tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post1914237657501629750..comments2023-08-08T04:19:26.974-07:00Comments on THE CALLADUS BLOG: "God's wind" and Ray Comfort's modern parableCalladushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-25151544500814084202007-06-12T10:38:00.000-07:002007-06-12T10:38:00.000-07:00Hi Cuz, thanks for stopping by.I find your comment...Hi Cuz, thanks for stopping by.<BR/><BR/>I find your comment to be lacking in several ways - too much so to go into detail here, so <A HREF="http://calladus.blogspot.com/2007/06/answer-to-cuz.html" REL="nofollow">I've answered it in a blog posting.</A>Calladushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-77499181952907207732007-06-11T21:54:00.000-07:002007-06-11T21:54:00.000-07:00Dear Sir,I don't know you, but I am commanded to l...Dear Sir,<BR/><BR/>I don't know you, but I am commanded to love you. It is out of our mouth that our words condemn us or set us free. I agree in what you said in the article..."How can I trust that wind exists when I can't see it? Because I can detect it through other means. I can feel it in my hair and across my skin. I can measure its speed and direction and combined with the proper media I can watch it stir up waves or dust storms. I don't need to “believe” or “have faith” in the wind. Instead I can accept that what I feel or measure is a natural phenomenon, as opposed to supernatural."<BR/><BR/>I also believe what it say's in the Bible ... Romans 1; 18-32 "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest- (clear or obvious to the eye or mind) in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes (Wind, love, the 5 senses) are clearly seen- (manifest), being understood by the things that are made, (What we see of don't see around us) even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, (What are you going to say in the day we ALL stand before Him)? Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man (Blind leading blind)—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.<BR/>Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature (man or sites like these) rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.<BR/>For this reason God (The very one who created you) gave them up (said, O.K. if you don't want to obey, believe what you want) to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. (Do you see homosexuality today? I personally took care of and buried 4 A.I.D.S. patience’s and cried).<BR/>And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality (Adultery, different sex partners. sex with children, sex with animals, etc). Wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.<BR/><BR/>This is the world we live in today. School shootings, Divorce, sexual sins, and #1... dis-belief in God. <BR/>I don't hate you. I love you. If I stepped on you toes (What you like to like to interpret as insult's) then the Jewdo-Christian thing to do is say "I'm sorry". It's just my love for you to see you not neglect "The sacrifice made for you by the Son of God"<BR/><BR/>Let me know if you "detect this through those other means". The soul God gave you. (Are you feeling your flesh (skin) wrestle within you)? That should acknowledge the Holy Spirit is speaking to you. The Bible says. His sheep hear his voice. You’re hearing a voice, no doubt you are. Are you hearing His, or … his-s? (HISS)<BR/><BR/>You don't have to go to hell.<BR/>Accept MessiahYoCuzwaasuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973298815107469850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-80028154271902995782007-05-25T18:02:00.000-07:002007-05-25T18:02:00.000-07:00alyx,Yes, this is the biggest problem when Christi...alyx,<BR/><BR/>Yes, this is the biggest problem when Christians claim to have "proof". If they were to say that they believed in God purely by faith, then they win - argument over. I can't disprove faith.<BR/><BR/>But when they claim to have proof, as Comfort has done, then I say "where"? <BR/><BR/>It used to be that the religious could point to all sorts of natural phenomena as "proof", but science has been narrowing that gap. This is why Creationism (Creation "science" or "Intelligent Design") is so important to believers. Evolutionary biology is difficult to understand at best, so Creationists are able to say things that aren't true, or are poorly worded, that may take days of research to disprove.<BR/><BR/>They count on that.<BR/><BR/>And they do this out of fear - fear that if chinks appear in their armor that their whole facade will fall apart. It leads them to contemplate their mortality - which most people have never seriously confronted. Their eternal life is in peril, not of Hell, but of nonexistence.<BR/><BR/>It's no wonder that they fight an unpleasant truth in order to hang onto a pleasant fantasy.Calladushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-35174506442863030492007-05-25T17:52:00.000-07:002007-05-25T17:52:00.000-07:00qrazyqat,I've said it before - Christianity needs...qrazyqat,<BR/>I've said it before - <A HREF="http://calladus.blogspot.com/2007/01/oppressed-christians-group-economics.html" REL="nofollow"> Christianity needs enemies in order to survive.</A> If they had no enemies at all, they would be required to invent them.<BR/><BR/>The technique is also used by cults, as a sort of "shunning" of those who fall out of favor. You create a shunned group, and then assign fallen members to that group. Jehovah's Witnesses do this.Calladushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-21704051403538287182007-05-25T17:10:00.000-07:002007-05-25T17:10:00.000-07:00In that stupid "parable" of his, Comfort just pres...In that stupid "parable" of his, Comfort just presented his audience with a pretty darn good <I>example</I> of scientific method and principle! A means to test the phenomenon in question (the lamp), and a detailed guide to how it works (the user's manual).<BR/><BR/>It is the creationists who would be the ones not turning on the lamp, and arguing that the "theory" of electricity went against God's Design somehow, and would nit-pick the user's manual for all the ways it contradicted "God's Word."<BR/><BR/>Yet again Ray Comfort mistakes his posterior region for head apparel.AmberKatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18288659650941053065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-36812876152904999162007-05-25T11:39:00.000-07:002007-05-25T11:39:00.000-07:00written books intended to convert Atheists to Chri...<I>written books intended to convert Atheists to Christianity by insulting them.</I><BR/><BR/>I realise this is sarcasm, but it's good to point out that what Comfort and similar writers are trying to do is stop Cristians from backsliding -- or doing much questioning. To do this he insults others so his audience -- Christians who are questioning the ideas of faith -- can see themselves as superior folk as long as they don't stray. Carrot and stick -- superior if you stay and will be insulted if they leave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-36338484185752055882007-05-25T10:03:00.000-07:002007-05-25T10:03:00.000-07:00Pretty ironic use of Parable. Hmm...let's see, sub...Pretty ironic use of Parable. <BR/><BR/>Hmm...let's see, substitute Evolution for Electricity and you have Comfort.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07343505808371191473noreply@blogger.com