Recent content by clint eastwood

True. But having a dead person rise would have 1 of 3 effects. The person would believe and repent (by the work of the holy spirit), the person would doubt, or the person would believe and out of fear of condemnation, live a legalistic christian life (which isn't actually christian). How can...

My motives for doing good things are because I'm eternally thankful for what Jesus did on the cross for me. To use biblical terminology, God's law was written on my heart at conversion so I do good things because I want to, not because I have to. The guy who goes to church and cheats on his...

I don't know of any instance of that happening in the Catholic Church and their canon hasn't changed since the its first development. What you may be thinking is when the Reformers expelled the apocryphal books from the Old Testament canon meaning they only had 39 books in the Old Testament just...

According to tradion, Revelation of John was written in 95 or 96. Modern scholars have it at 68 or 69 around the years of the Roman emperor Nero. These dates are used by majority of scholars in dating this text. An early example of Revelation are some papyrus manuscripts found in 1930 which date...

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http://www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/tc_codexs.html http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/ http://www.sinaiticus.com/ Or you could buy an english translation but its readily available on the net. Athanasius' biblical canon was the listing of the current new testament books that we'll find in...

A theologians answer would be "mankind is totally depraved in that the effect of sin influences every decision, thought and action man makes". Paraphrased: humans suck. To give you a brief historical overview of the development of the church: it started off as one church though the evidence...

The Catholic Church may have done that during the middle ages, I don't know though I would check with church authorities rather than priests as the Church would tell you that the priests are fallible in their decrees. As for earliest bible... the codex sinaiticus springs to mind - being written...

Scholars would baulk at your comment. Ungrounded and illogical. I'm talking about manuscripts written in the first few centuries of the first millenia, no serious historian would base bible translation on medieval retranslations of the latin vulgate

Ahh the 1001 translations issue. Admittably there does appear to be way to many translations which throws an image of doubt onto how accurate the modern translations are to the original text. For a small case study, let's take a look at the English Standard Version bible (ESV) which was first...

I'm sorry but that's such a vague question. Please refer to something specific rather than 'the bible is unreliable'.

hola, have you heard the analogy of the blind monks and the elephant? It's along the same line as the bees on a stained glass window as there are three blind monks each trying to find out what an elephant looks like. One feels the trunk and concludes that an elephant is like a snake. Another...

By atheistic evolution I mean the evolution that is by complete random chance, world happened for no reason etc. The evolution for pop culture atheists such as richard dawkins and sam harris. And theistic evolution is directed evolution by a deity. I don't really think that the bible would...

The difference between murder and the God killing a sinner? Quite simply in that the sinner has committed a horrendous crime against a just God, and murder is unjustified killing. On the topic of rape, I can easily use your view of synonymity between words to say sex (consensual sex) is the same...

Evolution isn't actually a defeater to christianity, you might be thinking along the lines of atheistic evolution though, to which there isn't an overwhelming amount of evidence apart from what can be equally used to support theistic evolution. I also don't think God requires people to worship...