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The reason for God — Chapter VI.- Science has disproved Christianity
Here are some common objections or questions: “As a believer in evolution, I can’t accept the Bible’s prescientific accounts of the origin of life.”, “The Bible is filled with accounts of miracles… hey simply could not have happened”. Richard Dawkins in his book: “The God delusion” argues that you can not be an intelligent scientific thinker and…
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The reason for God — Chapter IV.- The church has caused so much injustice in the world.
Some common questions, objections: There are atheist that are better than the Christians I know….there is a background of personal disappointment.If Christianity is the truth then: There are 3 areas: Why the moral faults of Christians? Answers: Should’nt Christians not be an example to everyone?… A misunderstanding of what Christianity teaches about it self We are…
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The reason for God — Chapter V.- How can a loving God send people to Hell?
Here are some common questions,objections: “I doubt the existence of a judgmental God who requires blood to pacify his wrath, a God that must be appeased with pain and suffering can not exist”…”but why can’t he just forgive us?” Here are some answers: Christians do not/should not think that people are “bound for hell” are…
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The reason for God — Chapter III.- Christianity is a straitjacket
Common questions or objections: “One truth fits all is too confining” “Christians believe that you must believe the same as me or else…”,”Christianity divides instead of unifying…Only by allowing everyone to define their own truth is everyone free.Absolute truth is the enemy of freedom.”,” Christianity considers some things immoral and segregates those that practice them.” Answers:…
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Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard is one of the funniest comedians ever, even though he uses a lot of profanity which really turns me off, he is an original genius. He had a hard life growing up, he is a transvestite and does not believe in God. I pray that Eddie will start noticing that God has been…
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Westgate Beautiful Day @ invission
I love this about my church! Westgate’s leadership asked it self : “If we (the westgate church) were to burn down, would the community miss us?”, then they came up with this idea: One weekend out of the year the church does not meet at the church but instead we go out and “be the…
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Epiphany
I remembered how Silas and Paul were singing in the prison after being beaten and flogged? Acts 16:16-40, why would they sing psalms? Sing at all?! Not that it was a coping mechanism, but the fact is that when you are in pain you have two options: Dwell on the pain or think about something…
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Recommendation
I invite you all to read the books fromTim Keller, some have compared him to CS. Lewis. I hope you will enjoy them and they will edify your faith!
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Faith and Doubt
The fact that God is all powerful does not mean that He controls everything and everyone. God is not a neanderthal that forces His will on us. He tries to persuade us in love.
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PayPal Hackathon! – We won first place.
This was an interesting event, the idea was to come up with and implement (or prototype) an innovation at PayPal. To announce it they created this presentation, which is kinda cool. I appear on this presentation a couple of times on the very first slide ( I am the guy with the microphone) and latter…