[TheWielder]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

@Victory, I'm talking about shooting Watermelons as targets. Like this: Porn video deleted

I have no issue with anyone due to their race. I care about what people do, not about the color of their skin.

@Papist, if the actual writers of the bible knew about them, or native Americans, or Caucasians, or Indians, or any of the other groups, they may have mentioned them, but I doubt it would change the content much.

[Oliver Brendan Hayve]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

Let me make something very clear. I expect out of everyone who's attempting to debate anything to be able to use Reason and Logic. God is perfectly justifiable, and even provable, through such methods.

Please do so.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

So is Ki another word for Thetan?

It's another word for made up nonsense with absolutely no evidence to back it up that might as well be sorcery.

[TheWielder]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

@Catherine, only if Thetan is another word for your Soul. Which, according to a quick google search, it is. So yeah, I suppose it is.

Though Scientology is probably the most ill-thought-out religion I know of.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

Please do so.

Oh great. The stench of faeces is bringing out the queers.

[TheWielder]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

Last thing I can post before I need to go for a while.

@Oliver, let's start at the basics.

Let's say all there is is Matter. No spirit, nothing spiritual, no God.

That would imply that Matter is eternal. To be eternal, something must be 3 things, one of which being "Self-Maintaining." If matter was self-maintaining, hot things would stay hot, and cold things would stay cold. The Sun will eventually burn out, and a detailed version of the Big Bang involves matter and antimatter reacting and taking each other out of existence. All of that violates the idea of being Self-Maintaining. From that alone, it cannot be the case that matter is eternal.

If matter is not eternal, that means it is temporal, and had a beginning. However, if matter is all there is, then there's nothing else to give it a beginning, which leads to Being from Non-Being, an uncaused event.

As a direct result, it cannot be the case that everything is Matter, there must be some Spiritual entity, and such an entity must be eternal.

Like I said, I need to go, but I've just proven that there must be at least SOME kind of God. I could also go through and disprove Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Hindu, and Buddhist beliefs, but I'm out of time for now. Suffice it to say, they're all bollocks, leaving only the Big Three and other, minor religions.

@Redeemed, last time I'll say this, choose your words carefully.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

@Redeemed, last time I'll say this, choose your words carefully.

Or you'll do what!

God protects us here, persecutor.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

@Bobby-Joe, Can you see, touch, taste, hear, or smell God? You cannot. Therefore, you cannot observe him Directly. You can observe him through other sources, but not through direct observation. It's the same with Ki. Furthermore, assuming Ki is, as I have concluded, one's soul, then there is no reason I know of that would cause conflict with scripture. We have souls, and if Ki is the same as a soul, then we all have Ki.

I feel God in my heart and as Paul puts it so eloquently

Philemon 1:20
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord

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We ALL personally experience God. Event the Atheists, who just refuse to admit it. We all don't personally experience Ki or would we wouldn't be using tasers and pepper stray.

And while you are at it why don't explain why Jesus didn't harness His Ki to sline the pharisees and High priests that were pestering Him? Since as we are both Christians we both agree Jesus is the Son God, there for has God's perfection and so forth. Follow up question is why didn't Jesus, the Son of God, and logically a master in the use of Ki teach His Chosen Elect how to use Ki?

[Oliver Brendan Hayve]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

If matter is not eternal, that means it is temporal, and had a beginning. However, if matter is all there is, then there's nothing else to give it a beginning, which leads to Being from Non-Being, an uncaused event.

As a direct result, it cannot be the case that everything is Matter, there must be some Spiritual entity, and such an entity must be eternal.

Please explain in your own words what big-bang theory says and why it doesn't suffice to explain existence without the need for an eternal spiritual entity.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

@Isaac, I know to believe in Christ because I know Christ.

I didn't ask you how you know to believe in Christ. I asked you how you know what to believe about Him.

It took a while, but I eventually moved from "Believing because I'm told to" to "Believing because I choose to." In the process, I threw out many concepts that simply do not hold water, such as the bible being 100% accurate. Logically, it could be anywhere from 0.000...1% accurate, to 99.999...% accurate. But the discrepancies between the gospels alone prevent it from being 100% accurate. Above all, I know God, I know Christ, I know who and what he was, and I know what he did. I know this because I know him. The rest follows.

How do you know Christ, who He was, what He was, and what He did? How do you know that what you "know" about Christ is true? After all, the Wiccans "know" their gods.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

Your first post brings a couple of queries to mind:

I'll say first and foremost that I'm a Christian of a predominantly Protestant sect.

What does that mean, exactly? "Predominantly Protestant"?

You either bow to Rome or you do not. You either worship crackers like Rick Santorum or you do not. You either pray to idols or you do not. You either obey God's Commands or you do not.

Which is it?

Next, I'll say I'm also a Martial Artist, with training in Shotokan Karate, and in Iaijutsu Swordsmanship. I also incorporate elements of Kung-Fu, Jiujitsu, and Drunken Boxing in my hand-to-hand style, and Kendo in my sword style.

...

I've never been in a fight,

So, all this "style" of yours is what, in video games?

My girlfriend, who I intend to marry, and many of my friends, including my best friend and sword-brother, are martial artists as well.

Do they fight actual people, or are they "Wii Martial Artists" too?

Anything I have stated is fair game for conversation, discussion, or debate. I've chosen my words carefully. I suggest you do the same.

That sounds like a threat, friend. Do not join a forum, uninvited, and threaten your hosts.

[TheWielder]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

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Now I'm getting a bit irritated.

@Bobby-Joe, I mean you don't feel him physically. As in, with your hands. Thought that was obvious. And by that logic, you experience Ki too, you just don't realize it- it is literally your daily energy. When you get tired, you're running low. You've experienced it, you just didn't realize it.

As well, why don't you explain why he didn't call down lightning bolts and hellfire? He could have, he chose not to. Thought that was pretty obvious too.

@Papist, Latin is not the same as Catholic. Nosce te Ipsum is a motto that has carried my family for generations. All it means is "Know Thyself." If you really just hate Latin, that's fine, I'll go without a signature. But honestly, mate.

As for what I'll do, I'll start turning your words against you and annihilating your positions, rather than just defending mine. Or I can just find some buds, DDOS your site, and bring it down for a few hours. Frankly, though, I'd rather not do any of that- I just want to have a conversation.

Also, nice Ad Hominem. I've been called a number of things, but "Persecutor" is a new one.

@Oliver, the general idea is that, in the beginning, all matter was focused on one tiny point, which then exploded. One of the more scientifically accepted versions is that what exploded was pure energy (not talking about Ki, here. Just physical energy.) which settled into matter and antimatter. The two substances came into contact and drove each other out of existence. A little bit more matter than antimatter existed, however, and that matter settled into the known universe. Or so the theory goes.

Like I said, for the material world to be eternal, it must be self-maintaining. Hot things would have to stay hot, the sun would have to NOT burn out in a few million years, and the antimatter/matter interaction would have had to result in them both NOT being erased from existence. But hot things cool, the sun will burn out, and matter got erased, according to the theory. That makes the material world NOT self maintaining, and therefore it cannot be eternal.

If it isn't eternal, then it had a beginning. If it had a beginning, something had to cause the beginning, or else it was an uncaused event, which is philosophically impossible. Therefore there had to be something to cause it, and since there was nothing in the material world to cause it, there has to be something spiritual, as Spirit is the only aspect of the universe other than Matter.

@Pastor Isaac, I searched through the bible and other, related sources, found prophecies, predictions, etc... and correlations between things that, without divine influence, would not be possible to connect. I looked through all of this, found what I could that was immutable and irrefutable, and took it as fact. The one most important thing that I found was that Christ lived, He died, He fulfilled many prophecies, and that if anyone was the son of God, it was Him. Furthermore, I investigated other religions, analyzed them, and debunked them. I did my research. Sadly, most of the actual, physical research has been lost over time. Fires tend to do that.

@Reverend, I bow to God, and none other. Your comments towards Martial Arts, I find insulting. I know how to fight, how to actually fight. My girlfriend has not been in a fight, my Sword-Brother has been in multiple fights. And it was not a threat, it was a suggestion. One which few people seem to be observing.

[Faith_Machine]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

@Faith, tell ya what, mate. I'm gonna head to bed, and leave this thread open.

Hey, it's mighty white of you to leave this thread open! I was afraid you'd use your Ki powers to close the thread.

[TheWielder]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

I meant leave it open in my browser, so the instant I woke up, I'd be back in the conversation.

Still waiting for your reply, BTW.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Christian Swordsman with a question or twenty

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Now I'm getting a bit irritated..

Oh no!

A heathen pretender is getting irritated because of good Godly rebukes for his behaviour in practising some sort of chink witchcraft instead of rightly praising Jesus for what He actually did and said.