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Does God Exist? Did God create everything that exists? Does evil exist? Did God create evil? A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!" "God created everything?" The professor asked. "Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied. The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil." The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?" "What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat." The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?" The professor responded, "Of course it does." The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You can not measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil. To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light." The professor sat down. True story and FACTS added for your enjoyment.... The young man's name ...by the way was......Albert Einstein Julia

I speak in tongues as well. While praying one night , and I should mention, my whole world was falling apart at that time, I started praying outloud in a lanuage I have never heard before.And I had NEVER even heard about the gift of tongues. However, I found out years later...that I was speaking in Aramaic !!! And I now know what I was saying...........I was asking for PEACE & COMFORT.....talk about a shock ! And the peace & comfort came In Christ the risen King Julia

1) Havent scientists proven that 2 people couldnt have been the sole ancestors/producers of the whole population ie. Adam and Eve? Something about the low chances of survival generations later due to inbreeding or something like that!! 2) If Adam and Eve bore two males called Kane and Abel, who did Kane and Abel marry to produce more kids? I have read all the responces to your questions...btw...Great questions ! I realize I am going off the track a bit here, but read Genesis 4:14... 14 For you have banished me (Cain speaking to the LORD) from my farm and from you, and made me a fugitive and a tramp; and ....EVERYONE....who sees me will try to kill me...**Note the word " everyone " read on ... 15 The LORD replied, " THEY won't kill you, for I will give seven times your punishment to ANYONE who does. **Note the word " They " May I add.....the following things happened next : #1. The LORD put a mark on Cain #2. Cain left the presence of the Lord #3. Cain headed East of Eden and last but not least...THEN we hear about Cains wife. Pray that answered some of your questions

Blessing all G-DS children ! I'm passing along a little something I have received . I do not agree with all of this, but regardless I'm sharing a letter that most of you will never hear about. Love in Christ Jesus, Julia A.K.A. GodsJul We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of G-d. This is written by Major General Vernon Chong, MD, USAF Retired. He's a highly decorated Air Force Pilot, Flight Surgeon, past Commander of Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio and Command Surgeon at the Headquarters of the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. So he is real, is well-connected to Veterans' affairs, and these are his thoughts. They are worth reading and thinking about! Do a Google search on him and you'll see some of his other though-provoking writings. This WAR is for REAL! by MG Vernon Chong, USAFR To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII). The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means. First, let's examine a few basics: 1. When did the threat to us start? Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us: * Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979; * Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983; * Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983; * Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988; * First New York World Trade Center attack 1993; * Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996; * Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998; * Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998; * Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000; * New York World Trade Center 2001; * Pentagon 2001. (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide). 2. Why were we attacked? Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter. 3. Who were the attackers? In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims. 4 What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%. 5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful? Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no difference. You either went along with the administration or you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (see MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.nazistestimony.co.uk" claiming to be http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm) Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world - German, Christian or any others. Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by their own pronouncements -- killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice was shut up or die? 6. So who are we at war with? There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting. So with that background, now to the two major questions: 1. Can we lose this war? 2. What does losing really mean? If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions. We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean? It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get. What losing really means is: We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past 18 years. The plan was clearly, for terrorists to attack us until we were neutered and submissive to them. We would, of course, have no future support from other nations, for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see we are impotent and cannot help them. They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished. The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished, too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast! If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us, if they were threatened by the Muslims? If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else? The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost. Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to win. So, how can we lose the war? Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win! Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death seriousness of this situation. President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation. Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently. And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then. Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them out of your head. Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause. Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein. And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same type enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq. And still more recently, the same type enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held. Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several days have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them. Can this be for real? The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can. To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us, for many years. Remember, the Muslim terrorists' stated goal is to kill all infidels! That translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United States, but throughout the world. We are the last bastion of defense. We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge is valid in at least one respect; we are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world! We can't! If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the world will survive if we are defeated. And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the world. This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read. If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little, on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar? Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power. They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"? I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it. After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians and media of our country and the free world! Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it. Our "leaders" in Congress ought to read it, too. There are those that find fault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who truly thinks through this, that we must UNITE!

(((I have been thinking about this a lot lately and I seem to be unfairly blaming something that "50cdog" said on the other thread, but it is just that he used the "right" words. "50c Dog" was saying that his father thought of himself as a Christian but only had "head knowledge". I saw this and saw something in myself as well, I "only have head knowledge" too. Nothing else to go by that tells me that God is in my life, only my saying that he is. How arrogant is that?))) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have just listened to a sermon from my church that answers your question. Since the sermon is an hour long, and we are blessed to live in a high tec world...LOL... I'll pass the site along and let G-D do the rest Thank you for posting this question....I'm sure you are NOT alone in this thought. http://www.harvestbible.com/Content.aspx?content_id=40 Love in our Risen Savior, Julia AKA GodsJul

I couldn't agree anymore. Syria is indeed a "rabid dog "(love that term by the way)We under estimate their capibilities Already I have heard them say..."How long can you kick a dog in a corner, before they bite back?" Granted this was almost 2 years ago...but I dont believe anything has changed ~~~ XOXO in Christ, Juls

Yes..Pastor Joel Osteen. I have watched him several times myself. I find him to be more of a motivational speaker I havent heard him say anything that contradicts scripture. I guess in this case it boils down to personal preference. He's a very postive, upbeat man..I'll give him that! Love in Christ, Juls

Blessings all ..... I find myself with a perplexing situation. Since I have been born-again(almost 2 years) many people have told me that I should pray to JESUS alone. In my heart and in thought, I still pray to the FATHER and find my worship time (via praising and singing) with JESUS. I understand that JESUS is G-D in the same......but I tend to separate the two. Please do not misunderstand what I am saying....JESUS IS LORD. As HE prayed to the FATHER ......I find myself doing the same. My earnest desire is to be right in the eyes of G-D. Am I wrong? Or should I continue and follow my heart ? My motives are well intended.....to be in a close and personal fellowship with the LORD.... The lover of my soul. Is there a wrong way to pray? Thank you... Much love in Christ Jesus, Julia

Sounds to me that your son is checking things out.....Not necessarily a bad thing. You didn't mention his age. I would definitely speak to him about this. Just another moms opinion Love in Christ, Julia

Our stupid President??? These are the words out of a christians mouth? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TY Rusty !!! People please remember....The WILL of G-D !!! We are in HIS hands. Its not per say the "Presidents fault" If we are not happy about something...... P.R.A.Y. Love with the love of Christ Jesus. Isn't that one way we can separate the Christians from the world? The love.................... I may be a baby in the LORD.....But even I see this laced throughout the New Testament. Am I wrong ???? Love in JESUS, Juls

In 1 Sameul 16:14 & 23 (14) Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him. (23) When the Spirit from GOD came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play.Then relief would come to Saul , he would feel better , and the evil spirit would leave him. Okay, I understand G-D can do whatever HE wants. I'm wondering a few things.... #1. How did Saul have this happen to him in the first place? #2. Was it the music being played OR David's prence that seemed to ease or remove this spirit? Thank you in advance for your answers. Much love in Jesus Christ, Julia

I've done something that was soooo wrong. But I repented and asked God's forgiveness. But what do I do, I turn around and do it again. And I knew it was wrong. I feel so bad in my heart for what I've done and I feel that I'm not worthy of His love. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ None of us are "worthy " of HIS love. Can't say that enough! But inspite of ourselves, we are loved! I don't doubt that you feel guilt about this. I'm not sure of what's taking place (nor do I want to) but something keeps bringing you to this point. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal what the problem really is. I am thinking about David, with Bathseba...David became complacied in the LORD. There can be several reasons.....The only thing I can tell you is this: Greater is HE that is in us, than he that is in the world & Resist the devil and he will flee. You can stop whatever it is....you are not alone...HE will never leave you. Praying for you .... Much lover in Christ Jesus, Juls

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