Yes.
2006-08-27 00:22:50
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answer #1
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answered by GratefulDad 5
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God is never changing so why should we change our belief inHim? Like Isaid ti the last person who said that science would soon be #1, If they are so good why do they not stop the ozone depletion, famine, floods, drought, Hurricnaes,tsunami's, the melting glaciers, ect.because they are not powerful enogh to control God's nature that He created. They are mere mortal men.
2006-08-27 00:33:25
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answer #2
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answered by wolfy1 4
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The Bible states absolutes. The Bible doesn't try to prove the existence of God; it just states His existence as absolute fact.
"...God created the heaven and the earth." Most of the things we have faith in, like a chair holding our weight, we learn from experience, so that we don't have to test every chair we sit in. We just assume all chairs will hold up our weight. Other things we have faith in are objects that the majority of people claim to be true, but we have not seen with our own eyes. For example, the knowledge that Australia exists is universal, even though the majority of people have never personally verified that fact.
So far we have established that we have faith in things we have verified in our experience, and we have faith in things that are universally held to be true. Now there is another area of faith that requires judgment and wisdom because this area deals with absolute statements. With absolute statements you have to deal with them in some fashion, but you do have to deal with them. You can agree, disagree, scorn, deny, get upset, curse and put it out of sight, but the absolute statement just hangs there, calling us to either accept it or reject it. The Bible makes clear absolute statements about God's existence, the judgment to come, and the punishment of Hell. We either accept this absolute statement or we reject it.
If we accept it, then we will try to live good lives in accordance to that truth. If we reject it, then we can live our lives any way that we choose [Obviously if there is no God, then there is no judgment and there is no Hell. It follows that there is no absolute right and wrong]. Western society has rejected the absolute statement of the Bible. We live our lives any way we choose, short of going to jail. There are no rules. Yippee! I can screw, drink and shoot up. Or I can become a tofu eating new age pantheist. Or I can practice witchcraft, and on and on. So in a society that endorses freedom from absolutes, do you think for one moment that that society will tolerate the absolute statements of the Bible? They will reject it furiously -- ripping the ten commandments from the court buildings, forbidding the use of the word Christmas, and anything and everything just to escape any reminder of those absolute statements of the Bible.
Then the inevitable happens. We gratify ourselves to excess and ultimately come to a place of despair. We look for relevance. We look to the Church to see if God is there. We look at the people in the churches to see if God is really relevant to them. We don't see it. We see the same cultural values of the society in general.
Churches are boring. There is no spark there; no life. So we look elsewhere. Oddly we are attracted to a disciplined life. We may join an Ashram or enter into some esoteric New Age thing or enter into some kung fu training. Out of disorder we clamor for order. We observe another thing about our neighbors who believe that truth is relative. We notice that when something bad happens to a neighbor, the neighbor appeals to the universal knowledge of right and wrong, judgment and retribution. When you say something is unfair you are appealing to a standard of fairness that you believe everyone knows or should know. No matter how much we deny absolutes, we cannot totally get away from them. So we are half hedonistic and half morally responsible with the ratios going to both extremes. Many are more hedonistic than moral. Basically in our opinion, God has become irrelevant BECAUSE we see no proof of His relevance in the people who believe in Him. We may need to take personal responsibility and take another look at the absolute statements of the Bible and make our own decision, away from the noise of the crowd.
2006-08-27 02:01:39
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answer #3
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answered by pshdsa 5
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no not completely,true understanding of god is timeless and is the bases of time itself,its at the foundations of all science as science is the exploration of creation(tangible existence) which is god
2006-08-27 00:30:16
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answer #4
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answered by gasp 4
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GOD IS ETERNAL.
GOD IS LOVE.
God loves us all and waits us to believe in Jesus Christ His Son.
2006-08-27 00:23:41
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answer #5
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answered by MV 3
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Umm.....about 9:30 I think he said.
2006-08-27 00:23:58
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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water rolls OFF a ducks back.
2006-08-27 00:27:18
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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