Believers of Acts 2:38 down through history?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Well, there are different personality types. Some are hardwired to judge believe whatever you tell them. Others are not. It's just the way it is. EB and many others are hardwired to find it easy to believe whatever you tell them without any need of verification.

Chris, let the record stand that you believe the Bible not to be historical evidence. Also again, why aren't you Eastern Orthodox? Verification for the earliest reformists Desiderius Erasmus, and John Wycliffe, went to scripture not historical data.

Originally Posted by Aquila

They base their conclusions on the source.

The Bible

Originally Posted by Aquila

If they trust the source, they embrace it.

The Bible

Originally Posted by Aquila

If they don't... it can't possibly be true no matter who is demonstrating it or what evidence lays before them.

Eastern and Western Roman Church History and Hindu History.

Bro, put your icon where your mouth is

Originally Posted by Aquila

It's dogma. It requires little thought. But at the same time, they provide some of the deepest contemplation of those things that they do embrace. Because, it's the only thing they know.

The Bible.

Chris remember when you wanted us to not believe the Bible alone, but our own personal experiences? At this point I would ask who hath bewitched you, but sadly you are as sober as a judge.

Originally Posted by Aquila

For example, EB's personality type can't even entertain the possibility of the existence of alien beings. lol He's been taught that the Scripture would have mentioned them, and since it doesn't (that his teachers were aware of), it is impossible for them to exist... in his mind.

Chris, why must you lie when you start losing the discussion? Please show a post where I posted that I don't believe in aliens due to no Bible evidence. i Don't believe in extraterrestrials because the possibility would be lower than zero. Carl Sagan called us the big blue marble, because our planet stands out from all others in our solar system. Why, because it teems with life. As you leave our solar system you enter the inhabitable zone and an asteroid belt which would destroy anything leaving or entering our system. The father you go out from our solar system the least the chances for life. Life may be on other planets, but its likeliness of being highly developed extremely low. People who claim they have been abducted by martians are liars, and story tellers. Michael Shermer has done a pretty good job debunking mostly all such stories of grays, greens, and Zoltron. So, Chris, you don't know what I believe, so let's continue with your doctrine of No Bible Needed for Salvation.

Originally Posted by Aquila

Of course, the Bible didn't mention Native Americans or the New World either. Those of our personality type sees this and realizes that the doors of possibility remain as open for aliens as we see it was in retrospect for the native inhabitants and existence of the New World. For us, it would be the equivalent of Christopher Columbus coming ashore, only in this scenario, we're the Indians.

But on the flip side of this emotional sleigh ride, did God sovereignty fail? How long did it take explorers "historically" speaking to reach the "new" world? Chris, can you answer how Chief Big Humming Bird was saved?

Originally Posted by Aquila

Other personality types can't embrace that kind of flexibility. They are essentially frozen in time, interpretation, and opinion.

Where did Paul and Jesus teach this "flexibility?

Oh, I know, Bible not allowed. Sad. Dude, this is sad.

Originally Posted by Aquila

And so, all one had to do is tell EB and those who think like him that there were always Jesus name people, and because they were trusted sources, and Scripture offered no contradiction, he can embrace it without question.

I will admit. It would sure be easier to be able to think like that. lol

Chris, this is why I don't accept your apologies.

Good luck with that, seriously, good luck, I hope you get it together.