He is Risen!

[SweetPea]

..... for the wee band of Christians still remaining on this board.

Thank you, Yeshua for showing us the way out of the matrix of this world.


Have a wonderful day!


...... and fellow posters too!

[Sassy]

..... for the wee band of Christians still remaining on this board.

Thank you, Yeshua for showing us the way out of the matrix of this world.


Have a wonderful day!


...... and fellow posters too!

I was getting around to it, but thankfully you beat me to it...

He rose over 2,000 years ago. Easter isn't the same for me... He is already risen, alive and at the right hand of God the Father.
Whilst it is good to remember the passover for passover sake is more important.

[SweetPea]

I was getting around to it, but thankfully you beat me to it...

He rose over 2,000 years ago. Easter isn't the same for me... He is already risen, alive and at the right hand of God the Father.
Whilst it is good to remember the passover for passover sake is more important.

Yes, I hear you. But, the last couple of years, what we celebrate at Easter means a lot to me as I'm a relatively new born-again in Christ.

[Brownie]

Oh SweetPea I thought you were someone else who used to post on another forum and has same nickname.  She has been a Christian for donkeys' years so she isn't you!  Did you do anything on Thursday SweetPea, a vigil or readings?  Mine were only private, not in church, but I have to say I always found that particular evening very moving when I went to church.

I hope you had a happy Easter day.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

..... for the wee band of Christians still remaining on this board.

Thank you, Yeshua for showing us the way out of the matrix of this world.


Have a wonderful day!


...... and fellow posters too!

He is risen indeed!

[Sassy]

Oh SweetPea I thought you were someone else who used to post on another forum and has same nickname.  She has been a Christian for donkeys' years so she isn't you!  Did you do anything on Thursday SweetPea, a vigil or readings?  Mine were only private, not in church, but I have to say I always found that particular evening very moving when I went to church.

I hope you had a happy Easter day.

I use to wonder if the same sweetpea as the other forum. Use to call my daughter the same name as a baby.
Popeye has a lot to answer for.. LOL. x

[Sassy]

Yes, I hear you. But, the last couple of years, what we celebrate at Easter means a lot to me as I'm a relatively new born-again in Christ.

As I have grown, I realise some pomp and ceremony are for the lack of realism in their spirituality.
Without love and truth these feasts would be nothing for any believer. Glad you have had a good Easter, Sp.

[SweetPea]

Brownie and Sassy, I don't really 'do' forums, this is the only one I post on. I joined NGLR under another name for a short time only to have a go at another poster who was damning homosexuals.... just couldn't sit back and just read. Funny, I didn't even discover forums until after I retired.

Brownie, actually, I have been the same as you this past week and engaging in quiet contemplation when on my own. I attended church on Sunday. Wonderful, rousing Easter hymns.

Sassy, yes, even as a believer, I sometimes think we fall short of the huge, HUGE price that was paid for us through Yeshua. The gravity and meaning of the event is almost too much to comprehend.

[Leonard James]

I sometimes think we fall short of the huge, HUGE price that was paid for us through Yeshua. The gravity and meaning of the event is almost too much to comprehend.

I hate to rain on your parade, Blossom, but people make/and have made equally huge sacrifices for their beliefs, or to protect their loved ones, throughout history.

[Hope]

I hate to rain on your parade, Blossom, but people make/and have made equally huge sacrifices for their beliefs, or to protect their loved ones, throughout history.

Have they, Len.  Perhaps you could name a single mere human being, who ever claimed to have been going to their death for the whole of humanity, or whose death was later claimed to be this extensive?

[Shaker]

Have they, Len.

Yes they have. In their many millions.

Perhaps you could name a single mere human being

Mere human being as opposed to what?

who ever claimed to have been going to their death for the whole of humanity, or whose death was later claimed to be this extensive?

You can claim to be a cheese and pickle sandwich or indeed anything if you won't scruple to cough up with the evidence for it.

[Gordon]

Have they, Len.  Perhaps you could name a single mere human being, who ever claimed to have been going to their death for the whole of humanity, or whose death was later claimed to be this extensive?

Claiming it is fine: it being true is another thing entirely, which is where you need evidence supported by a  methodology.

Since the very idea that this chap died 'for me' is patently ridiculous (whatever his fans claim) we do need something a little more convincing if it is to be considered a serious proposition.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Claiming it is fine: it being true is another thing entirely, which is where you need evidence supported by a  methodology.

Since the very idea that this chap died 'for me' is patently ridiculous (whatever his fans claim) we do need something a little more convincing if it is to be considered a serious proposition.

I'm sorry but now we need evidence supported by a methodology?
Sounds like you have lost the evidence argument and are adding a qualifier.
Goddodging seems to be your methodology.

[Shaker]

I'm sorry but now we need evidence supported by a methodology?

Yes. Precisely.

[Gordon]

I'm sorry but now we need evidence supported by a methodology?
Sounds like you have lost the evidence argument and are adding a qualifier.
Goddodging seems to be your methodology.

Psst! - in case you missed it, and I'd hate you to look foolish, the claim under discussion isn't mine.

Perhaps, if you'd like something useful to do, you could encourage Hope to explain himself.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Psst! - in case you missed it, and I'd hate you to look foolish,

Oh no Gordon is threatening me with his powers

[Shaker]

Psst! - in case you missed it, and I'd hate you to look foolish, the claim under discussion isn't mine.

Perhaps, if you'd like something useful to do, you could encourage Hope to explain himself.

Aye - he's done it before elsewhere, or rather, he says he has, which of course is a very different thing altogether.

Here, however, he seems to be finding it difficult to stump up with the goods. It's not a matter of writing out his so-called methodology for evaluating supernatural claims all over again because if, as he says, he's done it before a simple link would suffice.

[Gordon]

Oh no Gordon is threatening me with his powers

C'mon Vlad - looking foolish seems to come naturally to you, and without any help from me (or indeed anyone).

[Rhiannon]

Vlad keeps on throwing out accusations of 'God-dodging' like it's evidence of something; in reality it doesn't even have any meaning.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Vlad keeps on throwing out accusations of 'God-dodging' like it's evidence of something; in reality it doesn't even have any meaning.

It is the collected attempts by the individual to put God at arms length.
Atheists will therefore seek to debate biblical literalists and those who emphasise the old testament because they meet the caricature view they hold or cast those with whom they are debating in that mold.

[Brownie]

Brownie and Sassy, I don't really 'do' forums, this is the only one I post on. I joined NGLR under another name for a short time only to have a go at another poster who was damning homosexuals.... just couldn't sit back and just read. Funny, I didn't even discover forums until after I retired.

Brownie, actually, I have been the same as you this past week and engaging in quiet contemplation when on my own. I attended church on Sunday. Wonderful, rousing Easter hymns.

Sassy, yes, even as a believer, I sometimes think we fall short of the huge, HUGE price that was paid for us through Yeshua. The gravity and meaning of the event is almost too much to comprehend.

Thank you SweetPea, I'm with you (except for the rousing hymns but that's just personal taste).

[Rhiannon]

It is the collected attempts by the individual to put God at arms length.
Atheists will therefore seek to debate biblical literalists and those who emphasise the old testament because they meet the caricature view they hold or cast those with whom they are debating in that mold.

I see no atheist here dodging argument with any liberals or non-literalists. And atheists can't dodge a God that they don't believe in. Stop taking refuge in that argument as though is has a shred of meaning.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I see no atheist here dodging argument with any liberals or non-literalists. And atheists can't dodge a God that they don't believe in. Stop taking refuge in that argument as though is has a shred of meaning.

I disagree................... i'm afraid this forum is replete with caricature.

[Alan Burns]

Celebrated Easter with friends at the lovely church of Aston le Walls with a packed congregation.  We felt very privileged to take part in this wonderful celebration of Christ's resurrection.

[jeremyp]

Have they, Len.  Perhaps you could name a single mere human being, who ever claimed to have been going to their death for the whole of humanity, or whose death was later claimed to be this extensive?

Buffy Summers.

In fact, she did it twice.