@secondson saidSo I’m Antichrist and an ashole. Wow.
Your attack against God's church is an attack against God's own Son. It's antichrist.
And I was only going to call you a blowhard.
@secondson saidHow so?
Your intelligence is dedicated to disbelief.
What is your intelligence "dedicated" to?
What do you think intelligence has to do with faith?
@secondson saidYou say intelligence has nothing to do with faith.
Intelligence has nothing to do with it. But that doesn't excuse the hearer from using his intelligence to sift out the lies of the devil, the biggest being 'there is no God'.
BUT you also suggest it should also be used to end up with the same faith as you?
You sound like you are contradicting yourself.
@secondson saidHow does someone like you know the difference between a self-appointed Christian preacher and one that you perceive as being "used by God"?
There's only one qualification for preaching and teaching the truth of God's Word and that is the willingness of the believer to be used by God to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.
17 Feb 21
@secondson saidIf, as you insist, "willingness" is the only qualification, where does that leave other qualifications that a teacher ought to have?
There's only one qualification for preaching and teaching the truth of God's Word and that is the willingness of the believer to be used by God to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Might not there be some people who are not suited to preaching who should be doing other things [in God's name, as you would have it] like working in soup kitchens, attending to the physically disabled, laying down water and sanitation systems, working with street kids, vaccinating people, raising money and whatever other walk-the-walk Christian activities?
@sonship saidGod loves more intelligent then them people.
God loves intelligent people. God loves more intelligent then them people. God reveals Himself to people of lesser intelligence. And He loves and reveals Himself to people of a low IQ as well.
Can you have another go at this sentence?
@secondson saidSo intelligence has nothing to do with it, but still has something to do with it... right!
Intelligence has nothing to do with it. But that doesn't excuse the hearer from using his intelligence
So what if the hearer has a low intelligence, are they “excused”??
Does it take intelligence to believe Jesus is still alive and does it indicate some shortfall in intelligence if one believes he died over 2 000 years ago?
People of varied levels of intelligence have taken a position on Christ's life, death, and resurrection.
All across the spectrum of human intelligence men and women have reacted to the good news (the Gospel) with either belief or unbelief.
It will always be that way.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidAnd when I read ON I come to this -
Just as snow should not fall in summer, nor rain at harvest time, so people should not honor a fool.
Proverb 26
God doesn't like foolish people.
Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him. (Prov. 26:12)
Though God doesn't like men to be fools He says a man "wise in his own eyes" has less hope then a fool does.
22 Feb 21
@fmf saidThe original post actually implies that you can be intelligent & believe Christ died and was never resurrected.
Posted by a Christian on another thread
"Your mind lives in a world where Jesus is dead. What a waste of intelligence."
Does it take intelligence to believe Jesus is still alive and does it indicate some shortfall in intelligence if one believes he died over 2 000 years ago?
What role does intelligence play in religious belief and faith?
It says that to do so merely is a waste.
22 Feb 21
@sonship saidThis is because any spiritual progress becomes impossible if you are not humble.
And when I read ON I come to this -
Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him. (Prov. 26:12)
Though God doesn't like men to be fools He says a man "wise in his own eyes" has less hope then a fool does.
@philokalia saidAnd so, what do you make of that?
The original post actually implies that you can be intelligent & believe Christ died and was never resurrected.
It says that to do so merely is a waste.
Both SecondSon and you like to riff on the "intelligence" of the people you debate with.
What do you think of his latest riff on "intelligence"?