Ed: "If God speaks something into existence does it become a reality or not? If it does then faith is not involved. Faith is things hoped for not spoken into existence." Huh? When God speaks, He speaks in perfect faith, which brings about exactly what He spoke, which then makes it a reality. He call...

Actually, Ed...you are misquoting the Bible..."Faith" is not the things hoped for. It is the SUBSTANCE or the ASSURANCE of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not clearly seen. But, I am sure, according to you, God did not mean for that Scripture to be taken for what it says, either... NKJV = N...

Read Dakes notes on Romans 4:17. Dake pretty clearly taught that God had faith, and used faith, especially when He created the universe, calling those things that be not as though they were (in connection with Hebrews 11:3). In fact, God has been putting forth His Word into the world since the begin...

Ed, when God stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac, God did not say, "For now YOU know." God said, "For now I know". If it was so Abraham would know what he would do in that case, then God would have said "For now you know". No matter how you try to spin this, no matter what you try to say to chang...

Ed, I honestly do not know, other than to say God is not a liar, and He means EVERY WORD He speaks. How God can be omniscient, yes need to go and see for Himself things...I don't know. What I do know is I do not agree with your teaching that God is telling falsehoods to explain something. He told Ab...

Ed, your world is the one that says God does not mean what He says. You have consistently held that position over and over again. You used this silly example of a nuclear physicist trying to explain something to me. That is...silly. God is not a nuclear physicist...He is God. And being God, He can e...

ah...I see it all so clearly now.

so God said a bunch of stuff that He never intended to actually do, just so he could explain why He was going to do what He was going to do to a human who would not understand without God not telling the truth? Makes perfect sense to me...but now I need to go back to reality where I believe God mean...

now, Leon...you should know by now, that we cannot always believe what the Bible says...God is like a very good mystery novelist, and the Bible is like a mystery novel. God will say things so that way we can be surprised and shocked. At least that is what I read once on here by a very prolific poste...

What is there to say, Ed? I have spoken why I dislike you on here. You may be the most kind and gentle man on earth in person...but on this board? You come across as a pompous, arrogant, ego-inflated know-it-all jerk. You post things, starting threads on this board, knowing full well what the reacti...