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Author Archives: Maryann Spikes
Is it a weakness for God to have feelings?
How I know He has feelings is because He saved me. Nobody without feelings saves anybody. He showed us how to live in union with Him (happy) by giving us the law, and He gave us a way to make … Continue reading
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Satan is not actually "Lucifer"
You won’t find anywhere in the Bible where it says Lucifer tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. There was a serpent/dragon in Genesis, and Satan is referred to as a serpent/dragon elsewhere in the Bible besides Genesis… like in … Continue reading
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Determinism and Free Will
Please note: this thread is updated by my “Predestination and Free Will” thread. Implication of determinism: God is responsible for evil. That God is responsible for evil is an implication of determinism, depending on how you understand determinism. If He … Continue reading
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How does nature know?
“‘If we take in our hand any volume: of divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact … Continue reading
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Problem of Evil
Evil is not a surpassing (though those who glorify evil consider it so), it is a degeneration. Of course humans cannot surpass God in stuff where surpassing applies. God would be the perfection implied by ‘degeneration’. It is not God … Continue reading
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Authentic Truth in an Authentic Community
This may come out sort of mumbled. This morning the sermon focused on authenticity. I had no pen and no paper, which is unusual, so I’m having to write this from sleepy memory, and quickly. But, basically the idea is … Continue reading
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Signs
SIGNS I. Under What Conditions Does God Grant Signs?II. Studying the Concordance on SignsIII. How Do We Know a Sign is Genuine or False?IV. Various Camps Regarding SignsV. Hume / MiraclesVI. Spinoza / MiraclesVII. Signs are Supernatural, not UnnaturalVIII. The … Continue reading
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A Christian Alternative to the Marxist Revolution :^)
The selected reading shows how Christianity started out crossing class boundaries (as it does today), and suggests a better alternative to all-out revolution (as exemplified in modern aid programs funded with government and tithe money, and more so in the … Continue reading
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Is sexual preference decided by biological factors?
People decide their sexual preference depending on how aware they are of their options and of their ability to choose, with social norms and biological predispositions playing an influential, but not a determinate, role in the decision. Arousal, subject to … Continue reading
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Napoleon on how Christ conquers.
This is an excerpt from Ravi Zacharias’ “Jesus Among Other Gods” (p. 149-150, Thomas Nelson, 2000) — I was on the verge of quoting what Aleksander Solzhenitsyn once said, that the thin line between good and evil does not run … Continue reading
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