Brainteaserfan

You say that He wants us to sin so that we can repent? Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" We have already sinned and he wants us to repent and believe on Him so that He does not need to punish us. Which leads me to my next point, that punishment is not necessarily given for a change of attitude. For example, what's the point of life in jail, or the death sentence? http://dictionary.com/d/?q=Punishment&submit-result-SEARCHD=Search Where do you see that punishment is given for a change of attitude?

When faced with death or intense suffering, I think that most would give away secrets, no matter what level of character or loyalty they had. Your topic sentence doesn't really relate to the topic, "is torture ever justified."

The microscopic editing window makes you drag your finger down or up past the editing window in order to scroll up or down. I'd like to see the window "expand" as needed as you enter more text. I think that If you borrow someone's iPod or iPhone, you'll see what I mean better. Just to clarify, I'm talking about the mobile version of the site, not the app.

Maybe you should post that source in the discussion section of Wikipedia.

Read Luke 16:19-31. There is no second chance.

You are right, I admit defeat! "None of the above" would be better than "this didn't happen" IMO. So, if you were God, what would you do to prove that you were God? He supposedly raised the dead, made the blind see, healed the lame, and healed lepers.

Who is Supernatural? Where do you see that souls can change an angel into a god (unless you are considering that anything being worshipped by a couple of people turns anything into a god)

You either have to accept his gift (or murder if you want to look at it that way), or face eternal torture if you have ever sinned, which all have. You cannot just deal with it yourself. http://www.loriswebs.com/lorispoetry/grace.html

I disagree with your first premise. I believe that punishment is earned through an offense or fault. http://dictionary.re...owse/punishment He is not torturing us for not accepting Him. He is torturing us for our sins, which He will forgive if we accept Jesus, because He died in our place.

And the ability to "Find my Content".

I think that for those who use the mobile version, the ability to search and the ability to post long threads is very much lacking. If these are improved that portion of the population would be much happier with SFN.

While I agree, and that is a particularly important one, a multiple choice poll will never have every possible choice. That is the point of the thread, you can give your beliefs even if they aren't choices in the poll. So few people have voted, the outcome is almost useless.

"Yes I have and know that God himself broke a few of his big ten and that Jesus/God also said to love the sinner and hate the sin but you will know that God does not punish sin but for sure punishes the sinners he loves for eternity with fire and torture. Quite the way to show your love that. Regards DL" It makes Him sad to punish those who do not repent and accept His ultimate sacrifice, but to be a perfect and just God, he must. Deuteronomy 32:4 KJV 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

I disagree on a few points, but completly agree on several others and partly agree on others. On water vapor not being very usable: I disagree. This is more GW than nuclear, but I believe that water vapor will reflect sunlight, cooling off the earth, allowing it to rain and become in a usable state, (actually generating energy when it rains over a mass of land that uses hydro). On argue vs debate: I didn't mean that it was becoming too heated, I sincerely am thanking you for your time spent allowing me to discuss this with you. I should have used the word debate instead of argue; the word argue came to me first. On nuclear sources: I believe that fusion is capable, although not as good as fission, of solving our energy, "crisis" - single handedly. I acknowledge that some political climates are not ready to take that yet. So the US will continue to send money overseas for oil, (instead of drilling in Alaska), for our cars which could be powered by electric energy generated by nuclear. I'd like to go into the politics farther, but I don't feel that that would be quite with the rules of staying on topic.

Interesting. Could you give me a source?

Practically?? I don't know. Depends on your definition of practical I guess. Here is a dragonfly that flew 40 years ago. More recently, I found one that could sit on your fingernail and record video, but I couldn't dig that up. I wouldn't think that it would be much harder to build one with a little cellphone chip in it. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/this-robotic-dragonfly-flew-40-years-ago I can't imagine that this would be terribly practical though.

I don't think that "heart" is to be taken literally.

They should be. Not that I'm in favor of war, but read surah 9:5: When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to go their way. God is forgiving and merciful.

That's strange, an hour ago it worked fine for me. Sorry about that. Maybe try it without the period that I put on the end of the sentence? In answer to your second question, I don't know. That was just a random google site that supported my beliefs.

The man was blind from birth. John 9:1 Chapter 9 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. Healing people from birth defects, raising the dead, healing the sick and making 11/12 of his closest friends die for what they knew was a magic trick? These guys wouldn't have been willing to sacrifice their lives for a magic trick. 1 or 2 might, but 11/12? And, the remaining one was put in a vat of boiling oil. By a miracle, he survived, so they banished him instead. I believe that not only did Jesus heal him, he gave him the instant ability for his brain to interpret the signals. If it was a breakthrough in ancient science and he wasn't the Son of God, then I would expect that the sight would have not been there right away. I think that his ability to completely heal this man instantly is another proof that Jesus is the Son of God.

No, those laws do still exist for you 1 Corinthians 5:10 and http://godsacres.org/quarterly.God'sSettledWord.Lesson13.pdf. I'm not sure exactly what reference you are using for the "laws written in your heart" idea. If you are talking about psalms 119:11, then I think that the 2 interpretations are that either the psalmist was talking about himself having memorized the law, or at least knowing it really well, or he was talking about that the Christian should study and memorize the law.

I admit, I'm wrong. However this was pointed out by lemur a long time ago if you read earlier in the thread. Nuclear has the capability to provide us with power for a very long time. As far as I am concerned it is "limitless". Sorry for not looking up the definition of limitless before posting that. (http://dictionary.com/d/?q=Limitless&submit-result-SEARCHD=Search)

Maybe this is close to what you are looking for? http://www.macworld.com/article/157240/2011/01/howto_move_itunes.html

Thanks! That's what my teacher said. I just wanted another opinion! Here is one of the sources that made me wonder: http://cs.selu.edu/~rbyrd/math/intercept/. It states that an intercept is where a line crosses an axis, but then it goes on to say exactly what you said. Thanks again!

First off, I'm not the nuclear industry. I don't work for them, not affilliated etc. Even if I did, I don't represent the entire industry. Therefore, there is no pressure on me. I do not think any single non-nuclear energy source will meet all of our energy needs. Solar is making huge advancements in its technology because our solar technology is so bad that it is easy to improve. Nuclear is capable of producing many times what solar, or any other energy source can generate. Generally, air is purified when it evaporates and then rains. Everybody has an agenda, otherwise we wouldn't be arguing. Think other than thorium. Think plutonium. In a previous source, it mentioned that 1/3 of all nuclear reactors use plutonium as fuel. There are plenty of ways of measuring the efficient use of water. You said that nuclear was still rare. Well that depends on the political climate in countries. In some countries, eg France, nuclear has taken off. As for the quote about shifting pollutants from the air to the water, that was talking about a COAL power plant. http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/articles/2009/coal_water_pollution.php I'm sorry my reply is rather disorganized, I tried to get all my points down, but right now I'm using an iPod and this website doesn't work well with it. Thanks for taking the time to argue!