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  1. Brakelite

    My agnostic friend says: "I don't need it." - How would you respond?

    NDEs may be evidence of the supernatural, certainly, but nothing more. Demons can and do imitate dead relatives, speak truths regarding their lives, revealing even "secrets" unknown to anyone else except the participants. But all that is is a deception to take them mind away from Christ. You...
  2. Brakelite

    My agnostic friend says: "I don't need it." - How would you respond?

    There is a very good satisfactory answer to that question. The study of why does God permit evil, or why do good people suffer and bad people prosper, is called theodicy. It's actually a very interesting study... But there are some screwy theories connected with it that distort the entire thing...
  3. Brakelite

    My agnostic friend says: "I don't need it." - How would you respond?

    I think if you ask an atheist or agnostic to describe the God they don't believe in, most would describe and repeat what they have heard from Christians. I've been around the traps now for over 45 years, and the God I have heard described by most Christians, I don't believe in either.
  4. Brakelite

    My agnostic friend says: "I don't need it." - How would you respond?

    Why be frightened of a God who died in your place and thought heaven not worth holding on to without you in it?
  5. Brakelite

    My agnostic friend says: "I don't need it." - How would you respond?

    A crutch is totally insufficient to supply relief for the ailments He suffers from. He needs a heart transplant.
  6. Brakelite

    TODAY you will be with me in paradise

    Allow me to address this. KJV 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 Paul tells us of 2 houses, 2 states. Earthly, and heavenly. 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. We all desire the heavenly...
  7. Brakelite

    TODAY you will be with me in paradise

    The spirit is indeed an animating force... It is the breath that gives life to the body. Pneuma, from which we get the word pneumatic tyres, drills, press, etc. Spirit and soul are 2 distinct things. Note how the spirit of God inspired Moses to describe the creation of man... KJV Genesis 2:7 7...
  8. Brakelite

    TODAY you will be with me in paradise

    KJV John 20:17 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
  9. Brakelite

    TODAY you will be with me in paradise

    Can you write any scripture that teaches that the spirit of man is an independent thinking self conscious entity apart from the body? That idea is Platonic, but where is it in the Bible? What did the Spirit look like? Where was it before the body was formed? Was it a living conscious entity...
  10. Brakelite

    TODAY you will be with me in paradise

    Except Jesus wasn't in heaven that day. He was still dead. He didn't go to the Father until after the resurrection. The comma placed before the word 'today' was not inspired. It was placed in there by some translator in the middle ages whose mind was already informed by the popular concept of...
  11. Brakelite

    What is love?

    That's a subject of debate. Could Christ have sinned? Speaking personally, I disagree with the above reasoning. I do not believe it was a question of divine power but a question of Christ’s personal choice. Adam and Eve were created perfect. In them was no propensity to sin. They did though have...
  12. Brakelite

    I'm Hungry Right Now, What are you munching On?

    Is this what Eve picked in the garden? A red dragon fruit????
  13. Brakelite

    I'm Hungry Right Now, What are you munching On?

    Below is one component of a fruit salad we had last night. Isn't that colour just so gorgeous? The other ingredients were peaches, watermelon, and banana.
  14. Brakelite

    What was wrong with Adam and Eve knowing good and evil?

    I think we need to be careful with this, not that I'm saying you aren't being careful. When we speak about what Catholics call original sin, I don't think it is correct to suggest we inherit or own or are responsible for in any way, Adams transgression. The children, that is us, are not held...
  15. Brakelite

    What happened to Enoch? Would love some input on this.

    UWe can have what Enoch had. We can have Christ as our constant companion. Enoch walked with God, and when assailed by the tempter, he could talk with God about it. He had no “It is written” as we have, but he had a knowledge of his heavenly Companion. Don't confuse the Enoch born to Cain, who...
  16. Brakelite

    What was wrong with Adam and Eve knowing good and evil?

    I find it difficult to believe that they weren't warned beforehand of the dangers at a time while they had communion with God Himself and of angels. I think though we grossly underestimate the cunning and skill of the enemy. Today he has had 6000 years to study the mind of man. He knows exactly...
  17. Brakelite

    What was wrong with Adam and Eve knowing good and evil?

    KJV Genesis 3:5 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Let us consider the fact that Satan managed to deceive one third of the angels in heaven, all of whom stood in the very presence of God. He used...
  18. Brakelite

    What is love?

    I think your attitude towards Christianity and the God of Christianity is totally understandable. That you don't believe in a God who sends people into a place of eternal unjustified torment and suffering on account of a short lived life on earth is a logical response to an illogical concept. I...
  19. Brakelite

    What is love?

    And every second Saturday afternoon in Burke St mall. They are friends of mine. I know them to be straight up, honest, generous people.