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So how are they suppose to know? A lot of Christian preachers say that God does heal through the power of Jesus. They say to pray for healing. Benny Hinn just does it faster. So in a sense, he is not teaching anything unbiblical. So how are they to know if he is real or not?

Edited for hostile comments against Christianity A formal warning is issued to Quath for the violation of the Terms of Service in his putting down of the basic tenets of Christianity, and for the promotion of his beliefs of atheism. 1 - This is a Christian site, therefore, any attempt to...

Hindus tend to think there are many paths to enlightenment. So to many of them, all religions are a subset of their religion. So a Christian focusing on the Father, Son and Holy Ghost is equivalent to someone focusing on Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer. Even...

I saw this video on Youtube. It is Benny Hinn healing people to the song "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" which is a metal band by Drowning Pool (I think). This is a pretty popular link that that shows people dropping while Benny Hinn heals them. Does anyone think that Benny Hinn is really...

Wikipedia has a good article on it. I have played with genetic algorithms a little to try to optimise some shielding designs (only on simple problems as a proof of principle). Nothing ground breaking. Just showing the transport code I work on can be used that way. However, it is a side...

I think the flaw in this is the concept of "fault." It is used in 2 ways. One on a global sense in which we are not at fault for what we do because we are like rocks falling down a hill and landing where the laws of physics shows they should land. On the other level, we use "fault" in our...

The basic way I see it is that it is a resource limitation problem. Imagine if you have a beaker of yeast in which food is slowly added. The limited resource is the food and the yeast which can get to it and process it the fastest is the "winner." So in a sense, natural selection is about...

A common example I use that the part of the Bible which says the Earth does not move. When science was saying the Earth does move, many Christians said they knew this was not true from the Bible. The lesson that should have been learned is that people who use the Bible can get fundamental...

I posted this elsewhere. Here are some reasons why scientists conclude the universe and Earth is old: 1. It appears that uranium-238 and 238 were created at the same time. hey are both radioactive and long term, they will decay away and not exist. So using known ratios today, we can...

Yeah, that's Pascal's Wager. If you are interested, there are many problems with this logic. Check the link for them. I apologize to any I offended. My goal was just to state my perspective, which is not a Christian one. However, I do know Christians that agree with me and therefore believe...

There are too many contradictions to believe that the Bible is very reliable in this area. For example, who found the empty tomb? According to Luke, it was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary. According to Mark, it was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome. According to...

Yeah, it makes my blood boil as well. I would love to have these people tortured in so many violent ways. But another part of me says that is just vengence. If I fell into that brutality, I would sink to their level. So I just hope they spend years and years in jail and I can hope they can...

People have seen a tomb that was empty. I find it far simplier and realistic to assume that Jesus was never placed in that tomb. His followers just found the wrong tomb and made an assumption. So what I doubt is the accuracy of the story. For one, a senator giving a tomb to an insurgent...

I don't think any of them are provable. I think it comes down to faith in whichever one you believe.

That makes no sense. How could you think this would work. Hey! Wait a minute. What's happening? ...... :scrambleup:

Yeah, I don't see people here as guinea pigs. I live in a world where most people are believers and I want to understand this world. I want to see how theists and nontheists get along when we are directly asking questions instead of acting polite in public and not mentioning religion. I like...

According to OT scripture, marriage is between a man, one or more woman and possible their slaves. So why is it ok for you to change it to "one man and one woman" and get upset when people try to make it "two people." As far as I can tell, neither are marriage definitions from the OT. Edited...

It is true that it is a controversial area in physics. The scary/sci-fi part will be to test this. If Hawkings radiation is true (or if black holes decay) then we could build a mini-black hole. We feed it anything as long as the mass is smaller than the moon and it will radiate more...

So I am trying to get this straight. 1. Heaven and Earth have not passed away. 2. Therefore, not one jot or title of the old law has changed. 3. The laws states what the penality is for a sin (like stoning if you work on Saturday). So can you explain where I am missing something? Are...

Why didn't you mention this tidbit from Wikipedia: In 1927, he had visited the Soviet Union and wrote a book, Liberty Under the Soviets. He later denounced communism in his book, A New Slavery, which condemned "the inhuman communist police state tyranny". In the 1940s, Baldwin led the...