about evolution which can cause unbelievers to think a bit harder?
Please let me know where, or post them.
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about evolution which can cause unbelievers to think a bit harder?
Please let me know where, or post them.
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I wish there was a way to make unbelievers think a bit harder about the reality of God and His creation, but there isn't. God can cause them to wonder and accept the truth, but we cannot.
If you happen to find someone with a hunger for understanding, it doesn't take long to find scores of evidence via youtube and godtube where scientists have made videos explaining the realities of a created universe. People with that hunger for truth are easy to feed. Those in denial - for whatever reason - are not.
Good bye.
Let me ask a question:
If you're expecting 'unbelievers' to be willing to watch a video that gives an explanation against evolution...
Will you show the same respect to someone who would ask you to be willing to watch a video that gives an explanation for evolution?
Very Conspiratorial.
"Evolution doesn't disprove God. If God is omnipotent, God could have created us via evolution."Originally Posted by Arrow
You can say that to get the ball rolling, but it is always an uphill battle if you're trying to argue about evolution at all. People don't believe God exists because they don't want to. People denied Jesus as Messiah in his time, and today is no different from that time period. And be ready for a slew of new questions if you do use those two simple sentences to get the ball rolling.
Usually, it's easier to focus on the good things Jesus did instead of arguing evolution. How can anyone say anything bad about healing the sick, comforting those who need it, feeding the hungry, clothing and sheltering the poor, etc. etc.?
John 10 (KJV)
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
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Well; the Jews certainly found a way to do it....and in fact they not only said bad things about Jesus, but also found a way to have him murdered.
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Hi Arrow...
How about....
" Do you think Jesus lied when he said : "From the beginning of Creation God made them male and female ? " -Jesus (Mark 10:6)
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Get on my horse.
If they are unbelievers why would they care about Jesus' words?
To the OP. What exactly is you goal? In my case, posting links against evolution is kind of silly, because A) I'm a Christian, and B) I subscribe to evolution. I have thought about it. Not all believers or unbelievers have thought about. If your goal is some sort of evangelism, it's probably going to be fruitless.
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth… He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Ethics.
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You're a Christian, but don't believe God's words? That disqualifies you from being a Christian.
Get on my horse.
In your eyes perhaps. I'll leave it up to God. Thanks.
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth… He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Ethics.
...and you shall live...
Honestly, anyone who would be swayed by a "clever one-liner" is probably someone who hasn't thought things through very well in the first place. And if they are swayed to a particular viewpoint by a one-liner it's probably only a question of time before they are swayed to the other viewpoint by an equally clever one-liner.
1Jn 4:1 NKJV Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1Th 5:21-22 NKJV Test all things; hold fast what is good. (22) Abstain from every form of evil.
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......Oh, I get it... we are now not suppose to speak the words of Jesus to non-Christians ,...Duh?......Lets be honest, Teddy....The real reason you don't speak the words of Jesus is because YOU don't believe what he said; ......Yours truly, Faithful..........."From the beginning of Creation God made them male and female " -Jesus.......To the OP: Keep using the Word of God, Arrow. Contrary to uninformed opinion, God's Word shall not be return void...(Isa.55:11)
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...and you shall live...
It seems to me that we'd be better off talking about the sacrifice Jesus made for us rather than worrying about the assorted theories of how God put us here.Oh, I get it... we are now not suppose to speak the words of Jesus to non-Christians ,...Duh?
Lets be honest, Teddy....The real reason you don't speak the words of Jesus is because YOU don't believe what he said.
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"From the beginning of Creation God made them male and female ? " -Jesus
To the OP: Keep using the Word of God, Arrow. Contrary to uninformed opinion, God's Word shall not be return void...(Isa.55:11)
We can argue about whether God created everything in a literal 168 hours, guided a process of evolution from amoebas to humans over the space of millions of years, whether Genesis literally means God created one thing on a Monday and another on a Tuesday or whether the seven days were the period over which God explained to Adam how it all got here, or any other theories until we're all breathless. And unless that sinner accepts Jesus we might as well argue over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
1Jn 4:1 NKJV Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1Th 5:21-22 NKJV Test all things; hold fast what is good. (22) Abstain from every form of evil.
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Go right ahead, but that's not what the OP asked for.
Faithful
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Not exactly quick and not likely to win any converts from atheism, but it might make a few people think.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/robert...64001470334106
...and you shall live...
I know that's not what the OP asked, my point (coupled with my earlier point) is that if we expect people to change their mind based on a clever one-liner the people we're going to be reaching are the ones who didn't really think about it and who are equally likely to be swayed back to another viewpoint by an equally clever one-liner.Go right ahead, but that's not what the OP asked for.
Faithful
If we can get someone to consider that theistic evolution is as valid a theory as atheistic evolution we at least get them to consider the presence of some form of god (small g intentional there). The problem is just getting people to think at all these days, so many it seems are trained in what to think and not how to think.
1Jn 4:1 NKJV Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1Th 5:21-22 NKJV Test all things; hold fast what is good. (22) Abstain from every form of evil.
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