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RE: GOD IS NOT DEAD
April 16, 2014 at 10:07 am
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(April 15, 2014 at 5:41 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Since the Tower of Babel, God is not impressed with man's accomplishments. That would be the time that god was concerned that men would reach heaven if they built a moderately tall building, at which point nothing would be impossible for them. Terrified at the thought of those dirty little humans running around in heaven, god quickly confused their languages to scatter them, then moved heaven into a metaphysical realm and replaced the dome over the Earth with an actual sky. It was god's "man behind the curtain" moment, and it shook his confidence like you wouldn't believe!
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RE: GOD IS NOT DEAD
April 16, 2014 at 10:09 am
Indeed god may not be dead. Perhaps he is just pining for the fiords.
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RE: GOD IS NOT DEAD
April 16, 2014 at 10:13 am
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If we want to read the OT liberally like the NT Evangelists did, we might take the Tower of Babble as just symbolic prophecy for the Christian faith because for whatever reason you all speak a different language.
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RE: GOD IS NOT DEAD
April 16, 2014 at 10:17 am
(April 14, 2014 at 7:01 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Hope people learn that there is a God.
I've read the plot synopsis. A story about a Christian who loses his faith and finds it again could make a good drama but this movie doesn't sound like a good drama.
Seeing the movie wouldn't convince me that there is a God. It just has characters who believe in or don't believe in God and Christianity. If there was a movie about ancient Egypt where the characters worshipped the Egyptian gods, would it prove that the Egyptian gods were real?
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April 16, 2014 at 10:24 am
(April 16, 2014 at 10:17 am)Confused Ape Wrote: I've read the plot synopsis. A story about a Christian who loses his faith and finds it again(...) ...while bleeding to death after being hit by a car driven by a priest, who exults over the victim's deathbed confession. "Sorry about crushing your rib cage and causing you a bloody and painful death, but at least you admitted that I was right all along!"
*May not be 100% accurate synopsis
"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."
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RE: GOD IS NOT DEAD
April 16, 2014 at 10:31 am
(April 15, 2014 at 5:41 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Since the Tower of Babel, God is not impressed with man's accomplishments.
I hope you are doing well today.
Rev, you do understand that your inane, non-response one-liners aren't helping your "message" right? I will say that your pathetic attempts at defending your position and conversion have, admittedly, brightened up the forums recently though.
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With potshot opportunities aplenty, I'd say morale is at an all-time high!
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RE: GOD IS NOT DEAD
April 16, 2014 at 11:02 am
(April 16, 2014 at 10:24 am)Tonus Wrote: (April 16, 2014 at 10:17 am)Confused Ape Wrote: I've read the plot synopsis. A story about a Christian who loses his faith and finds it again(...) ...while bleeding to death after being hit by a car driven by a priest, who exults over the victim's deathbed confession. "Sorry about crushing your rib cage and causing you a bloody and painful death, but at least you admitted that I was right all along!"
*May not be 100% accurate synopsis
From what I can gather a pastor finds him after he's been hit by a car and is bleeding to death.
I think the movie would have sounded more promising if Radisson had re-evaluated his belief system after the students voted that he'd lost the debate. After all, he'd have had to re-arrange his life, relationships and philosophy class.
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April 16, 2014 at 12:04 pm
But then he wouldn't be a true "Atheist" if he just reevaluated his belief system. Every Christian knows Atheists are just "mad at God," and that's why they refuse to acknowledge He exists.
It's just like any other belief system. The Mayans knew the Christian God existed, but they were just mad at him, so they prayed and sacrificed to other gods.
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RE: GOD IS NOT DEAD
April 16, 2014 at 12:17 pm
(April 16, 2014 at 12:04 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: But then he wouldn't be a true "Atheist" if he just reevaluated his belief system. Every Christian knows Atheists are just "mad at God," and that's why they refuse to acknowledge He exists.
It's just like any other belief system. The Mayans knew the Christian God existed, but they were just mad at him, so they prayed and sacrificed to other gods.
U confused me...
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RE: GOD IS NOT DEAD
April 16, 2014 at 12:52 pm
(April 16, 2014 at 9:53 am)Manowar Wrote: Parts of this film are very funny it is so poorly written some of you might like it for that reason.
The only way I would ever watch it is if it was an MST3K episode.
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