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Old Feb 29, 2012 | 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by StrikeEagle
What is truth? Where does truth come from? Are there Moral Absolutes? Or is it just flavor of the month or whatever happens to be culturally acceptable at the time?


Truth has nothing to do with morality. Truth = proven facts that can be demonstrated to those without "faith". Everything else is faith. Although here we are talking about religion, my statement is intended to refer to all subjects.
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Old Mar 1, 2012 | 08:30 AM
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Old Mar 1, 2012 | 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by majik
This will probably upset many Christians, but I believe God may accept you right along with the rest of us even if you refer to Allah in your prayer rather than Jesus. Stipulations exist of course


You would refer to Allah, rather than God (not Jesus), Allah is God, just a different translation like I said above, and is Biblically more correct than God which stems from Paganism. No Muslim would ever mistake Allah for Jesus, Jesus was just a man to them and Allah is God. Again, you could aslo say FSM if you wanted probably, it is a belief in the being, the unknown tangably, but seen everyday createor and provider, that is who God is.



I have heard stories of missionaries going to remote worse than 3rd world countries, getting to know the people and sharing God and the Bible with them only to hear the tribes say, we have been worshping this God for our whole lives and our fathers lives, we just never heard of this Bible, thank you for showing us. Again, if you earnestly seek God, He will find you, and let you know who He is, whether through missionary, or some guy online telling you, or thorugh the Bible, or maybe He will send an angel to a remote tribe, who knows, but I have faith He will find you if you earnestly seek Him.



But yea, it would probably make many Christians mad to hear that, because they don't know what they believe, rather what they are told to believe, and the Bible is the only answer, anything outside it is aparently evil....and Allah is apparently an evil word...even though they don't know it means God and Muslims stem from father Abraham, and Allah is the same God of Abraham the Jews believe in.





Originally Posted by i8acobra
Truth has nothing to do with morality. Truth = proven facts that can be demonstrated to those without "faith". Everything else is faith. Although here we are talking about religion, my statement is intended to refer to all subjects.
No it doesn't, truth equals truth lol. When the sun stays still and our planets revolve around it, that is the truth. But it was truth before it was a proven fact, when they thought the opposite. Truth is and always will be truth, it just might not be known or accepted by some untill there are facts, but some can have faith in the truth before facts are presented.



But if your life is based on being happy, then you are a slave to your happyness. As a Christian, you are free, to do whatever you want, though with Jesus in your life, you want to please Him becuase you are thankful and love Him, but, you don't HAVE to do anything. But correct me if I am wrong, but you said you have to do nice things to make yourself happy and the purpose of your life is the pursuit of happyness and well being, so you are a slave to this?
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Old Mar 1, 2012 | 11:24 AM
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Don't see how it's possible to be a "slave" to happiness. Slavery is doing something you don't necessarily want to do for no personal gain. I have personal gain.
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Old Mar 1, 2012 | 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Whatnot
You would refer to Allah, rather than God (not Jesus), Allah is God, just a different translation like I said above, and is Biblically more correct than God which stems from Paganism. No Muslim would ever mistake Allah for Jesus, Jesus was just a man to them and Allah is God.
Yes, I'm aware. But, Biblically in Christianity, Yahweh is more appropriate than God or Allah. Allah = God = YHWH, yeah I get that, but Muslims pray to Allah whereas Christians pray to God, Lord, Jesus, etc.



Mohammed = the last prophet for Muslims, and Jesus was just a teacher.
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 12:27 PM
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Is this debate over? Who won?
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 12:41 PM
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I've read the end of the book. I've read the last chapter. God wins. His people live in perfection with Him (what a change from this present world!), and the devil and his followers are condemmed.



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