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And yet YOU, as a sola scriptura Protestant, appeal to a BOOK for the source and summit of all your Christian authority! :p Joking aside, an appeal to the CURRENT majority would be a fallacy. As would an appeal to the HISTORICAL majority. But that is not what I am advocating. I am...

Dat's some curveball, there, eh? :D Glory to God. :)

Even as I live, I wish my Earthly desires would fade away. But alas, computer games and forums are very strong forces, almost impossible to ignore. :) If my life in Heaven is spent among the choirs of Heaven and the cherubim and seraphim exalting our Lord in the Heavenly tones of the Divine...

I felt this needed separating from my reply to Wolfeman. I shall make this challenge to ewoks, too. And to Patriots. And indeed to all Christians. Trace Christianity all the way through history - through the Modern Era, the Enlightenment, the Reformation, the Renaissance, the High Middle...

You make a claim that requires more than the Bible to verify. It requires all of Christian history. Such a gigantic claim - that your church is the Church Christ founded, and that its beliefs are the beliefs of the Apostles - has got to be substantiated by history. So instead of complaining...

Nothing special; just clearing the front room so we can put up the tree (up until a couple of years ago, always a live tree; almost always a douglas fir; one year we tried a blue spruce... ow) and decorate it. And, of course, dragging the light-up Nativity people complete with three wise men...

99 Bricks (which is not quite like Tetris!) Project: Princess (a Princess Maker parody/clone for PM fans) Loved

*sigh*:( I just don't want the thread to get derailed, OK? And since the question is about atheists, and not explicitly about evolution and creationism, I think it wise not to debate about these two subjects in this thread. Another thread perhaps, but not this one. So, I beg of you, for the...

Good question. I wonder if I would be sitting on Heaven's best computer playing the greatest RTS games imaginable. But when I think more about God, Heaven, and His Kingdom, I begin to realise: was I made for video games? Was I made for sex, or alcohol, or pleasure? No; pleasure is made for...

I used to be an awful Team Fortress 2 sniper. But then I took a Huntsman to the knee.

I'm not getting into an argument about science, evolution,or any apparent contradiction between science and theology. Just no. But I will say that atheists do have a tendency to interpret the analysis of science - all the sciences, not just biology (and thus evolution) - in an atheistic...

Sadly, you may have a point. I still want to see how far we can get. The friendship and camaraderie is nice. And I enjoy collaborating with Bascom and the rest on Minecraft. But while we are gamers, we are also Christians. Authority is an important topic. And while this thread may not...

Agreed; but the Berean Jews also listened to Paul, and he gave them the interpretation that led them to accept the Gospel. The Thessalonian Jews in Acts also had the Scriptures, but they refused to listen to Paul and chased him out of Thessalonica. Read in context, the authority the...

Do NOT make this into a thread about the debate between evolution and literalistic creationism. Just don't. There are far bigger fish to fry in the scope of atheism. Besides, science and theology cannot contradict. And until there is good evidence from the scientists themselves that...

GenghisKhan44 also likes TheMonkey. :) Love, God is not always soft with His people. The Jews could tell you that easily. Indeed, the history of God and His people, involves a lot of evil happening to the people of Israel, for various reasons at various times throughout history. Joseph, for...

Alrighty, then. Let's stick to the Protestants, for now. All Protestants have common ground between each other. One book, one authority on which they interpret it. This is a good question, no doubt. My first question is: by what authority do the Independent Baptists make their distinction...

Not necessarily. It is about authority, and who has authority, and who doesn't. At as you well know, it's not just Protestantism vs. Catholicism. Very often, it's also Protestants against each other. I've heard of the bitter rivalries between Calvinists and Arminians, between Lutherans and...

It's not easy, believe me. :o The question of what is and what is not a major tenet is, of course, a question up for debate. Another question is, in fact, the Scripture we put our bases on. I use the Greek Septuagint and the New Testament, translated as the 1899 Douay-Rheims Bible, and...

What you describe seems to describe as a Baptist belief seems, in a much more general sense, the Catholic understanding of the Body of Christ. We believe Christ is only found fully in the Catholic Church. However, Orthodox, and in an imperfect way Protestants, by virtue of their baptism, are...

Priase God, for He is good, and His mercy endures forever. :)