Hey FrGamble!

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I forgot in my "making christians look bad" post to update everyone on the end of the world today.

http://patch.com/pennsylvania/radnor/world-will-end-wednesday-so-says-philly-bible-group-0?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hs&utm_campaign=

Holy Moly.

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God shut the door of heaven

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God shut the door of heaven

Could God shut a door that even He could not open?

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Could God shut a door that even He could not open?

Short answer: no.

Long answer: non-existent beings are incapable of taking any actions.

Quote: Dalex64

Your evidence of reincarnation looks startlingly similar to the evidence that Jesus was the son of god.

You must be joking. Finding a child that
remembers a past life, doing a full investigation
of what the child remembers by going
to where that person lived and verifying names
and dates everything they possibly can from
actual living people who knew the deceased,
is similar to people writing stuff down from
stories they heard decades ago about Jesus?

There are no similarities at all. There is not a
shred of evidence that Jesus is the son of a
god. You seem to think there is, please share
it with us. Present your evidence. FrG has tried
and so far has come up with zip.

The startling similarity is it is all hearsay without a shred of physical evidence to back it up.

There is nothing to indicate that if what you describe as happening is really happening, and that it is happening by the mechanism that you have described here before.

Why evidence matters: vaccines and autism.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/anti-vaxxers-fund-study-finds-zero-link-between-vaccinations-and-autism

They didn't stop when they had answers that they didn't like, and had a hint of an answer that they did like. Turns out they ended up with more answers that they didn't like.

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But when you have a few kids, then
scores of them, them hundreds, then thousands,
unrelated, from all over the world, telling the
same provable stories of being somebody
else before they were born,

What about millions and millions of people, unrelated, adults and children, from all over the world, telling the same provable stories of encountering the real presence of Jesus Christ in their lives,

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it gives any rational
person pause. Or it should.

It really should.

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What about millions and millions of people, unrelated, adults and children, from all over the world, telling the same provable stories of encountering the real presence of Jesus Christ in their lives,

My google search turns up an estimate of 1 billion Hindus.

Also this:

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The 33 Million Gods of Hinduism

Quote: Dalex64

The startling similarity is it is all hearsay without a shred of physical evidence to back it up.

There is nothing to indicate that if what you describe as happening is really happening, and that it is happening by the mechanism that you have described here before.

Have you actually read what they do to
verify the kids stories? If you had you
wouldn't be making ignorant statements
like you did. It's nothing BUT physical
evidence. A kid says his name was Kai
and he lived in New Delhi and he was
married and sold incense for a living
from a bicycle and was hit by a car on
a certain date and killed. He names his
wife and kids and gives addresses and
names his parents and on and on.

The investigators go and locate these
people in New Delphi and they verify
everything the kid has said. This is
actual physical evidence when a story
can be verified, it's no longer hearsay.

You don't even know the definition
of hearsay: "information received from
other people that one cannot adequately
substantiate; rumor."

When you substantiate a story, when you
prove it's true, that's now evidence and
no longer hearsay. They exhaust every
possible avenue of where the kid could
have gotten the info, and if there is even
the slightest chance he could have gotten
it other than by memory, they throw the
case out.

Is it proof of reincarnation? No. Is it evidence
that points that way? Yes. If you actually perform
the due diligence required and read the books
and read the articles and interviews, you come
away convinced these research scientists did
an excellent job in their meticulous gathering
of the information. They make no conclusions,
that's not their job. They simply want to verify
if these are actual memories.

I don't get it. Are you saying that we have a non corporeal soul?