where God wanted him to.

"There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD (Proverbs 21:30).

"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him? For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen." (Romans 11:33-36)

I encourage you to search the scriptures and also Google your questions.

C.S. Lewis puts it like this:

But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in one person - then that person could help us.  He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God.  You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can do it only if He becomes man.  Our attempts at this dying will succeed only if we men share in God's dying, just as our thinking can succeed only because it is a drop out of the ocean of His intelligence: but we cannot share God's dying unless God dies; and he cannot die except by being a man.  That is the sense in which He pays our debt, and suffers for us what He Himself need not suffer at all.

God desires that the whole world accept him.  "For God so loved the world...", but our sins are only forgiven if, "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved (Romans 10:9-10).

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him (John 3:36).

The reality of not accepting God's son is hell. That's way I try to share the truth.

When God created us, He gave us the choice to follow and love him or not. He is not a God that creates machines and forces us to love Him. He does not receive glory from that.

jewelsmcblah

I am not sure how Gen. 2:15-17 is a lie.  Adam and Eve did in fact die, just not right at the moment of eating the apple. The serpent, the devil, did tell them the truth that their eyes would be opened and they would understand good from evil. But that knowlege would be without penalty. They were then born a sin nature and were no longer immortal.

azirra

To answer your question about the following:

Genesis 1:31 - God was pleased with his creation.

Genesis 6:5-6 - God was not pleased with his creation.

In Genesis 1:31 was saying exactly that, that he was please with his creation.  In Genesis 6:5-6 God was speaking of a world that was now filled with sin and people who were going after selfish desires. These are different circumstances and therefore not contridictory.

So often, people take the Bible out of context and say that there are contradictions. I can say confidently that every proposed contradiction can be disproved. It takes a long time to understand the God of the universe.  Logically I think that's what we should expect. I understand that if you don't believe in the Christian God or the Bible, I'm not about to persuade you to believe otherwise with only my writing. I simply ask that you consider giving the Lord a chance.  He may just change your life. He changed mine.

There are things that God can't do. For example, he can't lie, change, be unfaithful, worship any other god, etc. This goes against his very nature. That is why you can't ask "Can God create a rock to huge he can't lift it", because this statement is contradictory. You're asking God to either make a rock too big to lift or a rock too small to lift.

I love the Oriential Rice Crackers.  They have no fat, although they get like a C+ on here.

I agree with all the advice to see a doctor to find out if your are pregnant.  But I regret that many who have responded have put abortion in a positive light and have not given life an option...if in fact you are pregnant.  Abortion is not the only option.  Adoption is an another.  Life does in fact begin at conception.

And you are not being punished for having sex, although consider this:

7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. (Hebrews 12:7)

If you do in fact feel that you could be punished for sex (before marriage), do you have this sense because you belive it is wrong? Consider this article: http://www.family.org/faith/A000004320.cfm

And please, consider this article about abortion (and pasted below): http://www2.focusonthefamily.com/focusmagazin e/sohl/A000001024.cfm

“I’ll have an abortion, of course.”

Those were my words about 20 years ago when the pregnancy test came back posi-tive, threatening to put my plans for graduate school and career development on hold. I was a woman of the 1980s — empowered and liberated by the “right” to abortion.

Abortion was legal, advertised in the telephone book by physicians with the government’s implied stamp of approval. Abortion empowered me to face an unexpected pregnancy with clarity, decisiveness and self-respect.

Or so I thought.

At the time, I viewed abortion as a reasonable solution for an unmarried woman, even for me — a pastor’s daughter attending a Christian university. My pregnancy and subsequent abortion were indisputable evidence that a Christian worldview was absent from my life. I was deceived by lies that appealed to my desires and seemed to alleviate my fears.

The abortion of my baby was a decision I would later deeply regret. And eventually taking responsibility for my past decision included examining the lies that had influenced me.

Abortion is the cure-all for an unwanted pregnancy.

I believed that my abortion would erase my pregnancy and make my life as it was before. That wasn’t true for me or for anyone; pregnancy changes a woman. Whether it results in abortion, miscarriage or childbirth, she is forever changed.

For many women, abortion can lead to physical, psychological or emotional harm. Whether this manifests as complications with future pregnancies or struggles with substance abuse, abortion is not without consequences — a fact that women have a right to know before an abortion.

Abortion is about choice.

Ironically, the word choice is closely identified with abortion, yet many women report that a perceived absence of choice pushed them toward abortion. The most common reasons women give for abortion include a lack of resources to give birth and fear of losing their place at school or in the work force. Too often abortion is the decision a woman makes when her back is against the wall. I felt that way, too. Abortion is no choice if you think it’s your only choice.

Abortion empowers women.

This equally powerful lie emerged during the 1960s. In the campaign to legalize abortion, radical feminists claimed that readily available abortion would enable women to control their lives. Under the banner of choice, we were assured that abortion would empower women with new opportunities in business, edu- cation and society.

Many women like me believed this would be true. Yet that’s not what happened. Legalized abortion didn’t promote cultural change to better serve women. Instead, abortion became society’s contingency plan, creating the expectation that a woman would take advantage of legal abortion. She had fewer choices, not more.

Too often, legalized abortion reduces the urgency for employers and educators to provide many true choices for women in unexpected pregnancies. Abortion becomes the excuse not to provide campus-based family housing and child care for college students who choose life. It contributes to an environment where pregnant college athletes will regrettably abort pregnancies rather than lose scholarships. Legalized abortion lessens the incentive for employers to offer flexible working conditions like telecommuting and job sharing so women can continue their pregnancies and their jobs.

That’s not empowerment.

Ultimately, true empowerment comes when women know God’s truth about abortion — that it pits mother against child and violates His design for human life and family relationships. Women are empowered when they can follow their God-given instincts to protect and give birth to their child even when facing uncertain circumstances.

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In the shadow of regret over my abortion, I now work to increase women’s access to the God-designed choice for life. Giving women the power to choose life over abortion can happen only by exposing abortion’s lies and closing its traps of deceit. Each of us contributes to this change when we vote for pro-life candidates, support pro-life laws and assist pro-life ministries on the front line of this issue. Real choices for women hang in the balance.