@kellyjay saidThat is just your opinion of course. Brahma could very well be the constant. Nothing you say could change that.
God is constant we on the other hand are not, salvation is a work of God.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidWhy are you dodging this question?
Your particular God is endemic in some countries more than others. Do you accept that? Your God is not the CONSTANT equally across all countries, even if you capitalise it. For Hindus, for example, Brahma is the constant.
Why would an omniscient deity not give equal access to salvation?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidNot sure how many times I have to repeat myself God is a CONSTANT the Church grows no matter what culture we are in. The temptations are different but God is the same, the life can be given up on due to pleasures as easily as pain.
If Jesus is the only way, don't countries that have a dominant religion, other than Christianity, have a disadvantage in their pursuit of salvation?
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidBeing constant is giving equal opportunity and access, you think growing up in a Christian family and Church makes it automatic all will be saved?
Why are you dodging this question?
@kellyjay saidNo, but it is blatantly obvious a person has more chance of being a Christian in a Christian country, a Christian family. Had you been born in India the same would be true of becoming a Hindu. Your God does not give equal opportunity and access if Jesus is the only way to salvation. To suggest otherwise simply isn't logical.
Being constant is giving equal opportunity and access, you think growing up in a Christian family and Church makes it automatic all will be saved?
@kellyjay saidYou repeat yourself but never actually address the question.
Not sure how many times I have to repeat myself God is a CONSTANT the Church grows no matter what culture we are in. The temptations are different but God is the same, the life can be given up on due to pleasures as easily as pain.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidI have answered it, this is not about us, it is about God who made us and holds us and everything else together by the power of His word, shows us what we need to see. He who took it upon Himself to in righteousness make away that doesn’t depend on us, but by faith in His redemptive work through the blood of Christ to redeem us.
You repeat yourself but never actually address the question.
Anyone who seeks Him, His grace and mercy can receive it. When He begins a good work in us and He is capable of completing it. The shed blood of saints where Christ is hated testifies to this and the anemic church where all the pleasures and distractions are does too,
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidYou must be a pool hustler, too. I was never so lucky as to have gravity rack my balls when I played pool. That's a very imaginative analogy for explaining the eternal universe. Am I being snookered by you? Does gravity really have a god of its own?
It is indeed remarkable humans have evolved to the state where we can question the universe and ponder how we got here. Thank goodness the god of gravity brought matter and the building blocks for life together.
(The universe is the eternal snooker table, but it is gravity that racks the balls).
I suppose that without gravity there would not be anything left standing on earth. No dust from the ground to make man out of it. We must find a middle ground between science and religion, to make us stick to our own separate stories, since science says we are stardust.
@pettytalk saidWe must find a middle ground between science and religion
I suppose that without gravity there would not be anything left standing on earth. No dust from the ground to make man out of it. We must find a middle ground between science and religion, to make us stick to our own separate stories, since science says we are stardust.
Must we?
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@pettytalk saidThere is no conflict between science and religion it is a conflict of worldview. Check out the religious beliefs of Noble prize winners in science, you will find a large percentage Theists.
You must be a pool hustler, too. I was never so lucky as to have gravity rack my balls when I played pool. That's a very imaginative analogy for explaining the eternal universe. Am I being snookered by you? Does gravity really have a god of its own?
I suppose that without gravity there would not be anything left standing on earth. No dust from the ground to make man out ...[text shortened]... ence and religion, to make us stick to our own separate stories, since science says we are stardust.
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@kellyjay saidWhat percentage of Nobel prize winners in science are Young Earth Creationists?
There is no conflict between science and religion it is a conflict of worldview. Check out the religious beliefs of Noble prize winners in science, you will find a large percentage Theists.