The more Godless America becomes, the more 'uncivil' it also becomes

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  1. Alif Qadr

    Alif Qadr Banned

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    This applies to all of the afflictions, mental and physical, that America and "The World" are suffering from now.
     
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    You shud know...all of your postings smack of pride! That's why you are still wandering in the dry barren desert...
     
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    Not much of a retort. My pride or lack of it have no influence on yours.
     
  4. OverDrive

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    No retort..just some truth!

    I try to 'minister' some spiritual truths mixed w/a little tough love (a spiritual 2x4 as it were to get someone's attention)..not just point fingers w/o offering anything else at the same time (as some ppl do)! Btw, you do know what 'ministering' means, dont you?!!
     
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    I believe it may have more to do with a lack of religious morals tests for those citizens claiming to have religious morals.

    Job 34:30, That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
     
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    Now two consecutive posts ignoring your own problem with pride.
    Care to make it three?
     
  7. OverDrive

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    Projection is a cheap and ugly thing.

    Again, bruce the badgering tit-for-tatter.....find another patsy. There are plenty of other 'hate threads' in the Religion section.
     
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    Your faith is certainly a indomitable force for civility. Your OP is confirmed with each of your posts.
    Why not be what you seek?
     
  9. OverDrive

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    I seem to remember reading about 'self-righteous' ppl pointing fingers at Jesus also!

    Guess, if the sandal fits....


    Btw, obviously, the $395 didnt get you very far!

    You 'shud' know that pride & boldness are not the same things....just as:

    Acts 4:29
    Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.

    But what does scripture say about 'the accuser of the Brethren?" Look in your mirror for your answer..

    Sorry,...no more 'tit-'s as that is your vain pleasure.
     
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    No one forces you to respond, and you have no influence over what I respond to. Don't "tit" if you don't want a "tat".
    My evaluation of your pride and incivility comes from your posts, not verse quotations.
     
  11. OverDrive

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    Would you like me to post your self-promoting accolades on your blog to establish your 'prideful' opinion of yourself?

    How you can point fingers at others and attempt to shame them is really disgusting on your part. The whinings of a badgering troll who places himself above others in his judgment of them--one who never originates a thread to defend, just snipes others....beyond 'disappointing,' more like disingenuous cheap shotting!

    Not to be 'uncivil' in my called for reply by your postings...just giving an 'appropriate' response!
     
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    And thinking you are being appropriate indicates how mindlessly uncivil your faith has allowed you to become.
    I have originated many threads. Sorry you missed them.
    I would love to have you promote my website. Others may read it with discernment as the editors of NOVA magazine did and realize that the article you refer to was written with a humorous attitude. Your lack of a sense of humor allowed that to escape you completely.
    They loved it.
     
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    Missed the threads..must have been just cheap shotting Christianity, as is your usual MO. I dont play patsy to or entertain those just as I avoid Wolverine's vain topics.

    So, all that talk about you promoting the Lord Jesus Christ etc. on your blog is then a joke?" Pretty funny that....<cough, hack> Looks like a setup to game new comers into your web of deceit...when are you going to add the "DONATE" button to your menu?
     
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    Ok, "processes' is vague, but anything that happens is based on physical law.

    Physical laws can never be proven. The are 'true" as far as anyone knows, but cannot be tested under all possible circumstances.

    One acts on the basis that they are reliable, much as one assumes his car wont float away into the sky.


    Do you see a problem with this approach?





    Depends on what it is. Pick something from biology or geology, say.
    Anything. You can cross check from other published sources, or in a great many cases, you could in fact set out to see for yourself. Check mendelian genetics, say.

    The "apologists' are people who start with a conclusion and work backwards to justify it. Why do you choose to trust them?

    Do "apologists" say there was really-really a flood? 'Coz they say the bible seems to indicate there reallyt was?

    I dont get how anyone could be satisfied not to think for himself and to go out and investigate for himself.
     
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    One, if they are 'looking' can see God & His plan in His creation:

    One case is why do donkey's have 'crosses' on their backs?

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    The Messiah would enter Jerusalem while riding on a donkey
    Bible prophecy: Zechariah 9:9
    Prophecy written: Between 520 and 518 BC
    Prophecy fulfilled: About 31 AD

    In Zechariah 9:9, the prophet speaks of a future king presenting himself to Jerusalem while riding on a humble donkey. This foreshadowed something that happened about 500 years later. As explained in Luke 19:35-37, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and presented himself as the Messiah, the King.

    In reality, if one is familiar with 'types & shadows' (or fore-shadowing) they can see God in many/most things!


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    The Sand Dollar Legend
    (Version 4)

    Upon this odd-shaped seashell a legend grand is told,
    about the life of Jesus, that wondrous tale of old.
    At its center you will see, there seems to be a star,
    like the one that led the shepherds and wise men from afar.
    Around its surface are the marks of nails and thorns and spear,
    suffered by Christ upon the cross; the wounds show plainly here.
    But there is also an Easter lily, clear for us to see,
    the symbol of Christ's resurrection for all eternity.
     
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    My ex called it "correlation sickness" where the mind sratts in making all these connections that arent there. You know, bermuda triangle with bigfoot and the pyramids and acupuncture....

    The kind of guys you hear on "coast to caost'. I think you have stepped onto their moving sidewalk. You might want to bail before it takes you somewhere.
     
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    Do you believe in the (Law of) propagation after one's own kind?

    If God as the intelligent force is at the center of all Creation, and holds 'all in all,' then His bldg blocks of atoms (and most likely sub-atomic particles), solar systems, galaxies, universes, are "Him' manifested in His works. And so all are 'types' of Him taken to the nth degree if one 'wants to seek such!'
     
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