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Reliability Of Luke As A Historian (proof Of The Historicity Of Jesus Christ).?

online dating review — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:20:35 +0000

Let’s consider the following quotes from Sir William Ramsay, one of the greatest archaeologists in history. In his life he did extensive archaeological work in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Entering into this work he was an unbeliever who was thoroughly convinced that the book of Acts was the product of the 2nd Century (a theory taught in the German schools of higher criticism). As a matter of fact, one of his goals was to prove that the history given by Luke was inaccurate. However, his beliefs were drastically changed as his archaeological finds proved that the book of Acts was accurate to the minutest detail. As a result Sir William Ramsay became a Christian. He writes:
I may fairly claim to have entered on this investigation without prejudice in favour of the conclusion which I shall now seek to justify to the reader. On the contrary, I began with a mind unfavorable to it…but more recently I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography, antiquities, and society of Asia Minor. It was gradually borne upon me that in various details the narrative showed marvelous truth. In fact, beginning with a fixed idea that the work was essentially a second century composition, and never relying on its evidence as trustworthy for first century conditions, I gradually came to find it a useful ally in some obscure and difficult investigations [14]
Luke is a historian of first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy…this author should be placed along with the very greatest of historians. [15]
In the 19th century, Acts 14:6 was consistently presented as an example of a historical error in the book of Acts. The reason for this is that the verse portrays Paul and Barnabas as entering the province of Lycaonia when they came to Lystra and Derbe. The problem with this was that Iconium, the city they had fled from, was also in Lycaonia. However, this is one of the passages Sir William Ramsay checked for the historical accuracy of Acts. His archaeological finds showed that Iconium was made a part of Phrygia only during A.D. 37-72, both before and after this it was part of Lycaonia. [17] Thus we find that Luke’s statement was written in the one and only period of history that it would be accurate!
At one time, Luke was thought to be totally inaccurate regarding details surrounding the birth of Christ in Luke 2:1-3. The critics once argued that there was no census, Quirinius was governor of Syria at a later date and that citizens did not have to return to their homelands. However, archaeology has shown that the Romans did hold censuses every 14 years. Furthermore, it is now known that Quirinius was likely governor of Syria twice, once around 6 A.D., but the other around 7 B.C., which would correspond to the time of the census of Luke 2. Finally, a papyrus was found in Egypt which gives directions for a Roman census and orders all people away from home to return in preparation of the coming census. [18]
In 1962, two Italian archaeologists dug up a Latin inscription in the town of Caesarea. It read “Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judea, has presented the Tiberium to the Caesareans.” [19]
This article is archived in the University of Clemson’s online archives. It was submitted by the Spurgeon Foundation of Clemson. http://www.clemson.edu/spurgeon/books/ap…
Personally I think it is not only foolish to try to explain away such definite evidence, but it contradicts any kind of honorable approach to the method of interpretation. But I will not count my opinion as better than any others. What do you think?

What Do I Do About My Sister?

online dating review — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:12:52 +0000

My older sister wants me to stop talking to this guy. He’s my age, he’s Mormon (I’m Christian), he’s pretty accident prone, and yeah he likes me. But he’s still a really good friend to me. Sara (My sister) thinks he’s a bad influence on me while she has a boyfriend online who’s an atheist and he’s perverted and mean. One of the rules is that whoever you date the family has to like while I don’t like Sara’s boyfriend but I can’t do anything since my parents don’t know about him. All I can see that will resolve this problem is stop talking to my guy friend who’s name is Geran. What do you guys think?

Ladies View Please?

online dating review — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:07:23 +0000

There is this girl ive known for a year or two, we never talk on the phone, last night she was like do i have to be the one to always ask you out, you could of taken me to a movie if you were not feeling sick, then i was like lets go next week, then she was like ok, lets go get dinner first and then will go see a movie, is she beginning to feel something for me or something, and she almost everyday messages me over msn saying hi when ever she sees me online. Would you do this if you were not interested in a guy? But the weird thing is that she said that she would date me if we were the same religions, i am a Muslim and she is a Christian. Why would she want to go to a movie with me, if she thinks this way. could it be that she is seeing things differently now?

Why Can’t I Get A Normal Woman?

online dating review — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:13:01 +0000

seems like every woman i date is weird, last one had bipolar disorder, one before that was some whacked out christian that wouldn’t even let me listen to rock music cause she says it’s devil worshipping?, and one before that has like 100 other boyfriends so i’m not into being her pawn, why do women mess up my life so much like this, i went to college got 2 degrees, i work a good job i’ve been with for 8 years making 60 plus a year and i come from a good family and i live on my own but you know what, i’m lonely, it sucks bigtime, i come online every night out of boredom, if there is a decent woman out there im me or something (breakingbenfan1980 on yahoo IM) and chat with me, never know might be a keeper lol…i’m 27 by the way and i have a pic too

Is This Grounds For Divorce? (incredibly Long)?

online dating review — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:00:50 +0000

My husband and I have been married for 3 and a half years, together for 6 we started out as very good friends 11 years ago. There is a pretty incredible history. Now here is what I am faced with now. After all that time of knowing this person I come to find out that I didn’t know him at all because he lied to me constantly or left things out. Lie number one 9 months after we were married and I was pregnant with out first child, he tells me that he had slept with his brother’s ex-girlfriend within a week of them breaking up (his brother is his best friend) We were broken up at the time that this happened. I too had slept with someone else during this time and before we even got back together I told him about it because I felt as if we might get back together and I am very honest about things like that. Well after we got back together he started questioning me constantly about that sexual relationship like “how could you sleep with someone you barely knew?” “I just don’t understand how you could just sleep with someone like that?” now I take that with heavy implications that I am somewhat of a slut or something. So I go on feeling pretty guilty about it for a few months till he stops asking about it and commenting about it, all the while he did the same thing but he also betrayed the only person in his life that meant anything to him (his brother). Then we get married after having ample time for him to disclose all of this he finally tells me. I am pissed and felt trapped because I was pregnant at the time and while I wanted to leave him I also felt that with a child coming it changed the way I would have handled it if i had been single. Lie number 2 when we first got back together he told me about how he went through all of his stuff and threw out anything that conflicted with his christian beliefs which consisted of posters, pot smoking, porn, he quit smoking etc. I was thrilled because alot of that stuff is stuff we fought about when we dated before. A month after we got married he went out and bought all kinds of porn to have around the house. It bothered me but he didn’t watch it that much so I didn’t really care. Then I find out he is watching it all the time and lying about it. Lie number 3 he starts having this online emotional affair with an ex-girlfriend. I confronted it he ended it. So you can see the trust is degraded not completely gone at this point but definitely lowered. Then about a year later he is watching a rediculous amount of porn and really bad in nature (not child porn, but pretty disturbing). I don’t say anything (my fault) I just withdrawl from him more.Then I guess this is kind of lie number 4 although he didn’t really deny it he was just hiding it. He was sexting an ex-girlfriend and IMing while I was in bed crying because we just had a fight. I confronted it two days later and packed up my son and myself and left. 3 days later I find out I’m pregnant. He calls me crying saying he doesn’t know what is wrong with him that he loves us and we are the only thing that matter to him and he will do anything to make it right. So I come back we enter counselling. He says he is a sex addict that was the reason for his online/phone sex thing. So I told him he needed to get help then. So he did counselling for a few weeks then got a second job (we did need the money) then stopped counselling because he didn’t have time. Now he is back in counselling because I served him with an ultimatum. He told me the other day that if I knew the things he thought of all the time I never would have married him. He said he thinks about sex all the time now I know as a society we stereotype men as only thinking about sex all the time but this is literally all the time. He says just seeing people he thinks of them in a sexual way. He says he struggles with it all the time but he is trying to change his thought process.
I about 75% want out of this marriage, but a small part of me believes he does want to change and that he can. However, I’m pretty pissed off that I made a decision without having all the information first, but believed I had all the information. It wasn’t like we got married and then I was like “surprise!! I have an addiction, and I screwed your bestfriend but we’re married now and there is nothing you can do about it.” You know (I didn’t do any of that by the way, just making a point). However, our counselor of course is trying to “keep us together” She keeps saying this is an addiction it has nothing to do with you.And other stuff. How am I supposed to believe anything from him when everything that would have impacted my decision on marrying him was a lie?

Opinions On A Nice Guy I Met?

online dating review — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:14:23 +0000

i have met this guy online . well we did not meet but are meeting tonight .we were too busy as he was busy around christmas with family to meet.he wants to know if i have pics , and like he asks me lots about me and he is really nice.like we talked for 4 hours straight facebook and he just knows i worry about lots if he will like me,if he will date me and he tells me that time will tell,whatever happens happens and that if we were not interested we would not be talking still and that he is not a creep .i can see his family picture to know that . and he has a career, he is 23. and will see what happens. though time will tell . he does not want to rush though we have a meeting date today and he knows i have a daughter and that i told him i want to be careful i do not get pregnant and he is also very careful and does not want kids until he is married ,carried. he has serious religious beliefs and goes church ( christian).i am catholic though not a practicing catholic anymore. what are your opinions on what i should do ? he is not like every other guy that just wants to find a girl to sleep with and he is so nice.

How Can I, A Soft Hearted Guy, Get Over A Girl Who Cares For Me And I Care For Her?

online dating review — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:02:11 +0000

There is a girl/young woman who goes to my church back home. Mind you, she is 6 years older than me (she’s 24 and I’m 18). I randomly started talking to her online one day and we both thought the other person was really cool. So we talked more and more, and eventually when summer came, she said hey, let’s hang out. So we hung out whenever she wasn’t working. I started thinking to myself, man, I wish she was my age, because she’s a really cool girl.
One day though, after going to the pool with her, we came back to her parent’s house, and somehow things led to sex. So, I lost my virginity to her. She had told me online before when we were discussing our problems, that once she got to college she started making mistakes sexually. So.. i felt bad for just adding on to her list of mistakes. I felt horrible for having sex too though.
Anywayy.. after sex, as would be expected, I fell for her. HARD. I started considering her as a girlfriend, and wanted to date her pretty badly. Only one problem. I knew she was 6 years older than me, and plus, she goes to a different college than me.
I talked to a really cool pastor here in my college town and he told me that sex ties an invisible string around two people’s hearts, and that I share with Lillian (the girl’s name, which is freaking awesome name too) is an unhealthy one. He suggested that we take a season off from each other. Not communicating, and getting our hearts in the right place and our minds cleared.
See, I completely agree with him, and I want to do this, but it’s almost impossible for me to. He’s right it is an unhealthy connection. My heart tells me that I love her, but my mind says I’m retarded. She goes to clubs, wears sexually appealing clothes, and is really attractive and gets hit on by a lot of guys. It’s not something I usually look for in a girl, and some of it is a turn off.
She’s Christian and wants to do things that are right, but she is REALLY naive, and it bothers me. But, because she’s naive, and I care for her, it really hurts me that I can’t be with her to watch out for her, and set her straight. I always tell her things, and she’s like wow, I never thought about it that way, or wow, I didn’t know that. She’s very naive, and it makes me care for her even when I don’t want to.
What the heck do I do? I’m sitting her hurting day after day. I hung out with her all day this past labor day weekend, we both came home from college to visit. We made out, hugged each other, and I cried, she cried because I was crying. She tells me that she wishes she had a boyfriend like me, and that she would wait even longer than she has been waiting for someone like me. She’s a sweet, caring, lovely girl, who has an innocent heart, she really does. But just not so aware of the things she’s doing. I wish I could not like her or stop thinking about her, but I absolutely, positively can’t.
It’s gotten to the point that when I try to hang out with girls in college, I feel uncomfortable, because I feel that I’m somewhat committed to Lillian? wtf, right?
Please help me.. I have a really soft heart.

10 Points For Best Answer!!!!!!!!!!?

online dating review — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:14:28 +0000

I’m a sophomore and about a month ago I got dumped by a guy I THOUGHT I was in love with. I was wrong cuz I’m over him now, and we dated almost 9 months. He ignored me half the time. Ever since then, I’ve wanted a bf soooo bad, and now 4 guys like me! I have no idea which one I like best, but there’s one I don’t like.
Guy #1
Alex
He was my first bf, and I dated him a couple times, the longest time being almost 2 months, which isn’t very long. We were on and off a lot. He was clingy, over emotional, dramatic, wanted to marry me, enough said! I don’t wanna go out with him, but I need to tell him that.
Guy #2
Parker
I met him online on Facebook. We clicked on each other on the Are You Interested thing, and then he added me as a friend. We’ve talked and he seems like such a nice guy! I know he’s a Christian, like I am, and that’s very, VERY important to me. He also knows some of my friends. On his profile it says he can sometimes be quiet, and that’s another thing we have in common. My best friend is going to see if I can meet him soon before I choose which guy to go out with, which will hopefully be this weekend at the latest, especially since school ends next week. He doesn’t go to the same school as me.
Guy #3
Tyler
I’ve known him since Freshman year, when he was in my science class. Last year he was kind of obnoxious and got in trouble a lot. A ton of people don’t like him, but this year he’s been trying very hard to be liked, and I can see how much he wants to be liked. He asked me out today, and he was definetely nervous. I said I’d think about it (cuz I had already been talking to Parker).
Guy #4
Grayson
I don’t know much about Grayson, but I invited him to my bonfire on Saturday, and he was there. He likes video games and he’s a really nice guy. I think he might be a little shy, like I am. Only bad thing is my dad got a little too friendly with him, which is kinda….weird. So if I chose him, I guess I’d have competition? But at least I know my dad likes him. My friend told me today that he wants to ask me out but is really nervous. He’s in her last class.
So I have a huge problem! My dad keeps pressuring me to choose Grayson, but that’s only cuz my dad got so buddy-buddy with him! He hasn’t even met the other 2 I like! And when I told him about Parker, he said “He’s probably a druggist”! Okay, Parker knows some of my friends! I even asked them! He lives 3 blocks from my best friend’s bf! It makes me so mad that my dad assumes the worst in people he hasn’t even met!
Anyway, which guy do you think is best and why? I NEED LOTS OF OPINIONS!!!

Long Question. Please Help Though :( I’m A Soft Hearted Guy Who’s Lost.?

online dating review — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:02:18 +0000

There is a girl/young woman who goes to my church back home. Mind you, she is 6 years older than me (she’s 24 and I’m 18). I randomly started talking to her online one day and we both thought the other person was really cool. So we talked more and more, and eventually when summer came, we said hey, let’s hang out. So we hung out whenever she wasn’t working. I started thinking to myself, man, I wish she was my age, because she’s a really cool girl.
One day though, after going to the pool with her, we came back to her parent’s house, and things led to sex. So, I lost my virginity to her. She had told me online before when we were discussing our problems, that once she got to college she started making mistakes sexually. So.. i felt bad for just adding on to her list of mistakes. I felt horrible for having sex too though.
Anywayy.. after sex, as would be expected, I fell for her. HARD. I started considering her as a girlfriend, and wanted to date her pretty badly. Only one problem. I knew she was 6 years older than me, and plus, she goes to a different college than me.
I talked to a really cool pastor here in my college town and he told me that sex ties an invisible string around two people’s hearts, and that the connection I share with Lillian (the girl’s name, she has a gorgeous name too) is an unhealthy one. He suggested that we take a season off from each other. Not communicating, and getting our hearts in the right place and our minds cleared.
See, I completely agree with him, and I want to do this, but it’s almost impossible for me to. He’s right it is an unhealthy connection. My heart tells me that I love her, but my mind says I’m retarded. She goes to clubs, wears clothes that can sexually attract guys, and is very pretty which then leads to her getting hit on by a lot of guys. It’s not something I usually look for in a girl, and some of it is a turn off.
She’s Christian and wants to do things that are right, but she is kind of naive, and it hurts me. Because she’s naive, and I care for her, it really hurts me that I can’t be with her to watch out for her, and protect her from things she may not see. It seems like she has trouble seeing the wrong in what is around her. idk. She’s naive, and it makes me care for her even when I try not to.
What the heck do I do? I’m sitting here hurting day after day. I hung out with her all day this past labor day weekend, we both came home from college to visit. We kissed, hugged each other, and I cried, she teared up a little, but I think it’s because I was crying. She told me a while ago me that she wishes she had a guy like me, and that she would wait even longer than she has been waiting for someone like me. She’s a sweet, caring, lovely girl, who has an innocent heart, she really does. But she’s just not so aware of the things she’s doing. I wish I could not like her or stop thinking about her, but I absolutely, positively can’t.
It’s gotten to the point that when I try to hang out with girls in college, I feel uncomfortable, because I feel that I’m somewhat committed to Lillian? wtf, right?
Another thing, she’s about to graduate, and head off into the world and find a job. She wants to maybe move to LA and find a job. I don’t know.. there are just so many things that should convince me to move on.. but I just can’t. I mean.. seriously.. nothing will work out, right? She used to call me almost every night and I loved hearing her voice, but we’re trying this no communication thing out and it’s killing me, and it isn’t working.
Please help me.. I have a really soft heart and have no clue what to do.

Help! 4 Guys Like Me!!!!!?

online dating review — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:16:48 +0000