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  1. It's human mind which limits God. Humans have to assume that, 1) Humans understand time But in reality no human actually know the nature of what time itself is. Just as Einstein once put, time is not a stable physics unit but instead SPEED is. In both Relativity and Quantum Physics TIME is never a stable physics unit. We take for granted that time is evenly progressive forward, but our physics simply disagrees. We don't actually understand how time behaves. Our assumption that time being stably and evenly advancing forward is based on our speculation on our current environment, not the environment how earth and our universe began. 2) Earth was created in our universe (in terms of time and space) This is yet another huge assumption. Nowhere in the Bible says that earth was created in our space/universe. More likely, earth was created else where which is a 'void'. My theory is, earth was created else where, outside of our space, and was 'move' into our space on Day 4. That's why sun and stars only appear on Day 4. Before Day 4, earth is not inside our space but in an 'adjacent' space where the light source is artificial (i.e., not necessarily from a sun). Earth was created in an empty space which was a void, till forests were formed. Only then it was moved into our space. All our today's dating method is based on the decay of isotops. Now the question is how isotops behave if earth is moved in and out of our space? There's no physics on this. The Bible is a witness about what happened on earth after (but not before) it is moved to our space. 3) Earth stays in its current position all the time (in terms of time and space) Even after being moved into our space/universe, it by no means says that God didn't touch it ever since. In contrary, for Israel to steal time to win a war, God 'made the sun stands still'. No one know what God did in terms of human physics. Possibly God manipulated time and space for the effect of the 'frozen time'. If so, again there's no physics on how the isotops should behave during this time and space manipulation. In a nutshell, with our limited human mind we assumed too much and too fast to build up our theory on what the Bible would like to say.
  2. The "sons of God" may refer to other homo erectus including the Neanderthals. They married human women to give birth to the giants. The other possibility is "sons of God" refers to angels breaking laws. They tried to make humans to take their form to marry the pretty women. But their limited knowledge can only allow them to make the homo erectus such as Neanderthals. They then take on the "human form" in order to marry human women. That gave birth to the giants.
  3. I use Wordsearch instead. I have more than 1000 books worthy of more than 5000 bucks, including tons of commentaries. However, Wordsearch discontinued after being acquired by Logos. Logos is never as good as Wordsearch.
  4. First I made a whole explanation. It's not even honest to refer it to as a random pull. Second. no one in this world can come to a conclusion that he can actually understand the book of Revelation in full, let alone the 666 puzzle. Face it. This could be the only fact you need to know!
  5. Do you realize that this is just yet another assertion? "666, in all likelihood, refers to Caesar Nero" You made zero valid argument by far, already after 2 posts. lol. Sometimes it's funny to see people behaving this way in a discussion board. lol.
  6. Your feeling expressed doesn't form any valid argument though. Actually sometimes people are speechless by showing only some meaningless feelings and assertions.
  7. So? Even so I don't think it invalidates anything, except at the semantic level. How you choked over anything won't form any valid argument at any level though. Take care buddy.
  8. It is a puzzle can be deduced by a forward deduction and a side deduction matching with each other. Revelation 13:18 (NIV2011) This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666. The side deduction starts with calling for the word "Wisdom". It is about a Jewish rumor saying that the 666th figure of the Bible is Solomon. Solomon is not only about wisdom, but also about richness. The equivalent of richness is the word "Gold". 666 as a number (in today's human digit presentation) when viewing upside down becomes the 999 gold. The forward deduction is from Rev 13. The side deduction matches into the forward deduction in that, Revelation 13:17 (NIV2011) 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. In the side deduction, 666 represents gold without which one cannot buy and sell. Actually we can't buy and sell without gold's currency form. In today's human monetary presentation, gold is the US dollar notes. 666 is the name of a man whose name being Washington with his portrait on the US dollar notes. When apply this to the forward deduction, the second beast is thus the US with Washington as its alternative name. The forward deduction starts with the "first beast" from the sea, which is England. Science (partially about the Tree of Knowledge) with its education starts with UK's influence as UK is representative of the "Great White" colonialism (the white horse in Rev). Today's secular education (so-called scientific education) started with England's conquerors till English became a global language. The standard of education is also lying in English as its conveying language. England the beast however was wounded in WWII, the second beast thus took its place in terms of worldwide education in English language. Today's US is thus the center of world wide secular/atheistic education. Humans are forced into such an education system since childhood to develop their mind and behavior (fore head and right hand) into a atheistic force of fighting God and persecuting Christianity. They all have a stamp of anti God and anti religion in their forehead and right hand (of course except Christians) as a result of the secular education cored on US but inherited from UK before England was disabled in WWII. Map of England: a beast from the sea "...I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads" - 10 horns and sever heads because the beast is a United Kingdom. "The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion." - that's the map of today's England.
  9. It boils down to in reality whether God exists. If God truly exists He is in control. The Bible becomes the only mean for God's info to be conveyed to humans in the form of human testimonies. The content is thus all true such that those humans not fulfilling the requirement set forth by the said New Covenant will be judged in accordance to what is said. In a nutshell, the Bible is more of a court document. The Church on the other hand is the legal entity to guard its legitimacy. If in reality God doesn't exist then how accurate the Bible is no longer matters. What humans cannot be sure is whether God exists in reality or not. That exactly ties to the faith needed by the said covenant. It's nothing circular. If it's circular it means you can provide a better "solution" or answer. The situation here however is that you can't possibly provide a better solution.
  10. A bit similar to our linguistic ability. It is a given ability to humans. However there's a process of synchronized by interaction. If a person is completely isolated after birth till, say the age of 8, he can no long pick up a complete set of human language. Our conscience and moral code are originally set up all the same and will be used for our Final Judgment. There's a similar synchronization by interaction. It's more like a pizza with toppings. It comes originally the same piece of bread. We however add toppings differently to make it into a different pizza. We are given the same set of law as our conscience and moral code, that however changes when impacted by our environment which is contributed by our parents, our culture and custom, our society behavior and such. Not only so, it is also subject to Satan's manipulation when we are still in mother's womb. Even we vary but the core is still there for us to accept that killing is not right, stealing is not right etc. as mentioned in the 10 commandments.
  11. The New Covenant is basically about saved by Faith in Jesus. However because in the end it is about a reconciliation between God and men that men's repentance is required. Baptism on the other has many significance. One of them is to signify the switching to the New Covenant from the old default covenant that we are born with. Baptism to a certain extent resembles the circumcision of the Jews. We all born as a gentile under a gentile's contract which is an old covenant. Everyone of us without exception is born with a default covenant according to which each individual will be judged in the Final Judgment. To everyone this is default but an old covenant to us. The New Covenant is not born with, you need to believe in Jesus with intention. A Jews is formally switched to the Mosaic covenant by doing a circumcision on the eighth day after birth. Similar, we switch to the New Covenant from the default old one by doing a baptism.
  12. Reformation is about how the original theology being twisted by RCC while reformers would like it to be corrected from what being distorted and deviated from original.
  13. Faith alone means it is specified in the New Covenant that humans are saved by faith alone but not the work of Law. Bible alone is that the authority on explaining what the Bible says doesn't belong to a particular physical church such as the RCC. God's Church on earth is composed of many physical churches and denominations under the new era of reformation. These churches with their salvation power can be identified by the statements in the Apostles' Creed. "Bible alone" is rather a denial of the "RCC only" authentication.
  14. Faith alone means it is specified in the New Covenant that humans are saved by faith alone but not the work of Law. Bible alone is that the authority on explaining what the Bible says doesn't belong to a particular physical church such as the RCC. God's Church on earth is composed of many physical churches and denominations under the new era of reformation. These churches with their salvation power can be identified by the statements in the Apostles' Creed. "Bible alone" is rather a denial of the "RCC only" authentication.
  15. Those fulfilled the requirement of a covenant applied to them. The Jews are supposed to be God's chosen people. It is thus said with a presumption that their names are in the book.
  16. On the other hand, the following facts also need to be made known. 1) Red China once is a common goal of over 90% Chinese. They supported the overthrow of ROC (with both the president and first lady as Christians) to build a communist red China with no religion. This was done in the expenses of more than 30 million human lives, including those died during the Japanese invasion. Japanese picked the right time which was the weakest point of China right after a large scale civil war between ROC and the rebels of communists. 2) Last time a civil war (around 1850 - 1870) in the name of Christianity (but not actually involving true Christians) was a rebellion involving a death toll as high as 70 million, which is almost twice the population of today's Canada. It achieved nothing similarly to point 1) That is within a relatively short period of time in the past 200 years, Chinese rebelled with Christianity in disguise, and with a death toll estimated to be as high as 70 million but achieved nothing. They also launched another rebellion which overthrew a government with a Christian president and first lady, to achieve a nation without religion but communism. This was done with a death toll of another 30 million human lives. There seem to be countless rebellions in the past several hundred years in China. The two listed out of them are the ones with the highest death tolls. It is within Caesar's authority to take whatever measure to avoid the same from happening again and again, IMHO. We are talking about a death toll of more than 100 million over 200 years. In contrast, the death toll of the US in Korean War (Vietnam War as well) is around 50,000, a number so small that it can be ignored in comparison to 100,000,000 . Taiping Rebellion wiki: With no reliable census at the time, estimates of the death toll of the rebellion are necessarily based on projections. The most widely cited sources estimate the total number of deaths during the 15 years of the rebellion to be approximately 20–30 million civilians and soldiers. Most of the deaths were attributed to plague and famine. However according to the Chinese version wiki, Researches done recently and more systematically revealed that nationwide deaths (no mentioning of famine or plague but a direct result of the war itself) are between 46.93 mil. and 95.11 mil. Overall population of China in 1850 is around 430 million.
  17. The Jews fought within the promised land. A promised land is for the Jews to extend as the carrier of God's message such that God's salvation can reach today's world to save today's humans. God has a higher mind which is to save human souls while a human body will die anyway in one way or another. However it's not up to humans to kill in accordance to their own wills and judgments which usually are without a purely good course. To put it another way, David kills as it's under God's permission for the Jews to stand strong at that point of history. More likely it allows Solomon to build the First temple such that Judaism can stand firm and is with an impacting influence. By the Bible story, Solomon is heard everywhere with an extended influence. David becomes a figure how God made Israel the strongest, even it's just a small nation relatively. They all have hope that their Messiah will give them another strong nation (though this nation which is the Kingdom of God, is actually for both the Jews and Christians in the end).
  18. What? In the past several hundred years, there are approximately 100 million Chinese killed with a secular cause, as a result of rebellion directly or indirectly. There are approximately 30 mil. casualty in a all Chinese supported establishment of today's red China. Chinese fought with a 30 mil casualty (including those died during the Japanese invasion which is a result of China's own civil war) in order to form the communist government. Secular people are rebellious and stupid. They tend to kill each other for no good cause and more often no reason at all.
  19. Freewill is for God to have the right "not to know". God hides His face from humans when humans choose to sin. It is a form of separation from God. To a certain extent, it means God refuses to know what you are doing. God also has the right to choose not to listen to the prayers from sinners. As Christians we have the Holy Spirit with us and to say the prayers for us. God listens in this way due to Jesus being the mediator of our reconciliation. However in contrary, God also has the right to pay attention to our deeds and prayers simply because God has mercy on His sheep on earth. It is thus safe to assume that He knows everything about His own sheep. However it by no means says that He's willing to know what the wicked bearing in mind. As in the end, He will say, "Depart from me, I don't know you" to the wicked. That said, a permanent separation literally means God will not know what the wicked doing. I think that hell fire is said more in a sovereignty perspective (similarly the saying "thrown to the Lake of Fire) as naturally those leaving God will end up being swallowed by fire. This universe is not a natural one, it is God-made. It is an unnatural environment. The natural environment is where outside our universe which could well be a sea of fire and energy. God is not the God of the dead, He thus has the right not to know how the freewill of the wicked goes. My 2 cents.
  20. The question is rather, if life continues who can tell. We humans don't have the ability to tell a future, that is, the one beyond our physical death. Human science can't go into that realm either, as human science is experiment based we can't go to a future or another space to establish experiments to confirm such a truth. On the other hand, long before the emergence of science, humans already defined that the spiritual realm doesn't lie in our realm, it is in another space another time. There are two ways for humans to get to the info of such a future beyond death. 1) through those who returned from death Near Death is not death, we basically don't know what death is so even those with NDE experience may not have the actual info. Even when one with the actual info (such as Jesus), how can this info convey? Jesus (a great and famous name in today's world) left the info for His eyewitnesses to have the info recorded down in the Bible, still a lot of humans can't believe. If a no body (like me) experienced the true death then came back to tell, who would believe? Truth won't convey in this case (perhaps except for among the Christians). 2) through a God It's out of humans' reach if a realm exists outside of the 3D environment we are living in. In this case, only a God can know clearly. Humans know if this God chooses to tell humans. But again, if this God has a good reason to hide behind, then the only way left for human kind to get to His info is through those who encountered this God and held His message/info. Those encountered God have their info acquired from Him recorded down in the Bible. This is historical like any other histories. Humans need faith to get to this info, the same way how each piece of historical info reach a human. However, today's humans are educated to trust the delusional term "evidence" instead. They are educated to think that humans need evidence to approach a truth, but in reality humans rely on faith to approach a truth. That's why in today's modern world, a futuric truth doesn't convey in both ways, from God and from men who died an returned. Humans, through their education infected by the effort of the more intelligent Satan, have blocked their own way leading to the possibilities of such a truth. To put it another way, even when it is true that after life exists, there is no way for humans to get to such a truth simply humans themselves choose to block the ways leading to this truth. Can you compile a list of humans ever encountered by your own grandpa? How about those encountered by the grandpa of your grandpa. If you can't get to the info who was encountered by your grandpa (or grandpa of grandpa) then, you can't possibly know even when he encountered God. Our reality doesn't operate with evidence as atheists suggest, you know your grandpa encountered God only when he wrote down his experience for you to believe with faith. This is the only way for a human to get to a truth of this kind. It's out of human capability to reach the evidence. This incapability however is used by atheists to block their own ways of reaching a truth. What if your grandpa told a lie. In this case, human witnessing as a vessel is the only way to reach a truth though such a vessel can also carry a lie. Trump said, the media made fake news. Do you reject daily news? Do investigate daily news for evidence? Trump can say so simply because the nature of news is that they can be faked as media as a vessel is for humans to get to a truth while it can also convey a lie. At the same time, it is a vessel for humans to use faith to reach a fact even when the vessel can carry a lie. This is how our reality operates. We don't investigate the evidence behind each piece of news. Our reporters or journalists may do (or may not). The majority rely on faith in our media to get to facts of every kind. Atheists failed to have a good grasp on how our reality operates, due mainly to the indoctrination by secular education since childhood. "Evidence" is the tongue of Satan induced through our education system which teaches the falsehood that humans need evidence to get to facts while humans don't. In our reality, humans in majority need faith to get to any truth at all, as our reach is limited that we have to rely on faith in other sources to get to the different facts we need.
  21. Multiverse is the god of science. Multiverse as a theory is not falsifiable mostly because we can't go out of our own universe to confirm the existence of other universes. Scientists however need the theory of multiverse to explain why our universe exists in terms of physics to facilitate the existence of life.
  22. Adam's sons married their own sisters as Abraham did. It's not considered a sin at the time when this is necessary to extend humanity (to extend the Jews in the case of Abraham and even Lot). God will have to give His bless such that even we can tell from today's Jews that they are clever if not cleverer. However it's a sin out of pure personal desire when humans don't have to rely on a marriage between close relatives for humanity to survive. In this case God's bless will be removed, and the marriages may give deformed children. At the time of Moses it became a law. Leviticus 18:9 (NIV2011) Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
  23. An easier way to understand is that ToE doesn't have any mechanism in distinguishing breeding from evolution. ToE is more like a theory assuming the absence of interbreeding. This will inevitably lead to the liger scenario I illustrated, and thus will falsify the theory itself logically (as the theory doesn't have the ability to take interbreeding into account). In a nutshell, the change from tiger to liger is a change subject to interbreeding. It's not a change caused by natural selection which the ToE can only come up with!
  24. This is not even an argument. It's a known fact that humans contain genes of Neanderthal. Liger is used just to trigger a thought experiment.
  25. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-gene-survey-reveals-facets-evolution.html https://phys.org/news/2018-05-special-humanity-tiny-dna-differences.html Evolution is a strong implication on how species today can be evolved from simple or single cell organisms, by a long time process of natural selection. Today's DNA analysis doesn't seem to support this advocate, in a general sense anyway. Evolution can actually be falsified logically applying a scientific sense. We humans contain Neanderthal genes, we interbred at some point of history. Let's take another example for the sake of argument. Lion and tiger gives liger. After a billion years and tons of micro-evolution in order to survive the changing environment plus many times of back and forth interbreeding with other possible species, now a billion years after when applying our evolution theory what conclusion can we get to. The only conclusion our ToE can get to is "it's evolved from a single cell" (it's at least a strong implication by the theory). This is however a wrong conclusion, the liger itself never evolves, it's just a ton of interbreeding and micro-scale changes in order to adapt the changing environment. So if a scientific theory can be demonstrated consistently to get to a wrong conclusion, it is thus falsified!
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