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  1. HammerStone

    Reasoned Into Faith?

    Would not God's word = God's reasoning? The problem I am having with your argument is that you're essentially saying what sounds good, but it's the baby and bathwater. Assent is not faith in the sense of absolute equality, yet in having faith I do assuredly assent to certain pillars of the...
  2. HammerStone

    KJV 1611 Version

    I'm being the total bad guy here with my following sarcastic comment - but does that mean most KJVOer's who use the 1769 revision are out of luck? Maybe it's just a demon-slapper? ;) :-p
  3. HammerStone

    What a Song! Leeland - Tears Of the Saints

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waFBCeEHza4 If that song doesn't eat at you...wow.
  4. HammerStone

    Samsung Galaxy Note

    I wanted it initially, but it was just too big to be a phone and too small to be a tablet. I settled on the S3, which I love. Can't beat the quad core and 2 GB RAM.
  5. HammerStone

    Reasoned Into Faith?

    I disagree. While it does require our assent to things that are not "traditionally" logical, what Jesus did is quite reasonable. Paul even quotes the poetry of the day to reason with nonChristians. There is an element of reason to the Christian faith. Baby and bath water. Acts 17:2 ESV And Paul...
  6. HammerStone

    VA Winter Snow 1/17/2013

    How much snow did you end up with up there?
  7. HammerStone

    A scientific argument for formal equivalence?

    Which series is it? (The reason I ask, is that it might be available online, and honestly I'd rather you have actual material to give to someone who might not have the luxury of the internet.) RC Sproul is one of the good guys, IMHO, of understanding where tradition fits into things. My lament...
  8. HammerStone

    Are groups like: IHOP - KANSAS CITY PROPHETS - BETHEL - JESUS CULTURE - RICK JOYNER - TACF undermini

    Actually, self-linking to personal blogs aren't allowed here anyway. Let's just call it what it is. It's called gossip.
  9. HammerStone

    A scientific argument for formal equivalence?

    The parables are an excellent example, Rex; even when they are broken down into simple language, they remain difficult to understand. It is curious to read how Jesus responds to his disciples at varying times. Sometimes he'll explain the parable in private, yet others he won't explain it at all...
  10. HammerStone

    A scientific argument for formal equivalence?

    I think this becomes an argument for at least reading the formal equivalence translations (IE: ESV, NASB, NKJV, KJV): Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2261636/Reading-Shakespeare-Wordsworth-offer-better-therapy-self-help-books.html Obviously, this doesn't factor in the...
  11. HammerStone

    Happy Birthday Angelina!

    Well, ya'll beat me to the punch! ;) Please join us at Christianity Board in wishing Angelina a very Happy Birthday! I know that I personally (as well as the community) am blessed to know Angelina, and she's invaluable in helping out around here!!
  12. HammerStone

    Quoting System on Mobile Device

    We've applied a patch that *should* address this issue. It may take clearing your device's cache.
  13. HammerStone

    How do you work this thing?

    Looking better! :) We're going to hopefully be doing some styling in the future, but it really helps the flow of the threads and makes them much more readable to use the quote. I'm guilty of often not citing my multi-author quotes - and that's something I need to work on - but at least wrapping...
  14. HammerStone

    The KEY to understanding WHY all the different denominations

    See, this is somewhat problematic for me because if you look at what led to and happened at the Jerusalem Council (such as the decree in Acts 15:7-11 HCSB) and throughout the book of Acts, there was some tension on taking the message to the gentiles and on following Mosaic law. It can be gleaned...
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    How do you work this thing?

    Use the above format. The portion highlighted in the brackets is the tag, it has a closing and ending - they tell the forum software to format the contained text in a certain manner, so those need to wrap around the quote. The middle portion is the quoted text. There is a shortcut way to do...
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    Quoting System on Mobile Device

    I've not neglected your query. We recently upgraded to the latest version of our forum software, and unfortunately they decided to rewrite the code for the reply features - to include quoting. Obviously, there are a number of bugs with the system; I am working on those and hope to have...
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    God over free-will

    Virgin birth (no human father as is necessary for human reproduction). Sun standing still for Joshua. Jesus walked through crowds and potentially a wall in the gospels. Just about everything Elijah did like fire kindling from heaven on well-soaked wood. Philip being moved from place to place in...
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    God over free-will

    The death of Jesus on the cross was sufficient for all, but only efficient for the saved (elsewhere called elect). I'm not trying to squirrel-hole you in this, but the world is not exactly automatically saved by what Jesus did alone. The world is saved through faith in what Jesus did. Otherwise...
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    God over free-will

    I once had a Calvinist provide me with this little riddle, and honestly it has changed my perspective in the matter. (I just don't remember whom; it may have even been Dr. Sproul.) We love to talk about free will. It's virtually synonymous with individualism and its something that is a key...
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    Permission to view this topic:

    It may be the cookie issue above, but it sounds to me like you maybe tapped close to the category marker. It's a feature of our software that I don't like, but when you visit a category it displays that message.