benjibabs: You need to read it in context to get it right. The second bold portion reads "to make us hundred"; does that translate to the fact that they were less than hundred ?
I am two hundred years old, you call me hundred. And I reply, no I'm not hundred, you'll need half my age to make me hundred.
"to make us hundred" is not the same as "to make us UP to hundred"
MrPresident1: Now I have been thinking on the prophecy of the ten virgins as the reason for the apparent non play-out of the prophecy I gave as I gave it. Then again, our God, works in mysterious ways, He is full of mystery, no one can fathom Him completely.
One thing is sure, the firstfruits are already sealed. The living are now waiting for the dead to rise up at the final trump, as Paul said...we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep... 1Thessalonians 4:15
Thanks a lot bro but quick corrections . I'm not intelligent (why people think I am is beyond my ken ) , I'm not "pretty young" , I'm 23 and I'm not a scholar . And its quite wonderful to be compared with the luminaries of Christian theology .
Why I believe in God ? Its completely logical to acknowledge the existence of a creator , I mean its axiomatic that a creator does exist . And I think denying this is completely irrational .
Why Christianity ? Christian theism portrays best the expected nature of this creator .
The magniloquence ? I wanted to increase my " Vocabulary IQ" which was egregious . And I did it , its now stands at 135 . And I really want to continually improve my vocabulary though the zeal has faltered .
My brother you heard COMPLETELY WRONG. I did not say Christ will come next month, I said Christ will come any moment between now and 20th January 2017, any moment between now and then. Read the thread above
KingEbukasBlog: You guys don't understand what 'evidence' means : a thing or set of things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment or the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
The stated figures are facts or information that indicate or serve as evidence that the belief in God ( an intelligent designer) as the being who orchestrated evolution is valid or true .
I'll go for set of things. So let's say I agreed with that, because truly I can't explain why the sun didn't incinerate the earth before the completion of the process.
Nor is this a retreat caused by modern science. Saint Augustine in the A.D. 300’s, in his commentary on Genesis, pointed out that the days don't need to be taken literally nor need the creation be a few thousand years ago. Indeed, he suggested that God made the world with certain special potencies that would gradually unfold over time and develop. This interpretation came 1,500 years before Darwin so that it is not a forced retreat in the face of modern science.
So any doubts that I would have about the theory of biological evolution would be not biblical but rather scientific; namely, what it imagines is fantastically improbable. Barrow and Tipler, two physicists, in their book The Anthropic Cosmological Principle list ten steps in the course of human evolution each of which is so improbable that before it would occur the sun would have ceased to be a main sequence star and incinerated the earth. And they calculate the probability of the evolution of the human genome to be somewhere between four to the negative 180th power to the 110,000th power and four to the negative 360th power to the 110,000th power. So if evolution did occur on this planet, it was literally a miracle and therefore evidence for the existence of God. So, I don't think this is an argument for atheism. Quite the contrary, it really provides good grounds for thinking that God superintended the process of biological development.
So the Christian can be open to the evidence to follow it where it leads. By contrast, as Alvin Plantinga has said, for the naturalist, evolution is the only game in town. No matter how fantastic the odds, no matter how improbable, it's got to be true because there is no intelligent creator and designer. So in one sense you have got to feel a little sorry for the atheist. He can't really follow the evidence where it leads. His presuppositions determine the outcome. By contrast, if there is a Fine-tuner and Creator of the universe, then already in the initial conditions of the Big Bang you have an elaborately designed universe that permits the evolution and existence of intelligent life, and I think evolution simply layers on more improbability.
If you don't understand what the emboldened text means , shut and stop embarrassing yourself
If the emboldened text is all the evidence you've got, shut up!
Read preceeding posts and I dare you to attempt refuting them
Beliefs of ancient atheists were horrendously stupid
You mean this?
KingEbukasBlog: Its because plaetton is always frustrated that his rigmarole don't work on Deepsight . So instead focusing on the argument , he resorts to personal attacks and dismissing DeepSight's arguments because he can't refute them . He then runs away and stops replying . You , hahn , have mastered the art
Look at how William Craig destroyed Christopher Hitchens in the evolution argument . Evolution actually proves God's existence not atheism
Its a 3 minute video which would inject the right dose of sense into you
If evolution did occur it was a miracle and therefore evidence for the existence of god
Wow! So because something unexplainable (yet) happened, I'm just supposed to assume it was god. Is that your evidence? Something happens and instead of searching for answers, I should just lay back and assume it was god?
Humans have very limited knowledge about the universe, but while some people are digging for answers, we will just sit back and laugh at them because we're intellectually lazy, hence our conclusion for the existence of god
That's my own perspective of religion, till I get hard reasonable evidence.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, call fire from heaven like elijah did or shut up.
KingEbukasBlog: Atheism is a man made idea that started when rebels and ignorant buffoons wanted to have fun . I also discovered that the students in the Charvaka atheist school were bibulous idiots . Do you know the school's philosophical hedonistic precepts was "eat, drink, and be merry" ? Even the root charv means to eat .
No need to go further , no wonder atheists feel religion (belief in God in this case )restrains them from enjoying life to the fullest . There is no intellectual reason for atheism , its foundation prove it .