Archive for July 19th, 2012
God and Brain – Consciousness
Posted by RaymondTheBrave in Christian Questions on 07/19/2012
Author Glenn G. Dudley, MD The Two Questions Atheists Can’t Answer by Glenn Dudley on MAY 1, 2012 Materialism cannot come close to explaining consciousness. It is indeed illogical to think that the mental realm can mysteriously and suddenly emerge from the physical realm just because the brain has zillions of feedback circuits. How can circuits, feedback […]
What happens to those who have never heard the Gospel?
Posted by RaymondTheBrave in Christian Questions on 07/19/2012
In short, we do not know! ‘The secret things belong to the Lord our God’ (Dt 29:29). Certainly we cannot speak for any individual. However, the Bible does not leave us totally in the dark and various approaches towards an answer can be made. We are not here considering the fate of those who openly […]
What Is a Gnostic?
Posted by RaymondTheBrave in Christian Questions on 07/19/2012
Gnosticism, they say, is on the upsurge…So just what is it? Are we witnessing a rediscovery of Gnosticism? To judge from the burgeoning new literature and the increased use of the terms “gnosis” and “Gnosticism” in popular publications, the answer would seem to be yes. Only twenty-five years ago, when one used the word […]
Gnostic, Gnostic Gospels, & Gnosticism
Posted by RaymondTheBrave in Christian Questions on 07/19/2012
A one-sentence description of Gnosticism: a religion that differentiates the evil god of this world (who is identified with the god of the Old Testament) from a higher more abstract God revealed by Jesus Christ, a religion that regards this world as the creation of a series of evil powers who wish to keep the […]
Genesis – How Long was a Day?
Posted by RaymondTheBrave in Christian Questions on 07/19/2012
In Genesis chapter 1, we read that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. Evolutionary theory, taught in public schools and advocated by many books and magazines, claims the world is billions of years old. Obviously Genesis and Evolution conflict on the age of this world. Many Christians have […]