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| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | It's SNOWING HERE! Petra, it's snowing here. Can you believe this? I still have another month here.  |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | Jesus' lineage was traced through David's son Solomon. Mt.1:6. Jesus' lineage was traced through David's son Nathan. Lk.3:31. Possibly one was for His mother and the other for Joseph. If I thought the Bible was a magical book, instead of the collected testimonies of people who had real encounters with the real God, I might worry about it. What doctrine hangs on these genealogies? The announcement of the special birth came before conception. Lk.1:26-31. The announcement of the special birth came after conception. Mt.1:18-21. Only Luke claims to have written things down in chronological order. The others make no such claim, which makes sense, since Luke was a Greek and the others were from a near eastern culture who was not greatly concerned about writing things down in order. Besides they were two different events entirely. Why couldn't one come before and the other after? Jesus' parents were told of their son's future greatness. Mt.1:18-21; Lk.1:28-35. Jesus' parents knew nothing of their son's potential. Lk.2:48-50. Where does Luke 2:48-50 say they knew nothing of His future potential? The angel told Joseph. Mt.1:20. The angel told Mary. Lk.1:28. Why can't an angel tell them both? |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | Pappy, you are acting as if I, ME, am trying to convince YOU, there isn't a God. I am not and would NEVER EVER DO THAT! TO ANYONE. Have you ever heard of Julia Sweeney? She has a wonderfully educated Biblical background and someone later in her life she turned athieist. Someone like her, would be better equipped to argue religion with you because she's educated on it, I am not. I can give my opinion all day long, but in the end, it's just my opinion However, you make a lot of valid points. But at the same time, I think so do I. |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | Here is another way to express the same idea. Suppose someone told you that if you stay out in the sun light too long your skin will burn unless you apply sun block lotion. If you believe this and apply sun block you avoid a painful burn. If you do not believe it you will burn because the statement was true. The truth has power whether you believe it or not. Suppose someone else told you that if you stay out in the moon light too long you will burn unless you apply moon block lotion to your skin. They just happen to have some to sell for $12.95 a bottle. If you believe them you have wasted $12.95. If you do not believe them nothing happens. The lie by itself has no power at all. It is just a weak, dark, wriggling thing lying on the ground, helpless. It has no power until you add your belief to it. Your trust and belief, good things, gives the lie the power it needs to steal your $12.95 and destroy some of your dignity. Because in this universe good is powerful and evil powerless, it follows that in the end good will triumph and that God is good. |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | About God being good: I have seen some claims that there is no such thing as evil. I'm not suggesting that. The Bible certainly spends a lot of time talking about evil (it is mentioned over 500 times) so it seems it must exist. However, it is not the opposite of good. In the same sense that silence is the lack of sound and darkness is the lack of light, evil is simply the lack of good. We know this because evil has no power without good and yet good has power to do things without evil. Consider those evil men who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It is hard to imagine a more evil act and yet without the power of goodness it would have been impossible for them to do it. They had to have self-discipline and perseverance to overcome their ignorance and learn how to fly those airplanes. They had to have mutual trust and loyalty to coordinate the attack. They had to have courage to fly an airplane to their certain death. Please do not misunderstand. There is no suggestion here that these men were good. However, without some good traits they would have been powerless. You can have self-discipline, perseverance, loyalty, mutual trust and courage and never do anything evil at all, only good. But if all they had was hate, lack of discipline, mistrust, fear, etc. they could do nothing. The power to accomplish anything, whether good or bad, comes from good, not evil. It follows then that God, the creator of the universe, is good. |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | There were like 200 of these and this is litrally something I pulled up off the internet. Jesus' lineage was traced through David's son Solomon. Mt.1:6. Jesus' lineage was traced through David's son Nathan. Lk.3:31. The announcement of the special birth came before conception. Lk.1:26-31. The announcement of the special birth came after conception. Mt.1:18-21. Jesus' parents were told of their son's future greatness. Mt.1:18-21; Lk.1:28-35. Jesus' parents knew nothing of their son's potential. Lk.2:48-50. The angel told Joseph. Mt.1:20. The angel told Mary. Lk.1:28. There were 28 generations from David to Jesus. Mt.1:17. There were 43 generations from David to Jesus. Lk.3:23-31. Jacob was Joseph's father. Mt.1:16. Heli was Joseph's father. Lk.3:23. He was to be called Emmanuel. Mt.1:23. He was called Jesus. Mt.1:25. Joseph, Mary, and Jesus flee to Egypt while Herod slaughters all males under 2 years old. Mt.2:13-16. (Note: Jesus' cousin, John, was also under 2 and survived without having to flee.) Joseph, Mary, and Jesus did not flee to Egypt, but remained for temple rituals. No slaughter of infants is mentioned! Lk.2:21-39. Jesus was tempted during the 40 days in the wilderness. Mk.1:13. Jesus was tempted after the 40 days in the wilderness. Mt.4:2,3. The devil first took Jesus to the pinnacle, then to the mountain top. Mt.4:5-8. The devil first took Jesus to the mountain top, then to the pinnacle. Lk.4:5-9. |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | The Bible began to be put in writing about 1,500 years before Jesus Christ, although much of the information in it was passed down by some method, either orally and/or in some other written form, from hundreds of years before that. It was added to from time to time until about 100 years after Jesus Christ. Each time it was added to the testimony of God and Who He is grew. None of the other religions you mentioned have anything like that kind of claim. They are either made up of many dieties who conflict with each other, or are founded on the testimony of one person, insufficient for credibility. |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | No, I didn't miss the question, I think I ignored it on purpose because it forces me to research my blabbing. I am not a good one for recall, so give me a second. |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | Gina, There is no maybe about it. I am wrong. So are you. So are we all. God is the only one who is right. I am open to anything, but in the meantime I am going to act on what I think I know already. In fact, it is often the action that leads to more evidence. We can academically analyze the Bible all day long, but when we obey it, and it turns out to be true, that is very convincing evidence indeed. Did you miss the question about what contradictions are there in the Bible? Let's deal with them all. |
| Date | 2008-10-26 |
| Message | I hope so Pappy. I really really hope so. |
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