Why did God not answer Paul's prayer? (Page 4): Yes indeed...

Rose42

Texcaster wrote:

What a creep.

Yes indeed

slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again

Rose42 wrote:

Yes indeed

Perhaps you could explain floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, disease

intractable pain, and other gifts from your creator.....???

Perhaps, you can't.....

SteveR Loc: Michigan

slocumeddie wrote:

Why are you and your wife grieving if your daughter is with Jesus.....???

That is a good question. We are grieving our earthly loss. It is a human emotion. However, we are greatly relieved to know that she is with the Lord, which we do. As Christians, we will miss our loved ones just as others do. We do take great consolation in knowing that they are not gone forever and that we WILL see them again. I cannot imagine how awful the alternative must be like.

slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again

SteveR wrote:

That is a good question. We are grieving our earthly loss. It is a human emotion. However, we are greatly relieved to know that she is with the Lord, which we do. As Christians, we will miss our loved ones just as others do. We do take great consolation in knowing that they are not gone forever and that we WILL see them again. I cannot imagine how awful the alternative must be like.

Thank you for your answer.

Laramie Loc: Tempe

Belief in science is little different from belief in Jesus/God/Trinity. No one can prove it, certainly not the bible. But many of science's 'truths' can be proven by math.

Rose42

slocumeddie wrote:

Perhaps you could explain floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, disease

intractable pain, and other gifts from your creator.....???

Perhaps, you can't.....

He’s your creator too.

You can start here if you really are interested -

https://crossexamined.org/putting-god-on-trial/

slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again

Rose42 wrote:

He’s your creator too.

You can start here if you really are interested -

https://crossexamined.org/putting-god-on-trial/

Frank Turek has never been effective, and is true to form in this essay.....

redlegfrog

Wyantry wrote:

Adequately define “day”.

We currently do not even know the boundaries of the universe, so cannot compute how many “days” a Universe traverse might take.
And if, as demonstrated, it is constantly expanding, the time might increase.

The quote from the Bible-fable about “resting on the seventh day” is completely unsubstantiated.

God created this whole mess in 6 days and on the 7th he rested.
Can you agree that the first second after the big bang the universe was smaller than it is today? So with a "day" as a unit of measure it would take fewer "days" (one?) to cross the universe than it would take today.
Unsubstantiated day off? I'm thinking if God wants a day off who's going to tell him no? and he did document it in his book. Try it, its a good read!

Rose42

slocumeddie wrote:

Frank Turek has never been effective, and is true to form in this essay.....

You’ve never heard of him before.

He’s been quite effective.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

slocumeddie wrote:

Frank Turek has never been effective, and is true to form in this essay.....

What he misses is that when God created sentient beings, both angels and man, by giving them choice the possibility of evil surfaced. Not to give them choice would have meant that they would merely have been robotic servants.

slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again

Rose42 wrote:

You’ve never heard of him before.

He’s been quite effective.

Your statement is incorrect.....I listened to him debate several times, 8 or 9 years ago.....I believe with Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins.

He did not do well as a Christian apoplectic apologist.....

mwalsh Loc: Houston

SteveR wrote:

What he misses is that when God created sentient beings, both angels and man, by giving them choice the possibility of evil surfaced. Not to give them choice would have meant that they would merely have been robotic servants.

If we are not perfect...yet we were made in God's image...is not God therefore imperfect?

Why does God need us to need God?

Perhaps God has an ego as well...

Rose42

slocumeddie wrote:

Your statement is incorrect.....I listened to him debate several times, 8 or 9 years ago.....I believe with Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins.

He did not do well as a Christian apoplectic apologist.....

I doubt that. Either way, you do not do well as a critic

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Everybody dies, in their own way.
I (and many others here) have gotten old;
almost everybody I've known.been related to has died.
As well as seven decades of well loved pets.
As they say: "There are a million stories on the Serengeti;
and every one ends with a violent death,"
Death is inevitable and needs to be expected.
Do a little Jenny Jinya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JOpBMYZjoU
.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

redlegfrog wrote:

God created this whole mess in 6 days and on the 7th he rested.
Can you agree that the first second after the big bang the universe was smaller than it is today? So with a "day" as a unit of measure it would take fewer "days" (one?) to cross the universe than it would take today.
Unsubstantiated day off? I'm thinking if God wants a day off who's going to tell him no? and he did document it in his book. Try it, its a good read!

If you think that a day for God might be a billion yeas for us
It's about right.