So we are all here (In theory) by accident?
Is the earth an accident?
Is the internet an accident?
Is this Blog an accident?
So if there is not a creator would not everything have to be an accident? How to calculate the odds that the words on this blog were an accident of the big bang.
WAKE UP! This is a lousy movie!,
This review is from: It's a Wonderful Life [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This movie never won any awards. It was so bad that the studio could hardly give it away when they first puit it on tape, then they let it be colorized just so they could sell SOME copies of it, and suddenly the big war cry from the Hollywood liberals was -- "OOH! Save a classic black and white film!" Baloney! No one liked this movie when it was made. No one liked it the 1950s. No one liked it in the 1960s. No one liked it in the 1970s. No one liked it in the 1980s, then SUDDENLY! -- it's an American classic. NOT! It's Communist propaganda about the "evils" of American free enterprise from a guy who made a lot of pinko films but never thought HE should have to live like this "common man" he kept making pictures about.
Creationists, our point is this:
By the standards of science, the "Law of Supernatural Abiogenisis" is the "established" science:
here is the law:
"In the absence of devince intervention, life cannot exist in a bounded and initally lifeless system."
We dont say this law has been proved.
Indeed, Scientific Laws cant be proved.
The Conservation of Energy. That cant be proved.
We only say this:
A law like the Conservation of Energy becomes established science, when all efforts to falsify it have failed.
Since Proof is imposible in Science, Failure to Disprove (Failure to falsify) is the standard used throughout science.
Its the standard that makes the Law of Conservation of Energy, which cant be proved, the established science.
Thus the Law of Supernatural Abiogenis is established science, by the standards of science.
It is in principle falsifiable.
To falsiy it, do this: Demonstrate Naturalisitic Abiogenisis.
Just what our Atheist friends assure us is possible.
They need to. For them its a mortal issue. If the Law of Naturalistic Abiogeneis is correct, Atheism itself must be false.
But too bad. All efforts to falsify it have failed.
An international effort, of 100 years, involving the worlds top gurus, including several Nobel Prize winners.
The Law of Conservation of Energy
Never falsified = Established Science
Law of Supernatural Abiogenisis
Never falsified = Established Science
Why not?
The "7 Seals" are 'beyond Einstein theories' that symbolically lock the "book/scroll" prophesied in the Bible's last book: The Revelation 5:1-10:10. This 74-page booklet is entitled 'There Are No Coincidences - there is synchronism'. The seals/theories are on its cover along with some very symbolic artwork that satisfies the prophecy in the Qur'an 75:6, "When shall be the 'Day of Resurrection'? When the eye is dazzled, and the moon is eclipsed, and the sun and moon are brought together."
The "7 seals"/theories are known as follows including short descriptions...
Seal #1: The Conglomerate of Nonparallel-Universes Theory (Universe Creation Theory)
"In the beginning"... This theory explains what happened before the Big Bang and what will happen after this universe's possible demise billions of years into the future. The Guardin' of Eden story took place c. 4,000 BC through extraterrestrial intervention with the 'God guy' cloning himself to produce Adam, then again to produce Eve. (Humans existed elsewhere & Earth is 4.55 billion-years-old.) The near future should bring confirmation of ETs and their history with global cultures. Advanced technology and wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges) should eventually provide interuniversal travel. Note: It appears that this universe creation theory is now accepted by over 50% of astrophysicists.
"The only reason that you have a name (Atheists) is because Christians came up with their name first (Theists)."
[In an Amazon review of "Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All".]
As an alternative health person; I find this book to be an outrage; that the public needs to know the facts about vaccines and that this author is one of the most uninformed; even dangerous men to the health of America.
I can understand his attitude; brainwashing is a rampant problem in our medical society but to take our FREEDOMS away is socialism; plain and simple.
You wanna shoot yourself and your kids and grandkids up with thousands of poisons; be my guest. But I for one will be the first person in a very very long line of people that will stop you from making your dreams of a vaccinated world a reality.
You made a mistake in logic. You say that "God" cannot be proven or disproven. This is a contradiction in terms. If God cannot be disproven, then He is proven. If He cannot be proven, then He is disproven. You can't have both. You must first define what God is before you can analytically prove his existence. God is defined as the "first being." Now we have to define what a "being" is. A being is an entity, and an entity is an autonamous functioning system that percieves, contemplates, chooses, and acts. We are beings, and if you don't believe that there is no reason to discuss further.
Since only beings act, then the first nature must be a being. To start at the first nature, you must start at nothing. Nothing does not exist. It is like the point. The point is an idea, but can't be drawn or decribed except as a beginning. So nothing is not, therefore life is. This is the beginning of the 0-10 fundamental principles which progress into the concept-reality progression. This is what half of my book 2016 The Final Revelation is about, so I'm not going to explain the whole thing here. The famous numbers of the Bible, being mainly 3, 7, 12, 33, 40, 70, and 72 are understood by this progression.
2016 The Final Revelation
There has always been proof of God. However, the Deity cannot be detected by physics, since He does not belong to the laws of physics. But He is proven by Truth. There are at present 9 proofs I can think of concerning the entity we call God. This is abbreviated:
1. elemental logic - we ourselves are proof of God, since nothing creates what it has not the power to create.
2. the nature of humans to conceive of eternal values.
3. the nature of humans to worship a god of some nature.
4. the nature of humans to develop a religion around the god.
5. the creation living creatures, showing design enginuity and amazing genius.
6. the nature of humans to wear clothing. Animals will not wear clothes, but humans always do, beginning at the fall of Adam.
7. the nature of humans to speak not only sounds, but words, and the words are formed in "primary sequence" or "equation" format. (subject, verb, indirect object, preposition, and direct object)
8. the nature of the universe
always to be initiated by choice. Physical things are generated, and form does not exist primarily even in abstract. It is only thought to be acted upon.
9. the nature of humans to either accept of reject the Gospel. Throughout history, people have recognized their sin, repented and believed the message of Christ. Why does this happen? If there is no sin, why have many people rejected evil for good.
There is a book that discusses these concepts entitled "2016 The Final Revelation." It is very enlightening.
"Actually, the existance of God has been proven, by the lack of evidence that he does not exist. Science falls flat on it's face trying to disprove God. It's not guilty until proven innocent, it's innocent until proven guilty. Therefore the burden of proof MUST lie with the atheist."
Ask a nurse about watching an unbeliever die, there are some horrific accounts of famous atheists screaming about the fire and burning, during the last hours of their lives. I don't believe this is a desirable way to die, even if there was no afterlife as you suppose. Doing the right thing and looking out for your neighbour is a lifestyle most people adapt anyway, so why is it such a stretch to worship God as Creator?
Christians are the new blacks...being discriminated against and attacked with impunity.
[comment on book "A Charter On Negative Liberties"]
Morality is a concrete thing. It doesn't vary with the whims of a society. If we acknowledge that rights are granted by God (Declaration of Independence), then the same God has cast morality in stone. It is written on the heart of every human being. Furthermore, morality and worship are two entirely different things. God gave us free will, but He also gave us government to curb destructive behavior. See Romans 13.
A Muslim has a right to go to a mosque on Friday and worship there. He has no right to impose Shari'a law on the nation. Observe the distinction. Shari'a law is a moral system. It is not God's morality because of the egregious and unjust penalties it imposes. And it is not a form of worship. Our notion of liberty is founded in the Judeo-Christian consensus. Hindus see nothing wrong with taking a young girl to a temple and forcing her to become a prostitute. We know this is an egregious violation of that child's rights, and we do not permit that here. Morality is something very specific, and the mere fact that some people do not understand clearly what it is, or choose to ignore their own consciences doesn't mean that we don't have a duty to maintain the very fabric of society upon which our freedoms are based.
The organic law which the Founders left us is most CERTAINLY FULL of morality. The very idea of stating that rights come from the Creator is a moral statement. If we can ignore morality when it comes to harmful activity, then we undermine the very basis of our freedoms. I believe you have not thought through the implications of what you wrote, and I am challenging you to do so.
God dictates morality, not the federal government or any other government. When a government attempts to contravene God's moral law, that's dictating morality, even IF it appears it is granting freedom. Licentiousness enslaves on the most basic level. A licentious nation cannot maintain freedom.
It is sad to think that people object good things in life. Chick-Fil-A is standing and trying to keep people out of hell. Somehow people don't get it that when it is in their best interest they just reject it. So sad !
Look around you, Bubba. See the flowers, animals, skies, etc. Do you think they came out of boiling sludge? If that's the case, and the fittest survived. I wonder how that would work. Would a slimey fish crawl out the water, say I need legs, and just grow them? Or somehow mutate, and there they are, and that mutation is passed down? Tell me how they decided to develop into male and female - that must have been interesting - Who decided who gets the eggs? Who decided to have the babies grow inside them, and which ones to lay in eggs? Who decided that they eyeball placement would give us 3D vision and show the vision upside down inside our brains, but cause our brains to become able to decipher it?
THAT's what sounds so far out to me. How did something come from nothing? Who designed it? It's like saying drop a watch on an airfield and wait - it'll then evolve into an airplane over millions of years... "
And no I am not atheist, and neither are you. You believe in God and just don't accept it.
'another god' is referring to Satan and the demons. That is why God forbids idolatry. They are the 'other gods' of
the decalogue.
1. Atheists know nothing about what they don't know, and they feel guilty enough to accuse those who know what atheists do not know. This only reveals a limited mind of not only atheists, but the atheistic scientists whose knowledge is limited to studying limited matter. Both seem to monopolize their own blogs with accusations and guilt mongering.
2. I suggest that believers in God give up meddling in the blogs of small mind atheists. There is just no room other than room enough for matter. The deceiver has put them here to waste our time to get on with the work of preparing for the completion of the Original Plan that God had in His mind before He created.
3. Atheists are, after all, and from the beginning, broods of the deceiver. Why bother with them? They are wasting God's time, which makes them very happy. That is their happiness in life.
[review on the book, "Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters"]
Just more Lies and homosexual propaganda from someone trying to justify an immoral sexual practice. I guess bestiality and sex with minors will be the next abhorrent behaviors to be championed the next group of fascists waiting in the wings for their chance. You say you want everyone treated equally but you hate God, Christians and everything they stand for. The so called LGBTQ community is the most prejudiced, selfish, and radical group I have ever seen.
You're a filthy liar, too! If you had any relationship with God I would have known it long ago. Isn't it cool how my system works! ;)
Science is tainted by theories, most aren't even true. Carbon dating has been proved unreliable, and even some scientists today can date back humanity to a single woman (Eve). Evolution in my eyes is (indeed a theory FYI) misinterpreted genetics. So a dude went for a while to an island and saw genetics in action. Too many flaws in Evolution yet schools teach it anyway. ALL OF YOU LEARN YOUR CHRISTIAN ABC'S BEFORE TRYING TO ARGUE!
And another interesting point is that our seeking of gods is one of the biggest things that differentiates us from all the other creatures. I mean, is any atheist/scientists saying that a being with our intelligence HAS to wonder if there is a god? I mean, chimps are pretty smart, and it never occurs to them to wonder if there is a god, or an afterlife. It's almost like God created us with a God-sized hole, a God vacuum of sorts.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists. You're doing a good job proving God does exists. The more nonsense you post the stronger my faith is in God!
Atheism cheapens everything it touches-look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth. Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
Atheism is perfectly legal in America today. The problem with most Atheist is they only want to harass the honorable people of faith. As you know they therefore are just activist seeking attention that they didn't receive through a good faith based family structure. So, as I stated earlier an Atheist is just a loon for all intense and purpose in the eyes of the other 91% who do believe in religion.
In three sentences why I became an atheist:
1) I've always wanted to be just like Madelyn O'Hare
2) I've always thought Stalin was misunderstood
3) The thought of abortion makes me happy
Lao Tzu, no human is born an "atheist" in any meaningful sense of the word. When a human is born, he has not yet heard of God, so he has not yet asked himself whether God exists or not.
Therefore, no one is born either believing that God does not exist, or believing that he can not know whether God exists or not, or even simply believing that he should not yet decide.
Yes, "atheism" can mean "without belief in a god". But then you could call a rat an atheist, because a rat has never heard of God either. Both a newborn baby and a rat have never heard of God. But it is ridiculous to refer to either as an "atheist".
However, it is correct to refer to an atheist as a "rat". A rat can not be an "atheist", but an atheist can be a "rat".
In reality, the proof of God's existence is so abundant and obvious as to be undeniable by any rational person. The world in which we live clearly would not exist except for an omnipotent God.
The only reason why atheists believe that God does not exist is that they want to believe that. Their belief is not based on evidence that God does not exist, nor is it based on a lack of evidence that He does exist; their belief has no basis. It has only motivation. The atheist has psychological motivations for believing that God does not exist.
All of the reasons that atheists claim to have for their atheism are really just rationalizations. They had a desire to believe that God does not exist; when they finally found arguments that could allow them to deceive themselves into believing that he does not exist, they did so. The people became atheists after engaging in self-deception.
All of their arguments are really self-delusion.
Atheism is very common among homosexual men; this single fact proves that psychology, not evidence, is the cause of atheism. One can not rationally argue that homosexual men have more evidence that God does not exist. Thus, atheism must be the result of psychological motivation.
Of course, in addition to homosexuality, paranoia and fear of authority result in atheism.
God's existence is manifest and evident. The proof of God's existence is far too plentiful to be denied by any normal person. Therefore, only an individual who has an abnormal psychology can possibly be an atheist.
These are all established facts about psychology. No rational person ever disputes them.
2 billion deaths as a result of false beliefs in the history of the world before Jesus
2 and 1/2 million in 2000 years. on comparison to the rest of our recorded history.
Does that sound like a failure or ONE HELL OF A SUCCESS.
And he still promises more to come.
Most people like to take a view that supports their own interpretation without looking at the big picture.
Look at the big picture. Look at the world without Jesus and the number of Dead bodies. Then Look at the world with Jesus and count again. Belief in Jesus has been the biggest deterrent to religious killings in world history.
You do not prove that Christian Identity is a legit religion, like Islam. Because, it isn't. And neither should be Islam.
They break the law, by their basic tenet of denying others' free exercise of religion. Constitutional law, no less.
S. Kessler: "Islam is as much a Constitutionally protected religion as is Christianity and Judaism."
Islam is illegal here. Christianity and Judaism are not. Islam has been granted protection under the Constitution --- ILLEGALLY.
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Mathematics Requires Morality
The use of mathematics demands morality. Disclaim God and His moral law and there is no obligation to affirm that two plus two equal four, and that "A" cannot be "A" and "non-A" at the same time, in the same way. "Must" I affirm mathematical or logical truth? If so, I must provide objective unchanging moral grounds for the obligation, and that requires an unchanging God. For two plus three not to be four, anywhere at any time, requires a universal truth: which presupposes an all-knowing God (who supplies the moral law). God's law commands all men to tell the truth and forbids lying. This is the reason we "ought" to affirm two plus three equal five.
Presupposing God as the solution to all questions and the standard for truth does not mean that we must construct a theological postulate just to perform mundane tasks. Yet every simple task and every piece of routine communication presupposes the triune God because we use logic and morality in all those endeavors. God is the precondition for all logic and morality. If we presuppose anything other than God as our starting point, we end up with absurd and contradictory affirmations. The tri-unity of God--the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit--is inescapable if we want to make sense out of our world. To reject the triune God is to end up asserting your own philosophical demise. Deny God and you commit logical suicide.
The author strangely, chooses to ignore the accuracy of the Bible and favors the secular record. It's nonsensical because the Bible repeatedly shows its accuracy in all manner of ways. Why would then, a person show favor to a limited secular record? Regardless, the author whether she likes it or not, shows how accurate the Bible is, because although she fudges against the Bible taking away or adding a few years here and there, it is only a few years. Now compare how consistant secular scientists' dates for the age of the universe is using different dating methods, and it will differ by millions or billions of years. Clearly the Bible is more reliable then. It's sad that Christine refuses to see that.
[In a review of Victor Stenger's book "God: The Failed Hypothesis"]
Victor Stenger is a physicisist and therefore does not have the values and common-sense way of talking that me and my friends have - this angers me.
What makes me even angrier is that Victor seems to think that just by knowing "stuff" he can show that the gospels are wrong and there is no God. He should be more humble and admit that me and my friends are 100% right that God exists and that science cannot explain mysteries such as thought or how birds fly. Only through the eyes of faith can we really understand that Stenger doesn't know what he's talking about, because by believing in Jesus we strengthen our beliefs that we have the answers and Stenger and secular humanists should stop dissing us - this is a Christian country and they are guests.
Also, do not think that the false guess of evolution is true, because Charles Darwin thought of that while on opium and never practiced good science like Jesus and the apostles did. If evolution were true, Jesus would have told us about it, since he didn't Darwin was wrong and animals have always existsed the way they do now (except dinosaurs- people photoshopped pictures of them and fooled everyone and they never existed.)
reject stenger and all he surveys, for it is wicked.
(From a review of "Kiss My Left Behind")
But because it is a mockery, because it throws insults toward Christians, then a book like this will be put on display. In this day and age the Christians have become the focus of Hate by the liberal media and groups like the ACLU. Further, Christians are the focus of hate by the secularists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. While I write this small review, bigotry toward anyone who calls Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior is the must for such people as this Lee chap. Whether a Christian agrees with PreMill or not, no wonder books like the Left Behind are so popular, we Christians are the ones who are being discriminated against! People like Lee and the ones giving this a five star review show just how much America has slipped in terms of respect toward others. Christians are the ones that American elitists hate. That is, the Christians who acknowledge the Bible as truth and the Christians who live their lives for Christ. If this book had been a mockery of Hinduism, Islam, or some other religion like Wicca, the book would not have ever sold...not even considered...but because books like this show the growing and mounting hatred toward Christians, then yes, more books like this one will be seen all around. This is pure Christianphobia. This book is truly hateful just for the sake of being hateful. And that is why people are giving it a rave review, because they know that Christians are the target of hate crimes by organizations like the ACLU and people like Sam Harris, and such people that give this book rave reviews do so to get in on the action of hate crimes toward Christians.
(From a lengthy review of a children's Book called "It's Not the Stork!")
On page 48 of the book, it describes the different types of families: "Some families have one child. Some families have two, or three, or four more children. Some families have a mommy and a daddy. Some have a mommy. Some have a daddy. Some have two mommies. Some have two daddies. Some kids live with a parent or stepparent, or with an aunt, an uncle, a grandmother, or grandfather, or with a foster parent. Some kids live with one parent part of the time and with their other parent the rest of the time."
That page is the books flaw, a big one no doubt. A family with 2 mommies or 2 daddies is not a family according to God's Word and the design of God Almighty. I absolutely am not going to be teaching my children what God refers to as an abomination! The book is so great otherwise, what we did was just take a black marker and cross out that one statement "Some have two mommies. Some have two Daddies." It is not biblical or the will of God to teach such a thing to a child as if it is okay, regardless of it is becoming more accepted in the mainstream world today. So I write this just to help Christ-Centered parents be aware.
No doubt sometimes family situations (like step-families etc) are a result of sin and not having Christ at the center of our lives at the time these things occured, but a step-family, single-mom family and so on, does NOT mean that Christ is not now there at the center of that family. I know step-families, single-mom families, divorced parents, and so on that live Christ-Centered lives and so I find no error the statement on page 48 with regards to the various types of families. These are not signs of ongoing sinful lifestyle.
However, a family that is made up of same-sex parents is not a picture of a biblical family period! There is no such thing as living in sin biblically! If a person is living a homosexual existence they are living an existence condemned and seperated from God. A "family that has two mommies or two daddies", though some may consider it to be a "family", the bible does not consider or teach it to be so, and so parents that are trying to use this book as a tool to teach their children about the "healthy sexuality" and such, will want to beware of this page.
Children need not be taught that an sinful choice such as a same sex relationship, is a healthy form of a family just as God's design for a family which is ONLY one Mommy and one daddy. In no way does that mean homesexuality is worse than any other sin. BUT a "family" with homosexual parents is a one illustrates a lifestyle of ongoing sin, it is sin and it does separate us from God and a homosexual lifestyle can not be the way of life of a follower of Christ, and Christ-Centered parenting teaches that homosexuality is an abomination ... NOT that it's a hunky-dory family.
Athiests say there is no god. So why weren't the atheists in Haiti helping that country's poor before this earthquake? they knew the people there were poor. And they know there is no god to help them. So why did the atheists allow those people to live in poverty when they could have helped them? If there is no god, then you can't blame him. If there is no god then why do atheist blame god for this and ask why he didn't help? I ask the atheists. Why didn't you help those poor people so they didn't have to live in poverty. Don't hide behind god. there is none. Don't hide behind christians as they are demented and believe in gods and fairies. Why didn't the athiests have this poor country on their list of things to fix. Do the atheists blame God so as to misplace the blame that is really their own. There is no God. there is only man. Man could have fixed the problem and man did not. Humans suck, don't they? If there is no god we have only ourselves to blame. So quit blaming the God you do say does not exist. Blame yourselfs atheists.
I'm quite charmed at the way old man Dawkins rants and raves and gets all tangential at the drop of the hat. Funny guy. As a dinner guest, he would undoubtedly make for an entertaining evening. His arguments for evolution, on the other hand, don't hold up too well in light of today's scientific data. He conveniently avoids Intelligent Design, which is a shame. That was a gaping hole that I would have loved to see filled. Also, recent scientific evidence has proven that all mankind has one common ancestor, the New Eve they call her. She is a 60,000-year-old female. Why is that too avoided here? I'm sure Ricky knows all about her. To boot, show me the medium-necked giraffe. It should be there somewhere in the fossil record. Why isn't it? Well, I think we all know why. Because evolution, the jumping from one species to another (as opposed to adaptation, penguins and ostriches for example) is merely bad science.
[A review of They Might Be Giants' new children's album 'Here Comes Science']
I bought this CD+DVD for my son since he really loves the first several TMBGs kids albums No, ABCs and 123s. I own just about every TMBG album out there... I even bought Why does the Sun Shine when it was a new release... So I was very surprised to find out that this CD which claims "Science is Real" and even has a song "Put it To the Test" about the Scientific method has one very religious song and two with lots of religious undertones.
I can think of thousands of things you could make songs about with Science without dedicating three songs to fairy tales about Monkeys. How about volcanoes? Lightning? Why Is the Sky Blue? At least they thru in the song "Davey Crocket in Outer Space" to show everything on their DVD is not, in fact, "Real". Davey Crocket has more to do with being "Real" than track 6[*] which is all about TMBGs world view and their belief and faith in a bizarre and crazy theory that never has been observed, and can not be put to the test.
Anyway, beware if you buy this that TMBG will try to indoctrinate your children with wacko religious views, which they will get plenty of in high school and college. Better to steer clear of this one, and maybe pick up a CD about Peter and the Wolf... it is considerably more about real science than "Here comes Science".
[* Track 6 is a song titled 'My Brother The Ape']
As a Christian I'm offended by comparing unicorns, elves with angels. Unicorns and Elves are fiction, and angels are biblical. End of story.
[Response to a negative review of Pigs in the Parlor, a book which tells people how to cast out demons and encourages burning children's toys]
Look Mr. Bowman If you have ever sinned you got demons your are not as holy as you think you are. How many demons have you cast out Mr Scholar? Thats what I thought ZERO, because you would run like a scared chiken like most anti deliverance clowns. Yet you talk like your some kind of expert, and your not! Your full of pride thats why you do not understand it. I chalenge you to underline every time jesus cast out demons you well find that almost every page will be underlined. there were certain cases that people brought their loved one to jesus but not in all cases. Stop letting holywood give you ideas about how demons act. As far as childs suff toy being demonic did you know that doll comes from the word idol and idols do carry demons air head!
There is NO PROOF that Global Warming is CAUSED BY MAN! You people have exploded this issue! All these people who preach that it's us doing it are flying around in jets and driving cars to conferences where they cry when they can't agree on a solution! The Earth's temperature and climate is constantly changing! In the 1970's the liberal hippies were screaming that the Earth was cooling! In the 1800's it was warming! This influx of temperature is a normal, natural occurrence! In fact recently, the polar ice caps are re-freezing at an amazing rate! And you people have force feed this scare through the media, terrifying everyone into buying hybrid cars and doing all kinds of crazy things for A LIE! It's ludicrous! And you want to shut down the American economy because businesses are destroying the environment with their air pollution yet you don't say anything about CHINA! For pete's sake man, China is the worst emiiter! But no, let's blame the U.S. because we don't like Capitalism! I USED TO BE ATHEIST! When you are saved, you never leave God for anything else, further proof that it is the truth! Christianity is the largest religion in the world and still growing, most of the sciences we use today were created by CHRISTIANS! The only way you'd ever believe me is to quit thinking that objective thinking is THE ONLY real and tangible thing and that the spirit is a reality, just as tangible as ANYTHING! We can feel our spirit in our hearts and minds! Quick scientific fact: Upon death, the body loses 21 grams of weight. This is true of different people, and SCIENCE CANNOT EXPLAIN IT! They've tested theories again and again and the only answer they can come up with is that it is the spirit leaving the body!
(Review of "God is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens)
Why aren't atheists horrified by the anger and hatred you find in this book? Do they all just not notice it because they are that way themselves?
Christians give more to charity, help others more, commit adultery less, cheat on their taxes less, and, in thousands of other studies, (go ahead and look it up) prove that Christianity has made a difference in their lives. (see books "Makers and Takers" and "Who Cares More"). Surely they make good citizens? Not to Hitchens, lost as he is in spite and hatred for God.
This is not surprising. If there is no God, then life is pointless and happiness momentary. There isn't any right or wrong. Was it wrong for the Aztecs to rip out the still beating heart of a captive? Was it wrong for the cadres of Pol Pot to murder everyone over the age of twenty? Why?
And Hitchens simply ignores the consequences of atheism. There can only be an ultimate right and wrong in this world if there is a God, as Nietzsche so acidly pointed out. Everything else is merely your opinion and experience versus mine. Where do unalienable rights come from without a Creator? Aren't they just the currently agreed upon myths soon to be changed by the next culture? Without God there is no ultimate truth and no purpose to life. Cultures will rise and fall and men will live and die, and it will all be sound and fury and as utterly pointless as whether or not it's windy today.
God found Abraham in a desert land, in a place of horror, in the howling wilderness. And this is Hitches' real problem: that howling wilderness is life without God.
PS. To find God you need to repent first.
(From another review of "The Pink Swastika")
Scott Lively, of Abiding Truth Ministries, and Kevin E. Abrams have done their homework before writing this book. Thoroughly documenting evidence regarding the rise of the Nazi Regime, this book gives keen insight into the dangerous homosexual political agenda gaining power in America today. You will understand that homosexuals don't really want a part in the institution of marriage, they want to destroy it! You will learn why homosexuals show up at pro-abortion activities - on the pro-abort side. Homosexuals will not stop short of creating a society of unlimited sexual license and abortion is a means to this end. Sexual deviancy has destroyed numerous nations before us. Hopefully this book will wake people up, especially Christians, to the fact that we better get involved in the culture wars, or lose the little remaining light for the Gospel this nation has been for the world in the past. We are to occupy until Jesus comes again. Pastors, especially, need to read this book and start leading their congregations before they lose their right to congregate. This is a huge part of loving our neighbor.
(The review of a book called "Be Intolerant: Because Some Things are Just Stupid," by Ryan Dobson)
Is is just me are has the world become ALOT more liberal. I have no problem with it UNTIL it intervenes with my life. The many people who have negatively commented about this book have failed to realize that this book reveals the hypocrisy of todays so called "open minded" people. The very people who cry woe is me for being homosexuals aka sinners(sin is sin) and being discriminated ARE the very same people who HARASS Christians. You guys are so narrow minded. But its expected. One thing I ask of you. STOP boxing in the life of Jesus. He was loving and forgave, but he was FIERCE too. People dont want to mention ALL the sides of Jesus. The Lord brings a SWORD, not a hug people. I dont have to judge you. THE BIBLE does that already. So get over yourself
(commenting on a review of Jimmy Carter's book, "We can have peace in the Holy Land:A Plan that will work.")
It is amazing that this man became president, although there are others as bad and as naive. My personal opinion is he fell out of his baby carriage on his head. Arabs hate Jews and have been hating them for over 3000 years . If some of our idiot politicians read the Bible they would understand the real problems and support God`s people. The Israeli people should also read their Bible and return to God`s commandments and statutes before it is too late Thanks and God bless.
If you are a parent who has read the Bible, and believes it to be the inerrant Word of God, then this book is for you. The Bible teaches us, in no uncertain terms, that we are to "Train our children up in the way they should go". Biblically, there is use of a "rod" or other implement that is used for spanking. This is NOT hitting or anything even close to it. It is carefully controlled, calm spanking that is issued on the bottom or upper thigh. The Bible promotes this. But, it does not just start or end in spanking. Spanking is a tool God has given us to help us direct our children, but it is not the ONLY tool. It is critical to spend time with your children, getting to know them, by having them close to you (tomato staking), and leading them in paths of righteousness. Love on your kids everyday, all day, by having them near to you. Don't send them off to their rooms, don't send them away to day care, don't send them off to school. Keep them with you and near you where you can see each attitude and problem as it comes up, and lovingly correct, whether through training a different attitude, sending to a corner, or spanking, or all of the above.
I am inclined to disagree with the reviewer who felt the book read like a "1950's Home Ec. Book." I'm in my late 20's, and while the book is not written with the modern feminist movement in mind, it is still a great book with wonderful ideas. Yes, women were created to be a "help-mate" for men, specifically, to our husbands. Women were/are instructed by the Apostle Paul to respect and to submt ourselves to our husbands, which is what Mrs. George emphasizes.
As for being "physically available" for our husbands, not only is it Biblical - but in the book, Mrs. George is referring to women who withhold sex from their husbands as "punishment" for some transgression.
As for the comment that the author commends a woman for dropping out of Bible study to spend time with her husband, it was taken out of context. In the book, a friend of the author had to choose between her Wednesday "morning out/ladies brunch/Bible study" and spending the day with her husband, whose day off fell on Wednesday.
I commend the author for standing up for the traditional marriage relationship. No, everything she says won't work for every couple, but the main idea is to make your husband your #2 priority (after God - of course) I believe that author makes a very good argument for the relationship between a husband and wife. So often in marriages the couple grows apart and children, careers, and selfish behavior take over.
- If the laws of chemistry PREVENT the formation of organic molecules due to the chemical composition of the early earth atmosphere as oxydizing, then how is Darwinian-macro-evolution even acceptable as a scientific theory?
- If macro-evolution VIOLATES the very laws of nature itself, is it not contradictory and therefore false, scientifically as well as logically?
- The evidence tells us that chemical evolution is not possible, but complex intelligent life abounds. How is this NOT a violation of natural law?
- As a violation of natural law, is this not a super natural event by definition?
- The evidence presented establishes that chemical evolution is not possible, therefore shouldn't Darwinian-macro-evolution be discarded as scientific theory because it's assumptions have been verified as empirically and scientifically false?
- What is the only other competing model for the origin of life?
- Shouldn't Special Creation be given due consideration since it is the model that best matches the evidence?
As I said, the Persians never even had a world empire; so why should anyone take their plastic god (Zoroaster) seriously?
(Customer review for Evolution: A Theory In Crisis)
I did a comparative study on this and the Species of Origin. I have to say, I was once an evolutionist, but I now I realize how much blind faith I held in it.
The author strangely, chooses to ignore the accuracy of the Bible and favors the secular record. It's nonsensical because the Bible repeatedly shows its accuracy in all manner of ways. Why would then, a person show favor to a limited secular record?