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Straw man. God said He will save those who believe. We're not "getting God to save us" by having faith. We're submitting to Him...

So you're here for monologue and not dialogue?

God did not create His only begotten Son. The Son is eternal just like His Father.

Take it literally that the Son wasn't with the Father before the world began? Take it literally that there were waters before the one...

So you would advocate for the symbolical view of Gen 1, right?

Genesis 1:4 (KJV) And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Which leads to an allegorical understanding of Gen 1, since the omnipresent light is then separated from darkness.

One of the very few things that I learned from a formerly active poster here, one with whom I had a contentious relationship, was that...

This was a good episode. I remember other Christians, before most states changed the definition of marriage, arguing the same...

It's a problem when you use straw-man arguments.

Because darkness preceded the light. “And God said let there be light” Before the light was darkness, so the evening precedes the...

Because a single creature can't evolve into another creature. Evolution, as a theory, requires creatures to have offspring that are...

But we don't fix that problem by making new problems.

Yes, but if we didn't have examples of Lepidoptera and frogs living today, one would be hard pressed to determine from the fossil record...

This has to be the weakest argument you've ever proposed (and you definitely have proposed some weak ones before).