(September 17, 2014 at 4:44 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: I don't believe I took advantage.If you admit that you're a lowly sinner who does not deserve salvation and you accept the salvation being offered, you have taken advantage of the offer. Which means that on top of being a lowly sinner, you are also seeking to avoid paying for the sins you've committed. That simply isn't just. God may be this super nice guy to allow you to skip out on the punishment that you so richly deserve, but unless you accept the punishment you've just added one more sin to the top of the list. Man up, bud! Spend that eternity in hell-- YOU EARNED IT!
Quote: I thank God for it and am deeply sorry when I sin.Are you saying that being deeply sorry is sufficient to absolve you of guilt?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
