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| May-27-10 | | YouRang: <playground player: <You Rang> You ask, did God create by using natural processes? That's a fair question, but neither you nor I can answer it--at least I can't.> I can't answer it either. But instead of asking "DID he use natural processes?", we should answer "COULD he have used natural processes?". <I suppose a solid Young Earth Creationist would reply, "Not by any processes you're thinking of!" But in all honesty, I'm not quite there yet. Frankly I have no idea at all HOW God created anything.> Great! Having no idea is a good honest place to start, and it implies that we should be open to all possibilities. Religionists should not rule out natural explanations, and scientists should not rule out divine explanations. And yet, for the sake of starting somewhere, religion is free to assume a divine explanation, and science is free to assume a natural explanation. IMO, science has more freedom to make progress by making observations, tests, deductions, etc., whereas religion doesn't have much leeway for making progress beyond interpretation of scripture. On the other hand, religion generally accepts that God's methods are beyond our comprehension, and thus it is not incumbent upon religion to provide precise explanations. In fact, religion is free to use the results of science as an aid in interpretation. Religion has revised interpretations based on science on past occasions. Unfortunately, religion generally does so only after putting up much foolish opposition to science. Invariably, this opposition has worked to the discredit of religion. |
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May-27-10
 | | OhioChessFan: <YouRang: In the same manner, the theory of evolution explains complex life emerging from simpler forms of life -- and that theory doesn't care how simple life first appeared. The theory of evolution would apply if God spoke simple life into existence, and it would apply if simple life emerged by some (as yet unexplained) natural process from things that we consider to be non-life.> Okay, I have a handle on what you meant on that one. Let me think about it a while. |
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| May-27-10 | | cormier: Like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk
so that through it you may grow into salvation,
for you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God,
and, like living stones,
let yourselves be built into a spiritual house
to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, a people of his own,
so that you may announce the praises of him
who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. |
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| May-27-10 | | cormier: He has sent deliverance to his people;
he has ratified his covenant forever;
holy and awesome is his name.
His praise endures forever.
<The Lord will remember his covenant for ever.
Alleluia.> |
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| May-27-10 | | cormier: Once you were no people
but now you are God’s people;
you had not received mercy
but now you have received mercy.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners
to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul. Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles,
so that if they speak of you as evildoers,
they may observe your good works
and glorify God on the day of visitation. |
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| May-27-10 | | cormier: Know that the LORD is God;
he made us, his we are;
his people, the flock he tends.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
his courts with praise;
Give thanks to him;
bless his name.
The LORD is good:
his kindness endures forever,
and his faithfulness, to all generations.
<Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.> |
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| May-27-10 | | Shams: More limericks please. |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: There once was a poet named Nix,
Whose limericks went to line six.
He never did know,
How far they should go,
And never did bother to fix
Them at all. |
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| May-27-10 | | YouRang: I know of a poet named Tor,
whose limericks went to line four.
They gave one the sense,
of unquenched suspense... |
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| May-27-10 | | crawfb5: I tried a haiku on the Mount
I finally bailed
The experiment failed
I never really could count |
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| May-27-10 | | 0003: It is quite an advantage to have the initiative, and once you have it you must keep it. |
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| May-27-10 | | cormier: <Colossians 2:8 (New International Version) 8See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.> |
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| May-27-10 | | chop suey chow mein: nin hoa ma_______ xie xie* |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: I was expecting someone to comment on whether I just figured out gravity works on both life and nonlife. ;) There once was a lady named Cager,
Who as the result of a wager,
Consented to fart,
The whole oboe part
Of Mozart's quartet in F-major. |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: When an evil group called PNAC,
Decided to invade Iraq,
They convinced George Bush,
Iraq would be smooshed.
So Dubya declared the attack. |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: There was a poet named Dan,
Whose limericks rambled and ran.
When they said it was so,
He replied, "Yes, I know,
But I always try to fit as many syllables into that last line as I possibly can." |
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| May-27-10 | | Shams: <OCF> You have talent. |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: There was a young man from the Rhein,
Whose limericks repeated a line.
So this was redundant,
Though this was redundant,
His limericks repeated a line. |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: <Shams> I will share one I wrote in the hopes that I would sometime be able to use it. That was 10 years ago, so I guess I will just publish it now and wait on the royalty checks. FYI, there's a local college, Xavier, that everyone routinely calls "X". An archaeology professor from X,
Discussing the demise of T Rex,
Said "The reason I think,
The old boy went extinct,
Was it broke his wife's back to have sex." |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: There once was a man from Peru,
Whose limericks stopped at line two. |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: There once was a lady from Ryde,
Who ate some green apples and died.
The apples fermented,
Inside the lamented,
And made cider inside her insides. |
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May-27-10
| | OhioChessFan: Flappity, floppity, flip,
The mouse on the Moebius strip.
The strip revolved,
The mouse dissolved
In a chronodimensional skip. |
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May-27-10
 | | chancho: There once was a man named Sloan,
Whose limericks made the women groan. |
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| May-27-10 | | cormier: Beloved:
The end of all things is at hand.
Therefore be serious and sober-minded
so that you will be able to pray.
Above all, let your love for one another be intense,
because love covers a multitude of sins.
Be hospitable to one another without complaining.
As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
Whoever preaches, <let it be> with the words of God; whoever serves, <let it be> with the strength that God supplies, so that <in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,to whom belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.> |
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| May-28-10 | | cormier: Jesus said to them in reply, “Have faith in God.
Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain,
‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’
and does not doubt in his heart
but believes that what he says will happen,
it shall be done for him.
Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours. When you stand to pray,
forgive anyone against whom you have a grievance,
so that your heavenly Father may in turn
forgive you your transgressions.” |
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