In case nobody else told you, Lady Shazam accepts Bitcoin.

Bitcointalk is so much fun, who cares about Bitcoin anymore?

Just as important, the only clear dating of ancient pottery and such, only extends back to about 4,500 years ago. Carbon dating can't be accurate beyond then, because the nature of the earth was different prior to the Flood. So, scientific values that suggest the earth is millions of years old is completely based in nonsense.

Look at: http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm.

You haven't really sold me on your position.

I wasn't going to do this, but...

Religion suggests that people are not in control of their lives, that they have a higher power to answer to. Often religions suggest or say that there will be punishment for not obeying the higher power. Along with this suggestion goes the impossibility of obeying the dictates of the higher power.

On the other hand, if you have convinced yourself that there is no higher power, you don't have to worry about obeying some impossible-to-obey rules. As long as the higher power does not clearly make itself evident through the things that happen in life, you can live life thinking that the happenings are coincidences that happen to everyone, and you are happy because you don't have the fear involved with the higher power.

The point shouldn't be all about the way people feel. The point should be about REALITY. And the reality is that simple nature around us all points to the fact that a higher power exists. In addition, modern science has proven overwhelmingly that a higher power must have made the universe, simply because there is no other way. The idea of random chance existence flies so strongly in the face of the evidence that, atheism has to be a religion.

This is the one thing that atheists are way ahead of people of other religions in. They have way more faith than people of other religions. Why? Because the existence of a higher power makes way more sense than atheism. So, it takes way more faith to be an atheism believer.

Actually, I have a buddy who has been to several countries in Africa including S.A.  I have never been there (Africa), but we talk about it a lot. The clincher is that the economy is down enough that neither of us can afford it right now. We're working on it. Someday.

From Legatum: "We see, for example, that despite the tumultuous events of the last [five] years, global prosperity is actually still on the rise." Takes a long time to kill off faith in God.

Only the living. The dead would have a different opinion if they could be polled.

I'd be more than happy to sell you a cup of coffee for a bitcoin.

Peace officers, otherwise know as police or cops.

http://www.copblock.org/

They're not happy. They just think that they are.

A person is a wonderful thing. A group of people working together are fabulous. But why would you want to take the scourge of humanity to the stars without cleaning it up here first?

Stay and fight. Check the links, and tell others.

http://educationcenter2000.com/Trinsey-v-Paglario.htm

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5duR4OvEHHxOSdEZhANETw

http://voidjudgments.com/

http://www.broadmind.org/

http://www.unkommonlaw.co.uk/

This is such a difficult thing to understand and say. But here goes. Remember that at the Creation, God said that He saw everything that He had created, and it was good. God loved His creation.

When wickedness was found to have entered the universe through Satan, God had a choice to make. That choice was to destroy it all, or else to save it somehow.

The choice was to save it. God sent His Son, Jesus, Who in the power of God, took the God's punishment for man. Jesus could do this, because He became a man, as well as being God.

God did a trick. He injected Himself into the universe, into the form of a man - Jesus - so that multitudes of people could be saved. It cost Jesus a lot - pain and death on the cross, along with the punishment that every person would have received for the evil that each individual does.

Now that we understand this, where is the righteousness and where is the evil? God has turned evil into righteousness through His Son, Jesus.

I wonder how many kids she has.

Check out Ezekiel 28:11-19, Ezekiel is talking to the king of Tyre, but he is really talking to Satan. When you put this together with all the other things that the Bible says about Satan, we see that Satan was trying to take over control, wrest it from God.

Now, for Satan to be as good (capable) as God, he had to create something. But there was nothing left to create, because God had already created everything. There was only ONE thing left that Satan could create that God had not created. That thing was destruction. This is why Satan is called "Destroyer" in the Revelation, in both Greek and Hebrew - Apollyon and Abaddon.

The point is, the only way God could overcome Satan is that He had to take control of "destruction," taking it away from Satan. This is the thing God has done, through Jesus. God doesn't like the idea of destruction. But He is using it better than its creator, Satan.

Ultimately, God will use it to destroy Satan. Then He will use it to destroy all the wickedness that Satan caused. All those, both people and angels, who follow Satan and his ideals will be destroyed by God, as well. Finally, God will use destruction to destroy itself, and there won't be any destruction any longer. This will come about when the New Heavens and New Earth spoken about in the Revelation, finally come into being, after the final judgment.

The sad part about most Christians is that you are more or less right. A Christian usually holds some form of false beliefs about Who Jesus is, what He looks like, what He meant by the things He said as recorded in the Bible, and about God, His Father. You, at least, don't hold any false ideas about God, because you acknowledge that you don't know Him.

A copy of the Bible book of Isaiah was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Outside of minor changes in the forms of the letters, the "old" Isaiah was virtually the same as the one that is used by the Jews today.

Now what kind of deluded people would copy by hand so accurately, something that was simply a fable? When you copy kids' stories by hand over dozens of generations, they change. Something happened way back at the time of Moses that was so earth-shattering that the people of Israel carry the tradition in their minds and hearts, right down to today.

If the Bible were a fable, it would not exist.

Atheism is a complete lie. The atheist has convinced himself that atheism exists. Yet, because the atheist has nothing that proves atheism is true, any more than any other religious person has anything that proves his religion is true, atheism is simply another religion.

The thing about atheism that is comforting to the atheist is, he knows by his religion that there is no hope. Most of the other religions offer some form of hope. Hope not experienced can leave one wondering about the exact form that the hope will present itself in. Because of this, the people of many of the other religions have turmoil about their future hope.

The atheist feels peaceful, because he knows that when it is all done, that's the end for him. You poor, hopelessly deluded atheists!

Essentially, NOBODY can give anything that supports his/her beliefs, except for ONE vey basic thing. That thing is, EVERYBODY lives by faith. What I mean is, NOBODY knows for a fact what will happen, even in the next second.

We trust, from experience, that life will remain stable for us. But when we examine history and happenings, we see that very often such trust is misplaced.

When Hiroshima was destroyed by the atom bomb, Japanese people simply couldn't believe what had happened. It was beyond their experience. Their natural trust and faith that today would be similar to yesterday was proven faulty.

Now and again we hear about a jogger in his twenties or thirties, who for no apparent reason, simply falls over dead from a heart attack. We ALL live by faith and trust. NONE of us knows what will happen even in the next second (Hiroshim and Nagasaki). The reason that we feel like we know is because there is an inherent, basic stability in the Universe. It makes us FEEL like we know more than we really do.

Examine the Bible in detail. The history recorded therein contains a thread that runs right from the fall into sin, done by Adam and Eve, to the present. That thread is Jesus and the salvation He provides.

The history and philosophy in the Bible will prove to you that the Bible is truth. But you can't dig out the truth if you don't examine it in detail.