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I don’t think everything is God’s perfect will. For example, God did not want Adam and Eve to sin. There was an entirely viable alternate path for humanity that would not have involved death and suffering. But we did sin and IMHO God is now allowing every consequence of sin to play out in the...

I found it a useful and educational experience. The comments I made were based on my understanding of the bible. The atheists on this website were more 'god haters' than anything else. Only 2 out of around 20 that I chatted with did not refer to God as 'it'. The big thing there was that God...

When I said ‘God withdrew from human affairs’ I meant in the strict context of the fall. Had there been no fall, no contact with God would have been lost. After the fall, God banished man from His presence and we are still waiting for the time when our union with God is restored. Of course God...

Thank you to CS1, Ronja and Funkus for your constructive comments. I will, take them on board.

Hi everyone, I have been a member of the atheist and Christian debate facebook group for the last couple of weeks. I left the group this morning after they pulled my post on the grounds that it was 'non debatable post/unrelated to group topic'. A quick look at the site will quickly reveal that...

Many thanks, folks, for all your kind comments.

I think most of us would agree that God is economical with His words. He says what He has to say in the minimum number of words, as one would expect from someone infinitely intelligent. If God says anything twice, we realise it is very important. The Bible may be a big book, but considering the...

I found a very detailed answer. It's a translation issue, as it very often is! http://christianthinktank.com/qjehu.html

Hosea 1:4 says. Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. God has told Hosea to take an adulterous wife and to name their son Jezreel. Now in 2 Kings chapters 9 and 10...

That all have sinned is not in doubt. By this logic all should be judged. So, why does Jesus say that his own generation would be responsible for all the blood shed by all previous generations. You are misusing the word 'generation' if you assert that the whole human race are a single...

The question is why all the previous generations are not judged for their part in killing the prophets and why all the wrath falls on the last OT generation. Certainly Jesus' generation had far less excuse for rejecting God than former generations, seeing, as they did, the miracles of Jesus and...

I would appreciate the views of the forum on these verses from Luke. It is very clear that the generation alive during Christ's ministry had unprecedented light, but to heap all the blood since the creation on them, suggests that previous generations were exempted, even though they killed the...

I would turn the tables on the atheists, since you hold all the cards. Ask them to explain how a universe arose from nothing. No argument makes sense. Lawrence Krauss has tried to make the scientific case for this idea. It is utterly demolished by John C. Lennox. See the you tube videos! Or...

You are right on all counts. The contradiction I referred to was that if Jesus is speaking in a prophecy, it would be a contradiction if he confessed to sin. Jesus was sinless and no one is disputing this. My point is that if you read the Psalm, verse 9 says that 'my close friend, whom I...

I see what you are saying, but when Jesus does takes on His primary role of Judging on the last day, He says that He will not Judge, but the word that He speaks will Judge, as though this word were not Jesus Himself because Jesus flatly states that he does not Judge! It is the word Jesus has...

I do not disagree with you on this. Each person of the Godhead has a clearly defined role and they all agree on all things. This is what you would expect. God is infinitely wise.

To repeat, in the first part of the passage I quoted in the first post, Jesus says he did not come to judge the world, then in the second part, he says that there is a judge for the unbeliever, it is the words that Jesus himself has spoken. Now, I take this to mean that Jesus will be the Judge...

The word became flesh means that God became a man in Jesus Christ. It is perfectly understandable.

You make a good point, which comes immediately afterwards in John 12:49. But this would imply that Jesus is in disagreement with the Father, which He never is. So, ignoring that as a possibility and taking it for granted that the Father and Son agree on all things, we could assume that what is...

The last part of verse 48 says that Jesus' word will condemn those who do not believe. If I say that my words say something, it is taken that I say them. I do not separate my words from me and say 'I say this', but 'my words say that'. I hope this is understandable. Clearly it is too much for...