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Well, sure. Why would anyone think otherwise, save for indoctrination? It was written at a time when people were abjectly ignorant of natural history and of the size and scope of the planet.The old testament is easier to explain through metaphor than to explain it by the historical record, or even by testing it's scientific accuracy.
She is a reformed woman. Which means she didn't start out as an angel. Also the tax collector was an evil man that Jesus tried to reform.I read the NT 5 times...MM is treated as though she is an angel.
Try reading it for yourself.
What an insight! A Tax Collector evil?!She is a reformed woman. Which means she didn't start out as an angel. Also the tax collector was an evil man that Jesus tried to reform.I read the NT 5 times...MM is treated as though she is an angel.
Try reading it for yourself.
I'm not even sure we know what free will actually means and accurately portray it. To most people free will simply means the ability to choose to do right or to choose to not do right. In that regard free will is an artifact of intelligence and is merely used to distinguish humans from animals. Animals operate on instinct and impulses. Humans do too but have the ability to override our instincts and impulses.In other words, of irrefutable proof of G-d's existence existed, then free-will, which is also part of the ineffable plan would cease to exist and the whole plan comes tumbling down.
I don't see how it can be any other way. It's not a coincidence the universe popped into existence being hardwired to produce life and intelligence. So I disagree that we cannot prove God exists. We can prove God exists through the light of human reason through the study of what was created using logic and experience.You cannot prove God exists because prophecy is like a drug trip.The origin or the scriptures cannot.
Why not?
Well, I'm going to use the argument of Oolon Culluphid.
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says G-d, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "Our own existence is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says G-d, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanished in a puff of logic."
In other words, of irrefutable proof of G-d's existence existed, then free-will, which is also part of the ineffable plan would cease to exist and the whole plan comes tumbling down.
Even if you experience prophecy, you are still human and can go bad.
The Prophets have no shortage of Godly people who caved into their non-Godly desires.
I am addressing an audience that has never, and never will, do the homework you just posted needs to be done.I don't see how it can be any other way. It's not a coincidence the universe popped into existence being hardwired to produce life and intelligence. So I disagree that we cannot prove God exists. We can prove God exists through the light of human reason through the study of what was created using logic and experience.You cannot prove God exists because prophecy is like a drug trip.The origin or the scriptures cannot.
Why not?
Well, I'm going to use the argument of Oolon Culluphid.
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says G-d, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "Our own existence is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says G-d, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanished in a puff of logic."
In other words, of irrefutable proof of G-d's existence existed, then free-will, which is also part of the ineffable plan would cease to exist and the whole plan comes tumbling down.
Even if you experience prophecy, you are still human and can go bad.
The Prophets have no shortage of Godly people who caved into their non-Godly desires.
No need. That is all nonsense. And we better learn some lessons for the next pandemic. Not least of which is that a bunch of reactionary people will take a stupid stance when the pandemic is politicized.Not a mystery to me at all.
Look at the dystopia we have lived in for the last year. Panic whipped up in little under a month over a virus with all attending religious fervor, most of which was a patent lie. Now THERE'S a religion for you to go after, if you dare.
Good god man. This is the year 2021, not 21.The only thing that reforms a Tax Collector is death.
Human nature never changes.Good god man. This is the year 2021, not 21.The only thing that reforms a Tax Collector is death.
Yes, we just get better as a society at pointing at stupid, evil shit like you just said and deeming it unacceptable. And we have secular ideas to thank for that.Human nature never changes.Good god man. This is the year 2021, not 21.The only thing that reforms a Tax Collector is death.
Of course it could be that we only have free will if we only choose to do the right thing. Under that definition most people don't have free will. And could only achieve free will if they totally surrendered to God and became slaves of God
.I am addressing an audience that has never, and never will, do the homework you just posted needs to be done.
And just exactly what in the hell is that? Prob for a different thread.purity of spirit
And yet they knew the universe was created from nothing and that man was a product of that creation 6,000 years before science did.Well, sure. Why would anyone think otherwise, save for indoctrination? It was written at a time when people were abjectly ignorant of natural history and of the size and scope of the planet.The old testament is easier to explain through metaphor than to explain it by the historical record, or even by testing it's scientific accuracy.
No they didn't. Get that nonsense out of here. They claimed to "know" a lot of things, almost all nonsense.And yet they knew the universe was created from nothing and that man was a product of that creation 6,000 years before science did.
