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    What do you Believe??? (Religion)

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    2 hours ago, Kosher Ham said:

    If I told you that I was "A" God...would you believe it ? 

    Could you disprove it ? 

    I can't disprove it. Can you prove it? Maybe die and raise yourself from the dead and appear to many people over many instances, including to several hundred at one time.

     

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    I have another question for you ... how do you think other/similar Gods/religions that are represented technically through religious written word ? 

    Are they wrong ?

     

     I'm a Christian, so yes, there is a necessary exclusivity. I base it on the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. It is derivative. Otherwise, as the Apostle Paul says " if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain, and so is your faith.Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified wrongly about God that he raised up Christ"

    What do you Believe??? (Religion)

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    Posted · Edited by Zguy28

    I'm glad you guys are willing to open up about your stories. Everybody has one, most keep it to themselves, afraid of sounding crazy or are just private. My story is fairly ordinary with one exception. Hope you don't mind me sharing.

    I grew up in a normal American middle class home, occasionally went to church at the local Methodist, but it was very formal and I used to fall asleep. I always believed Jesus was a real person, but never understood what he did. Never really even remember hearing it, except from my Mom and that was at bedtime prayers with "remember, Jesus died for all people." I lived my life loosely with women, booze, and fast cars. Cliche I know. Then I had an experience that changed things. My good friend from growing up and later work, went off and joined the USAF. We got into an argument over something related to it, I called him a fool, and we parted ways badly. Well, we didn't speak at all, and within a few years he died after running a triathlon from a aneurysm. I was crushed. Never got to say good bye. I went to the memorial service. His pastor from his time in Arkansas came up for it, since he had become a Christian. That's when I heard the good news of Jesus Christ, what my mom had told me, but also that he had risen. I don't remember much else the guy said except "if you don't know you are saved, you probably aren't." I broke out in a sweat, I left abruptly left and had a literal experience of burning on my feet. They felt on fire, no kidding. I was screaming in the car "Oh Lord please! I'm sorry!" as it felt like flames licking at my feet. My wife thought I was off my rocker when I came home and told her I realized I was condemned and judged and going to Hell. I took out my grand mother's old King James bible with all her margin notes and read through Matthew. Long story short, I was saved through Jesus Christ and live my life for him. My wife soon after put her faith in Jesus as well, and we both were baptized together in the Baptist church where I am an elder.

    It was also cool to find out later that my friends family and their church were praying for me specifically throughout and I didn't know it. But God heard them.O Lord, thank you for that.

     

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    What do you Believe??? (Religion)

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    4 minutes ago, Fresh8686 said:

     I remember one time these baptists were trying to almost force a manifestation of the spirit from us and I ended up trying to fake speak in tongues as a kid so I could finally get to use the bathroom.

    Probably Pentecostals, not baptists. As a baptist myself, we don't speak in tongues, or kneel, we just slump quietly in our pews! :ols:

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    Random Tech/IT Thread

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    https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/deleted-facebook-cybercrime-groups-had-300000-members/

     

     

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    Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members

    Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on the social media network’s platform. The scam groups facilitated a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools. The average age of these groups on Facebook’s platform was two years.

    On Thursday, April 12, KrebsOnSecurity spent roughly two hours combing Facebook for groups whose sole purpose appeared to be flouting the company’s terms of service agreement about what types of content it will or will not tolerate on its platform

     

     

    Two.Flipping.Years. You're doing a stellar job Facebook.:rolleyes:

     

    Rest at link

    Workout Thread III

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    1 minute ago, The Evil Genius said:

    About 3 weeks ago I started get sorness making g a fist or grabbing and picking up anything with my right hand. Pretty sure I've got tennis elbow as the pain on the top of the arm near the elbow. :(

     

    Hate not being able to lift but I've still lost a few more pounds by sticking with the treadmill. I now can even run for 4-5 minute intervals. ?

    You might want to see an Occupational Therapist.

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    Workout Thread III

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    On 1/29/2018 at 12:14 PM, Zguy28 said:

    What is this, Rocky 4? ;)

     

    I've only got 45 minutes to workout a day, at 4 AM. Everything else is allocated to family, sports, church,etc. I use kettlebells primarily and a barbell for military presses and curls sometimes. On aerobic days, throw in some HIIT (fitness blender has some good stuff) or just walking/hiking for a couple miles to burn the extra cals.Once your in your 40's, it begins to suck. Had to start taking EVL Test. It helps tremendously.

     

    Since my daughter does Shorin Ryu karate, I was thinking of joining, since I'm already there anyway. But its expensive and I'm concerned I can't dedicate time to practice and my joints might not hold up. My bride wants me to do Yoga.

    So I've taken up Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate and I love it. However my hips and back are so tight right now. At 44 I've lost my flexibility of youth. Any recommendations on ways to regain flexibility? Particularly my side kick and roundhouse elevation is barely waist level. Its a combo of outside hip muscles and inner thigh.

    Random Tech/IT Thread

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    9 hours ago, zskins said:

     

    Oh the new IT guys... use 8.8.8.8

    I still use the original DNS entry: 4.2.2.1 or 4.2.2.2 even before Google was a thing. 

     

    Or better yet, manage your own external DNS (like an Infoblox device) and forward all your internal to it.

     

     

    Windows Server 2019

    https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/03/20/introducing-windows-server-2019-now-available-in-preview/

     

    Project Honolulu just went to plaid...err... I mean prod. Windows Admin Center.

     

    https://redmondmag.com/articles/2018/04/12/windows-admin-center-now-available.aspx

    What do you Believe??? (Religion)

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    33 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

    (Now, the evidence supporting them is not scientific, and this gets to what makes something "good evidence".  Why is the non-scientific evidence supporting multiple dimensions good enough to think that there are multiple dimensions, but the evidence in support of a god is not good enough evidence in support of a god?)

    Reminds me somewhat of this:

     

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    What do you Believe??? (Religion)

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    14 hours ago, PeterMP said:

     

    1.  You seem to be very close to polytheistic thinking with the idea of the God the creator and God the redeemer.  Either Jesus was part of God at the creation or not.  Either the redeemer is part of the creator or not.  As part of that, you seem to drawing unnecessary and extra-Biblical lines.  I do not see how it is possible to reveal God the creator and not God the redeemer.  In addition, I would point out that when you consider what happened to Abraham, Moses, and even those that were present to witness the result of Daniel and the lion's den were all special revelation that did not (at least directly) involve the idea of Jesus as the redeemer.

     

    Most basically, if God can reveal any aspect of himself through general revelation, I'm not sure why we should reject the revelation, and I'm not aware of a Biblical motivation to do so.

     

    2.  For something clearly set up and labeled as a parable, I think that is not an issue.  I also think that was never much of an issue.  The problem becomes places that are not clearly labeled as a parable.  People really did used to think that a universe with the Earth in the center made sense partly from the Bible in parts that are not clearly labeled as parables.  There are people out there that today will still argue that (and that the Earth is flat) based on verses of the Bible not clearly indicated as parables.

     

    http://barnabasnagy.com/blog/flat-earth-not-spinning-not-orbiting-but-stationary-bible-verses-empirical-evidence

     

    The question is what are you going to do about those people.  What do you do with (at least) large chunks of Genesis?

     

    3.  The universe is almost certainly billions of years old (given what I've said in this thread about proving things, I'm not going to out right claim that it is).  If not, you not only have to throw out the part nature proving God, but much of the spirit of the New Testament (e.g. God as the good shepherd).  You are left with a trickster God.

     

    The idea of that universe is very old has been cross verified by different methods over long periods of time.  

     

    (If the universe is not billions of years old and some how the age of the universe has been "faked", I think the most likely explanation is not "literal" interpretation of the Bible (I put quotes around literal because such an interpretation would be ignoring other parts of the Bible), but that we are a computer simulation of a more advanced society.  The major question then becomes are we a game like Sims or Civilization or are we part of sociology/economic/ecology study.)

     

    4.  It isn't clear that the Luther and Calvin supported a heliocentric solar system.  The below is linked on the page you linked:

     

    https://www.ligonier.org/blog/luther-calvin-and-copernicus-reformed-approach-science-and-scripture/

    I was referring to aspects of God revealed through different means. God only reveals Himself in a redemptive/salvific way through Special Revelation: Scriptures and Jesus Christ. Maybe this is a better explanation: https://carm.org/questions/about-bible/what-general-and-special-revelation

     

    Anyway, I think you are not understanding anything I am saying if you get polytheism from what  I said. Maybe you are scope locked or I'm an not explaining well? OR because you are Roman Catholic and I am a reformed baptist? I'll let you get back to affirming basic assumptions that science cannot prove. :)

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