Apple Sky said:

The globe is not all bad it's just a sphere that has been over inflated & set in motion to orbit our golden sun & wonders lonely as a cloud through dark murky fields of blackness through the infinity of space.

And God said 'Let there be light'.

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To believe or not to believe that is the question.

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"Overinflated": No. You make it sound like balloon that's about to pop because it has had too much air forced into it.

"Wonders lonely as a cloud": The earth doesn't wonder anything. Even assuming you meant "wanders", that is wrong. Nobody to my knowledge believes that the earth is wandering " through dark murky fields of blackness through the infinity of space." It is orbiting the sun in a fixed orbit.

I agree with, and believe, your bible quote: And God said 'Let there be light'. But that was before the sun was created.

keras said:

More pretentious tripe.

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Why are you saying that God using a star to guide the Magi and appearing to Saul as a bright light from heaven, is pretentious tripe?

keras said:

When many Prophesies say the sun will be darkened on the Day the Lord sends His fiery wrath, a perfectly feasible occurrence; then why deny it?

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Who said I was denying it?
Wouldn't the sun being darkened be a celestial sign?

keras said:

I was referring to the 24th Day of Kislev, mentioned 3 times by Haggai. Which was the 14th December 2025.
It is a significant day in history and yet to happen. Seems we have got away with it once again.

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It's a significant day in history that has already happened many times. It is not "yet to happen", it happens once a year.
IF something is going to happen on that day in the future (big "if") then it hasn't yet been fulfilled. It's not about us "getting away with" anything.

Pommer said:

I’m fairly certain that Muslims believe that Yahweh and Allah are the same Being.
Whatever it is that you, personally, know about the subject, you might not be…correct, based on the fact we’re talking about how other people believe.

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No true Muslim can be a Christian.

Common sense.

They were two big men of middle eastern appearance, with Moslem style beards, massacring people on a Jewish festival, hot on the heels of the Israel-Hamas conflict with widespread death and destruction in Palestine, just over ten years from the Lindt Cafe Siege on the 15-16 December 2014, while Sydney tends to be the centre of anti-Jewish sentiment with a lot of Middle Easterners in the western suburbs.

JosephZ said:

It doesn't, as I explained in this response to you back in October.

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Yes it does. Your explanation is incorrect.

JosephZ said:

Those practices predate Islam and occur in non-Islamic cultures as well.

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Yes some do. But it IS STILL an Islamic practice. As you showed in your experience Islamism is radical and teaches subjugation of women.

JosephZ said:

tribal traditions, not the teachings of Islam, that led to their deaths

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Tribal traditions based on Islamist thought and instruction.

JosephZ said:

Under tribal - not religious - tradition, marriages are carefully arranged by elders. Marrying without permission is considered an affront to the honour of the tribe.

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They are simply trying to downplay the religious aspect of it, by denying things that are occurring because of Islamist teaching. Honor killings are a part of Islam.

JosephZ said:

Honor killings predate Islam and occur in Pakistani Christian families as well.

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Honor killings are part of Islam.

JosephZ said:

As you can see from those verses, Muslims can be friends with those who do not fight against them or mock them.

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All those things are from the Quran. Did yoi notice the war like stance in all of it? These things are all used by Islamists to be violent and antagonistic to non-believers. According to the Quran when we speak out against the call to prayer in yhe middle of American towns, disturbing the peace of those who don't and aren't interested in their religion, they consider us enemies.

And we all know what they do to their enemies.

I've heard enough of this nonsense regarding a clearly authoritarian religion that seeks to take over places with violence or by political means in the NAME of their false religion. And those who have come out of this religion have told us what really goes on. You should these things. They are authorized to do whatever it takes to obtain power. And that is what they are doing.

O-o-h thanks for the pictures. It’s a mzldr, with the. Long barrel. I’m in the market for one. Does this one have any difficult gunsmithing for you to do. My skills are limited. But with the price of mzldr these days a fixer upper might be a good idea. Where did you find it?

sorry about the picture but I think it’s a google or apple picture. Neat back yard shot. We can’t have open fires here- chaparral- fire prone. Every 50 years it turns into spontaneous combustion. But we have had them started by the electric company too. Thanks I guess I’ll switch gears and do a search on gunbroker. This year promises mild, probably no snow and not enough rain. 50s this week. But you’re tough. Did you hunt this year?

Nikola Tesla didn't have one single "life equation," but he often spoke of life as an "equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors," emphasizing universal principles like **vibration, frequency, energy, and his fascination with the numbers 3, 6, and 9, suggesting these divine numbers held the universe's secrets and keys to understanding reality and consciousness. He believed humans are automata responding to the environment, but focused on harnessing these universal constants.

Key Concepts in Tesla's "Equation"

The Unsolvable Nature: Life is complex, a puzzle beyond a simple formula, yet manageable by understanding core elements.

The Power of Vibration & Frequency: Tesla believed everything is energy, and understanding frequencies (sound, light, electricity) unlocks the universe's secrets.

The 3, 6, 9 Key: He thought these numbers revealed cosmic patterns, linking to growth, creation (like cell division), and hidden dimensions.

Mechanistic View: Humans are complex machines (automata) responding to external forces, implying we can control our destiny by mastering our environment and internal state. - Google Search

Mixed Races

Jipsah said:

Exactly. I use the normal English meaning, while you have an ad hoc definition to make it suit your doctrine.

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You’re insisting on using your ‘normal English’ meaning, but that’s exactly where annihilationist's go wrong. The Bible defines life and death, not your personal dictionary. Scripture makes it clear: life is union with God through Jesus, death is separation from Him. John 17:3: ‘Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.’ Romans 6:23: ‘The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ To be with Jesus is life; apart from Him is death. So stop twisting definitions to suit your argument and start letting God’s Word define life and death.

If a fundamentalist is someone who insists on strict adherence to what he regards as the foundational principles of a belief system and resists reinterpretation, accommodation, or revision in light of modern thought, culture, or scholarship, then I am a Christian fundamentalist.

The search for the shooter continues.

Factotum said:

I don't think Exxon Mobil nor Shkreli showed up to sit at any defendant's table, in this similar circumstance:

"Trump and his lawyers said his financial statements weren’t deceptive, since they came with disclaimers noting they weren’t audited. The defense also noted that bankers and insurers independently evaluated the numbers, and the loans were repaid... Trump’s lawyers argued that many of the case’s allegations were too old... The defense also contends that James misused a consumer-protection law to sue Trump and improperly policed private business transactions that were satisfactory to those involved." Trump's massive civil fraud penalty for exaggerating financial statements is thrown out by appeals court


You can do better research next time, to avoid excluding vital info.

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That's completely irrelevant. You claimed New York had "never...experienced this type of crime until Trump was charged with it." I showed you the law, and two recent examples of prosecutions based on that law. Neither Trump's defense in that case nor that the judgment against Trump was tossed changes anything, Trump was still found guilty of fraud under New York Executive Law § 63(12), just as Shkreli was.

New York Executive Law § 63(12) is not some obscure law that has not been used in 105 years, as you asserted.

-- A2SG, nor has that law anything to do with the failed indictments of Letitia James....

lismore said:

How far do historical writings go back in time?

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Not as far back as human societies. If Adam and Eve lived 6,000 years ago, that would be ~3976 BCE. It would take another several hundred years for written language to appear (c. 3300 BCE), but large human societies already existed. Jericho and Tell Qaramel had been around for ~5,000 years by that point; Nevali Cori had been around for nearly as long; Catalhoyuk was over 3,000 years old by that point. (And this is just Mesopotamia.)

So, yeah, human societies pre-existed written records by thousands of years; even Adam and Eve existed ~700 years before writing. (They entered a world full of human societies, from the ancient Near East to the North American plains.)

A2SG said:

Incorrect. New York Executive Law Section 63(12) has been on the books since 1956, and has been used to successfully prosecute many cases, including Exxon Mobil in 2018 and Martin Shkreli.

-- A2SG, that was very easy to debunk, you need to do better research....

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I don't think Exxon Mobil nor Shkreli showed up to sit at any defendant's table, in this similar circumstance:

"Trump and his lawyers said his financial statements weren’t deceptive, since they came with disclaimers noting they weren’t audited. The defense also noted that bankers and insurers independently evaluated the numbers, and the loans were repaid... Trump’s lawyers argued that many of the case’s allegations were too old... The defense also contends that James misused a consumer-protection law to sue Trump and improperly policed private business transactions that were satisfactory to those involved." Trump's massive civil fraud penalty for exaggerating financial statements is thrown out by appeals court


You can do better research next time, to avoid excluding vital info.

1Tonne said:

Some who embrace annihilationism tend to focus on a complete non-existence because they are uncomfortable with the reality of eternal judgment

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A little verbal chicanery there again. You say "eternal judgement" to mean "eternal torture", which is what your lot actually teach. Actual death is just as eternal, and it doesn't requite changing any word definintions, or turing God into a pitiless fiend.

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making it more about their own sensibilities than what Scripture clearly teaches.

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Funny, that's precisely my opinion of damnationist doctrines. They're unsupported by Scripture, and there's apparently some emotional satisfaction to be had in imagining those vile sinners (not at all like us) writhing in torment in a fiery hell while we're shouting hosannas in Heaven. Oh yeah, we get the last laugh!

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Dale said:

Many creationists firmly believe that the earth cannot be more 6,000 years old. I am not going to discuss the age of the universe but I will discuss the development of civilization on earth. … Everything we know about the history of humans on earth contradicts the claim that the earth could be only 6,000 years old.

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Since I already agree with your opening post (more or less), I will be hanging out here mostly to engage young-earth creationist defenses.

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The Bible is a source of moral and spiritual truth, but it is not a history text.

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That statement is false, I’m afraid, if it means that Scripture doesn’t narrate real events in space and time—because it does. Just off the top of my head: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Literal history. Paul stakes the truth of the gospel on a public, datable event: “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty” (1 Cor. 15:14).

Large portions of Scripture are historical, from patriarchal narratives to monarchic histories, from Babylonian exile to their eventual return, and so on. Luke explicitly frames his Gospel as an orderly “account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,” including “accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses” (Luke 1:1-4).

If by “historical” you mean exhaustive chronology, neutral description, or detached analysis, then it’s not historical. Scripture is theological, covenantal, and teleological. Events are narrated because of what God is doing with and through them, never because the author is trying to reconstruct the past for its own sake.

I think it would be a category mistake to treat “history” and “theology” as competing genres. (I am not saying that’s what you are doing, but it is often done around these parts.) In Scripture, history is theology. God reveals himself through acts, and those acts are interpreted within the text itself. Natural history is the stage upon which the drama of redemptive history unfolds, while it is redemptive history that reveals the meaning and purpose of natural history, all things pointing to Jesus Christ for the glory of God. Scripture contains real history, but it’s unique as a divinely authored, covenantally ordered witness to God’s redemptive acts, narrated for faith, obedience, and worship.

As for Genesis? I would call it a historical-covenantal account with symbolic narrative elements. Adam and Eve in a sacred sanctuary God prepared in Eden? Historical-covenantal. Its eastward orientation, God “walking” there, humanity “to serve and guard,” Adam made of dust, talking serpent, guarding cherubim? Symbolic narrative elements (a lot of temple architecture and language used elsewhere in Scripture).

1Tonne said:

You should watch the video. It is only 20 odd minutes

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Pass.

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, and it explains where people who believe in annihilation go wrong.

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In other words, some bloke tells you what he thinks. Pass.

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(Though I do not agree with everything he says in the vid, I still think he is pretty onto it and does very well with refuting annihilationism.)

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If you're willing to simply wiling to change the meaning of words en masse to make them fit your beliefs. Still rubbish.

1Tonne said:

Those who are sent to destruction do not get eternal life.

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If not, then hell is simply a matter of roasting dead bodies, innit?

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They get eternal death.

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Except then have to be alive to be properly tortured, don't they?

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I think the real difference between us is how we understand “death.”

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Exactly. I use the normal English meaning, while you have an ad hoc definition to make it suit your doctrine.

1Tonne said:

We actually agree that those sent to destruction do not receive eternal life.

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Sorry, but the dead can't be tortured.

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Where we differ is what eternal death means.

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No, it's just about what "death" means. I say it means "dead". Yiou say it't means "alive but being tortured".

1Tonne said:

Your view seems to treat death as a finality.

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Yep.

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When the body dies (the shell), this is a finality in the physical. So, your understanding of “eternal death” is understood as extinction, the person is gone forever.

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Yep, dead really means dead.

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My view is different.

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So yeah. Julius Caesar is "dead", but he's still alive, but you don't say he's alive because he's being tortured which is what "dead" really means as opposed to meaning, just, you know, actually dead.

1Tonne said:

Scripture shows that when the body dies, it is not the end of the person.The spirit/soul continues but sleeps in the grave, unconscious, awaiting the resurrection Eccl 9:5; Ps 146:4

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Funny that you'd choose those two, because the dead in those Scriptures are straight up dead. That's the OT viewpoint. John is essentially of the same view except he anticipates the dead being resurrected to face judgement.

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John 5:28–29). Earthly death is therefore not final; it is temporary and preparatory.

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And the according to Scripture, the righteous will receive the gift of God, which is eternal life, and the rest will receive the wages of sin, which is not eternal life under torture, but death, as in death. You really believe that God gives the damned the gift of eternal life just so He can keep them around to torture them? He erases them from space and time. How do I know that? Easy: " I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’". If God never knew them, they never existed. That's dead dead.

1Tonne said:

Because death is not final in the first sense, I don’t see the second death as annihilation either.

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That's because you have to play games with the language to allow your doctrine to survive contact with Scripture.

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It is eternal death because it is eternal ruin, eternal separation, and eternal loss of life with God

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Say so right there on your doctrine, which requires you to redefine words when they provce inconvenient. At best it's intellectualy dishonest.

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, not because the person ceases to exist

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Dang, how do they continue to exist if God never knew them? Does Gos have selective amnesia? And if they are still around, why? Does God take pleasure in their torture? I ain't buying that for an instant.

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. Death, biblically, can be an ongoing state of ruin, not merely a moment where something stops existing.

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Baloney. Again, that's jutst made up ad hoc. Sounds real pious, but's it's just just a matter of making up a doctrine and then making it sounds as though it kinda makes sense when in fact it doesn't, at all.

1Tonne said:

So yes, the wicked do not receive eternal life.

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Or rather they do, in your doctrine, live forever, but you don't say that they do.

1Tonne said:

They receive eternal ongoing death/ruin.

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Yeah, God keeps them around for..., what? Why would He? He's not some ancient despot impaling His enemies on pikes or boiling people in oil. He suffered torture Himself, and now now he's condemning people to eternal torture Himself? What happened to "Father forgive them"?

1Tonne said:

Eternal death is not non-existence; it is the eternal opposite of life with God.
That’s the core difference in how we’re reading the texts.

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The core difference is that you have to make up your own lexicon to make Scripture "say" what your denom needs it to in order to keep it from messing up their doctrine. I say a fig for their doctrine.

Bob Crowley said:

While it is obvious that a Moslem terrorist cell was behind this massacre,

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Why is that obvious? There are plenty of CHristian antisemites.

SabbathBlessings said:

Of course, the notion we can disobey God and thats an example of faith is not found in our Bibles. So no one should be teaching we do not have to keep God’s commandments- and let Him be the one to sort out who is doing it for the right reason because He only taught if you love Me, keep My commandments, never once taught if you love Me, don’t obey Me.

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When Jesus says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15), He is not reducing love to rule-keeping, nor is He singling out one commandment in isolation. In that same conversation He goes on to say, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12). Love, expressed in a life shaped by Him, is the center.

The New Testament consistently teaches that love for Jesus is first a matter of trust and allegiance, not perfect observance. “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Our obedience flows out of grace; it does not create it (Ephesians 2:8–10).

Regarding the Sabbath specifically, the early church wrestled with this question. Paul writes, “One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind” (Romans 14:5). He also warns against judging one another “with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath” (Colossians 2:16–17), saying these were a shadow pointing to Christ.

Jesus Himself reframed the Sabbath: “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” and “the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27–28). He consistently showed that mercy, restoration, and life are at the heart of God’s commands (Matthew 12:7).

So, do Christians who do not keep Saturday holy love Jesus? According to the New Testament, yes—if they are trusting in Him, receiving His grace, and seeking to follow Him in faith and love. Love for Jesus is not proven by flawless law-keeping, but by abiding in Him (John 15:4–5), walking by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–23), and growing in obedience over time.

At the same time, Scripture allows room for conviction. If someone honors Saturday unto the Lord, that can be an act of love and faith. If another honors Christ without observing that day, that too can be an act of love. The warning is not to turn either practice into a measure of salvation or a test of genuine love (Romans 14:10–12).

We love Jesus not because we perfectly keep every command, but because He has loved us first—and that love, over a lifetime, teaches us how to obey.