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 5/17/13 2:30 AM |
| Neil | | Tucson | |  |  |
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Unprofitable Servant wrote:
Yet I would bring up Fanny Crosby who was saved in her 40's and was a prolific hymn writer despite being blind from birth. That is an evasion: I was asking *how* a person can learn about God absent visual natural evidence. Telling me Mrs. Crosby was blind & converted explains nothing. |
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| 5/16/13 11:57 AM |
| Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Unprofitable Servant wrote:
I do believe that the order in the universe speaks of the order in the nature of the God who created it. You ignored my question, so I'll repeat & rephrase it: How is a deaf & blind person supposed to learn about God when he can't even see the creation which requires functional vision to perceive & appreciate? |
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| 5/15/13 11:29 PM |
| Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Unprofitable Servant wrote:
Thanks Neil,I have seen that you are saying that in the verse in Romans 1 it simply means perception. I would say the fact that verse plainly states are seen through understanding by the things that are MADE, that it involves as quoted in both definitions perception with the eye. Sure I see power in volcanoes, quakes, etc., but it is a non sequitur to infer that it's necessarily divine power. And what does power, any power, look like? You didn't say. It *has* to be visual, according to your understanding of the verse. Can you see electricity? Heat? Gravity? Nuclear forces? I can see something move, but I cannot see the energy behind it. And what is a blind person supposed to believe when he can't even see the object moved?The rest of your post recapitulates the Teleological Argument (aka Intelligent Design), which was decisively refuted two centuries ago by David Hume. He did us all a favor here, for even if true, it does not logically imply the Biblical God. Maybe it's the god of Rene Descartes, for example, or the Greek Demiurge. That classic Catholic argument opens an apologetic can of worms. |
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| 5/15/13 2:52 PM |
| Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Unprofitable Servant wrote:
(NKJV)For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, Note well: Invisible attributes are clearly SEEN! How does one see power & the Godhead when God is a spirit? So Paul isn't talking about things perceived with vision, or his declaration would be self-contradictory. Here "seen" means with the understanding, the mind, which is a common usage both in Scripture & colloquial speech. This verse is not discussing the operation of human senses, so it is of no help to empirical evidentialists. Do you *see* my point?Man is w/o excuse not because of what his eyes see or don't see, for observations alone, even accurate ones, prove nothing, but because his innate knowledge of God is denied absent a work of the Spirit. Otherwise a blind & deaf person would have an excuse for unbelief. |
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| 4/26/13 1:18 PM |
| Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Les Enfants wrote:
But where is the recording of Spurgeon? Why does it matter? We have plenty of Spurgeon's thoughts in writing; why should we care what his voice sounded like? In any case, early recordings have serious frequency distortion (bandpass effects), so the recording of Bell is not necessarily what he sounded like in person. |
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| 4/25/13 12:31 PM |
| Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Unprofitable Servant wrote:
In all due respect, if you don't think we should be vigilant with a war of terrorism, maybe you need to get your head out of the proverbial sand. This is not to excuse Al Qaeda et al., but consider their declared reason for anti-American terrorism: our Mideast presence, particularly our Saudi bases. Now why are we protecting a country just as fanatical about Islam as Iran, & just as hostile to our value system (secular or Christian)? Why the alliance with Saudi? Answer: petrodollar$; we don't want the Saudi regime to fall into the hands of a hostile party (in the past, Soviets, Saddam Hussein, & now, terrorists) who'll repudiate the '73 Nixonian quid-pro-quo of security in exchange for requiring payment in the world's Reserve Currency. If this collapses (& it may anyway thanks to Iran & China), our spendthrift gov't & society will go the Greek way in a hurry. Americans, like Greek Socialists, are addicted to other people's money.So this is what Americans have been fighting & dying for: the money-printing Progressive Welfare State, supported for almost a century going now by both parties & the RCC. This must be what patriots consider to be freedom. |
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| 4/23/13 11:14 PM |
| Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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Hot Rod Nate wrote:
I'm thankful for all those who put their lives in danger so that I can enjoy what little freedom we have left. In that past 60 years, our soldiers have given their lives for Korea's freedom, Vietnam's freedom, Cambodia's freedom, Grenada's freedom, Kuwait's freedom, Iraq's freedom, & Afghanistan's freedom. |
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| 4/12/13 3:23 PM |
| Neil | | Tucson | | | |
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"eternal life is a relationship with God through Jesus Christ alone."Preachers repeating this vague mantra are part of the problem, to wit, lack of clarity. Folks have all sorts of relationships: father, son, husband, wife, friend, boss, magistrate, employee, acquaintance, stranger, mistress, victim, enemy, & so on. Even the most strident atheists have a relationship with Christ, just one with very bad eternal consequences. No wonder people are confused about salvation, when the trumpet makes such uncertain sounds. |
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