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    Gospel of Thomas

    What can I say? I have done my best to present the truth, but I suspect you Francis, that you're only here to attempt to convert people to Catholicism. What is a person to do to convince one that their path is wrong when they refuse to be swayed from it? For your sake, I would like to hope...
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    Gospel of Thomas

    Conversing and consulting are not the same thing. Yes, He was conversing. No, He was not consulting. Perhaps you should read Job again. Who is man that he teaches God? Jesus had the Spirit of God in all fullness. What need would he have to consult with man? The problem is that what you...
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    Gospel of Thomas

    No, he wasn't. I am open to people looking at scriptures differently, so long as it doesn't contradict other scripture in the process. Also, the Gospel of Thomas is not scripture. It is just as dangerous to be too open minded as it is to be too narrow minded. Ok, let's start over. What...
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    OS and programs you use...

    I'd been using Windows 7 RC, but seeing as how I have 3 days before it starts shutting down on me every two hours, I've spent the last week or so trying to get Linux running. Finally, last night, I got PCLinuxOS 2009.2 installed and running on my PC. Turns out, after a week or so of trying...
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    Could Islam Be the Great Whore?

    I think Islam could be part of it. We have this movement happening right now. It's called ecumenicism. Basically, it's an effort to get all religions to get along and get together. I think this is what the great whore will be, a conglomeration of all religions that sets itself up as the...
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    Gospel of Thomas

    I think this is the one... http://www.thethomasgospel.com/contents.htm Translation by Stuart D. Shoemaker. No reason why I picked him, it's just one I found at the time when I was looking for a text of it. It was, based off an initial impression of the passage. Consider the rest to be "in...
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    Conspicuous absence

    Yes, it helps and explains a lot. :praying
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    States of Water

    I think the problem here is that you are confusing the purpose of the states of matter. The states of matter do not exist of themselves. They require matter in order to exist. If I say I've got a liquid gas, what have I got? You can't tell, because there are myriads of types of matter than...
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    Conspicuous absence

    Let's look at Islam. Islam for example, which one might say comes close to Christianity (but in reality it is far from it) due to Muslims claiming the same ancestors as the Jews; in Sura 19 it says that everyone goes to hell. All person's works are weighed and the better you did at guarding...
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    Gospel of Thomas

    You can interpret it that way if you like, but that's not what it says. The disciples said they knew Jesus was leaving, so they wanted to know who would be their new leader. Jesus, in essence, told them to look up to Jacob the righteous. Jesus was setting this Jacob, whoever he is, on a...
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    Conspicuous absence

    For muslims, the Koran says believe in Allah and his prophet, and obey. Obedience is were the works come in. For Buddhism, following the teachings, which include stuff you must do, will get you to Nirvana. For Hinduism, do the right stuff to escape the cycle of birth, death, reincarnation...
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    States of Water

    So, what are the two states of a liquid, for example? :confused
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    Gospel of Thomas

    This should be enough... What does the Bible say about creation? Speaking about the Word, which is Jesus... John 1:3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. New American Standard Bible (©1995) What does the Bible say...
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    Conspicuous absence

    Works in other religions are a distinguishing factor between them and the only true path to God. That is not the case at all. The "path to salvation" ends when you put your faith (believe) in Christ and what He did for you on the cross. At that point, you are "born again" as the Bible says...
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    Gospel of Thomas

    I have read parts of it, and I see things in it that are contrary to scripture and blasphemous. What's one good way to pass off lies as if they are the truth? Present it in such a way that it is "desirable to make one wise" (heard that before too, haven't we). Secret or hidden knowledge that...
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    Conspicuous absence

    You said, "Yet, 'faith without works is dead' so really any argument against works is self defeating." If the argument that faith without works is dead is self defeating, then the requirement would be that salvation comes by faith with works, or just by works. In essence, you were indeed...
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    Recognizing The Last Generation

    lenbache, that's just the kind of thinking that is setting up the world for Satan to bring him on the scene. The Bible is just a bunch of hooey, or it's some symbolic thing that we can't really understand. Did God really say? ...where have we heard that before? I'm curious lenbache, what do...
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    States of Water

    I'm confused. I thought solid, liquid, and gas were the states? Can solids have different states? What I'm seeing in a quick search is that matter has 4 different states: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. So it's matter (water being a type of matter) that's in a specific state, not a state...
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    Nazis occultism

    Not many in the Roman Catholic Church either. Many people try to lump the RCC in with Christianity. Catholic doctrine preaches another Jesus, one that cannot save so much as a peanut from destruction. As such, I lump the RCC in with the likes of the Emergent Christianity movement into false...
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    Conspicuous absence

    Not true. We are not saved by works. You seem to know a lot about scripture, yet you neglected to mention this one: Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. New...
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