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  1. atpollard

    Time to go elsewhere...

    Just for the record, I get the ads (too much bother to block) and right now I have an add for "Starfire Broken Fire Glass or Starfire Glass Reflective Diamonds" ... I think it is glass beads for inside those gas Eternal Flame fire pits. Nothing sinister.
  2. atpollard

    Why belief in a god is an unfalsifiable claim that serves no purpose

    non sequitur. The question was ... "Why did the SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION begin in Europe (Christian) rather than Asia (non-Christian) when Asia had every Darwinian advantage?" @Wrangler suggested that "Christianity" was the reason. I am still waiting for you to give an alternative reason that...
  3. atpollard

    Why belief in a god is an unfalsifiable claim that serves no purpose

    God is not an object. Even if we redefine the term "object" to include "God" ... Prove DARK MATTER EXISTS ... but you must do so using your criteria for "God": "Evidence that I will accept for DARK MATTER’s existence is obviously the existence of DARK MATTER as any other object." I await...
  4. atpollard

    anyone heard of this?

    From the comments to the Article: know Smiths great grand daughter, you must remember the era that this occurred in was a puritan era. in those days when a man called on a woman and took her on a date he was expected to marry her. So what happened is he took a lady to dinner and didn’t marry...
  5. atpollard

    Why belief in a god is an unfalsifiable claim that serves no purpose

    ... and this freedom existed nowhere in more populous Asia at this or any earlier time?
  6. atpollard

    Why belief in a god is an unfalsifiable claim that serves no purpose

    You actually ignored his point rather than refuted it. Why DID the Scientific Revolution begin in CHRISTIAN Europe rather than Buddhist or Confucist or Hindu Asia (which had a MUCH larger population and, by Darwinism, a greater opportunity for producing exceptional 'Scientific Thinkers')?
  7. atpollard

    Why belief in a god is an unfalsifiable claim that serves no purpose

    I am not as smart as some. I cannot "prove" gravity exists (I can only affirm its effects). I would not even know how to BEGIN to prove that my mass and the mass of the Earth exert an invisible force of attraction on one another if I HAD to prove it. Yet I have no doubt in the reality of...
  8. atpollard

    Seven churches but only two witnesses

    Perhaps, but not THIS TOPIC. Eschatology almost always yields more heat than light in these long, unpleasant discussions. So I will leave you to pontificating past one another in long walls of text (without me). Caio. 1 Timothy 1:3-7 [NASB20] Just as I urged you upon my departure for...
  9. atpollard

    Seven churches but only two witnesses

    No need ... I can just come here and hunt "god in the image of man" with the "biblicly innovative". :)
  10. atpollard

    Seven churches but only two witnesses

    Van der Merwe goes to the railway station, and at the ticket office asks: "A return ticket please." Ticket Man: "Where to please?" Van: "Back here, of course, man!" Q: What do you call four little dudes in a matchbox? A: Vier okies! Q: What do you call a South African that tells jokes? A...
  11. atpollard

    Seven churches but only two witnesses

    Ok, I admit it. I am NOT one of the two witnesses from Revelation (so don't look for me in Jerusalem, I'll be here in Florida).
  12. atpollard

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    Idiot first century Jews ... can't even understand their own language: they kept mistaking simple statements of reverence for BLASPHEMY. Chkl:
  13. atpollard

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    c'est la vie. We tried.
  14. atpollard

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    Paraphrase of the Bible ... "GOD is one of a kind and so far above EVERYTHING ELSE that there is NOTHING LIKE HIM ... not even other gods." Paraphrase of your comment on LOGOS ... "John 1:1 says Logos is LIKE God, but it does not say that LOGOS is God" If NOTHING is like God but God ... and...
  15. atpollard

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    How is this not a distinction without a difference? What other things belong in the same infinite “sphere” as God that are not God? [Exodus 15:11 NKJV] 11 "Who [is] like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who [is] like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? [1 Samuel 2:2 NKJV]...
  16. atpollard

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    [John 1:14 NASB95] 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. [John 1:1 NASB95] 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Did the Word become flesh? Is...
  17. atpollard

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    That’s what I said … if you reject John’s words, what could I possibly say to change your mind. ;)
  18. atpollard

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    Jane, The Apostle John and the Holy Spirit recalled Genesis 1 when they presented the penultimate argument that Jesus Christ, the word incarnate, is the same GOD that created everything that exists in Genesis 1 … and you reject the testimony of the Apostle and the Holy Spirit. What words could...
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    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Q15. What kind of mediator and deliverer should we look for then? A. One who is a true1 and righteous2 human, yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is also true God.3 (1) Romans 1:3 [NKJV] concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of...