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I checked it out, and I concur, although I am a bit more strict about kicking the ball instead of the player...unless something start hoeing into me and then I give them some good old Kiwi direct speech! Here is a good example of good "down on farm" Kiwi wisdom:

Speculation, nothing more.

I do understand that in times like these there are always the doom and gloom merchants. Although in NZ we have had few deaths and just 1300 cases, the doom and gloom has come from the commentators talking about the effects of our lock down on the economy and future employment. I get a flu...

If you choose not to believe that God created the world in six 24 hour days, you are rejecting the authority of the Bible record of Genesis 1-3. Therefore, if you reject the authority of one part of the Bible, you reject the lot. If you want to base your faith on a gospel that is not upon the...

I totally agree, and I couldn't have put it better myself! :-)

I just have to distance myself from your comments about the forum staff member, because it is against the rules of the forum. There is a difference between being abusingly contentious for the sake of argument, and engaging in fair debate in an attitude of respect. We don't have to compromise...

That is interesting, because that was Martin Luther's experience between the Holy Spirit revealed to him that the just lives by faith. Luther was so sin conscious that he wore his priest out by confessing every single little sin he committed, and after many hours of confession and started to...

Because the trinity is not scientific, any view of it must be part of our personal and individual belief system. One cannot legislate to another what that belief should be, especially on the basis of a couple of random verses, especially paraphrases instead of direct quotes.

Although we have many clues from what God has said in the Old Testament, and statements that Jesus made, along with the events surround His baptism and transfiguration, that there are three separate personalities that most Bible scholars believe make up the plural God. But Jesus never taught...

I think a lot of what people call unity is more like compromise by people who don't want to rock the boat and who would rather be in agreement with everyone and insulate themselves from persecution for standing up to the truth.

We need to remember that something can be scientific only when it fits the criteria of the scientific method. 1. The question: What is the trinity? 2. Can it be directly observed in what we can see around us? No. What we see around us shows the Creator, but not the trinity. 3. Examination -...

True science is what can be shown through the scientific method. Any theory that cannot be established through the scientific method involving direct observation, testing, replication, remains guesswork and part of a belief system. We can see through the Hubble telescope how a star turns into...

The only definitive historical record we have is that God created the whole universe and our world in six 24 hour days. He was the only One there at the time and who knows how it really happened. Atheistic evolutionists will not consider the wealth of evidence that proves a young earth and...

I agree. We need to learn the lesson given to us in the death of the pastor who announced publicly: "God is greater than the Coronavirus". Then he contracted the virus and it killed him! God may be greater, but that pastor wasn't! He tempted God, and paid the price. So if our friend thinks...

No one has ever tried to dig down to find out if hell is at the centre of the earth. I heard of a fella called Doug who tried, and his wife said, "Don't be silly!" and took his shovel away from him. Now they just call him Dougless.

I wonder if our cobber Ken is hiding in his mansion at the moment, very nervous about the news that the pastor who said publicly that "God is greater than the Coronavirus" has now died from it? That's what happens when someone deliberately puts himself in harm's way and tests God. That's one...

Seeing that I am not some 14 year old who came down in the last shower, but a mature guy who has been a few times around the clock and have made the study of divinity and theology my life's activity, I think I know what I am talking about. When you have done over 50 years of studying the Bible...

Jesus spent three hours hanging on the cross, bearing the eternal wrath of God for the sin of all who believe in Him. Then Jesus cried out: "It is finished". The Greek word involved means "The debt is paid". It is the word that in the First Century was written on the document of a released...

You are dead right in what you say. I have no argument with it at all. It is just that I come at it from a different angle. It is the principle of "right now but not yet". We are totally righteous, but it is not our own righteousness. The Scripture says "Our righteousness is as filthy rags...

I think you're missing my point. We will all be found guilty at the judgment because we have all sinned and the Bible says if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. That's a given. We must interpret Scripture with Scripture. But at the judgment the sheep will be...