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calgaryrocks · 03-29-2007, 07:24 PM

i just want to say before i give my answers to these that it is merely my opinion and just like everything else, doesnt represent every christian out there. it is certainly up to debate and questioning, i may or may not answer, but i do enjoy questions that challenge my faith as they help me to grow in my faith, enjoy and accept that there are my answers and you may have yours.

Define God

he is god, god is everywhere, god has no beginning or no end...so complex that people cant understand it.
Omnimax Omnimax = All Good, All knowing, All powerfull

all good...god has reasons for doing everything, he is good to satans bad, but good and bad are general terms and usually a relative term
all knowing. kind of like he knows what were thinking..thus thinking about a girl naked in your mind is sinful(lets not start arguing about that)
all powerful...basically powerful, he created the heavens and the earth, he flooded the earth and molded it and created life
Objective Standard of Morality

the way i see it is that morality is principled. its what your heart is in it for, if you are giving your all for god, trying to be like jesus and have a relationship with god, and loving others as yourself, its good. alot of stuff can be harmful to your spiritual growth and habits like excessive alchohol take your focus off of god and showing gods love to others, whereas i can go to a bar, in my opinion, and have a chat with a buddy about christ or something and that is fine, because i cant tell others about the love of christ from inside a church. i have to go out there and be in the world but still have my roots in god.
Free Will

well basically i believe in free will, some christians do some dont. he gave adam and eve a choice in the garden, he wants us to choose him and love him out of your own will. and usually not following what he wants us to do or making bad decisions leads to sin or suffering or other consequences
The Bible

yes. it was written by men inspired by god(although arguably some of the books that moses wrote were written by god, like the 10 commandments). it is our written history, men who wrote the gospels wrote what they saw and experienced with jesus but included what god wanted them to...so they wrote it inspired by god.
The Flood

well a year ago i wouldve strayed away from this question because i wasnt sure, but im more confident in it now as questions get answered, thats part of growing in your faith, sometimes you need a little reasoning behind things. as you can expect such an event cant be summed up in a few words if you want to understand it better but ill try. first off volcanoes spray alot of steam when they erupt(i think 70%) so there must be water underground. alot of water could have come up when there was a "breaking up of hte fountains". also in a tectonic plate model the ocean floor may have lifted up up to 6500 ft due to an increase in temperature and spilled alot of water onto the land. also there was extraordinary rainfall for 40 days, but that can only be part of it. the waters would have had to go somewhere so god lifted up mountains and made large valleys and deep ocean beds to protect the earth from ever being flooded again. remember that 70% of the earth is covered by water today and if all the land was leveled, water would cover the earths surface at a depth of 2.7 km...wow yeah so thats just part of it, here are some links because im not going to explain it all, and im sure there will be questions.
http://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c010.html
http://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-floodwater.html
the science of the ark http://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html

Evolution

evolution: not sure on this one, maybe there is an evolution in some animals as they adapt but probably mostly just societal evolution as we as a people change in what we strive for, what we do and how we percieve science and religion. i dont believe in the darwin evolution stuff that we came from monkeys. sorry
Atheism

someone who doesnt believe in a god, as theism is believing in god. atheism is a belief and could be argued as a belief in no god, but there is no "bible" of truth for atheism to prove anything, no saviour, no heaven or hell and everything is up to chance.

03-29-2007, 07:24 PM	#189
calgaryrocks Powerplay Quarterback Join Date: Nov 2003 Exp:	i just want to say before i give my answers to these that it is merely my opinion and just like everything else, doesnt represent every christian out there. it is certainly up to debate and questioning, i may or may not answer, but i do enjoy questions that challenge my faith as they help me to grow in my faith, enjoy and accept that there are my answers and you may have yours. Define God he is god, god is everywhere, god has no beginning or no end...so complex that people cant understand it. Omnimax Omnimax = All Good, All knowing, All powerfull all good...god has reasons for doing everything, he is good to satans bad, but good and bad are general terms and usually a relative term all knowing. kind of like he knows what were thinking..thus thinking about a girl naked in your mind is sinful(lets not start arguing about that) all powerful...basically powerful, he created the heavens and the earth, he flooded the earth and molded it and created life Objective Standard of Morality the way i see it is that morality is principled. its what your heart is in it for, if you are giving your all for god, trying to be like jesus and have a relationship with god, and loving others as yourself, its good. alot of stuff can be harmful to your spiritual growth and habits like excessive alchohol take your focus off of god and showing gods love to others, whereas i can go to a bar, in my opinion, and have a chat with a buddy about christ or something and that is fine, because i cant tell others about the love of christ from inside a church. i have to go out there and be in the world but still have my roots in god. Free Will well basically i believe in free will, some christians do some dont. he gave adam and eve a choice in the garden, he wants us to choose him and love him out of your own will. and usually not following what he wants us to do or making bad decisions leads to sin or suffering or other consequences The Bible yes. it was written by men inspired by god(although arguably some of the books that moses wrote were written by god, like the 10 commandments). it is our written history, men who wrote the gospels wrote what they saw and experienced with jesus but included what god wanted them to...so they wrote it inspired by god. The Flood well a year ago i wouldve strayed away from this question because i wasnt sure, but im more confident in it now as questions get answered, thats part of growing in your faith, sometimes you need a little reasoning behind things. as you can expect such an event cant be summed up in a few words if you want to understand it better but ill try. first off volcanoes spray alot of steam when they erupt(i think 70%) so there must be water underground. alot of water could have come up when there was a "breaking up of hte fountains". also in a tectonic plate model the ocean floor may have lifted up up to 6500 ft due to an increase in temperature and spilled alot of water onto the land. also there was extraordinary rainfall for 40 days, but that can only be part of it. the waters would have had to go somewhere so god lifted up mountains and made large valleys and deep ocean beds to protect the earth from ever being flooded again. remember that 70% of the earth is covered by water today and if all the land was leveled, water would cover the earths surface at a depth of 2.7 km...wow yeah so thats just part of it, here are some links because im not going to explain it all, and im sure there will be questions. http://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c010.html http://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-floodwater.html the science of the ark http://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html Evolution evolution: not sure on this one, maybe there is an evolution in some animals as they adapt but probably mostly just societal evolution as we as a people change in what we strive for, what we do and how we percieve science and religion. i dont believe in the darwin evolution stuff that we came from monkeys. sorry Atheism someone who doesnt believe in a god, as theism is believing in god. atheism is a belief and could be argued as a belief in no god, but there is no "bible" of truth for atheism to prove anything, no saviour, no heaven or hell and everything is up to chance. __________________ GO FLAMES, STAMPEDERS, ROUGHNECKS, CALVARY, DAWGS and SURGE!