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  • #16
    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
    wow even used the same example I did. I never read that book either.
    Clearly the only possible explanation is that you are the reincarnation of CSL.
    "Down in the lowlands, where the water is deep,
    Hear my cry, hear my shout,
    Save me, save me"

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    • #17
      Originally posted by guacamole View Post
      Clearly the only possible explanation is that you are the reincarnation of CSL.
      Or Lewis was the preincarnation of Sparko.
      Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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      • #18
        Originally posted by guacamole View Post
        Clearly the only possible explanation is that you are the reincarnation of CSL.
        That must be it. I wonder if I can get the publishers to start sending me the royalties from his books?

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
          Or Lewis was the preincarnation of Sparko.
          Don't be silly there isn't any such thing.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by DesertBerean View Post
            I imagine it would be along the lines of staring down the barrel of a gun while being told to renounce Christ if you want to live. It is then that you really find out if you do believe in Christ no matter what the cost.
            According to the quotation, Lewis was talking about any belief. Most beliefs don't come with a stipulation that the belief doesn't count unless you're willing to be martyred for it.

            If someone credibly threatens to kill me unless I deny evolution, I will deny evolution without a second thought, but my doing so won't make me a creationist.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Doug Shaver View Post
              According to the quotation, Lewis was talking about any belief. Most beliefs don't come with a stipulation that the belief doesn't count unless you're willing to be martyred for it.

              If someone credibly threatens to kill me unless I deny evolution, I will deny evolution without a second thought, but my doing so won't make me a creationist.
              You make a good point.
              Some people are willing to die for their belief but many would not, true.
              So it borders on impossible then to imagine that some would die for what they know is a flat out lie.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Doug Shaver View Post
                According to the quotation, Lewis was talking about any belief. Most beliefs don't come with a stipulation that the belief doesn't count unless you're willing to be martyred for it.

                If someone credibly threatens to kill me unless I deny evolution, I will deny evolution without a second thought, but my doing so won't make me a creationist.
                You may be right within the context of evolution. There is no such option in Christ - He made it clear that if a believer denies him, Christ will deny that believer as well. This is clear in more than one place in the Bible.
                Watch your links! http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/fa...corumetiquette

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Jude View Post
                  So it borders on impossible then to imagine that some would die for what they know is a flat out lie.
                  My imagination can handle it. Whether it has ever actually happened, I have no knowledge.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by DesertBerean View Post
                    You may be right within the context of evolution. There is no such option in Christ - He made it clear that if a believer denies him, Christ will deny that believer as well. This is clear in more than one place in the Bible.
                    That is why I mentioned the stipulation.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Doug Shaver View Post
                      That is why I mentioned the stipulation.
                      There is this creed which comes to mind:
                      2 Timothy 2:11-13, 14,
                      [It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him], we shall also live with [him]: If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny [him], he also will deny us: If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

                      Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers.
                      . . . the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; . . . -- Romans 1:16 KJV

                      . . . that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: . . . -- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 KJV

                      Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: . . . -- 1 John 5:1 KJV

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