[Attila's Wife]

Re: Good evening

Well I confess, when you admitted to having been "nitrated," I thought maybe you were a race car, but "nitrated" and "born" do sound an awful lot alike. I guess.

He, she or whatever corrected "nitrated" to "birthed", Sister.

I don't see any flaw in my vocabulary?.

Well, so far you have mistaken secular for sector, nitrated for born and mutual for neutral (possibly - this is just a guess. Who even knows what you meant by that?).

]You speak like English is not your first language

Or second, or third. The average Japanese 10-year-old would do better. This is an interesting introduction, though, because it confirms everything we already suspected about the state of secular education in Britain today.

I despair of my country, really I do.

YiC
AW

[Kittykoo]

Re: Good evening

I think you may be forgetting that your language is a little different to ours. Mutual is another term for neutral in the north west. I speak a little different. Also why do you suppose that I am not English when I have been born and raised in England. And please may somebody answer my question?

[Faith_Machine]

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I haven't been led astray. I was bought up on no belief...

This right here is what you'd call a pair of contradictory statements.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

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Mutual is another term for neutral in the north west.

No it isn't. I grew up in Cumbria and I have never heard the improper use of 'mutual' for 'neutral'.

YIC

[Kittykoo]

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You haven't lived in my town. We speak in more slang terms than we should. Anyway, off the topic of how I speak and how intelligent you find me to be, may you answer my question good sir?

[Pim Pendergast]

Re: Good evening

I was bought up on no belief so that I could, as I got older, choose what I believed to be right. You chose Christianity.

Most of us were raised to believe we'd go to hell if we didn't believe in Jesus so that as we got older we would choose Christianity.

I have to ask this question, please don't think me a fool if the answer to you is obvious. The people that wrote the bible, they could have merely pretended to have met a man called God. And then as people believed it the cult turned into a religion, worldwide! We can easily say that it's the word of God but thinking logically how can we be 100% sure? We can't, because it dates back so far we could never meet the writers.

So. You're asking if it's possible that many authors over many centuries could just make up stories that could be compiled into a single book that is perfectly coherent, internally consistent and infallible. What are the odds? The best way for you to find out is to read the Bible for yourself.

[Faith_Machine]

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So she's using cockney rhyming slang now? I think the caption underneath this young lass's name needs to be changed from "suspected chav" to "confirmed chav, aeternal damnation likely!"

[Steph Leia]

Re: Good evening

You haven't lived in my town. We speak in more slang terms than we should. Anyway, off the topic of how I speak and how intelligent you find me to be, may you answer my question good sir?

I'm sorry, what was your original question?

[Faith_Machine]

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I'm sorry, what was your original question?

Thank you, sister Steph, for trying to get this conversation back on track. Let's talk about Jesus and His magnificent plan for each of our lives!

[Attila's Wife]

Re: Good evening

No it isn't. I grew up in Cumbria and I have never heard the improper use of 'mutual' for 'neutral'.

They don't say it in Lancaster either, Dr Niles. Confusing these two particular words, so very different in meaning, may be at the heart of this young lady's cognitive difficulties. But you are the psychiatric expert, not me.

No point trying to talk sense to the Blackpool pre-teen brigade, Brother Faith_Machine. They come back again and again with their dumb questions (which Dr Pendergast answers so patiently), but never actually learn anything. It is almost as though stupidity is part of the goth lifestyle choice.

[Kittykoo]

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I am getting slightly offended about you making me out to be of low intelligence. I am not a pre-teen either, I am 15. Yes I am young but I just want answers. And being a goth doesn't fault my intelligence!

Anyway, about the question, it seems unlikely I am aware. But imagine this for a moment. Say Christianity didnt exist and then one day one man or woman chose to write a book. Claiming they saw these miracles happen. This was a mere commoner and people just carried it on and believed it. That's the only way I can look at it. How do you see it so literally?

[Attila's Wife]

Re: Good evening

Are you confusing the Bible with the Book of Mormon?

[Pim Pendergast]

Re: Good evening

Say Christianity didnt exist and then one day one man or woman chose to write a book. Claiming they saw these miracles happen. This was a mere commoner and people just carried it on and believed it. That's the only way I can look at it. How do you see it so literally?

We take it literally because the Bible claims to be the divinely-inspired Word of God.

2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2 Pet 1:20 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

The Bible claims to be perfectly preserved.

Ps 12:6-7 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

And the Bible claims to be infallible.

Jn 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

While the people who wrote the books of the Bible may have been primitive and uneducated, their inspiration came from an omniscient source. The fact that so many Bible stories seem far-fetched tells me that they must have really happened. Who would dare make up such stories, for fear of ridicule?

[Kittykoo]

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Yes. It claims to be but we can't be sure, not 100%, I know you aren't all stupid so you must know that. You can believe what you want, I'm just saying there is no definite truth that we can find until we are dead. So is it really worth risking insulting and abusing women, offending people or other beliefs and other peoples life from your own beliefs that nobody can truely prove as fact?

[Faith_Machine]

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Yes. It claims to be but we can't be sure, not 100%, I know you aren't all stupid so you must know that. You can believe what you want, I'm just saying there is no definite truth that we can find until we are dead. So is it really worth risking insulting and abusing women, offending people or other beliefs and other peoples life from your own beliefs that nobody can truely prove as fact?

Kitty, have you confessed your sins to Jesus? Have you asked Him to take control of your life? Have you begun reading the Bible in order to better know Him? Do you pray to Him on a daily basis?

If you can not answer yes to all of those questions, you can not possibly understand our knowledge that the Bible is God's inspired word.

Jesus is the Word made flesh, and it is our direct, personal, firsthand experience of Him that inspires our understanding of scripture.

Jesus is knocking on the door to your heart right now, this very minute. I pray that you will open up and let him in, because you'll have a much easier time understanding the transformative truth and power of scripture once you have Him inside of you.