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  1. Derf

    Is John 3:7 for today ?

    At least part of Revelation was written to GENTILE churches. It certainly doesn't say "to the angel of the church of Jerusalem..." anywhere.
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    Is John 3:7 for today ?

    Same idea. Isn't it an honor to be accepted into the presence of a king, or of God? Plus, it's actually stated here (different translation, but that's the whole idea, that one word might substitute for the other): Psalm 15:4 NASB20 — A despicable person is despised in his eyes, But he honors...
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    Obviously multiple gospels

    But that passage, as has been pointed out before, doesn't talk of 2 different gospels, but two different people groups. Note that the second use of the word "gospel" is added by the translators for better readability. You can tell this is the case because of the use of italics in printed...
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    A missing Link to Genesis 1:6 God said, “I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it.”

    I didn't say it proved it. I said it is worthy of the assumption, remember? You jumped in on a conversation where it wasn't necessary to prove infallibility. We can talk about that aspect now, if you like. But first, let's establish together that we both agree that "science" is fallible. I'll go...
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    A missing Link to Genesis 1:6 God said, “I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it.”

    For one, it asserts it. like here: Psalm 119:160 KJV — Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. If it asserts that it is true, and it is false on any point, then the whole thing is worthless. You can't cherry-pick the passages you'd like...
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    A missing Link to Genesis 1:6 God said, “I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it.”

    Do you think "larger truths" would mean the words would be confusing people into believing a different thing happened than actually happened? I don't see a struggle there at all. Unless you're assuming infallibility in both sides (science and the bible). Seems that only one side deserves that...
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    The so-called "fossil record"

    A theory cannot be a piece of knowledge.
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    On the omniscience of God

    Really? More than the pet owners themselves? I actually raise beef cattle. So I think from the above we wouldn't cancel each other out. I've heard seeral of them describe personality traits, including nurture-based ones, i.e., where the animal was treated poorly even just once and developed...
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    On the omniscience of God

    My turn to take a second bite. Most dog owners would disagree with you here. I'm not one (anymore) but I can kind of see their point. Dogs exhibit personality (animality?). Maybe a lookalike with the same personality could be found, like when a child loses a beloved pet, and you want to replace...
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    A missing Link to Genesis 1:6 God said, “I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it.”

    I equivocated a bit between the two uses, in an attempt to draw out @Halster's meaning, to show that it was fallacious. I agree with you that that God includes factual details, and I would equate that with scientific details. But I don't really know what Halster means by "scientific details." I...
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    A missing Link to Genesis 1:6 God said, “I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it.”

    God may not be intending to lay out scientific details, but if He's laying something out for our understanding, which any passage on the generations of something (see Gen 2:4) would be expected to do, it will contain scientific details. And if He's laying out scientific details, one would either...
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    Occasional-ism “a non-Deistic understanding of the World”

    Why is occasionalism helpful to anyone?
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    Hi. i'm new.

    double understatement
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    On the omniscience of God

    https://babylonbee.com/news/pros-and-cons-of-ai
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    On the omniscience of God

    Yes, because the sequence is at a different point each subsequent time you call it. The sequence is repeatable if you start with the same seed, even if you call it multiple times.
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    On the omniscience of God

    Rethinking this for a minute. If soul is the whole person, then of course the soul is the (an) answer, but not a useful one. It's like saying 1 is 1 and 2 is 2. Or like using a word in its own definition.
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    On the omniscience of God

    Each call only gives a different answer if the seed is different. I did absolutely no development in Python, but the concept is the same in all languages, in all pseudo-random sequence generators, which I spent 35 years working on. That's not to say someone can't come up with a true random...
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    On the omniscience of God

    So was heavier than air flight at one time, as well as traveling across the ocean in a few hours.
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    On the omniscience of God

    If that was your point, then it is incorrect. If the seed and generator are the same, you get the same result, repeatedly. Here's how you do it in Python: Python Random seed() Method This function generates a random number based on the seed value. It is used to initialize the base value of the...
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    On the omniscience of God

    But the soul can exist, function, desire, worship, feel pain, inhabit places without the body? I'm not talking about AI, but about a potential future step. Perhaps man could create a real intelligence...if a soul is a body and breath of life, just like animals have (even if not in the image of...
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