Recent content by Armistead

Seems man has always had the freewill to make his choices for good or evil, even before the fall. Adam and Eve were told not to eat and chose not to eat for who knows how long. They were scared to die, so they knew fear of making that choice. Indeed they had to be tempted to a rather harsh...

I think the bible is clear, repeating prayers over in over in public as a act of holiness is not holiness, if it just seeks to gain attention. When one is alone, I don't know that it benefits, but I see no harm in it. It may just be to get the mind right. Sometimes when I get very tired, I end...

Other creation stories, the setting of the Babylonian creation myth, Enûma Elish, has clear parallels with the Genesis narratives. Other poetic and historic writings also follow many of the same parallels of Genesis, some that predate when Gen. was written. As with many of these writings...

I don't that Christians can actually cherish sin in their heart. That doesn't mean they don't sin, they may actually have the ability to enjoy sin, but I think one knows what is sin and that's where we must be careful as we often follow mans rules over God's.

There is no evidence that Peter helped Mark write his gospel and much evidence he did not, regarding language, style, age. Although I agree with your other statement, none of the gospel writers were close to Jesus. No doubt the church has tried hard to get the Gospel of Mark to the earliest date...

Have not a clue about the Red letter Christian movement, although I've heard the phase.

Christ is supposed to have been a Jew, and his disciples are said to have been Jewish fishermen. His language, and the language of his followers must, therefore, have been Aramaic--the popular language of Palestine in that age. But the Gospels are written in Greek. Nor were they translated from...

No, not new and not exactly where I'm going. If we accept Paul, then his writings we know were written by a man who lived in Jerusalem when Christ is supposed to have been teaching there. Now, if the facts of the life of Christ were known in the first century of Christianity, Paul was one of the...

test/..nope Mod, you can delete, I cant find the function to do so. I've been debating elsewhere , but it died out as this topic gets rather heated and complex. I did a study on this years ago that I never quite finished. The study at that time almost broke my faith, but at the end I found...

Post did not copy correctly, will have to correct...Can never figure why something I write on word will not paste correctly her no matter how many times I edit it....errrrrr.

I watched a local fundie Baptist Pastor on TV sunday. I went to a church like this and I've seen this one preach a few times. They always have different sermon titles, but the message is the same.He spent all this time talking about hell. How lost would go there, burned and be tortured forever...

The MB process starts at around age 2. Kids MB until puberty just because they have found rubbing feels good. Puberty takes place and that act alone makes us sexual, have sexual thoughts and desires. God created the body and for puberty to take place, so we can assume sexual thought and desire...

That would be equal to a parent willing to trade places for his child in hell.I was once asked. If you were watching your child getting ready to be placedinto eternal hell and God gave you the option to take his place would you be willing? The same test often stated, would you kill 1000 innocent...

Your giving Satan way too much power, for I am one that believe for God to exist he must as the bible explains. Clearly, God understands and knows sin ashe made us. God created all knowing exactly what all would do. Man would like to teach that God reacts to Satan and man, well, it's the other...

Even pedophiles show genetic traits, also alcohoism. No doubt genetics are involved in may traits. Still, we mush seperate that which harms. Homo or hetero can be harmful used wrongly. I think in the past most homo's were genetics. Who would want to go through all that bias. I think today...