Recent content by Sassamo

There is a difference between being one of God's(The Father) 'elect', and being 'chosen' by Jesus(The Son). Do all 'good' men who set out to do God's will succeed? Or do some perhaps misunderstand His desire and choose the wrong path in an attempt to do well? Yes, the argument is moot, as it...

Yes, there are others listed as disciples and apostles, but unless I'm missing something, none others where 'chosen' by Jesus. Considering your statement, God's foreknowledge of anything/everything does not imply this is what was his desire, or else we could apply this to everything and say...

God chose the original 12, and He chose Paul. The disciples chose Matthias. Just something to consider.

I think the main issue here is in the semantics. I think it's better described as an irresitable force. Your analogy would actually imply 2 objects, both on a set path that cannot be changed, one stationary and one linear, and in that respect they could be equated. But again, the second half...

That was a cool presentation, with a lot of interesting facts and new concepts. It's just to bad she attributes this all to evolution forming these amazing abilities, instead of God. I'm asking you why. Not because I don't believe it, I do agree, but I'd just like to hear what your input...

I think the first thing we need to do is define what forgiveness is, what are we forgiven of, and what should we forgive others of. Forgiveness i believe is commonly 'overdefined' into something with a more emotional meaning. Biblical forgiveness is almost, if not always, defined as...

Statistics have a way of twisting numbers into looking like anything we desire. It's just simple math. Suppose we have 10 people, 1 of them brings in 1,000,000 a year, while the other nine only bring in 100,000 a year(still a very considerable income in my opinion, but thats besides the...

One thing I'd like to point out is that alot of people try to say that the 6 'days' may represent periods of time, and that's as far as they take it. This really isn't a possibility, it doesn't even fit the evolutionary model. There really are only two ways of looking at this, either...

As in when the interpretation of scientific theories must give way to the evidence given in God's Word!

... C14 dating is only theoretically reliable up to 80000 years based on the current accuracy of our equipement. On top of that, the whole foundation for this dating method rests on the assumption that the C14 to C12 ratio was the same when these creatures died as it is now, which is purely a...

I agree that while it's unfortunate, you need to just give the answers they want if you want to make it through the class. There's no harm in understanding what others believe or why they believe it. As stated, I believe in the 6 literal day creation, and the timeline of the earth as can be...

Here's a great resource outlining various proofs for a young earth/universe from many different aspects of science: http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth

Yes, 6 literal days if you read the words literally and grammatically. Also, as quoted, "God created man is his own image", so I don't believe Adam looked more like an ape. Also, genesis states the earth started out as a ball of water, evolution/big bang has it starting out as a mass of molten...

I think when this thread was originally started, it prompted me to really find out what is the difference. Based on my beliefs and preferred worship style, I alway tend to run with the KJV-only crowd, and though that's what I always used, I never felt like it was an absolute necessity. I ran...

"You must be born again to see the kingdom of God." That's not a bias, that's biblical truth. One may misunderstand the meaning of a scripture, and believe that misunderstanding to be true, that doesn't make them biased, just in error. It's true that people can and do use personal biases to...