D-D-W
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Does not answer why you are using Greek instead of Hebrew.
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The God Delusion
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Exeter
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Jesus told me to.
D-D-W
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Chapter and verse???
And remember - HE was speaking Aramaic (Hebrew offshoot) at the time.
Exeter
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Private conversation, we have many, the LORD and I.
1Co 14:1-5 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. (2) For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. (3) But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. (4) He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the ekklesia. (5) I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the ekklesia may receive edification.
Prycejosh1987
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Richard Dawkins, knows science very well, but he doesnt know a thing about Christian faith and christian spirituality, and it shows. This is why Richard Dawkins left the faith.
There is a saying pertinent to this subject and that is know your enemy. One has only to consider real life war. If you have no idea what the enemy is doing there is little chance of you defeating them. The most important part of any war is the strategy room. If the enemy is off the shores of the USA no good sending ships to Africa.
Not true. I believe his father was a minister in some denomination so he has a background of religion/Christianity.
I think the most important thing is to be equipped in the area that you are ministering in. I debate atheists on the internet so I have a section of my library devoted to books about atheism and atheists.
Another area I am well versed in is Church History. I love history and I love studying the word as it relates to the church. A large section of my library is on this topic as I wrote a dissertation on the subject for a Ph.D. Before I did this I accepted what I was told but discovered what I was told wasn't necessarily the truth.
One of my favourite verses is Study to show yourself approved to GOD...... (not to man.)
If we were totally in charge of the battle we would prepare more for our actions.
Matthew 10:17 kjv
17. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
18. And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
19. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
We are wise as serpents and harmless as doves, but the battle belongs to the Lord.
eddif
In what language did Jesus speak to you?
Really? You're a PhD and you don't understand that "study" in 2 Timothy 2:15 doesn't mean the same as "study" in modern English? Here is the same verse in other translations that are written in toady's English...
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth." NIV
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth." ESV
"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth." NASB
"Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately." NET
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of truth." NRSV
daninthelionsden
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I watched a video exposing the freemasons. In it, was a list of notable masons and one of them was none other than Charles Darwin. In order to be a mason, one must acknowledge the existence of a higher being. That being ultimately is Satan. The guy making the video said masons hate Christ so much, that the most effective way to counter Christianity is to produce as many atheists as possible. He said while atheists laugh at Christians, masons laugh at and propagate atheism. If Darwin was indeed a mason then how deceived are atheists and how can you ever enlighten such blindness? Yet we are commanded to do so.
Exeter
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Our personal language of course.
Amen
Degas
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I find it so interesting that you claim some criticisms made by an atheist have informed your own faith but you don't bother giving any example. Why don't you educate us?
Dorothy Mae
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Can you counter his arguments after reading it?
Dorothy Mae
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They are in error. God understands the Devil thoroughly and doesn’t forgive him.
In fact, when one thoroughly understands a evil hearted man, one is less likely to overlook the deeds.
Edward
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That is patently untrue. You must start from where you are.
Matthew 5
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.../
1 Timothy 4:11-15
11 These things command and teach.
12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.../
Read those twice, Brother. we're to set an example for the world that they be able to see Christ in us.
This is not done on their level. It is done on the level of you in Christ, Christ in you. You my friend, are maybe the only Bible that these people ever read. Best to give understanding through demonstration.
Degas
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Not true. God is love and is not mad at the devil -- or at anyone for that matter. This doesn't change the fact that God opposes the devil.
Apart from the fact that it is God who does the converting, I agree.
Are you suggesting that the authors of the Bible seem to be afraid of philosophy? That is certainly not the case.
What do you mean by “unconstrained by lesser concerns”? A much better book that will add much needed context to anything Sagan, Dawkins, or any other atheist says about the evils of religion, particularly Christianity, is John Dickson’s Bullies and Saints. Or, almost as good, but certainly surprising coming from an atheist, is Tom Holland’s Dominion.