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Christianity Etc › Re: Does The Belief In God Kill The Sense Of Wonder In The Universe? by davien(op):
asalimpo:
how did u universe u see come about?
By ur wise thinking how was earth made?
[b] The scientific theory based on the isotropy of the cosmos....the distribution of the elements....red shift galaxies...the curvature of space-time around mass.... etc....with mathematical basis shows the universe emerged from a super dense singularity.... of which existed in an inconceivably minute dimensional plane...
I know none of the above makes sense to you.....because you don't pay attention to anything scientific but like the hypocrite you are you use the knowledge laid down by the scientific method....
And the earth was made like all planets from the accretion disk of the parent star.... or rather the gravity of a star as it forms acts on the surrounding debris that made the star and pulls the molten rocks into a spherical body(again gravity is involved in this).....dense metals like iron sink to become the core.....
I would stop there because i do not have a consensus to speak on this scientific field accurately....talk to an astronomer.....
i could continue but again it is doubting you can understand any of this.... undecided [/b]

At best all what i've said are the scientific well substantiated theories that are falsify-able....and based on reality.... as compared to mythical unvalidated ridiculous bronze age tales undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: Does The Belief In God Kill The Sense Of Wonder In The Universe? by davien(op): 3:05pm On Oct 17, 2014
asalimpo:
atheism fries ur brain. So that u actively resist d truth even though it's glaring.
Even History recognises tht Jesus lived on earth. The roman style of execution-crucifixion was real.
its glaring and yet your religion has over 41,000 of which most are contradictory sub-denominations..... undecided
and a good fiction is atleast based on something factual.....saying method of crucifixion is real therefore an unrecorded man of rumoured jewish "father/son/god" character is real is more like saying spiderman is real because New york,Manhattan is real tongue


History recognized no one called "jesus" ....that is why "jesus" is told as a mythology....not history and we talk about the "stories of the jesus in the bible" not the history and biography of "jesus" cheesy


And how can logical thought fry your brain against an unvalidated belief in flying dragons....wizards....giants....incest....witches talking snakes....donkeys and a floating zoo? cheesy
Christianity Etc › Re: Does The Belief In God Kill The Sense Of Wonder In The Universe? by davien(op): 2:59pm On Oct 17, 2014
asalimpo:
one of the mods stupidly banned me once for pointing out the leadg nature of ur questions. Now ur askg yet anoda leadg q!
"god-did-it" glass filter.

Y not say wat u want to say instead of couch ur bias as a question?
asalimpo please stick with the topic to avoid being banned.....
Christianity Etc › Re: Does The Belief In God Kill The Sense Of Wonder In The Universe? by davien(op): 11:41am On Oct 17, 2014
mesoade:
explaining christ to an atheist lol! Only divine intervention can make you change. . . U know,there ar 1001 proofs dat God doesnt exist against d 10 proofs dat he does . .but still,i can feel his presence.u just nid divine intervention.
so you are saying you believe that it would allegedly purposely make 1001 proofs against itself then condemn people who do follow the evidence for eternity?!
including your kindred that never "heard the word" and were "never saved"? undecided doesn't sound so loving does it? undecided


And if truly it is about "divine intervention" why aren't we all born with this?.... or is it good to let people freely follow their own intuition and then punish them for it?.... or rather design a car that can drive itself anywhere and then expect it to drive you home? undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: Does The Belief In God Kill The Sense Of Wonder In The Universe? by davien(op): 7:50am On Oct 17, 2014
mesoade:
if he doesnt exist,how then do you explain miracles?
actually you are the one who believes in miracles....therefore you should give us proof of it.... tongue
Christianity Etc › Does The Belief In God Kill The Sense Of Wonder In The Universe? by davien(op): 7:19pm On Oct 16, 2014
I just want to know......do theists feel captivated by the chaotic beauty of the stars or the beauty in birth.....or does a "god-did-it" glass filter this sense of wonder and inquiry? undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: I Will Only Vote For An Atheist by davien(m): 6:52pm On Oct 16, 2014
hmmm....depends......although it would mostly tell who he/she is before campaigning...
Christianity Etc › Re: A Troubling Matter In Marriage -- SEX. by davien(m): 1:37pm On Oct 16, 2014
asalimpo:
Fast and pray tht the man's organ shud b restored and grow back to it's full lenght.
Yeah,i know it sounds silly, but God will do it!
But it's gonna take all the concentration and focus this couple hav got.
People usually giv up in prayer because d problem seems insurmountable but there's a point you reach,as you persist, where the problem begins to look surmountable even though you've seen no physcal answer.
I said concentration and focus not faith cuz tht's wat seems hardest to muster during prayer.
Her and her husband can kneel at the bed and begin to pray against this problem ,regularly,everyday.
Read books on faith,ur spiritual authority etc.
The man's physcal development was stopped it can be restored.
He has given up hope of fathering children - this isnt God's will.
If she'll stand her ground she'll see a miracle.
It may take weeks,months,a year mayb 2 or 3 but the problem will go.
Theyre married now. Sleeping around is adultery. She wants a healthy s.ex life. God can forgive her and him their sins . This problem can go.
God can change the man's body.
fasting and praying to cure erectile dysfunction? shocked
Christianity Etc › Re: A Question For The Atheists by davien(m): 12:58pm On Oct 16, 2014
JEITO you asked a very good question....the universe will indeed expand till even atoms would never form....although by then entropy would already be at its maximum....and the universe would be a very dark cold place....beautifully at thermal equilibrium cheesy
Christianity Etc › Re: It Takes A Fool To Be An Atheist-a Special kind of Fool!! by davien(m): 12:53pm On Oct 16, 2014
The bible says rainbows were created after an alleged world flood......science proves rainbows always existed since the earth had an atmosphere and is the result of the refraction of light from two separate media of different densities....and world floods never ever occurred... undecided
So who is a fool....someone who blindly takes a claim as fact or one who waits till it is proven true before acceptance? undecided

The chance nature of existence only describes how life was and is still threatened by a lot of factors....diseases....food shortage....meteors....etc cheesy
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 7:10am On Oct 16, 2014
qstar:
Warped theistic logic.

(i) table/tables were presented to men in the past.
(ii) they rejected the table/tables.

According to Bobbysworld28's logic, they accepted the table/tables(tableism) b4 rejecting them (Atableism).

grin grin
I even started to believe maybe he might be mentally challenged to not understand something that simple.....including asalimpo who believed 150 year old theory of evolution started atheism undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 10:44pm On Oct 15, 2014
Bobbysworld28:
The rejection of god/gods is what u guys term as atheism. Christianity falls under the huge umbrella of theism. So what u r saying in essence is that atheism was before theism. This is wrong!

We shall deal with specifics later or on another thread. I will like for us to concentrate on the glamour (which includes the concept) of atheism for now.
Read carefully;

people rejected Gods like zeus and athena before the yahweh "god" concept....disbelief is not tied and didn't began from Christianity but other native ancient "god" concepts and when the christian concept of "god" was proposed....it too failed to provide its burden of proof and therefore it was disbelieved too... cheesy
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 10:37pm On Oct 15, 2014
Bobbysworld28:
I dont get this question. Kindly rephrase
do you believe consciousness isn't a brain state?
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 10:32pm On Oct 15, 2014
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Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 10:25pm On Oct 15, 2014
Bobbysworld28:
They rejected the concept of god/gods, yet the rejection came before knowing abt the concept? U r running in circles here. U cannot pre-reject wht u r nt aware of, haba!
Atheism cannot come before theism.
I am not even remotely referring to atheism coming before theism but rather the rejection of the "god/gods" concept predates christianity and is not a result of the scientific era nor have anything to do with the "god" concept of christianity as asalimpo has claimed....do you now understand that undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 10:10pm On Oct 15, 2014
Bobbysworld28:
Morality and laws are man-made and anchored on the acknowledgement of a higher power for enforcement. U acknowledge government of the physical laws but ascribe ur consciousness to 'nothing' quite remarkable. The law of gravity then was propounded by ur forefathers, I guess.
Every community delegates...modifies....lift and impose laws....

I would like for you to explain how you believe something besides the brain governs consciousness and the way you came about such a conclusion and then perhaps tell us how you have the answers that top neuro-scientists are researching on undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 9:55pm On Oct 15, 2014
Bobbysworld28:
The concept of Allah and not Allah himself. I can choose to reject dt he exists because I have heard someone claim he exists. Gerrit?
If I have never hrd of Allah, how can I reject the concept dt he exists? I cannot be said to disbelieve that davien exists on Nairaland if I hv never evn hrd of the name before, can i?
its good you get it now.....now apply that to african natives and other prehistoric people whom rejected the concept of "god/gods" to understand why atheism existed before christianity and consists of nothing extra.....just an unbelief tongue
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 6:48pm On Oct 15, 2014
asalimpo:
atheism strted with the scientifc era, specifically after darwin's theory of evolution gathered steam. Before that it was unquestioned even in science that man was made by God.
Division of Science and Religion is a recent thing,it wasnt always so.

Atheism isnt just a belief,it is a movement with adherents.
It is a religion in the abstract sense of the word.
asalimpo i finally believe i'm justified to call you a r3tard!... because if 150 year old scientific theory began "atheism"....how did the greeks....ancient africans and others arrived at the unbelief.... smh!
i can see now that flying dragons....talking snakes.....talking donkeys must be verified by you all the time anyway....anyhow.... undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m):
Bobbysworld28:
Again, the hollow argument. Atheists equate lack of knowledge of an issue with a total rejection of the issue. VERY WRONG!
Unbelief will mean I am aware of a subject (and probably related with it) then I choose to reject it. How then can a rejection of a concept predate the knowledge and revelation of the concept? So, atheism cannot predate the knowledge of deity (else all inanimate objects are atheists lol).
Wow flawless logic! ....apply your definition to your unbelief in allah and you'd be saying you know allah exists but reject it undecided ...
Has your willfull need to justify talking snakes and donkeys that high that you'd have to lie and re-define the most basic of things undecided …
perhaps you should realise that the "god" or the "supernatural" has been long rejected countless times due to lack of evidence and/or for evidence strongly against it....
Christianity Etc › Re: The Glamour Of Atheism by davien(m): 5:32pm On Oct 15, 2014
asalimpo:
Every living person has a belief system which they adhere to in regulatg and judging their actions.
Every1.
Religion is what dictates ur belief system. So every1 has religion and worships somthg.

Atheism borrows many christian concepts too.
Christianity never told a person to believe in himself.
The secular mumbo jumbo for conscience - ethics - is just a secular name for something we all know exists but can't see?
Yet atheists try to allude tht life is all physcal.
Then y expect people to act with a fair conscience - ethically - in secular affairs? People know the human conscience is a moral judge.
You do know that atheism predates christianity right? undecided and is an unbelief in "god/gods" and the "supernatural"...

so your "atheism borrows christian concepts" is a blatant lie apart from that atheism is just an unbelief not a philosophy....try to read on what a philosophy is and you'll find it concerning beliefs majorly and not an unbelief undecided ………pick up a book besides your bible for once..
Christianity Etc › Re: If The Old Testament Is Of A Perfect God, Why The New Testament?? by davien(m): 10:49am On Oct 15, 2014
Image123:
i don't need a wiki link. You said there are 41000 different ways to salvation. i said list just 20 of those 41000 ways.
i'm a very busy individual...... you can read about each christian denomination and their methods towards "salvation" on that page......or are you afraid of the truth?
.Image123 keep in mind my below statement

most of the
41000 denominations have different methods towards "salvation"
and other things
CATHOLIC FAITH

[b] " The Catholic Church teaches that it is the
one true Church founded by Jesus Christ, [3][4] that its bishops are
the successors of Christ's apostles and that the Pope is the sole
successor to Saint Peter who has apostolic primacy. [5][note 1][6]
[note 2][note 3] The Church maintains that the doctrine on faith and
morals that it presents as definitive is infallible. [7][8][note 4]
The Catholic Church is Trinitarian and defines its mission as
spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ, [9] administering the
sacraments [10] and exercising charity .[11] Catholic worship is highly
liturgical , focusing on the Mass or Divine Liturgy in which the
sacrament of the Eucharist is celebrated and, the Church teaches,
bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ through
transubstantiation . The Catholic Church practises closed communion
and only baptised members of the Church deemed to be in a state of
grace are ordinarily permitted to receive the Eucharist.[12] The Latin
Church, the autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches and religious
communities such as the Jesuits , Mendicant orders and enclosed
monastic orders reflect the variety of theological emphases within
the Church. [13][14]
The Church venerates and holds in special regard Mary , the mother
of Jesus Christ, and teaches that through divine intervention she
gave birth to him while still a virgin. It has defined four specific
Marian dogmatic teachings : her Immaculate Conception without
original sin , her status as the Mother of God , [15] her perpetual
virginity and her bodily Assumption into Heaven at the end of her
earthly life. [16][note 5] Numerous Marian devotions are also
practised." [/b]


EASTERN ORTHODOXY

[b] " By these acts of salvation, Christ provided fallen mankind with the
path to escape its fallen nature. The Orthodox Church teaches that
through baptism into Christ's death, and our death unto sin in
repentance, with God's help we can also rise with Christ into heaven,
healed of the breach of our fallen nature and restored to God's grace.
To Orthodox Christians, this process is what is meant by "salvation",
which consists of the Christian life. The ultimate goal is theosis –
an even closer union with God and closer likeness to God than
existed in the Garden of Eden. This very process is called Deification
or "God became man that man might become 'god'". However, it
must be emphasized that Orthodox Christians do not believe that
man literally becomes God in His essence, or a god in his own
nature. More accurately, Christ's salvific work enables man in his
human nature to become "partakers of the Divine nature" (2 Peter
1:4); that is to say, man is united to God in Christ.
Through Christ's destruction of Hades' power to hold humanity
hostage, he made the path to salvation effective for all the righteous
who had died from the beginning of time – saving many, including
Adam and Eve, who are remembered in the Church as saints. [83]
The Orthodox reject the idea that Christ died to give God
"satisfaction", as taught by Anselm, or as a punitive substitute as
taught by the Reformers. Sin (separation from God, the source of all
life) is its own punishment, capable of imprisoning the soul in an
existence without life, without anything good, and without hope: hell,
by any measure. Life on earth is God's gift, to give us opportunity to
make our choice real: separation, or union." [/b]


PROTESTANTISM

[b] " Protestantism is the form of Christian faith and practice that
originated with the Protestant Reformation . The Reformation was a
movement against what Protestants considered to be the errors of
the Catholic Church.[1] It is one of the largest divisions of
Christianity; along with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy .
[2][3] Anglicanism is often considered to be independent from
Protestantism, although its origins lie in the English Reformation,
which was concurrent with the Protestant Reformation. The term
refers to the letter of protestation by Lutheran princes in 1529
against an edict condemning the teachings of Martin Luther as
heresy . [4]
Three fundamental principles of traditional Protestantism are the
following: [22]
Scripture alone
The belief in the Bible as the supreme source of authority for the
church. The early churches of the Reformation believed in a
critical, yet serious, reading of scripture and holding the Bible as
a source of authority higher than that of church tradition. The
reformers rejected some of the traditions of the Western Church
because they did not find justification for them in the Bible.
Justification by faith alone
The belief that believers are justified , or pardoned for sin, solely
on condition of faith on Christ rather than a combination of faith
and good works. For Protestants, good works are a necessary
consequence rather than cause of justification. [23]
Universal priesthood of believers
The universal priesthood of believers implies the right and duty of
the Christian laity not only to read the Bible in the vernacular, but
also to take part in the government and all the public affairs of
the Church. It is opposed to the hierarchical system which puts
the essence and authority of the Church in an exclusive
priesthood, and makes ordained priests the necessary mediators
between God and the people " [/b]

I BELIEVE YOU CAN READ THE REST FOR YOURSELF undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Were The "Giants" In The Days Of Noah? by davien(m): 12:09am On Oct 15, 2014
OLAADEGBU:
Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! grin
its a pity ken ham is your "god" now sad
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Were The "Giants" In The Days Of Noah? by davien(m): 11:03pm On Oct 14, 2014
WARNING: ANSWERSINGENESIS. COM BELONGS TO A MAN WHO BELIEVES IN A WORLD LIKE THE FLINSTONES.....DINOSAURS LIKE TYRANOSAURUS REX ATE BROCCOLI smiley
Christianity Etc › Re: 1500 Years Old Bible Claims Jesus Was Never Crucified by davien(m): 10:55pm On Oct 14, 2014
and another version of christianity is born..... from the ashes of islam and judaism... smiley
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Heart Is Your Religion by davien(m): 10:46pm On Oct 14, 2014
Religion is emotional dribble......
Christianity Etc › Re: Are Engineers Moorally Responsible For The -use Of Their Design? by davien(m): 10:19pm On Oct 14, 2014
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Christianity Etc › Re: Are Engineers Moorally Responsible For The -use Of Their Design? by davien(m): 10:18pm On Oct 14, 2014
tobechi74.....an engineer is only liable for the integrity of the design....that is to say if the design is faulty....malfunctional or does not confirm to its created parameters.....do you understand....? smiley
Christianity Etc › Re: If The Old Testament Is Of A Perfect God, Why The New Testament?? by davien(m): 9:45pm On Oct 14, 2014
Image123:
That is a lie. Kindly list 20 different methods of salvation out of the 41000. Thanks.
how do you know when you haven't reviewed the evidence....? undecided [url] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations [/url]
Christianity Etc › Re: If The Old Testament Is Of A Perfect God, Why The New Testament?? by davien(m): 4:26pm On Oct 14, 2014
asalimpo:
sure lazarus died , certified dead, but bf Jesus raised him,he told one of lazarus' sisters that he had power to raise from the dead (something like that).
Jesus' also commanded the disciples he sent out to among other things raise the dead.
lol.....mythology.... cheesy
Christianity Etc › Re: If The Old Testament Is Of A Perfect God, Why The New Testament?? by davien(m): 4:24pm On Oct 14, 2014
Image123:
The existence of 41000 denominations as alleged is not an issue. There may as well be 41000 universities or secondary schools. It don't mean that 1+1 has 41000 different answers. That is what you're insinuating.
*gasp* perhaps you do not understand my point.....most of the 41000 denominations have different methods towards "salvation" and other things undecided
Christianity Etc › Re: If The Old Testament Is Of A Perfect God, Why The New Testament?? by davien(m): 1:34pm On Oct 14, 2014
Image123:
You insinuated there were about 41000 DIFFERENT views in a bid to discredit faith and Christianity. Now you say little but noticeable ways. He that has the Son of God has life, he that has not the Son has no life. It is that plain, there are no 41000 ways about it.
calm down image123.......
i'm not merely insinuating things....just telling you the facts...
" As there are reported to be approximately 41,000
Christian denominations "

[url] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations [/url]

ALL I'M MERELY ASKING IS HOW IS THE "TRUE FAITH" DETERMINED...!

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