So why did God create stars Billions or Millions of years ago where the light is only reaching Earth now?
The light is time dilated. Humans only assume 4.5 billion years because of Darwinism. For example, the age of the Earth kept getting older over time. 3 billion years wasn't enough. Do you know who figured out 4.5 billion years and how?
This question cannot be answered with certainty. It's based on what one assumes. YEC assume one day = 24 hrs in the Bible.
I don't know if he repented or not, but working on the assumption his repentance was sincere, he gets into heaven because Jesus forgives all sins.
We don't know for sure since Jesus is the only one to look into his heart. Was Dahmer baptized, too?
Again, this is kind of messed up, isn't it? So if you aren't 'exposed' to the bible, you get into heaven, but if you are exposed to it and don't live an absolutely perfect life, you are going to Hell?
Usually, young children are innocent but she was a teen. It's more about what you think, know, and understand I think. Plenty of verses in the Bible which excuse people because they weren't capable. Her life was unusual, difficult, sad, and heartbreaking. It probably shows the evil of Hitler and his Nazis more.
As for the Buddhists, most won't get in unless they put trust in Jesus through what they heard about him and observed in nature. If they did that, then they could be of different religion and still get in. They probably knew the differences as adults. I dunno. These aren't easy questions to answer.
I did a little more looking into this.
"For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse." Romans 1:20
Thus, if they found something more and believed sincerely in it, even though different religion, then they could get it. Obviously, atheism would be a conflict right off the bat. They would not acknowledge Romans 1:20 and deny it.
Today, atheists think they'll get in if they didn't do anything wrong if God turns out to be true. Many will think they've reached the gates of heaven when it isn't that at all. The Buddhists have the idea of Nirvana and karma, so they have some idea of heaven and hell. Each individual is faced with what exists in nature. I dunno for sure.
Both of my parents died of cancer when I was 19-20. And pretty much, the Conduct of various Church people I encountered during that time escalated my view of the Church from "This is BS" to "Fuck you and the donkey you road in on." Like the priest who wouldn't come to the Cemetary for my Dad because he was being cremated. Or the Nun who said, "God had to have a reason" when my mom died. Fuck these people.
Sorry about your experience. I can see why you rejected that church and Catholicism.
It's difficult for me to say where these people were coming from because now I know Catholicism isn't Christianity. I didn't know when I went to parochial elementary school. It's their own version of Christianity and may lead people astray. For example, we hear about Pope Francis and his words which go against what the Bible says. Or salvation requires much more with Catholicsm. Why is it that way and goes further that what the Bible says? We come to the conclusion, it isn't true Christianity and may lead people astray. But even this, I didn't realize until much later.
I think what Romans 1:20 states above is true in that nature reveals God to us. It's from other people that we are swayed away.
Maybe it was my upbringing, but even as a kid I knew there was something more from observing the world. Just the sky, trees, the great outdoors, the way things worked. Nature talks, so my trust in God was there. It is an individual path. I just didn't know which religion, so just followed Catholicism at first.
Actually, no. I know that's one of the Christian go-to positions about the Holocaust. But here's the real reason why the Germans killed the Jews. Anti-Semitism is kind of engrained in German culture. Martin Luther, the father of German Protestantism, wrote a book called "The Jews and their Lies". Catholic Areas of Germany performed passion plays that directly blamed the Jews for killing Christ. 2000 years of telling Christians that Jews killed their God man, that's why Jews have been oppressed for centuries, nothing to do with Darwin at all.
That's difficult for me to say because I grew up around German-American people. I think many were Catholic, but I dunno. Maybe some were Nazi or still had Nazi sympathies. I didn't know if they still hated Jews because they didn't talk about it to me. If they had strong feelings, then they probably would have.
Are we talking about the same Martin Luther? He was a German monk who wrote the 95 Theses and went against the Catholic church. He was the one who started Lutheranism and true Christianity (he was ex-communicated by Pope Leo X).
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The 95 Theses
Committed to the idea that salvation could be reached through faith and by divine grace only, Luther vigorously objected to the corrupt practice of selling indulgences. Acting on this belief, he wrote the “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” also known as “The 95 Theses,” a list of questions and propositions for debate. Popular legend has it that on October 31, 1517 Luther defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. The reality was probably not so dramatic; Luther more likely hung the document on the door of the church matter-of-factly to announce the ensuing academic discussion around it that he was organizing.
The 95 Theses, which would later become the foundation of the Protestant Reformation, were written in a remarkably humble and academic tone, questioning rather than accusing. The overall thrust of the document was nonetheless quite provocative. The first two of the theses contained Luther’s central idea, that God intended believers to seek repentance and that faith alone, and not deeds, would lead to salvation. The other 93 theses, a number of them directly criticizing the practice of indulgences, supported these first two."
Martin Luther was a German theologian who challenged a number of teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. His 1517 document, "95 Theses," sparked the Protestant Reformation. Read a summary of the document, the reasons he wrote it and watch a brief video.
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As for his anti-Semitism it came after failing to convert the Jews to Lutheranism, but tell me more.
OTOH, Darwin's racism led directly to social Darwinism, taking "survival of the fittest" from Herbert Spencer and putting it in his first book, and Hitler using survival of the fittest as his credo. Hitler adopted eugenics in finding ways to kill the Jews. We still have Planned Parenthood to this day in black and poor neighborhoods. What a disgusting, filthy POS Darwin was!!! He may as well have been skinned alive and boiled in oil had people knew.
What we know is that Darwin was wrong with most of his hypotheses. He and his family were racist (read The Descent of Man) and he advocated it and it was passed down as it became evolution.
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"The movement considered many other attributes to be hereditary — from feeblemindedness, pauperism and criminality to promiscuity among women and even love of the sea. Love of the sea was pretty much a curiosity, but people with the rest of those "undesired" traits were in the sights of the movement as it sought to prevent them from marrying or having children, often through forced or coerced sterilization.
The scrapbook at the American Philosophical Society features eugenics activities at several state fairs: public presentations, examination buildings and "fitter family contests."
In a way, this makes perfect sense. Born out of a society that was still making the transition from agricultural to industrial, much of the eugenics argument was based on the idea that we selectively breed our livestock for desired traits; why not do the same with human society? As one sign asks, "Are you a thoroughbred?"
It was the Christians who fought eugenics in America.
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Anti-Eugenics Sentiment
Anti-eugenics
sentiment began to appear after 1910 and intensified during the 1930s. Most commonly it was based on religious grounds. For example, the 1930 papal encyclical
Casti connubii condemned reproductive sterilization, though it did not specifically prohibit positive eugenic attempts to amplify the inheritance of
beneficial traits. Many Protestant writings sought to
reconcile age-old Christian warnings about the heritable sins of the father to pro-eugenic ideals. Indeed, most of the religion-based popular writings of the period supported positive means of improving the physical and
moral makeup of humanity."
Eugenics still exists to this day as new Eugenics. Racism is still alive and well with evolutionists.
"Applications of the
Human Genome Project are often referred to as “Brave New World” genetics or the “new eugenics,” in part because they have helped to dramatically increase knowledge of
human genetics. In addition, 21st-century technologies such as
gene editing, which can potentially be used to treat disease or to alter traits, have further renewed concerns. However, the
ethical, legal, and social
implications of such tools are monitored much more closely than were early 20th-century eugenics programs. Applications generally are more focused on the reduction of genetic diseases than on improving intelligence.
Still, with or without the use of the term, many eugenics-related concerns are reemerging as a new group of individuals decide how to regulate the application of genetics science and technology. This gene-directed activity, in attempting to improve upon nature, may not be that distant from what Galton implied in 1909 when he described eugenics as the “study of agencies, under social control, which may improve or impair” future generations."
Eugenics - Social Darwinism, Sterilization, Eugenicists: During the 1930s eugenics gained considerable popular support across the United States. Hygiene courses in public schools and eugenics courses in colleges spread eugenic-minded values to many. A eugenics exhibit titled “Pedigree-Study in...
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Ah, the "No True Scotsman Fallacy". All those Christians who did bad things, even with Popes and Bishops telling them to, killing each other over whether or not the Eucharist really turns into Jesus or how many sacrements there are... when they weren't oppressing Jews and Muslism, they weren't "True" Christians. Got it.
Christian Justice is kind of messed up.
You're lumping Catholics and Christians together. Christians don't have popes and bishops. What happened with Lutheranism and his 95 Theses? Maybe you missed a lot of what Martin Luther and his 95 Theses did (he even translated the Bible into German) and are just focusing on the negative aspects of ML and today's Christianity.
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