TheEvan

I've nothing to add, but I enjoyed your post, A. Dan

Huh?

Sin is both a (fallen) state and an act.

Now it's a (fear) motivation?

I am not sure if the term 'sin consciousness' is used in the Bible

It is not. However, guiltiness is a biblical concept, and an important one. Those who wish to eliminate it as being 'negative' are missing the gospel message. Guilt is God's gift by which he tells us that we aren't okay. Knowing we aren't okay is necessary to come to Christ. And once we come to Christ and have that guilty stin washed clean, we still need guilt consciousness to alert us that we're screwing up and in need of repentance.

Removing sin consciousness from one who sins is possible, but it's NOT a good thing.

Worry not, catcup. I don't think I have a tapeworm, but I suppose I'll find out soon enough. But I did drink blood with my Maasai friends during my last Africa journey.

It was delicious. NOT.

BTW, I had a full parasite workup 6 months or so ago. I figured that after 10 times out there I'd teeming with critters by now.

Tests came back clean as a whistle. Whaddaya know...

Shif, when the crowd reached out to seize Jesus 'before his time', he simply walked out of the midst of them. In other words, they became blind to Jesus. I don't see anything sinister in the Elymas incident. I'm thinking Sodom, Elisha, etc...

Dan,

You are just fracturing the truth with pure rhetoric.

WearWord, I take offense at your harshness with Dan, who has never had a harsh word for anybody, afaik. Now, you may wave a dismissive hand at what he says, and of course that's your privilege, but just be aware that what Danny says is backed up by a great deal more scholarship than you're exhibiting.

Since you seem interested in communicating your ideas with others online, may I make a couple of friendly suggestions?

-Visit your local library and expand the horizons of your chosen subjects of interest. It will not only give you the sweep of ideas on the given subject, but you might also learn a thing or two.

-You might consider a remedial course in English and/or writing. You certainly have the pieces and bits, but your written communication is often unclear and filled with syntax problems that further muddy the meaning.

I can tell by your questions that I am not making myself clearly understood.

The mind of God teaches the mind of the spirit that teaches our mind.

If that were true, nobody could get saved, for salvation begins by a revelation to the unsaved...

Rock, my wife has had cataract surgery on both eyes (yes, one at a time, about 2 years apart).

Normally, cataracts don't show up until 70's and beyond. Any idea why you (and my sainted wife) needed them so young?

Our ophthalomogist does Lasik, though her forte is trauma surgery as well as cataracts (she's done over 10,000). I asked about Lasik for moi and she said that she wears glasses & contacts and no way she'd have Lasik done on her...

Hmmm

We were concerned, particularly about the MMR cocktail. We elected to do it homeopathically which was a monumental hassle. (Tiny doses 5x/day for weeks...) I can feel Geo revving up on this one.

Tildy, you are without a doubt the mos' best writer ever to grace this space.

Hi...

A lovely person...right you are, exc.

Just challeging your facts, Wearword. If you're referring to ROA's of old, none ever got even close to 50,000. Or are you perhaps referring to crop circles?

50,000 praying in a cornfield? When did that ever happen?

in much the same way our desperate “martini-swilling-plaid-pant-squares-pretending-to-be-hip” middle-aged guys did with the 60s Jesus freaks - ultimately transforming this filthy hippy pool into an army of squeaky-clean, fundamentalist right-wingers of one mutated form or another?

*DING*

"INVISIBLE DAN TO THE COURTESY DESK, PLEASE!"

:)

He was good on the radio, but after perusing his website I can't say I recommend it...

But he sure makes a good point about the Grand Canyon I'd like to hear old-earthers refute.

I heard this guy on the radio and thought he was excellent, at least the little I heard. I don't know where he comes down on the gap theory.

http://www.fishdontwalk.com/

Aww darn, Evan. I was under the impression that you didn't go for bogus 'researchers'. ... Put it to you this way. Kent Hovind is to science what Victor Paul Wierwille is to biblical research.

Please tell us that you don't use Hovind's materials in your home schooling courses. ... I mean, that would not shore up my confidence in the claim of superiority of home schooling over the public schools.

<_<

As far as the gap, I was speaking of the biblical slam dunk, not 'scientific'.

Our kids watched the Hovind videos. I think he's really funny and entertaining. He's also careful to call his theories theories. Anyway, our kids somehow failed to get brain damage from the experience and somehow managed decent scores on the science portion of their ACTs.

If memory serves, Kent Hovind deals with the gap theory...giving it a quick body slam. Yeah, I think it's bogus, biblically.

While we're on the subject, I see nothing in the Bible to negate the possibility that the fall of Lucifer happened after Adam & Eve were already in the garden...

"How art thou fallen to the earth, O Lucifer..."

So, perhaps there was an earth for him to fall to?

Naturally, I understand the gap theory accounts for that as well...

What that about?

The famous Scopes trial was set up by the ACLU to test a Tennessee prohibition that in effect outlawed the teaching of evolution. It pitted attorney superstar Clarence Darrow against political & oratorical superstar William Jennings Bryan. Can you imagine the media frenzy if it were today?

Darrow lost the trial but won the press, which was his strategy to begin with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial

No way Jonny! You're supposed to be an ignorant, jingoistic racist. Or so I've heard from some...

HAHAHAHA!

Of COURSE it's society gone made. The SPOOF paper the Onion plays off that madness.

Funny stuff!

yeah GSG... I would've expected folks like you and TheEvan to score fairly high given your fields... now... could you explain how to make 'clear light' again please?

B-b-b-b-ut I'm just a window washer, man!

Meanwhile, in other creationist tourism news, la familie Pyle will be landing in Dayton TN Sunday eve.

Dayton TN?

Home of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial...

Ooooooh, I feel a DanComic™ coming on