Bones

You are taking the anomaly and applying it to the set. If your standard, being looks, is what determines gender, then 

"looks" determines perception of gender/sex to OTHERS

if someone tells me they are a "woman" then i will call them a "woman"

1. That voids almost ever transgender person from transitioning, as most of them look their sex. 
   
2. A person can somehow be a women in their youth and become a man? 
   

• Determinism entails that, in a situation in which a person makes a certain decision or performs a certain action, it is impossible that he or she could have made any other decision or performed any other action.
  
• Free will is the supposed power or capacity of humans to make decisions or perform actions independently of any prior event or state of the universe.
  

I accept the fact that we can only know God based on insufficient reasoning. Hence why I am pleased God chose to reveal himself through the Scriptures. 

p1. Humans were made good. 

p2. Therefore it is inconceivable that humans could have been made any "gooder". 

p3. A human who is able to contend morally reprehensible temptations is "gooder" than a human who cannot contend morally reprehensible temptations. 

p4. Humans (Adam & Eve) did not contend morally reprehensible temptations (the serpent)

c1. Therefore it is conceivable that there is a "gooder" human that could exist. 

Ergo. A contradiction arises between p1 and c1. 

I am fine with p1.  I think that p2 is flawed since both the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil existed.

p3 is an interesting proposition.   Yet I can't agree with it yet. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by contend. It may be you mean resist. Yet I am still not comfortable with the term "gooder".  We will have to explore that further.  If you don't mind.

c1 again is probably true - but not necessarily flowing out of the above conclusions. 

Jesus, who Christians consider a new thing - like Adam, was also tempted from without.  the devil came to him and despite the thoughts being put to him - Jesus rightly rejected them all. 

So if Jesus was a "free" man who rejected all sin, why couldn't God make people like Jesus? That would be a true utopia - free will individual who chose only to do what is good.

He did make a person like Jesus. 

So gratuitous evils, such as animal suffering in the billions, serves some good to the future? This seems wholly implausible. 

That is not what I said. God is not utilitarian. The means and the ends matter.  The point I was making is that whatever world you can imagine, it would not be better than this one for the purposes it was made. 

If our world is the best possible world, then would you agree that every murder which occurs is not only morally acceptable, but morally obligatory? If we live in the best possible world, and in this world there are street mugging and whatnot, then the street muggings and whatnot must be apart of what makes this the best possible world. WIthout the muggings, it would not be as good. 

As I said above - I hold this in tension.  Out of the possible worlds that could have been created - this is the best possible one.

But on the other hand - every human is entirely responsible for their actions. 

So why not skip our world and create New Heaven? 

Just because someone wants to skip school because it contains bullies, does not mean that school is not the best option. 

But if the option of skipping school involved you being transferred into heaven, which is supposed to have all the "goods" of this world and much more, then yes I would take that option for there would tautologically be no harm in doing so. 

God has not given us that option.   I suppose he wanted us to learn something about good from the evil we witness.

Human nature places a blocking mechanism on free will to do what is possible and proper.  

You speak as though you believe you know all things.  Are you omniscient?  Is there anything in this universe you don't know? Given a very generous gift, I think you would know less that .05% of everything.  Are you really saying that because you find something pointless in your .05% of everything, that in the other 99.95% of everything that the answer might not be there?

We say humanity was made good.  They were made without sin. Sin, you will notice, or the temptation to sin, did not arise from within the person, it arose from outside the person, in the form of whatever the serpent was. 

Jesus, who Christians consider a new thing - like Adam, was also tempted from without.  the devil came to him and despite the thoughts being put to him - Jesus rightly rejected them all. 

So gratuitous evils, such as animal suffering in the billions, serves some good to the future? This seems wholly implausible. 

That is not what I said. God is not utilitarian. The means and the ends matter.  The point I was making is that whatever world you can imagine, it would not be better than this one for the purposes it was made. 

So why not skip our world and create New Heaven? 

Just because someone wants to skip school because it contains bullies, does not mean that school is not the best option. 

P1. All people have free will. 

Ok. But what does that mean?  Some Christians think it means free to do anything they want. Reformed folk think that there is not a logical connection between doing what one wants to do - and what one ought to do.  

Free will 

• the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.
  

The dictionary does not define the Christian notion of freewill anymore than the definition defines the Christian concept of God. We understand the meaning from the bible itself.  I don't hold to the idea that freewill is something without constraint. If that is your definition then it is not the Christian definition and then your entire argument becomes irrelevant to me.  I take the view that our free will - whatever that actually means - is constrained by lots of things. I would like to fly. But I can't. I am not a bird. I would like to marry a beautiful model.  I can't because she is already married to someone else. 

P2. People in heaven do not sin.  

There is no sin in heaven.  It is not a matter of whether they do not sin. There is no sin in heaven.

Is there no sin in heaven because it is forbid, or because people choose not to sin? 

In the New Heavens there is no sin. God has destroyed it completely.   People don't want to sin even if they could choose.  Their eyes have been opened to the reality of God and his power.

God did create people without sin.  He made them and he put them in the Garden of Eden.  They chose to rebel and sin. 

I would say that his omniscience has led him to create this world because it was the best world of any potential scenario.  And any other scenario would have been  much worse. 

I think I have suggested that the New Heavens is a world without sin.  That is the only better world.  

you don't know what someone looks like naked.

I'll say what I said before, and that is oughtn't it be the priority of society to first  what is most accurate and then act in accordance with it? 

It is important to maintain a constant awareness of and vigilant respect of our epistemological limits.

some things are PROVABLY TRUE

some things are PROVABLY FALSE

these two categories cover less than 1% of human knowledge

P1. All people have free will. 

Ok. But what does that mean?  Some Christians think it means free to do anything they want. Reformed folk think that there is not a logical connection between doing what one wants to do - and what one ought to do.  

• the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.
  

P2. People in heaven do not sin.  

There is no sin in heaven.  It is not a matter of whether they do not sin. There is no sin in heaven.

C1. People can have free will (by virtue of being people) and not sin (by virtue of the existence of heaven). 

you premise is true only in the fact that people in the New Heaven are able to be sinless.

C3. God has created people who have free will and do not sin.

God is not making new people in the New Heaven. 

C4. God can create people who have free will and do not sin. 

Yes, he can but not flowing on from C3 as implied by you.  

P1. God is that who can institute any possible world 

I don't agree with this premise.   Holiness is God's chief attribute.  The world he creates - must accord with holiness in the manner in which he made it. 

P2. A world in which free will exists and no sins occur is possible (evidenced by heaven and the existence of God himself, who is presumably sinless and free) is possible

C1 God could have instituted that world 

I think God created our world - and that this was good and therefore everything else is pure speculation.

there are women who are "biologically female" and still look very much like men and are commonly mistaken for men

there are men who are "biologically male" and still look very much like women and are commonly mistaken for women

BUT THIS REALLY REALLY REALLY BEGS THE QUESTION OF WHY YOU THINK ANY OF THIS IS "IMPORTANT"

why do you need "acknowledgement" of such a thing ?

Conservatives may not happen to like this social convention, and prefer that pronouns used in conversation always mapped onto biology or the gender assigned at birth. However, the fact that progressives disagree, in no way implies that they are confused about the science of biology.

1. buy the ddo domain and transfer all data onto it and renaming the cite (DDO is bound to still have a good fanbase)
   
2. send some recruiters over to save the stragglers. 

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I think that the stipulation that there existed people travelling to numerous drop boxes is different to the veracity of the diagram depicted -

Let's stipulate that in any city of millions it should be a very simple exercise to discover patterns of 5 visits in 30 days by people numbering in the thousands travelling between any two given high traffic areas- between the county courthouse and a nearby McDonald's, for example.

The veracity of the diagram depicted by itself should be utterly disqualifying. You say "30 drop boxes in a single day" because D'Souza presented you a graphic showing one person traveling to 28 locations in one day.  When the Post points out there were not drop boxes at most of those locations, Phillips confirms the deception by saying that the graphic should not be interpreted literally. 

The claimants made almost no effort to establish who these people were or the legitimacy of their travel. 

Which life would you save, your 8 year old or your 5 year old? Which one deserves life more? How about your child with handicap or your child with no handicap?

"If God exists, God is the most prolific abortionist that exists. "

So you are saying God if He exists is nothing but evil. You are saying that He programs people to do evil and He is ultimately responsible. So where does your evilness fit into the equation? Because I am sure you are not perfect. Did God program you to do bad things so that you could blame Him? And if He created and acts out evil...how do you explain the good in the world? God does evil....mankind does good? 

1. Miscarriage is the instance in which a pregnancy has failed and thereby caused the death of a baby. 
   
2. Miscarriage is a natural occurrence. 
   
3. "God constructed nature" 
   
4. Therefore when I say that God is a prolific abortionist, I mean that by his creation, millions of babies die. 
   

"On another note, would you rather abort 3 embryos which have reached the blastocyst stage, (approximately five to six days after fertilization) or kill a single child" 

I can honestly say that I don't want to see any human life killed, even the tiniest in the womb . If that which is created as a living human by God for God...I can't minimize its importance because to God it's all good and His creation. 

I had a miscarriage and did not know it. 

1. Commit 30 1st trimester abortions 
   
2. Kill 1 toddler. 
   

the phenotypic cluster which produces eggs

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