Christianity and Homosexuality

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    Not a demonstration of a god existing. It’s a quote from a book of fiction. No different than Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone.
     
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    Many people believe it is unfair for God to send individuals to hell for eternity. God is being entirely fair, based on their rejection of Him.

    If people don't want anything to do with Him here on earth, why would we think they would want anything to do with Him on the other side? If they hate the thought of God in this life, they will hate being with Him in the next.
     
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    Tiktaalik is not an intermediate. https://creation.com/tiktaalik-finished

     
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    Jesus is the Suffering Servant. Isaiah 53

    Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

    For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

    He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

    Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

    But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

    All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

    He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

    He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

    And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

    Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

    He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

    Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
     
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    How sure how you figure that is fair .. but sucks to be you then I suppose - having rejected the God of Abraham as a Pagan God. Why you prefer the council of Demon's over the teachings of Jesus.
     
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    Is that why you blaspheme Christ and run from his teachings ?
     
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    Look around. You don't see God, but you see His creation.
     
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    Psalm 19:1

    The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
     
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    No idea what who Tiktaalik is mate .. We see intermediates all the time in nature via evolution.
     
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    CS Lewis said https://thechampionofourfaith.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/c-s-lewis-quote-of-the-week-2/

     
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    Claiming there are no transitional fossils has been called the "favourite lie" of creationists.
     
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    In the Book of Daniel, the Bible prophesied the coming of the one and only Jewish Messiah prior to the temple's demise. The Old Testament prophets declared He would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) to a virgin (Isaiah 7:14), be betrayed for thirty pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12,13), die by crucifixion (Psalm 22), and be buried in a rich man's tomb (Isaiah 53:9). There was only one person who fits all of the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament who lived before A.D. 70: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Mary.
     
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    We don't see macroevolution in nature.
     
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    People interpret science to see what they want to see. Believing that there is no God fits peoples ways of not wanting someone to tell them what to do.
     
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    When one thinks about it, and it doesn’t require all that much thought, the creationists’ claim that “micro can never become macro” is nothing more than rejecting the entire theory of evolution by arbitrarily asserting: “It ain’t so!”

    Actually, it’s worse than that, because first it involves accepting, at the scale of a few visible generations, both the fact of and the mechanism for evolution (variation and natural selection), and then rejecting the inevitable consequences of what has been accepted.

    That denial is a an extreme form of Subjectivism. Or maybe it’s just an example of pre-scientific thinking, the kind that led our ancestors to conjecture that the visible sun was hauled across the sky by Apollo’s chariot, and then, when no one was looking, it was taken back to the barn or somewhere, from which the next day’s journey would commence.
     
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    CS Lewis said

    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/733731-there-are-two-kinds-of-people-those-who-say-to

    We are given the freedom to choose between evil and good, between God's will and our own. God is simply honoring our choices-and allowing us to face the consequences.
     
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    Right . so why do you follow demons rather than the teachings of Jesus ?
     
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    You don't know what evolution is mate .. so how would you know ?
     
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    Science doesn't rely on blind faith for answers.
     
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    Whatever you currently believe about Jesus of Nazareth, you owe it to yourself to investigate Him thoroughly. It makes little sense to ignore the one solitary life that continues to impact the world more than any life in history-and will impact you in eternity if His claims are true. At the very least, read the gospel of John and consider who Jesus really was and remains today.
     
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    These uneducated morons think that you are going to see an animal birth something that is half way in between two species -
     
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    Is the Gospel of John the reason why you hate the teachings of Jesus ?
     
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    Microevolution involves minor variations within a species. We see evidence of this all the time, such as when bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics. This is also called adaptation or natural selection. Microevolution is scientific because it is observable and measurable.

    The other branch is macroevolution, which is the concept that successive small changes can, over time, gradually change one species to another. It involves not only minor variations but also the addition of completely new features and body types.
     
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    It takes more faith to believe in evolution than to believe that God created everything.
     

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