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@TheRealNihilist
My moral good is whatever makes people happy while not harming others.
First, there is a difference between moral good and preference and you confuse the difference. Preference is what you like. I like ice-cream. Does that mean you SHOULD like ice-cream too? Does that mean if you do not like ice-cream you should be put in jail or executed?
Moral preference or subjective relativism describes what is good and what is done as opposed to what should not be done. It is a description and personal like.
Morality, on the other hand, is a prescription and what everyone should do.
Three bachelors have a different idea of what makes them happy. They stay home every night making themselves happy not knowingly hurting anyone.
Joe is happy to drink every night into oblivion. He is addicted to alcohol.
It makes Fred happy to inject heron. He is addicted to drugs.
John is happy to watch porn. He is addicted to porn.
All three of these "goods" harm the person and may indirectly harm others too. Yet, if they did not, would you say these are "good" since the person doing them thinks they are good.
What is your morality?
Jesus summed my morality up in two commandments, love God and love others. Those two commandments sum up the Tem Commandments.
If you love someone you will not murder them, steal from them, covet something they have, lie to them, commit adultery on them, dishonour them.
Not only this, He said to love others as you love yourself, even to put others above yourself and serve them.
Now, the problem I see with your system of morality is why should I follow it? It may be "good" for you but what if I think differently? Why do I have to think the same way you do? What if someone else thinks their pleasure is the greatest good and they don't think that hurting people is off-limits as long as they achieve their goals.
Not only this but our opposing ideas of good may conflict. Logically that means at least one of us is wrong about our idea of good if good actually has an identity (I.e., A = A; Good = Good rather than Good =/= Good)
But how do you get to the identity of "Good" if morality is subjective? Good must have an objective, absolute, unchanging measure for a thing or else it is all relative. If that is the way you feel (relative) then how can you criticize someone who believes the opposite that you do? All you can do is say, "Each to his/her own."
All you can do is push your kumbaya on others and hope they agree. But what makes that good unless there is an unchanging value for good?
Now to the measurement or reference point for good. Unless there is a best how do you determine when you have arrived at better? Again, it is all subjective. What makes your subjective opinion the measure or fixed reference point? If there is no best good is always changing. How can that be? It loses its identity.
So, without an actual good, you live inconsistently with your belief because you do actually think (or at least I think you do) some things are wrong yet in your worldview everyone has their own idea. When someone steals your place in line you actually think that is bad. When someone steals your wallet, you are morally outraged. But why should that be so to them in a relative world of values? You think that eating people is wrong, yet a tribe in Papua New Guinea may think otherwise. You are on the menu. Now you definitely think this is wrong. There is no relativism about it. So, there a some things that have a definite wrongness to them, are there not?
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@BrotherDThomas
Regarding your pagan faith of Preterism, and the discussion thereof, what part of my statement to you in my post #86 didn't you understand after you RAN AWAY from our discussion, because what you thought you knew about the Bible, YOU BLANANTLY DIDNT! LOL"For laughable entertainment purposes, I will “discuss” your Satanic Preterism within the confines of this forum because I am on the road with my “Road to Heaven Bus” and do not have electric hook ups at all times for my computer, thus the time limits in the Debate area is not comparable."
What a complete cop-out.
The time limit is two weeks between rounds. That gives you over two weeks, probably four per round, to hash an argument.
Here is a link for you and the equally bible inept Ethang5 to use, it is called Reading comprehension 101.The two of you can take this class together, and subsequently, you two won't be making continued fools of yourselves, praise Jesus!
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@ethang5
If the debate is about who can post more underlined capitol letters in bold, you're in trouble! Lol.Brother Dee dee is a parody, he can't debate.
Well, during the debate I hope others deduct demerit points for poor grammar.
It sounds like he dines on Happy Meals. He needs more nourishment for his brain. No wonder he does not notice the cap lock is on while he types. (^8
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@Paul
Religion is all about you, God and your relationship with God.
Religion, for the most part, is a man-made invention (a god created in the image of humans), but the funny and amazing thing is that almost all reasoning people think about God. Our eight-year-old grandson is asking questions about death to his parents who are not Christians. He was profoundly saddened by the death of his dog three years ago.
Here you are thinking about God.
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Yes, religion can be an examination of yourself, and humanity, and life's ultimate questions.
Why do people believe in God?
Some do so because they look at the vastness and complexity of life and the universe and do not find an adequate answer in evolution and the many competing views of beginnings. Some see intelligence and information in what exists that exists apart from themselves putting it there. As scientists discover formulas and laws that explain some functions of the universe and our world these inquirers question how they could have arisen let alone been sustained by pure. blind, indifferent chance happenstance. It just does not make sense. They question why so much of the world's population has believed and does believe in a God or gods, as opposed to chance happenstance as the answer. They see the need for a necessary being in the explanation.
Most were trained from birth to believe, others begin to believe later.
True, but on the flip side some reason there is an innate human longing for God. They see the need for a necessary Being since they understand they are not it and how can they ever be sure or even make sense of the origins of the universe and life by their limited minds. They see information and meaning in everything they examine (minds find meaning and store information) but can't explain why in a meaningless universe, they should expect to see and understand things about the unexplainable and what ultimately is meaningless. They can't explain the uniformity of nature from a chance happenstance universe. It just does not make sense without intentionality and purpose behind it and they find that in the way things are and the way they operate.
Believers believe because they don't want to go to hell of course, that's one big thing.They do want to go to heaven, that's another thing.They want to be better more disciplined people, which is an advantage.They want to feel better and many report feeling more content as a result.They may want to quit drinking or have some other life crisis that can be eased by the adoption of religion.There are probably a lot of reasons, but they are all about you and what is going on inside you.
Do you prefer to live an unexamined life? If so, why are you on a religious forum? Why have you thought about such things? If you think and believe there is no God then eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die. Why bother with meaning and purpose? Do whatever you can get away with. That would be consistent with atheism, would it not? Why borrow from the Christian worldview? I contend that you can't live other than borrowing from such a worldview in ultimately making sense of life. And how well do you know the Christian worldview? How many times have you read the Bible?
Religion is an inwardly focused activity and that's what it's about.
Explanation - we were created with a longing and desire to know God. Some of us find Him and others go aimlessly through life with no ultimate purpose or meaning to it.
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@ethang5
PGA, Brother Dee reminds me of one of those guys who shout, "somebody hold me back!!" When they don't really want to fight, but are ashamed for people to know that they are yellow.He keeps begging you to quit. Lol.
I say let him show how much he knows about the Bible in a formal debate.
I bet he runs but I welcome a debate.
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@ebuc
Explain what your source of morality is and why your moral good is better than mine.Your and you nosense is the joke so please take your religous mythical nonsense where it belongs.My source is rational, logical common sense and that is something you avoid like the plague. Sad lack of intellectual integrity :--( Take it out of philosophy cause that is the only righteous thing to do. Sincerely, Ebuc
Oh, nice answer! Very in-depth. Remind me to ignore your posts.
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@ebuc
Read my simple lips/text:Please keep your Biblical nonsense in the Biblical religious forum as that is the only place it belongs.Biblical non-sense is not philosophical. It is religious, mythological non-sense, with a few good morals thrown in as well as some historical info that is sometimes corroborated with other such recordings.
What a joke.
Explain what your source of morality is and why your moral good is better than mine.
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@BrotherDThomas
YOUR NEEDLESS POST BECAUSE YOU HAVE FAILED IN DEFENDING CHRISTIANITY: "You can show others in the debate I challenged you to but don't expect me to subject myself to your ridicule and ad hominem attacks. Those kinds of tactics are morally devoid of truth and what happens when we engage in then is a muddle slinging match that goes nowhere. All that happens is that we both lose ground. "PGA2.0, what part of my statement to you didn't you understand, saying: "You are embarrassingly excused for the last time, and there is no need whatsoever for you to continue to remove one foot from your mouth to insert the other with spewing forth any more Devil Speak, accept your humiliating loss and try and move on the best way you can"LISTEN, YOU ARE DONE, FINISHED, KAPUT, ENDED, TERMINATED, EXPIRED, BROKEN-DOWN, AND WIPED-OUT, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!!! DO NOT CONTINUE TO EMBARRASS YOURSELF, JUST BE SILENT AND ACCEPT YOUR OUTRIGHT HUMILITY!NEXT?
Put your money where your mouth is. I challenged you to a debate. Either accept of cluck away.
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@ebuc
If there is no God then why is your subjective view on what is good any better than mine? Good luck with that.Keep your Biblical nonsense in the Biblical religious forum as that is the only place it belongs.
You are not my censor. In the discussion on morality, I find an objective, unchanging, all-knowing being as an adequate explanation for morality and I find subjective beings as devoid of explaining morality for the very reasons that what makes your changing views that are based on who knows what any better than my own?
Biblical non-sense is not philosphical. It is religious mythological non-sense, with a few good morals thrown in as well as some historical info that is sometimes corroborated with other.
Just scan the Philosophy Forum to find out how many others view the God argument as philosophically valid. God is mentioned many times in these threads. You just happen to take umbrage with me for doing so.
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@BrotherDThomas
Okay, I will add you to the ever growing list of FAKE CHRISTIANS that had to leave the discussion about their division of Christianity because they could NOT defend it and remain intelligent looking in the aftermath. The godly logic that Jesus has given you, He expected you to use, and not in any way try and Satanically rewrite his bible like you have tried in vain to do, and at your expense upon Judgment Day!You bailed out at the right time, because I didn't even start to show you how biblically ignorant you truly are in front of the members of DEBATEART, whereas you were leading yourself down the path to committing the Unpardonable Sin, of which there is no forgiveness whatsoever.Let DEBATEART know, and actually see, that you have utterly failed Christianity by RUNNING AWAY from it as explicitly shown with your last feeble post #88, where you must not forget, Jesus watched you easily perform this ungodly act. Jesus is NOT smiling in your behalf, but disgusted with you and your pagan acceptance of your Satanic cult named "Preterism!"With your Satanic presence here on DEBATEART, barring your avoidance, I was explicitly following the words of Jesus to prevent you from furthering your Devil Speak to the naive Christians that would believe your ungodly diatribe, as stated, to wit: "I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive." (Romans 16:17-18)You are embarrassingly excused for the last time, and there is no need whatsoever for you to continue to remove one foot from your mouth to insert the other with spewing forth any more Devil Speak, accept your humiliating loss and try and move on the best way you can.PRAISE THE TRUE JESUS' MODUS OPERANDI, A MANS MAN SAVIOR!
You can show others in the debate I challenged you to but don't expect me to subject myself to your ridicule and ad hominem attacks. Those ad hominem tactics are morally devoid of truth and what happens when we engage in then is a muddle slinging match that goes nowhere. Ad hominems are false arguments because they bypass giving evidence to support a view. Instead, they focus on attacking the other person. All that happens is that we both lose ground.
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@ebuc
Please take your irrational, illogical lack of common sense "slop" of biblical nonsense to the religous forum.It has no philosophical value whatsoever irrespective of your answering someones question or not. Biblical BS is BS irrespective of all else.
The biblical position has a lot to do with Philosophy. Philosophers try to answer the fundamental or ultimate questions of life. Such questions as,
1) What am I?
2) Who am I?
3) How do I know?
4) Why should I care?
5) What happens to me when I die.
These four or five questions are what worldviews are built upon plus one other fundamental question, Is there a God? The way you answer that one question is the way you look at life as a whole.
You don get because you dont want to get it. Biblical ego not any differrent than intellectual ego that refuses to face and accept rational, logical common sense when presented to them. Please take a hike to the Biblical religlous forum with your nonsense.
This is broken English. I am trying to read between the left out words as to your meaning.
Morality as to being completely subjective and thus shifting and changing or objective and fixed has a lot to do with whether there is a God or not.
If there is no God then why is your subjective view on what is good any better than mine? Good luck with that.
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@BrotherDThomas
YOUR PSYCHOTIC QUOTE: “Since it is impossible for God to die it was the human nature that died upon the cross and was resurrected three days later. Thus, it was a true sacrifice. Jesus, in His humanity, felt the same pain of suffering and death that human beings experience due to sin and death. You read into Scripture what it does not say or imply. Thus, you again expose you are ignorant of the scriptural teaching. “I have seen some really far-fetched explanations from truly ignorant fake Christians before, but you take the cake with your Twilight Zone rigamarole in explaining Jesus the way you did in your comical diatribe above! My sides hurt because of the laughter you gave me!Your Satanic Cult of Preterism states with specificity that Jesus is divine as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as within the Triune Doctrine. It DOES NOT say that Jesus is only in two separate and laughable entities like you proffer at the expense of laughter towards you by the members of DEBATEART!PRETERISM BELIEFS: https://www.preterist.org/about-us/what-we-believe/PGA2.0 FAILED IN ADDRESSING BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS:Regarding your complete failure in even trying to attempt to address all of the biblical contradictions that Stephen has brought forth, your response to me was “Buck, buck, buuuck.” Again, this proves beyond any doubt that you cannot even come close to dealing with biblical contradictions, other than to RUN AWAY from them, and we thank you for accepting the fact that you blatantly FAILED in this respect in front of the members of DEBATEART, and in front of the eyes of Jesus the Christ! (Hebrews 4:13). SATAN IS SO PROUD OF YOU!YOU ARE ON RECORD AT DEBATEART IN CALLING JESUS A LIAR!!!JESUS’ TRUE WORDS: “And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.” (1 Timothy 2:14)PGA2.0 LYING WORDS REPRESENTING SATAN: “Adam was created first. It was Adam that God held accountable for the sins of the world because just like Jesus Christ, Adam represented us before God.”Godly logic 101, that Jesus has given His creation, stipulates that since Eve partook of the forbidden fruit FIRST, she is held responsible for initiating original sin, period! Otherwise, why did our serial killing Jesus punish her by giving her severe pain at child birth and telling Eve that Adam shall rule over her?! In turn, Adam got a slap on the wrist for eating the forbidden fruit, even though he did not know good from evil until he ate from the fruit, to begin with. get it? Huh? Why do you allow yourself to be laughed at here on DEBATEART?YOUR EVER SO LAME QUOTE OF DENIAL: “I spent an elaborate amount of time in showing that God is not a murderer yet you do what cults and cultists are so good at, you twist my words to suit your purposes.”One of a “plethora” of examples of our Jesus, as the Hebrew God Yahweh incarnate, committing murder was as follows: “At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.”Now, you can turn yourself into a pretzel and spin doctor this proposition until you turn blue, but the fact remains that our Jesus, as God, MURDERED innocent children that knew not of what Pharaoh did to get our serial killer Jesus so upset, UNDERSTOOD? Then to make it even more embarrassing for you, you state under the above scenario, that Jesus nonetheless loves the little children that he MURDERED!!! With skewed logic like this, it is no wonder that the millennials on back jettison Christianity all together!You give Christianity a bad name for believing in the way you do, and not accepting the plain old facts like I do in that Jesus, as Yahweh God incarnate, is a serial killer, period! I have accepted this notion and move on and DO NOT make excuses for his factual murders.YOUR EQUALLY LAME DENIAL OF JESUS MURDERING INNOCENT CHILDREN: “News for you. We all die. Some God takes before others. Those who are innocent (i.e., in the sense that they have never done anything wrong) He restores to life with Himself.”Your notion shown above admits that our God murders innocent life, thank you as you are finally coming around to Jesus true MO! As in the case of drowning babies in His Great Flood, and it matters not to the mothers that watched in horror their drowning babies go under the waters of the sea for the last time, do you understand?! Our Jesus is truly an SOB, and we have to accept this as FACT without any psychotic Satanic spin doctoring to the contrary like you perform ad infinitum, do you understand? YES? Maybe?YOUR GRASPING FOR STRAWS QUOTE REGARDING JESUS: “No other human being lived a completely spotless life before God.”SIN: an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.Jesus as the Hebrew Yahweh God incarnate, murdered innocent children within the scriptures and is held accountable for such actions, whether He is God, the Son, the Fed Ex driver, or Homer Simpson, therefore Jesus sinned and is to be considered a serial killer. To state otherwise is psychotic and laughable. 2+2=4.For laughable entertainment purposes, I will “discuss” your Satanic Preterism within the confines of this forum because I am on the road with my “Road to Heaven Bus” and do not have electric hook ups at all times for my computer, thus the time limits in the Debate area is not comparable. Now, if this isn’t good enough for you, and you need to run away to save further embarrassment because of your ungodly division of Christianity, then so be it, do you understand? In other words, I do not have access to this forum on a 24/7/365 basis, which in turn, is a godsend for you!To use a more appropriate passage regarding your Preterism and foolish ungodly rhetoric, I will use this passage relating to you: “Answer a fool as his folly deserves, That he not be wise in his own eyes.” (Proverbs 26:5)Once again you are excused to follow one of the most Satanic Cultist divisions of Christianity, and that is, PRETERISM!
I am no longer open to your largely insulting drivel. If you want to formally debate Preterism I will set up the debate challenge. If not, thank you for the discussion!
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Please take your irrational, illogical lack of common sense, biblical nonsense to the religous forum.It has not philosophical value whatsoever.
I was asked various questions and I responded. Do not try to censor my freedom of speech. I was not addressing you so you do not have to read any of my posts. Just ignore them and I will ignore your slop.
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@zedvictor4
You assume that certain data is factual, which is nowhere near the same as data being factual.And your commitment and solidification is indicative of well established data conditioning.And the older you get the harder it is to re-programme.In that sense, all religious commitment is exactly the same process.It's just how you decide to order the data that makes you believe that you are the one that is righteous.And of course we all do exactly the same.So, can Christians be pro-choice?
They can be pro-choice but they are inconsistent with the teachings of the Bible. The unborn is a human being, scientifically documented, and it is an innocent human being. I could give your numerous verses that say that God does not condone the killing of innocent human beings but holds them guilty.
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.
As I said, I can give you the biblical teaching in numerous verses. Now, if you want to misinterpret that it is up to you.
Obviously. If that is how people choose to interpret and order the relevant data.
There is a correct and incorrect way of understanding what anyone says. If there was not a correct interpretation communication would not take place. As a Christian, it is your responsibility to correctly understand what God has said.
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@ludofl3x
You have argued that it is not a person. I have argued the opposite and have asked you to qualify whether a human being by nature is a personal being?You have not seen a reasonable response because this question doesn't make sense to me. Is a human being always a person, my answer is no. Before they're born they are embryos, zygotes, fetuses. Not people. Please clarify what a 'personal being by nature' means.
Well, if you are not sure (i.e., "doesn't make sense" and "please clarify") then you tell me the difference between a human being and a person?
When two human beings mate the result is what? It is another human being, not another kind of being like a fish. So the human zygote, embryo, fetus, is biologically the same kind of being. Can a human being produce another kind of being? Thus its nature is what it is.
I find your thinking here is ridiculous thinking and I borrow from the thoughts of others in explaining this to you. What are HUMAN embryos? What are HUMAN zygotes? What are HUMAN fetuses? They are human beings in various stages of growth. You were all of these STAGES during your grow cycle but that did not change what you were/are by nature, a human being and a personal being. You are you from conception to death, not someone else.
Greg Koukle drives this nature home with his examples of the Acorn. He asks, "When does an acorn become an oak?" He says, "An acorn never becomes an oak." An acorn is an oak." It is an oak in an immature form. By its nature, it is a tree and a specific kind of tree in an immature form. Thus, the specific embryo, zygote, fetus, is a particular and specific human being in an immature form, just different descriptions used of its stages of growth. It does not change its nature (what it is) as it goes through the stages of human growth.
Human nature is a combination of characteristics and traits shared by all humans that make us human and different from other life forms. Healthy mature humans have the ability to reason, think morally, think in abstracts, love, empathize, and be self-aware. As humans, we have a personality that you become at conception and are now aware of that you retain throughout your life that makes you unique in how you express yourself, how you act, how you are. Even though you go through physiological changes in your appearance and stages of growth you remain the same in your identity. Even though your environment influences your personality, it does not change what it is, you. So, with the physiological changes you can point back to a sonogram before you were born, a picture of you one minute after birth, at graduation, and one of you celebrating your eightieth birthday and say, that was me when... Thus, you don't change your identity. Even if you changed your name the essence that makes you unique remains.
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Definition of person:
1: human, individual —sometimes used in combination especially by those who prefer to avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes
5: the personality of a human being
Legal Definition of person:
1: natural person
2: the body of a human being
Medical Definition of a Person:
1. A living human.
2. The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.
3. The living body of a human.
4. Physique and general appearance.
Definition of a Person:
1. a human being, whether an adult or child:
2. a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.
How is it that a woman can decide to kill/murder her innocent unborn human offspring but if she decided to kill her innocent two-year-old, twelve-year-old, or twenty-year-old it is murder? Why two different sets of rules?Because an embryo is not offspring. It is an embryo. All the others are people. This is not hard
Yes, an embryo is the offspring of the male and female kind. It shares in the DNA of the two and that DNA is human DNA. 'Embryo' describes the offspring's level of development.
Definition of offspring
But how does that work in our environment, outside the womb?.Your environment is not part of anyone's body anymore and you are a person.
I never said the womb was part of the body of the unborn, yet it is where the unborn resides. The womb is part of the body of another being which shelters, feeds, nurtures, another human being.
Definition of environment
1: the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded
2a: the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (such as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival
b: the aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual or community
“Although it is customary to divide human development into prenatal and postnatal periods, it is important to realize that birth is merely a dramatic event during development resulting in a change in environment.”
The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology fifth edition, Moore and Persaud, 1993, Saunders Company, page 1
Rationally, you can't say that the unborn do not live in an environment called the womb. Now, if you want to be irrational then that is your business.
the newborn is dependent and reliant on the same woman for its life. Why can't she just end its life because it is undesirable too?Because, you guessed it, the newborn is a person.
A person is an individual who has a different personality from everyone else. The unborn human is also an individual, containing the DNA from its conception that is different from every other human being except in the case of twinning. Tell me, what is the difference between the unborn one minute before birth as opposed to one minute after birth? It is its environment. How does that change its personal nature? You seem to think it acquires a personality at the magic moment of birth. Personality is built into the kind of thing the human is. You do not acquire humanity at birth just as you don't acquire personality at birth. It is part of the kind of thing you are.
I think you confuse what one is by/with what one does. Even if I am not functioning as a person because I am asleep or in a coma, I am still that person. When I wake or come out of the coma I am still me. My function, what I do, does not make me a different being. I don't acquire a personal nature. I have built into my being a personal nature (what I am). The difference is in the level of development of that nature.
Human beings in loo of what they are (their nature) are personal beings.
there are very few good reasons why abortion is ever justifiable.THis makes it sound like you think there are also circumstances where it IS justifiable. If you think that, say that, but this seems disingenuous as it is.
I believe I answered this in another post.
I do not have a right with my body or because of it to kill an innocent human being. Why does the woman?Because the woman is making a choice about her OWN body. If you could carry embryos to term, I'd give you that choice to. As it is, you can only end the lives of PEOPLE. Not embryos.
What you are saying disgusts me for a specific reason. You are discriminating and devaluing the life of one class or group of human beings based on a distinction that you cannot prove as starting at birth, its personhood. If you can, then do so. If you can't, give the unborn the benefit of the doubt that it is a personal being that has not yet developed that personality.
Well, you must be including yourself in this grouping too then since you would also save the one as opposed to the many.If it isn't clear, I'm not included in that group because I don't think embryos are 1000 people. I think the child is a person. I've already said if you chose the embryos I'd have disagreed, but said "At least you're consistent that the embryos are in fact people, not just cells, as I see them."
Your feeling and thinking do not change what it is.
Here is another misconception many people have about the unborn, that they are just human cells or a group of human cells. The unborn is a unique, organism functioning as a whole, not just a human cell or group of cells.
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@3RU7AL
God tolerates our evil actions to a point and no further. Then He judges those actions in some way.Seriously, if your hypothetical god is so super-smart-and-super-powerful, why bother even making laws in the first place?
For one, they are a teacher to bring us to Christ. We see the injustice of sinful actions. We long for fairness and goodness to prevail, yet where there are subjective beings doing their subjective things, injustice follows. We have a standard to measure injustice against.
Nobody can interfere with god's plan right?
No, but if God interfered with everything we did we would either be judged or not have the volition to choose (not that we choose what is right without God's Word since we are in rebellion and have a sinful nature too).
I mean, it would be impossible to outsmart god right?
True unless you think you can outsmart Someone who is all-knowing.
It should be impossible to avoid god's ultimate justice, right?
True. You experience it in one of two ways, either on your own merit or on the merit of Jesus Christ. If you prefer your own then you will suffer the penalty for those wrong actions yourself.
Provided you believe you are good and have not violated God's good, just, and perfect standards. If not then you will be separated from God for eternity for what do light and dark, righteousness and evil have in common? The biblical God reveals the wages of sin is death. What kind of death do you think is spoken of, physical, spiritual, or both?
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@3RU7AL
...in which the liberal left has orchestrated a situation where the leader of the country, the President, is presumed guilty by accusation without any due process by Adam Shiff and the Democrat Party.The CONSTITUTION gives the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES broad discretion in creating its own RULES OF IMPEACHMENT.
Not to go searching for crimes but to investigate them. Even then shifty Shiff is not allowing a due process or any fairness. The law states innocent until proven guilty. The Dems have already convicted Him of guilt without showing any crimes but they continue to look.
This CONSTITUTIONAL POWER is exactly the same power that allowed REPUBLICANS to impeach Clinton for a non-criminal act.
He continually lied to Congress.
An act, I'd like to mention, which was discovered in the course of a COMPLETELY UNRELATED INVESTIGATION regarding some real-estate-deals (White Water). Clinton's action was considered GROSSLY INAPPROPRIATE and therefore was ACTUALLY IMPEACHED. Yes, Clinton was IMPEACHED under the exact same process that is happening today.
Not at all the same. Where do you get your information - the Communist News Network?
It was bipartisan. This current hearing is totally partisan.
Clinton was allowed to call witnesses, cross-examine witnesses, have his lawyers present during the finds, etc. Shiff has an iron fist over who can even speak. He also shuts down the due process and denies the Republicans their say.
Congress is not held to the same standards as a civil or criminal court.
The Intelligence Committee should be involved in matters of national security, not a fishing trip. Meanwhile, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others are ignored to a large degree and put on the backburner.
The Judicial Oversight Committee would have been a better choice in an Impeachment Hearing yet the Dems have nothing to impeach but innuendo and second and third and fourth hand testimony. It is a pathetic display of injustice.
For 2.5 years they went on a witch-hunt with the Muller investigation. When that found nothing they went on another fishing trip. Not only this, 19 hours after Trump was sworn into office the Washington Post had already started the impeachment rumour. It was reiterated by Democrats or Media during every month of Trump's presidency.
They are granted broad discretion in creating their own RULES OF IMPEACHMENT.
They make it up as they go to give the appearance of misconduct and high crimes. Any rules that deny the accused rights is not a fair hearing.
This wing of the government is very corrupt, IMO, and is corrupting a massive number of US inhabitants by its use of the media and propaganda.I agree that the government is very corrupt and is aided by its use of media and propaganda, WHICH IS PRIMARILY DESIGNED TO TURN CITIZENS AGAINST EACH OTHER BY SPREADING OPINIONS DISGUISED AS FACTS.
I speak of the Democrats. It is the deep state, operating to undermine the elected president.
The opinions disguised as facts have come from the liberal mainstream media who have an agenda. Their stories have been discredited time after time.
Its policy of ignoring justice by rewarding illegal activity (i.e., Illegal immigration, abortion on demand or even promoting killing the newborn after birth, drug use, etc),None of your examples are REWARDED.
Not following? The Dems want to reward illegal immigration by giving all these illegals free healthcare, free schooling, free everything at the cost of the American citizens. The policies of the progressive less will bankrupt your country and turn it into a welfare socialist state where only those at the top have any riches.
...ignoring poverty to seize power, and finding any means necessary to obtain power is wrong.Well, sort of. How do you propose convincing the RICH AND POWERFUL to SELF-REGULATE?
I don't know and I recognize the problem but if you kill free-enterprise with limits and constraints you will kill jobs and creativity.
These rich people also promote jobs and prosperity.
Does your old book have any clear guidelines for this? Or does it just say, "pray and ask god".IMO, your country will go in one of two ways depending on the next election. Either this corruption in the deep state will be purged or your country will reap what it sows and head down the road to socialism and big government where the corrupt bureaucracy pads its pockets at the expense of the rest.THE DEEP-STATE IS GOING NOWHERE, REGARDLESS OF THE ELECTION, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE DEEP-STATE.
That may be true, but the only one I feel who has a chance of exposing it is Trump. The deep state is corrupt and it needs to be exposed and eliminated. Criminals need to be put behind bars.
If it goes that way it is only a matter of time before you will see the judgment of such actions.Are you kidding me? This administration has done NOTHING to mitigate corruption.
I am convinced the Obama White House, State Department, FBI, CIA, and to some extent, the Dems are responsible for the corruption. Time will tell unless the Dems continue to do what they are good at doing, covering up.
Throughout history, eventually, the fate of nations is decided by the evil of its people. There is a measure beyond which God brings judgment.I'm sure everything is happening exactly as your hypothetical god intended from the beginning of time.
God permits (permissive will) people to do what they do until they fill up the measurement of sin. Then His wrath for the injustices is experienced.
What a glorious and perfect world has this god wrought.
Yes, it is. What a shame that we have ruined it with our greed and sinful actions.
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@3RU7AL
Miller concludes, "So, we have international and extreme violence and unusually decadent (and destructive/dangerous) religious practices...." And with this in mind, let's ask the next question: Had the Canaanites been left alone, what would our world be like today?The question, "Had the Canaanites been left alone, what would our world be like today?" is an appeal to fear and an appeal to ignorance.There are many societies that were not slaughtered by the Israelites that practiced many if not most of these same rites.
Israel was going into the land God gave them. These tribes or"nations" were either inhabiting the land or were neighbours. What did God tell Israel? He told them to drive out the inhabitants of the land. Do you think the Canaanites were going to go willingly? Knowing God was going to purge them from the land they had the opportunity to leave beforehand. They did not so God instructed them to kill every one of them, except of course for the virgins. I will still have to get into that discussion.
God is concerned with His people and with their relationship to Him. He does not want foreign peoples to influence the way Israel worshiped or the way God was instructing them to live. But that is precisely what happened. Israel, in all the years they inhabited the land it was seen that only briefly did not seek after the gods of those around them, including Baal and child sacrifice.
Namely, the Romans and the Egyptians.
Again, God is addressing an OT people where customs and beliefs are different from today. Glenn Miller has documented this very nicely. Isreal was going into the Promised Land, before the exile, before the Romans. God had already brought judgment on Egypt for their harsh treatment of Israel. That was behind Israel. Now they were going to a new land that God had given them and the peoples around did not respect this, even after (I'm convinced) hearing how God had given victory to Israel.
And the world is exactly as it is today.
Are you serious? In what way are you speaking? The covenant with OT Israel does not exist today. OT Israel was dispersed during the victory and destruction of Jerusalem and Israel in AD 70. After that Israel could no longer live up to the covenant in the prescribed way they had agreed to. The curses of Deuteronomy 28 was poured out on them for their disobedience.
I can expand on this with a number of reasons and some biblical quotes but I'm running short on time tonight. I will try and remember to follow up on the saving of the virgin girls tomorrow.No rush. It sounds like basic animal instinct. For example, when a male lion takes over (invades) a pride it kills (and or banishes) all the males, and spares all the females.
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@3RU7AL
God has said, You shall not kill/murder.And yet this same god demanded repeatedly that "his people" kill every man, woman, and male child of their enemies (saving all of the virgin females to serve as slaves of course).The OT explains the reason why God brought judgment on them time and time again. These people did evil in God's sight.I see. So, where in the ten commandments does it say "do not kill - except - if that person or their parents and or their town is evil"??I thought your old book said something about, "love thine enemy" or somesuch.
Exodus 20:13 (NASB)
13 “You shall not murder.
13 “You shall not murder.
That is a separate commandment.
There is a difference between murder and righteous justice. Just as the Canaanites and Amalekites were warmongers, murderers, wrongdoers in many different ways God was addressing their injustice and the limits of His patience with them by clearing them from the land that Israel was to occupy. He was making sure they would not pollute His chosen people with their idolatrous ways and beliefs that went contrary to God's holy and just ways.
It does say to love your enemies, in both testaments.
They threatened Israel and their worship of God. By conquering the land God eliminated the threats that would have continually come from these people.By this same standard, does your hypothetical god generally endorse the wholesale slaughter of any non-believers and or oppressors of believers?Don't you claim that the principles distilled from your old book are "objective immutable eternal laws of morality"??
The covenant God made with Israel included the Ten Commandments and 613 Mosaic commandments. Those 613 commands were specific to Israel but also had principles that we can learn from and apply to our laws today. As for the Ten Commandments, Jesus summed them up in two - love God and love your neighbour.
Loving your neighbour does not involve killing them for no reason or for greed and covetousness.
Loving God does not involve you treating those made in His likeness and image in an unloving manner. It involved doing what is just and right.
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@3RU7AL
Again, if God takes an innocent life He will restore it.How do you know this? Which passage in your old book makes this claim?
There are many. I will give you a few.
First, I will establish that God as Judge does not hold those human beings who take innocent life as guiltless.
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.
So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you.
‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Thus says the Lord, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
2 Chronicles 7:18-20 (NASB)
18 then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’
19 “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion, and not a sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
God does not condemn the innocent but rescues them. If they die they are rescued in the resurrection of the dead. Those in Christ Jesus are innocent, not in and of themselves but because of what He has done on behalf of their trust, faith, and belief in Him.
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.”
The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
The righteous will inherit the land And dwell in it forever.
What land? I believe it is speaking ultimately of the heavenly land.
May they be blotted out of the book of life And may they not be recorded with the righteous.
Before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness And the peoples with equity.
But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children,
“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
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And finally, here is an important teaching for you and me:
and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
For the Lord loves justice And does not forsake His godly ones; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.
For the Lord will not abandon His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
God does not forsake His people. They are rescued after their time of trial and trouble and live forever in His presence.
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.
Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,
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@SkepticalOne
Have they increased the time limits on debate on this site? I thought it was 72 hours per round.
The last debate I had with Ragnar, I believe, was one week per round for each participant instead of three days. I believe I also noticed a two week period. I'm not saying for sure that I am correct, or that if so it is still the case.
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Yes, I just checked: Time for argument --> One week
If that is still the case I am for that timespan or even a two week one. My wife is sick so I spend lots of time with her. Sometimes it takes more time away from my days than at other times. It depends on the day.
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PS. I am through with selective judges too. I think the elites are just as biased, just in a more sophisticated and subtle way. (^8
I would want an open debate and I would not think it fair of those that I have debated with or have judged my debates in the past judging our debate. I don't know if you feel the same way about yours? However, since an open debate always anyone to participate I will have no choice if they do judge it.
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@ludofl3x
You have argued that it is not a person. I have argued the opposite and have asked you to qualify whether a human being by nature is a personal being?You have not seen a reasonable response because this question doesn't make sense to me. Is a human being always a person, my answer is no. Before they're born they are embryos, zygotes, fetuses. Not people. Please clarify what a 'personal being by nature' means.
Do you have a nature that is human or some other kind of nature, say the nature of a bird (in most cases) or a bee? Thus, is it your nature as you grow to be a human being instead of another kind of being? One of the attributes of birds or bees is that they fly. If you have a nature of a bird or bee, do you fly or grow into that nature? Is the nature of a bee a nature that allows it to fly?
Human beings do not fly by their natures. One of the attributes of a being possessing a human nature is personhood. It is built into the genetics of a human being also to be a personal being. As that human being grows, the traits of personality become more apparent. Those traits are inherent in the makeup of the human being. They do not acquire them from some outside source but develop from what the human being already is.
Can you support a counter-argument? Can you show precisely when personhood begins if it is not something built into us because of our inherent nature?
How is it that a woman can decide to kill/murder her innocent unborn human offspring but if she decided to kill her innocent two-year-old, twelve-year-old, or twenty-year-old it is murder? Why two different sets of rules?Because an embryo is not offspring. It is an embryo. All the others are people. This is not hard
The embryo has twenty-three chromosomes from the woman and twenty-three from the male (usually unless a genetic defect is present). Thus, it biologically carries as part of the makeup part of the woman's makeup. It is its own being at fertilization because two different sets of chromosomes combine at that time to create a unique new collection that is different than the one or the other. It becomes a living entity of its own at conception.
Nevertheless, it shares with the woman's genetic makeup. Thus it is her offspring. It is biologically connected in that sense. Some of the features, traits, characteristics, attributes present in the woman will be shared with the unborn, and later newborn, child, teen, and adult.
How do you know when 'person' begins? You make an artificial distinction at birth. Prove to me this is precisely when a person starts to be,
But how does that work in our environment, outside the womb?.Your environment is not part of anyone's body anymore and you are a person.
The womb is still an environment, and you make a distinction of being able to kill a human being in one environment yet not another.
Therefore, there must be another reason you deem it okay to kill one in the one environment yet not the other. You say that it is because the one inside the womb is part of the woman's body. It is not part of the woman's body. It is a separate body unless you think the woman has a penis or two female genitalia? Is that what you believe?
the newborn is dependent and reliant on the same woman for its life. Why can't she just end its life because it is undesirable too?Because, you guessed it, the newborn is a person.
So you do not hold all human life as equally valuable. You join the long list of others, such as Hitler, the slave owner, the apatheist, the Hindu cast, and a whole host of others who treat some humans as more privileged than others. You also join the list of those who arbitrarily castigate some human beings as sub-human, sub-persons, or non-persons unless you can establish why personhood begins at birth. Congratulations!
there are very few good reasons why abortion is ever justifiable.THis makes it sound like you think there are also circumstances where it IS justifiable. If you think that, say that, but this seems disingenuous as it is.
Yes, there are times when I believe abortion justifiable. The only time is when the woman's life is threatened and by continuing with the pregnancy the woman will die, and not only the woman but the unborn also because we do not have the technology to properly sustain it, if at all, and give it the nutrients and support it that it requires and that it gets within the gestation period, and especially the early part of that period of existence.
Some may also argue that another justification for abortion would be a genetic mutation. I have not made my mind up completely on this issue yet. I still find it hard to justify because God is the giver and taker of life and we are created in His image and likeness. Thus we destroy someone who is created in His image who is innocent. That is murder. Murder is taking an innocent human life. Once we start taking one innocent life we open the door to do the same with other innocent lives.
I do not have a right with my body or because of it to kill an innocent human being. Why does the woman?Because the woman is making a choice about her OWN body. If you could carry embryos to term, I'd give you that choice to. As it is, you can only end the lives of PEOPLE. Not embryos.
I do not have the choice to kill/murder another innocent human being. I know it is not right to do so. Why do you think it is right the woman is given this choice and not me? Again, the unborn is not part of her body. I cannot do with my body as I like when that involves hurting or killing an innocent human being. Why is the woman permitted to do this? The unborns natural home is the womb.
Are you suggesting that is is okay because the unborn is dependent on the woman? If so we can discuss this issue. Are you saying that because someone is dependent on someone else the dependent being is expendable? Thus, the newborn or the two-year-old should also be expendable??
Well, you must be including yourself in this grouping too then since you would also save the one as opposed to the many.If it isn't clear, I'm not included in that group because I don't think embryos are 1000 people. I think the child is a person. I've already said if you chose the embryos I'd have disagreed, but said "At least you're consistent that the embryos are in fact people, not just cells, as I see them."
Then you need to document your support for when a person begins to exist and why you feel that way so we can examine it.
Uh, cells instead of beings. You see the unborn as just human cells. Do you know what is the difference between a clump or group of cells and a human being? Please explain what is the difference so I can tackle the problem.
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@SkepticalOne
I'd love to have a formal debate on abortion again. My schedule is very busy, but I would make time for you should you be interested.
Yes, thanks, I'm interested, depending on the scope of the argument. I suggest we make it a week or perhaps the two weeks per person for argumentation. In that way, we both have a more than reasonable amount of time to respond. Would you like to send a private message or post the proposed topic here before issuing the debate, since I feel you probably have something specific you want to debate on the subject?
I am always interested in giving my best to defend the unborn through argumentation.
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@BrotherDThomas
YOUR SATANIC PRETERIST QUOTE:“No, you are mistaken. Jesus is not Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That is a Oneness Pentecostal doctrine and does not comply with God's Word. Jesus is not the Father or the Holy Spirit. God the SON became incarnate and became a human being.”NOW I SEE YOUR PROBLEM!!! You Satanically deny Jesus' divinity in the Trinity Doctrine, which is BLASPHEME on your part! No wonder you weren't making any godly sense! Now you really are a FAKE CHRISTIAN, in name only, and you will definitely pay upon Judgment Day because of your unrighteousness to the true word of Jesus!
No, I do not. In the one person of the Son, who became human, there resides two natures, that of God and that of Man. The NT makes a distinction when speaking of Jesus is acting in His human capacity as opposed to His godliness. The point is that at a point in time God stepped into humanity as a man to fulfill the righteous requirements no other human ever could and thus fulfill not only the law but restore those who believe to the right relationship with God once again.
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).The curtain is thrown back, now all of your Devil Speak makes sense, not only because of your pagan Preterist faith, but by also not believing in Jesus as our Jewish Yahweh God incarnate!!
I worship Jesus as God. I also understand that He is also a human being. God became human at a point in time. Thus, Jesus has two natures in the one Person.
YOUR PRETERIST SATANIC QUOTE:" For those innocents whose life was taken, He would restore that innocent life because God is just.”First thing, thank you for accepting the biblical fact that our Yahweh was a serial killer by taking innocent life away in many brutal and horrific ways, which to you is loving and just?
I spent an elaborate amount of time in showing that God is not a murderer yet you do what cults and cultists are so good at, you twist my words to suit your purposes.
The fact that you do not recognize that God is love and always does what is good (love is just and also longsuffering) tells me you are an idolater. As a loving Being, God hates sin and hates wrongful actions and justly punishes it.
An example of this alleged love that you purport Yahweh to have, can you believe the outright horror of a mother watching her innocent babies drowning in Yahweh’s Great Flood? Can an innocent baby that knows not of what their parents did to make Yahweh mad really be evil where they need to die a drastic drowning death?
News for you. We all die. Some God takes before others. Those who are innocent (i.e., in the sense that they have never done anything wrong) He restores to life with Himself.
Imagine an innocent baby hopelessly treading water in our Jesus’ Great Flood for an hour as they cry out in drastic horror to their mothers? Picture their muscles burning due to large amounts of lactic acid production, where when they finally give up, they went under and held their breaths as acidic carbon dioxide eroded their lungs until the unbearable pain forced them to inhale, where there was no air for them to breathe, and then they died suffocating!!! What makes this even worse for me, is the biblical fact that our Yahweh/Jesus god was watching these precious little innocent babies drowning a ghastly death and did nothing to save them! (Proverbs 15:3) To you this is loving and just???! HUH?
You are really good at presenting fallacious arguments of outrage!
Sin brought death into the world and we all die physically because of sin. Show me one human being who does not die physically.
Therefore, listen up! It is delusional and psychotic for YOU to postulate that under the above godly scenario, that our Jewish God Yahweh was loving and just!!! A true Christian like me accepts the fact that our Yahweh was truly a SOB at times, and moves on. Therefore, don’t be a fool in front of others by turning yourself into a pretzel by trying in vain to spin doctor away our God’s true modus operandi! Understood? You look foolish, where it is no wonder the millennials on back are not going into Christianity!
Again, you will have to answer before God for your disrespect (i.e., SOB) and for calling Him things He has Himself said He is not. You are the soin doctor in suggesting that God is not loving because He judges evil in humanity.
YOUR PRETERIST SATANIC QUOTE:“Not only this, our past sins and any sins we may commit in the future are fulling paid for in Jesus since He also took the wrath of God in our place.”First off, Jesus’ 3 day tomb nap and the pain He went through upon the cross was NOT a true sacrifice, because He did NOT truly die to save our sins, but arose upon the 3rd day alive again, get it?
Since it is impossible for God to die it was the human nature that died upon the cross and was resurrected three days later. Thus, it was a true sacrifice. Jesus, in His humanity, felt the same pain of suffering and death that human beings experience due to sin and death. You read into Scripture what it does not say or imply. Thus, you again expose you are ignorant of the scriptural teaching.
A real sacrifice is that you remain DEAD, period! A true sacrifice was done by our armed forces in WW2, where they would have loved to come back to life after being killed, but they did not! Get it? Furthermore, if Jesus has paid for all of our sins in our total life time, then there is no incentive not to sin! HELLO? Whereas the Hell bound Atheists that live a moral and ethical life without any type of sin hanging over them, are nonetheless destined for Hell upon their demise! Huh? How is that godly logical?
Again, you once again show your ignorance of Scripture. Not only do you unwisely call God an SOB, but you also mock Jesus' sacrifice and claim He did not die. The animal sacrifices gave their animal lives for the sins of the people. They were a substitutionary sacrifice. Their lives were offered in place of the sinners to restore fellowship with God. Animal sacrifices could never take away sin, just cover it until a sacrifice that could take away sin was offered. That sacrifice was Jesus Christ. A man sinned and a Man lived a righteous life before God and paid the ultimate price for sin - His human life. No other human being lived a completely spotless life before God. Thus all die. God had no reason to deny Jesus His human life. And all those who are in Christ Jesus (trust, honour, obedience, love) are also resurrected from the dead (death and separation from God) to once again be included in His presence.
YOUR PRETERIST BIBLE IGNORANCE HAS NO BOUNDS:“Thus just as a man sinned (Adam) and brought sin into the world, ….”Jesus H. Christ,
What does the 'H' mean and where do you find it in Scripture?
we can see that by being a Preterist, your ignorance upon the bible is without question!
You are good at projection. That is all you ever do.
It was EVE that brought sin into the world first, and not Adam! “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.” (1 Timothy 2:14).
Since Adam was made first, it was Adam who represented humanity. He was given the federal head by God.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—
With the text you give you are once again very selective. Here is the rest of the context.
1 Timothy 2:12-14 (NASB)
12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
Adam was created first. It was Adam that God held accountable for the sins of the world because just like Jesus Christ, Adam represented us before God. Adam, the first man sinned. Jesus, the Second Adam, did not.
Adam was not deceived. How do you explain this statement?
Your bible ignorance is tiring me, and if you don’t step up to the plate with true biblical knowledge for as change, I do not have the time to engage you as one of the most inept Christians on DEBATEART, understood? Yes?
The feeling is mutual. Ibid!
YOU FAILED TO REMOVE CONTRADICTIONS FROM ALL 200 NT VERSES: Unfortunately, you are who you pretend to be, and that is a defender of Christianity, which is the farthest from the actual truth. Let us just accept the fact that you cannot in any way show DEBATEART that the passages in question that are contradicting can be shown by you not to be contradicting!!! You have failed this endeavor in the eyes of Jesus with some of the most embarrassing excuses that Jesus and I have ever seen, and the sad part is the fact that you don’t have the sense to feel embarrassed about your failure! NO MORE EXCUSES, PERIOD! YOU ARE DONE!
Buck, buck, buuuck.
Now, like I’ve said before, you are going to have to show some knowledge of the bible to have the Brother D. in discussion with you, understood? I understand that you have a great weight upon your shoulders by swallowing the pagan and Satanic Preterist faith, and by not believing the biblical axiom that Jesus is our brutal serial killer Yahweh God incarnate, BUT, barring these two factions, either arise to the occasion of serious biblical discussion, or forever be known as a FAKE Christian and be equal to the equally bible inept Ethang5! Understood?You are excused.
I suggest we debate Preterism as opposed to your view. I'll set up the debate. Are you game? I think we have run the course of civil debate. Oh, wait, your first post started out rather barbaric. So is a debate in your future? (Run, Forest, run!) What are you wearing? Nikes? Adidas?
Answer a fool as his folly deserves, That he not be wise in his own eyes.
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@zedvictor4
Exactly.Selective data management, results in selective and temporary mind states.One is a Christian only for the temporary moments when one analyses the relevant data.
Christianity is a worldview that affects everything you do and how you look at everything. Yes, our existence on earth is temporary but my mindset is solidified. I think largely in view of the Christian framework and have for around forty years. Yes, I have grown in my degree of commitment and understanding.
One only cares when one temporarily decides to care.The rest of the time is spent managing the mundane but necessary, day to day existence stuff.So pro-choice Christian?
You can think it but it is and you are inconsistent with the Christian teaching.
It all depends on how the individual analyses the data and what the resultant conclusion is.
The data has a factual basis to it that you either interpret correctly or are in error.
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@ludofl3x
Good! You do not believe it is okay to kill human beings just because they are not as developed as you!!! Since the unborn is a human being and not as developed why are you then endorsing the woman's right to kill it?Straw man.
Not a strawman. It took a long time to clarify your thinking on the subject and it is still fuzzy but you have somewhat admitted by your arguments and statements that you feel the unborn is a human being, I think. If not I have offered to give scientific evidence that it is indeed so.
Thus, I have argued the unborn are being treated differently from other human beings. Now, why is this so? You have argued that it is not a person. I have argued the opposite and have asked you to qualify whether a human being by nature is a personal being? I have not seen a reasonable reply. You have also neglected to give facts against all human beings being personal beings.
I have asked you to tell me why the unborn are being discriminated against because of their level of development. We grow in our being. A two-year-old is not as developed as a twelve-year-old or a twenty-year-old but based on its environment, its level of development, its level of dependency, or its growth (size) you have singled out the unborn human being as more expendable than these other human beings based on the woman's "right" to choose.
How is it that a woman can decide to kill/murder her innocent unborn human offspring but if she decided to kill her innocent two-year-old, twelve-year-old, or twenty-year-old it is murder? Why two different sets of rules? How is this justice? How are all human beings applied equal justice? A law is made up to exclude some. You either ignore my concerns or make an arbitrary line in the sand of personhood beginning at birth. While society has made this the standard of law is it a just law? What about the natural rights of all human beings (amazingly, this right has been recognized by the UN, except in the case of the unborn. Again, how unjust)? The most basic natural right is the right to life. You or those you support (thus agree with), deny the most helpless and defenceless members of the human society this right. By doing this it sets a president. If one group or one class can be discriminated against and terminated because they are inconvenient or because they are not seen as equally valuable, why can't others? And this has been demonstrated throughout history. People like Hitler decide for a nation that the Jews do not meet his standard of personhood, or that they are sub persons. This can be demonstrated in their literature. Then a campaign is started to influence public opinion and propagate such views on the masses. Those who oppose are smeared and pressured, sometimes with physical force to change their minds. Eventually, the unborn become devalued people or blobs of cells to the masses. Organizations like Planned Parenthood promote and justify such unfairness.
So again, one of four reasons gives the woman the impression that the unborn is not the same or not equal to other human beings and can be disposed of.
1. Size
2. Level of development
3. Environment
4. Degree of dependency
An additional argument is also present, the woman has autonomy over her body. This basically means she gets to kill another human being because of her indifference to it or because she finds it inconvenient for some reason. Very seldom is because if it is not aborted it will kill her and also die. These reasons are witnessed in the statistics of abortion. That last reason would be grounds and the only grounds, IMO, for abortion.
Please show me the statistics where women who choose abortions mark down "because it's not as developed as me, I'm killing it" as their reason for making the choice. This isn't my argument at all. People have rights. This addresses the paragraphs later in your post as I can see, so I'm not quoting those and responding and repeating myself.
Obviously, if they see it as what it is, a human being, and decide to kill it anyway, then one of the six reasons given above come into play. Either they do not think it is a valuable human being until it reaches a particular level of development (usually birth as you have also sited) or some STAGE of development during the pregnancy such as brain function and development), they consider its environment as a justification to kill it because they support it and it feeds off the nutrients they supply, some of them look upon it like a leach or parasite. Once again they ignore its human worth in exchange for their own selfish wants. They place their own wants above the needs of the most vulnerable. They figure that because its environment is their womb they have autonomy over the life of the unborn. But how does that work in our environment, outside the womb? If I sustain my living off the land do I have the right to kill you with my body if you compete for the same food source? Does its level of dependency give her the right to kill it? If so, the newborn is dependent and reliant on the same woman for its life. Why can't she just end its life because it is undesirable too? There is great harm and inconsistency taking place here. Or perhaps she feels that because of its size it does not qualify. Well, the same argument could be made for others smaller than she is if it is based on size. So, there are very few good reasons why abortion is ever justifiable.
As I mentioned in my last post, the difference from one minute before to one minute after birth, biologically, is the environment. So, it is okay with you to kill human beings because of where they reside. Correct? If not, why?Straw man again.
No, it is not.
No one says it's okay to kill a person based on where they live (though many Christians have fought wars and killed many based largely on this principle, strange to bring it up!), and that's not the same as choosing an abortion at week 12 or 16 or 20.
Yes, it is saying just that. You are saying it is okay to kill a person inside a womb as opposed to outside unless you can establish exactly when personhood begins. You have not made that argument. You have ignored it.
A womb is an environment. It is the natural living quarters of the unborn human being just like your natural living quarters are the environment of your house and the surrounding area. Now, you have made a distinction based on environment when you issue personhood outside but not inside the womb. You are also making a distinction based on level of development when you list different stages of growth (12, 16, 20 weeks) as opposed to birth. Thus, all your arguments are inconsistent and when there is an inconsistency there is something dreadfully wrong with your thinking process.
You have a right to bodily autonomy.
I do not have a right with my body or because of it to kill an innocent human being. Why does the woman?
No one is having an abortion one minute before birth, either.
That is precisely what the governor of Virginia proposes, even after birth. How was he ever elected? It is because people can't think logically for themselves, they have been moulded into a particular way of thinking, or don't care about justice in such an important issue. There may be other reasons. Those just come to the surface in my thinking.
Embryos = people. Inconsistent?Inconsistent with choosing to let 1000 people die versus 1 and not being an immoral monster, as I see it.
Well, you must be including yourself in this grouping too then since you would also save the one as opposed to the many.
I explained my reasoning and you misconstrued it to mean that I don't believe all are human beings or equally valuable. When you present such a scenario there is only one option to choose from.
If the idea is to do the most good and embryos are the exact same thing as people, the only choice is to save the most you can. We've been over this and you've yet to say why that's wrong, you simply say "I chose the baby because it feels more pain I think, and probably has parents who love it."
I have said that it is not wrong to save the one or the many. I chose to save the one based on a few considerations. The pain level, the people affected, and my own bias. If I had a bias the other way, would you still raise objections? Can you answer that?????????????????????
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But God has our time (v. 26) in His hands.So, your god sanctions abortion in the exact same way it sanctions storm damage.
God does not sanction abortion. How do you arrive at that conclusion?
If God takes innocent life in the judgment of the guilty He will restore that life. If He takes an innocent life for other reasons (i.e., perhaps to draw us closer to Him and rely on Him more, or perhaps to cause us to think of life and its meaning) that event tends to do one of two things in us, draw us to God or repel us from God. There is/are a time/times in our lives when we tend to think about this issue of God's existence. You usually hear it in the form of the question, "Why would a loving God do such a terrible thing?" Then they proceed to critique God (Argument by outrage).
This hypothetical god knows all and controls all, with intentionality.
Hypothetical to you. God is real to me. He confirms Himself in my daily life as well as in everything made. By getting to know Him I come to understand and make sense of life.
The biblical God is revealed as all-knowing and sovereign. Sometimes God chooses to let evil exist for a time and for a purpose. But in time after time we see wording like this,
Genesis 15:13-16 (NIV)
13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
God tolerates wrongful action for a purpose. If He judged everyone the moment they sinned we would all be dead without any mercy shown us. Take as an example Sodom and .
Genesis 18:20 (NASB)
20 And the Lord said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.Abrahams asks for God's mercy here in that if Abraham can find ten good people the cities will be spared.
23 Abraham came near and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?” 26 So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place on their account.” 27 And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes. 28 Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 29 He spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose forty are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it on account of the forty.” 30 Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak; suppose thirty are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.” 31 And he said, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the twenty.” 32 Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose ten are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.” 33 As soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham the Lord departed, and Abraham returned to his place.
So, in both these two cases we find God's mercy.
1. God will not destroy Sodom if even ten righteous people are found there.
2. God waits (prolongs judgment) until the sins of a nation are heaped to the limit or measure before He brings judgment upon that nation.
3. God makes us realize that our sinful actions affect and have a detrimental effect on us and those around us. Innocent people are hurt. That is what sin does. It not only hurts us but others.
Sometimes we, by our evil actions, witness the hurt of innocent people around us. God tolerates our evil actions to a point and no further. Then He judges those actions in some way. I find this is true of my Christian walk. When I sin I find those sins have a negative effect on the ones I love. I find circumstances go south until I confess those sins and repent. But I know one thing, in Jesus Christ I stand in righteousness before God because of His imputed righteousness, not because of anything I have done. If God judged me on my own merit I would be in bad shape. (^8
So, it is by God's grace and mercy that we are not judged immediately for our sins (or our sinful action is paid for by another innocent party who gracefully agrees to do so), that we would have a time to repent and seek His forgiveness. But the more a nation ignores and goes against God the more they heap up their sins to the final measure or to a point in which God judges that nation.
That is why I find the situation in the USA very interesting right now. It is a nation divided. There is tremendous corruption in government in which the liberal left has orchestrated a situation where the leader of the country, the President, is presumed guilty by accusation without any due process by Adam Shiff and the Democrat Party. This wing of the government is very corrupt, IMO, and is corrupting a massive number of US inhabitants by its use of the media and propaganda. Its policy of ignoring justice by rewarding illegal activity (i.e., Illegal immigration, abortion on demand or even promoting killing the newborn after birth, drug use, etc), ignoring poverty to seize power, and finding any means necessary to obtain power is wrong. IMO, your country will go in one of two ways depending on the next election. Either this corruption in the deep state will be purged or your country will reap what it sows and head down the road to socialism and big government where the corrupt bureaucracy pads its pockets at the expense of the rest. If it goes that way it is only a matter of time before you will see the judgment of such actions. Throughout history, eventually, the fate of nations is decided by the evil of its people. There is a measure beyond which God brings judgment.
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God has said, You shall not kill/murder.And yet this same god demanded repeatedly that "his people" kill every man, woman, and male child of their enemies (saving all of the virgin females to serve as slaves of course).
The OT explains the reason why God brought judgment on them time and time again. These people did evil in God's sight. They threatened Israel and their worship of God. By conquering the land God eliminated the threats that would have continually come from these people.
I find that if you want to know something of the history of the ANE J.P. Holding and Glenn Miller are well informed. J.P. Holding notes some of the things known about the Canaanites here,
Politically the Canaanites were aggressive and warlike. Religiously we have this data:
...the list of Canaanite "religious" practices included:
- Child sacrifice (with at least some of it in fire)
- Incest
- Bestiality
- Homosexual practices
- Cultic prostitution--both male and female
Miller concludes, "So, we have international and extreme violence and unusually decadent (and destructive/dangerous) religious practices...." And with this in mind, let's ask the next question: Had the Canaanites been left alone, what would our world be like today?
I can expand on this with a number of reasons and some biblical quotes but I'm running short on time tonight. I will try and remember to follow up on the saving of the virgin girls tomorrow.
This hypothetical god demanded child slaughter.
God forbade child sacrifice and brought judgment on the Canaanites, Amalekites, and others.
Again, if God takes an innocent life He will restore it.
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The historical accuracy of an old book does not support any supernatural claims within that same book.History is a confirmation of what was spoken before the event happened. Is that a reasonable statement?I think you're describing prophecy.
Yes, that is correct.
Let's say that your old book contains 100% verifiable prophecy.Accurate predictions of historical events - does not - support any supernatural claims within that same book.
But the books/writings/gospels/letters do express information that is later confirmed by history.
It gives reason to trust other things said as true. It is just another verification that what is said is reasonable to believe.
What is more, the way prophecy is interwoven through Scripture by around 44 different authors all claiming to speak from God gives another reason to trust the revelation is from God since these prophecies come about as revealed. Then to add to this, the number of prophecies or predictions all coming about as predicted is something not witnessed by other human beings. There are over 600 concerning the Messiah alone. They point to a specific individual, coming through a specific lineage, at a specific time, to specific places, in relation to specific things or about specific events, etc.
You give a few predictions about the same individual (Donald Trump). That is reasonable considering Donald Trump was a well-known public figure who was outspoken about politics. Jesus is an obscure figure from an obscure town who others are enthralled in His teachings and they also witness as being crucified and they claim He has risen from the dead with severe cost to them. Most are persecuted and killed because of their belief, yet they do not back away.
As I said, there is also the typology in the OT that speaks to this same person, Jesus. The typology, imagery, and spiritual teaching derived from the physical OT is massive. It would take me many, many posts to tell of just what I know and I am not nearly as knowledgable as many others on the same subject.
Each individual claim must be verified and taken on its own merits.
The thing is, it has been my experience no matter how reasonable the biblical and historical evidence of a biblical claim, those who don't want to believe will not.
There is no number of accurate claims that gives a person, or an old book, BLANKET CREDIBILITY.
For instance?
What kind of prophecies about real events were predicted beforehand and came about as said?It may surprise you but rise of ISIS was predicted way back during late 80s. Shocked? But it’s true. A Bulgarian fortune teller who died 20 years ago warned of the rise of ISIS by claiming there would be a 'great Muslim war' in 2016. [LINK]
"It may surprise you but rise of ISIS was predicted way back during late 80s. Shocked? But it’s true. A Bulgarian fortune teller who died 20 years ago warned of the rise of ISIS by claiming there would be a 'great Muslim war' in 2016."
A great Muslim war? The Muslims have been fighting forever. Safe prophecy. What great Muslim war are we speaking of in 2016?
"In 1989, she is said to have made reference to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. She once said: 'Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. ' She added that 'innocent blood will gush."
Very vague. Did she actually say this would happen in 2001 or make specific reference to the World Trade Centers? Horror, horror...says nothing about the World Trade Center. It could be in reference to anything. Anything can be read into them with the vague language.
"The pensioner once predicted that the 44th US president would be African American - but she also warned that he would be the 'last US president'. 2025- Europe population will be zero."
Okay, let's test these two prophecies. Obama will again become president, the last US president? Well, what about Donald Trump? He is the 45th president.
Let us see if Europe's population is zero in 2025.
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"Looking at Baba Vanga’s predictions from a skeptical point of view, there are a couple of things that are worthy to mention.
First of all, all those predictions being widely shared on social networks have nearly no actual sources.
In fact, the only thing that we can connect to Vanga is a book published in 2010, called The Weiser Field Guide to the Paranormal, where it is claimed that Vanga foretold the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Chernobyl disaster, the correct date of Stalin’s death, the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk, the September 11 attacks, Topalov’s victory in the world chess tournament, the tensions with North Korea.
So there you have it.
More alleged prophecies for 2019, which are, surprisingly, similar to predictions she is believed to have made for 2016, 2017, as well as 2018."
Despite these prognostications of Russian staying power, the Soviet state was actually in grave danger.Meyer declared this in stark terms:"Now let us consider the implication of our assertion that if the Soviet Union doesn’t take the West in the next 20 years or so, it never will: it means that if present trends continue, we’re going to win the cold war."Meyer was right. The Soviet Union collapsed only eight years later. [LINK]The Simpsons has almost prophetic abilities.These are pictures of Donald Trump as president. In the year 2000, they aired an episode where they said that Donald Trump would become president. The episode below was aired in 2015, before Trump had been elected. They predicted a presidency 16 years before it happened.In this episode, Homer was trying to vote for Obama, but the machine changed his vote to McCain. That was aired in 2008. Then in the 2012 elections, lots of people said the machines were changing their votes. [LINK]
Every link given takes me back to the same link.
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Little Amir was killed by an Israeli airstrike.You probably didn't know so you wouldn't have cared.
If I don't know how can I care? Not only that, evil has a way of hurting the innocent. Evil begets evil and if good does nothing evil grows. What was done to provoke the Israelis to attack? Are you a Palestinian Arab? Are they willing to let bygones be bygones and live in peace? Are they innocent of harming others?
Read this and you might care for a few fleeting moments.
Read what?
Tomorrow you will have forgotten.Temporary mind states.And normal hypocrisy.
Some things have remained with me since I first learned them.
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YOUR LACK OF LOGIC 101 QUOTE:“First, what is the difference between you taking someone's life and God taking that same life? I await your answer.”If I murdered someone, and our Jesus as Yahweh God incarnate murdered someone, I am not called “All loving and forgiving” like Jesus would be called in the irrational dichotomy that prevails in the aftermath, get it? Huh? Maybe? Do you need further clarification? In turn, I await you wiping the egg from your face once again by making such an ignorant statement.
All life is God's to give and take. It is not ours. Since God is sovereign the commandments do not apply to Him. For instance, how can He steal? He owns the cattle on a thousand hills. He owns all things. How can He covet what He already owns? How can He lie? It is impossible for Him to lie. How can He worship other gods? There are none, just those that are called gods. They do not have the power or majesty, nor are they worthy of worship. How can He murder? Murder is unjustifiable killing. God forbids the taking of innocent blood. When you murder you kill someone made in God's image and likeness. When you murder you are killing something that belongs to God. It is not your right to do so. It is His to take and in His time. And He will never take an innocent life without restoring it because He is loving, pure, and just. Thus when the Son subjected Himself to the Father by becoming human His life was restored because of His innocence.
But regarding killing, can God do with what belongs to Him whatever He likes? Yes, and you will notice that any time God brought a nation against another nation is was in judgment for that nation's unrighteousness and evil. Thus, His justice and goodness were made known to those who rejected Him. Would you say it is good for a judge to do what is wrong and ignore punishing the guilty? For those innocents whose life was taken, He would restore that innocent life because God is just.
God is also loving, thus He has set in place a way that those who are guilty may be forgiven. That means is the Son who became flesh and blood - human. The Son did this to meet God's righteous decrees and laws, something no other human being could do. The Son did this on behalf of those who would believe. Thus our righteousness is met in faith in Jesus/Yeshua. Not only this, our past sins and any sins we may commit in the future are fulling paid for in Jesus since He also took the wrath of God in our place. He suffered the consequences for those sins on behalf of the believer.
YOUR QUOTE WHERE YOU REMOVE ONE FOOT TO INSERT THE OTHER AGAIN:“His human nature is different from His Godly nature. They are not the same nature yet within the Person of Jesus two natures reside.”Jesus is Yahweh God incarnate, in three different forms, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Quit embarrassing yourself in front of the Religion Forum and promote His true modus operandi of His godly Triune, understood? Thank you.
No, you are mistaken. Jesus is not Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That is a Oneness Pentecostal doctrine and does not comply with God's Word. Jesus is not the Father or the Holy Spirit. God the SON became incarnate and became a human being.
YOUR CONTINUED BIBLICALLY IGNORANT QUOTE:“ ….But does that make God a human?”We can see that you are having a hard time in not only understanding that our God Jesus was HUMAN when He walked the earth, but also, you are having a really hard time in trying to Satanically spin doctor Exodus 21:23 away when God had “hands” and a “behind” when dealing with Moses. Do you realize in how utterly inept you look when trying in vain to rewrite the scriptures? Huh? Where do you get the authority to do this ungodly act as you call our God a LIAR for stating that He had hands and a behind in the passage in question! BLASPHEME!
No, God became incarnate in human form. God said,
"21 She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” 22 Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”
Isaiah 9:6 (NASB)
6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
The child is born, the Son is given. Do you see the difference?
John 3:16 (NASB)
The Son is given, the child is born.
As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
God's will in Jesus was to live a righteous life to restore humanity to relationship with God.
Thus just as a man sinned (Adam) and brought sin into the world, so also a Man (Jesus) lived a completely righteous life before God to restore that relationship that was broken when Adam was cast out of the Garden. Thus, Jesus acted solely in His human capacity when He, the Son, became flesh and blood. If He acted in His godly capacity then a human would not have met the righteous requirements of God.
YOUR “POT” QUOTE CALLING THE “KETTLE BLACK:“I find your statements crass and rude as well as irreverent and disrespectful in complete contrast to those whom God has made Himself known to”In turn, Jesus and I find your Satanic Devil Speak more than crass and rude where you continue to try and rewrite His true words, and by not understanding the most simple of biblical axioms, and by not defending Jesus like you have not done ad infinitum!!!! In simpler terms, YOU have no room to talk, understood?YOUR GRASPING FOR STRAWS QUOTE:“The description of God having human attributes in the OT such as hands and feet, eyes and a mouth are figurative ways God uses to help us understand and relate to Him, as also He uses clouds and fire and other terms to describe Himself. Does that mean God is a cloud?Listen, I have already addressed this notion earlier at your expense, remember? How deep do you want to dig your hole? Maybe to HELL? Try this very simple proposition, and get help upon it if need be, now read the godly passage below, then add 2+2 and see if it equals 4, okay?
Hah! No, you have delusionally thought you have.
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)Did you get it? Read the words again that say; “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them ….” Therefore, our serial killer Yahweh God had HANDS and a BEHIND like we do because He created us in his IMAGE!!! 2+2=4, oil and water don’t mix, and PGA2.0 is sent here from Satan Himself to disrupt this forum!
Hands and feet? That is called anthropomorphisms. Anthropomorphisms are figurative or symbolic language that gives human attributes and characteristics to God to help humanity understand God more fully. It gives us images or forms we can understand to picture God. Thus, when it says that God's eyes look upon the earth, it means He sees and understands all things. Theophanes are appearances of God when He takes on a human or angelic form to make Himself known, such as the Angel of the Lord which many look upon as a pre-incarnation appearance of Jesus Christ. Finally, God becomes incarnate in which He becomes a human being. What does that mean? It means that God takes on an additional nature, that of a man and a human being.
What you are teaching is similar to a Mormon doctrine that God has a physical body. Again, it is false teaching. The image of God is similar to God's nature - reasoning, logical, loving, thinking, knowing, etc.
YOUR REVEALING RUNAWAY QUOTE:“I'm not going to waste my time explaining as many as I can. As I said, that would take more time than I care to spend on this subject when so far I have had no response to the two posts I tackled on the subject.”Again, you are all talk and absolutely NO ACTION as Jesus watches you run away from defending His faith! (Hebrews 4:13) Satan must be so proud of you as you continue to let Jesus down. (Titus 1:9) How shameful can you get?
This is very hypocritical of you. You talk and provide absolutely NO ACTION. You watch as others defame His word by accusing God of contradictions while you do nothing except judge those who defend it. If you have a better explanation then present it instead of being critical of others while you sit silently by to the alleged contradiction. When I see someone who is defending the faith I will sometimes jump in to give assistance, time permitting. Not you. Instead, you attack those defending the faith. You see the Samaritan on the wayside and you pass on by.
If you think God's word is being debased by the 200 alleged contradictions and do nothing you are as bad (if not worse) as those you accuse. Not only this, do you think I am going to spend hours upon hours answering 200 alleged contradiction when no one will read them or respond to the posts and posts and posts? Where has anyone responded to my posts to refute them? If anyone did I answered them.
PGA2.0, listen, do you think I like making you the blatant FAKE Christian on DEBATEART? No, I do not, therefore, maybe you should take a break from the action in pretending to be a Christian in front of this forum, where as blatantly shown, you are no more a Christian than Dr. Franklin or Tradesecret!
You should be sure of who you attack before you attack them. You have one helluva chip on your shoulders, the self-deceived, self-proclaimed, and self-appointed judge of others.
"I am a TRUE Christian..."
"It matters not when Jesus and I enter a debate, or comment upon debates, in whether we win or lose, because it is all about spreading the TRUE word of our Lord and Savior to the ignorant fake Christians of the world that are guilty this passage: "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." (2 Timothy 4:3)
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@BrotherDThomas
YOUR AMUSING TO YOURSELF QUOTE:“What a laugh! Why would I take the time to answer your posts when you continue to disrespect me with your arrogant boasting and debasing attitude? Nevertheless, I will. But I'm not going to answer 200 alleged contradictions. I don't have the time nor the will, especially when no one is willing to respond to the ones I already addressed.”Why would you answer my posts when I disrespect you, but then you do it anyway? Do you know where you are at any given time in religious discussion? Obviously not. I have the right to disrespect you because it needs to be done because you disrespect Jesus as you continue to slap Him in the face with your Satanic spin doctoring of His words!
I answer your posts to expose others to the groundlessness of your biblical knowledge, not because I enjoy your insults. From what you have revealed about yourself you are a self-proclaimed Pharisee and teacher of the law.
WAIT: you are not going to address the rest of the “alleged” bible contradictions? The gauntlet was thrown down by the Hell bound Atheist Stephen, and now you are not going to defend Jesus by addressing ALL of the alleged contradictions in His name, therefore letting the Atheist Stephen OWN YOU and your faith? Really? THINK; WWJD, runaway like you are doing, or stand ground and defend the faith? Just like the myriad of other FAKE Christians, you are all talk and no action when it comes to defending the faith, and why am I now surprised. You will pay dearly upon Judgment Day, that is for sure!
I have answered enough of them to show that they are groundless. No one has engaged in refuting them. Thus, I have done all I need to for the meantime.
JESUS STATED: "He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, So that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. " (Titus 1:9).PGA2.0, go ahead, continue to make a mockery of Jesus by not even trying to prove that ALL of the “alleged” contradictions are false. May I ask what type of “running shoes” do you wear when discussing the faith? Are they NIKE, Adidas, or?
Please, stop with your unbounded wit and irony! It is overwhelming to poor old me.
I can only afford sandals (Birkenstocks).
YOUR REVEALING QUOTE TO ME:“What do you know about Preterism? Are you willing to formally debate the subject matter as to whether a futurist or Preterist view is biblical? If so, I will set up the debate when I find the time.”I Know enough about your Devil Speak Preterism to realize that anyone that swallows this ungodly faith is either a minion of Satan, or Satan Himself, therefore, which one are you? I have forgotten more about Preterism than you will unfortunately ever know about it, where Jesus and I would make you the fool in any type of debate upon this ungodly faith, period! Your non-christian faith, in part, hangs it hat upon Matthew 24:34 as you try and pull the wool over the equally inept in stating that Jesus has already accomplished His 2nd coming, what?
Then I will challenge you to a debate on Preterism versus your futurism on the Olivet Discourse and the Second Coming.
Listen, I have an orange bridge for sale in San Francisco, are you interested in it’s purchase? Its a real money maker, and I’ll give you some great terms of sale, okay? Priceless.
Keep your rickety old bridge built on sand. I don't want it. Orange is not my colour and San Francisco is not a place I even want to visit.
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@3RU7AL
Now, if you want reasonable evidence that the biblical revelation is true and logical to believe I can make that argument too.Pretty please?The historical accuracy of an old book does not support any supernatural claims within that same book.
History is a confirmation of what was spoken before the event happened. Is that a reasonable statement?
Most OT writings that we recognize as canonized were uncovered to some extent at Qumran in copies of these writings. Thus, we have an early date of writing before Jerusalem fell to the Romans. The prophecies in many of these writings speak of judgment on Israel and some go into extensive descriptions of the time of the judgment of Israel and the end of the Old Covenant. Daniel 9:24-27 is one such example. So is Daniel 2 and 12. Many of these writings also speak of the time of the Messiah and God's promises for Him to come to an OT people. That is what we witness in Jesus. Not only this, there is no other Messiah who can fit the bill after AD 70 because the OT laws and decrees that these OT people agreed to can no longer be practiced after this time as prescribed by law (i.e., the Law of Moses). The judgments or curses of Deuteronomy 28:15 and onward are applied at this time. Not only this, not only Jesus but John the Baptist come warning OT Israel that judgment is coming and in His [Jesus'] generation. No NT writing gives even one sign that the temple has already been destroyed. This may be insignificant to you but to the Jews, their whole worship system revolved around the temple and OT economy. Nowhere in the NT do we see the end of the laws of worship, the sacrifices, the priesthood, the ceremonial feasts, etc. This is good evidence that no NT epistle or gospel was written after AD 70 because of the importance of these two things is mentioned, just warned of, plus the Messiah coming to an OT people can't logically take place after AD 70 because Israel is no longer in covenant relationship with God after AD 70. They can no longer do all they agreed to do.
Since the Bible is its own interpreter (God gives evidence of what He means) I can give you an exhaustive list of how things connect and also to some extent how history confirms the connection.
Then, if that is not enough, I can give you a picture or typology of Jesus in the OT and also how so many things/events in the OT that apply to God in the NT point to Him. Things exclusively said about God are now said of Jesus.
For example, The Amazing Spider-man comics describe some historically accurate places, like NYC and some historically accurate events, but that historical accuracy does not grant the stories blanket credibility.
What kind of prophecies about real events were predicted beforehand and came about as said?
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@3RU7AL
He also will not take an innocent life without restoring it to a better place, His presence.So if all aborted and or miscarried blastocyst/zygote/embryo/fetus goes to "a better place", where's the injustice?
With abortion, the injustice is in the human who takes life. God has said, You shall not kill/murder. Intentionally taking the life of an innocent human being is against God's will. It is He who has the right to do that because as I just said above, He can restore it to a better place, His presence. We cannot. What we do is take the life of one unrighteously who is made in the image and likeness of God. We take what is sacred (human life) and defame it.
Working under the heaven-hypothesis, isn't murdering a devout person the equivalent of handing them a free ticket to Eternal-Hawaii?
Yes, even if they may not be ready to leave. (^8
But God has our time (v. 26) in His hands.
Paul posed that we had nothing to fear. To die is to be with God.
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@3RU7AL
I am saying that nothing happens without God's permissive or discretive will.How is this compatible with the human-freewill-hypothesis?
Although you (we) have a will, a volition, I believe it is only free in that you (we) exercise it, you (we) choose. I believe that all kinds of things influence our will and cause us to think or act in a particular way. We act in accordance with what we want and desire to a large extent. Since the Fall humanity all have a natural inclination and nature that in many ways is in rebellion to God. Thus we have not met His righteous standards (nor could we and the witness of OT Israel demonstrate this also) and God is just in judging us and on the flip-side merciful in allowing us to continue to do what is wrong and what we sometimes know is wrong or denying ignore Him (for a time but we all are eventually accountable to God either in our own acts or based on the merit and work of Another).
Now since we are rebellious to God it takes His grace and mercy to open our mind and heart to His Word and free us. That is why a Christian can speak with an atheist for years and all the time the atheist will just dig in his/her heals all the more. Two people can read His words and one can hear and believe the message yet another cannot. The atheist will become more and more belligerent towards His will and ways yet to the humble God will speak.
Now to the rest of your question in conjunction with hurricanes and "Acts of God."
There is or are purposes in Acts of God, as I stated before, most of which we do not know or understand. They bring judgment in one way or another in that they unite the dead with God or separate them from His presence. Not only this, such acts remind us of our frailty and lack of control in what happens to us. Even so, God does not force human beings to do evil, nor does He tempt them to do evil.
I think the Westminister Confession of Faith sums up our will in a number of points of which I leave you with.
The Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 9: Of Free Will
Sec. 1. God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good, or evil.
Sec. 2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God; but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it.
Sec. 3. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Sec. 4. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He freeth him from his natural bondage under sin; and, by His grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.
Sec. 5. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to do good alone in the state of glory only.
Sec. 2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God; but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it.
Sec. 3. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Sec. 4. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He freeth him from his natural bondage under sin; and, by His grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.
Sec. 5. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to do good alone in the state of glory only.
Or are you perhaps a Calvinist?
More to the question is whether or not the five points are biblical teaching.
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@ludofl3x
What is a human embryo? Is it a human being or some other kind of being or does it not exist as a uniquely separate entity or being? Define what you mean by being.In the interest of keeping this discussion productive, I'll ignore the part where you seem to think I endorse eugenics or that it's okay to kill people because they're not as developed as me. It's very, very simple: once you're born, you are no longer a human embryo. You are now part of PEOPLE. People all have intrinsic value and rights. I'm not using the term being at all, that's your language. Human Embryo. Person. That's it.I'm not trying to convince you that you made the wrong choice. I'm saying it's inconsistent with embryos = people. That's it. Go to your crazy talking points about how this ends up with lawlessness and ignore the facts of the matter all you like, but neither one of us really equates embryos with people. I'd save the baby. You'd save the baby. That's all there is to it.
PS. I find the discussion very productive!
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@3RU7AL
I believe the NOUMENON is the necessary ultimate standard for objectivity in origins and morality since IT meets the fixed and unchanging final reference point plus the universe is ITS creation, per LOGICAL NECESSITY.The universe is its creation? Does 'it' refer to the noumenon or does 'it' refer to the universe? If it refers to the latter, how can something create itself? If it refers to the former, how can something without intent or purpose do anything? Both would be a massive unsubstantiated assumption and illogical and inconsistent.NOUMENON never began to exist. NOUMENON always is. Thus, NOUMENON is not created. Self-creation is a self-refuting concept. To create, something first has to exist.
Granted, per the underlined.
So the "it" refers to the noumenon, which comes under the former in the question raised above by me.
Here it is again, "If 'it' refers to the former, how can something without intent or purpose do anything?"
The point, it is an assumption on your part, based on your worldview, that "it" can do anything.
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@3RU7AL
The same way a hurricane can destroy a house.You assume there is no intent behind it or intent to put it into place or create the process of storms.Are you suggesting that gods specifically intend storms to kill specific people and destroy specific property?
I am saying that nothing happens without God's permissive or discretive will. I am also saying that God is sovereign and in control of all things, thus He would either set the sequence into place at some point in time or decree it happen right then. Not only this, but human life is a gift of God. He has the right to take it. He also will not take an innocent life without restoring it to a better place, His presence.
The hurricane may have taken place for many reasons. God may be judging evil. God may purpose it so that good may come of it. God may be using it as a reminder of how fragile and fleeting human life is and cause others to think about life. There may be a myriad of reasons that you or I do not know about.
I'm certainly willing to entertain this "intentional storm" hypothesis, but I have to ask, what evidence do you have to support it?
The biblical revelation that God does bring calamity on people, that things happen for a reason decreed by God, and thus, He does judge evil. We all die physically, some earlier than others that can be attributed to the Fall.
Now, if you want reasonable evidence that the biblical revelation is true and logical to believe I can make that argument too. I usually start with prophecy but the moral argument I find awfully compelling too. If those are not enough there are also many philosophical arguments and the Bible itself, which would include its historical and archeological information and verification. The level of detail in the OT as pointing to the Son, Jesus Christ, and He as God (as well as the Son becoming Man per the NT revelation) is something that would take a long time to document.
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@ludofl3x
What is a human embryo? Is it a human being or some other kind of being or does it not exist as a uniquely separate entity or being? Define what you mean by being.In the interest of keeping this discussion productive, I'll ignore the part where you seem to think I endorse eugenics or that it's okay to kill people because they're not as developed as me. It's very, very simple: once you're born, you are no longer a human embryo. You are now part of PEOPLE. People all have intrinsic value and rights. I'm not using the term being at all, that's your language. Human Embryo. Person. That's it.
Good! You do not believe it is okay to kill human beings just because they are not as developed as you!!! Since the unborn is a human being and not as developed why are you then endorsing the woman's right to kill it?
Ah, personhood! So you are making personhood contingent on being born and contingent on killing human beings. Now prove that is the case that personhood starts at birth or else your starting point is arbitrary. As I mentioned in my last post, the difference from one minute before to one minute after birth, biologically, is the environment. So, it is okay with you to kill human beings because of where they reside. Correct? If not, why?
I'm not trying to convince you that you made the wrong choice. I'm saying it's inconsistent with embryos = people. That's it. Go to your crazy talking points about how this ends up with lawlessness and ignore the facts of the matter all you like, but neither one of us really equates embryos with people. I'd save the baby. You'd save the baby. That's all there is to it.
Embryos = people. Inconsistent?
Are human beings personal beings by nature? If not by nature, can you give evidence other than by a severe genetic defect, that a human being is not a personal being? Thus, again, I think you are killing the human being because of its level of development at the same time telling me that it is not something you believe is justified to kill it because of its level of development, per the first paragraph.
No, that is not all there is to it. The most important issue in the whole debate on killing the unborn is 1) what is it, 2) what difference does it make or to put it differently, should ALL human beings be treated equally (thus with justice)? Apparently, you say no, they should not all be treated equally under the law (human equality).
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@ludofl3x
So you are saying then that human embryos = people?
Yes, because human beings are personal beings by NATURE and the embryo is a human being.
Are you willing to argue that human beings are not personal beings because personhood is not built into their nature?
I never claimed a human embryo isn't a human (it's in the name) and that it isn't a "being." It's just not the same as a person.
Actually, this is not what you have said. You said, "I don't see the embryos as people, as human beings, and neither do you."
I take your statement to mean two things, you don't see the embryos as people and you don't see the embryos as human beings.
What is more, you also said, "Those embryos aren't lives, they're embryos."
You are being very inconsistent. If, as you have previously said, embryos are not "lives," then if it is not a life, how is it a being?
Now, what makes it different ("not the same as") from other human beings other than its level of development?
If you want to disqualify human beings from living based on their level of development 1) you are discriminating against some, 2) there is no equal "justice" here, 3) how can there be any objection by you to others more developed than you doing the same with you?
You don't make the distinction, which to me is problematic because thereby you have legitimately killed 1000 people by saving 1 baby, and is at odds with your assertion that the second a sperm successfully fertilizes an egg, it's the exact same thing as a child. If they were, you wouldn't have to make all these other assumptions about how much pain it's capable of feeling, how it doesn't have parents who love it (it does have parents, and will have parents to love it if born), how sad everyone would be and so on and so forth. You would just say "It's better to save 1000 people than 1," and that would be consistent with 1000 embryos = 1000 people. It just strikes me as strange that you'd allow for circumstances for yourself to make the choice to kill 1000 people, but you wouldn't for someone who actually has to carry that child at risk to their own health and future well being.
The difference is that there is a choice to save. I do not choose to kill. It is the outcome that I cannot change that the child or the many embryos will die. The woman and you choose to kill. I do not. Hence, to me, your choice is morally abhorrent and reprehensible.
But, as I argued above, that could apply to any human being who is less developed as giving the more developed the "right" to kill it. And where does it stop?Once it's born and becomes a baby, not an embryo. Very simple.
So, it is okay to kill/murder some human beings because they are less developed, thus, justice is not equally applied by you and where there is no equal justice there is none. Furthermore, you arbitrarily decide it is okay to kill human beings up to a particular stage of development and no further.
Why does birth give human beings "rights," rather than by nature of what they are? What changes one minute before birth as opposed to one minute after birth other than the unborn is now born and on the outside, i.e., its environment? You are willing to kill or have the unborn killed but that changes as soon as it is born. Are you saying that the environment is the difference? If so, then should I not be permitted to kill others because of where they live or because of their environment? Does the environment determine the worth of a human being and if it should live or die?
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@ludofl3x
Why are you telling me what I believe because I only have the choice to save one or the other?Because the answer you've given, save the baby, the only way that answer isn't monstrous is if you don't see the 1000 embryos as 1000 babies.
This is an either/or fallacy or bogus dilemma concerning what I believe about the embryo. The premise is that I see the three-year-old as a human being and not the embryos as human beings, or I would save the 1000 embryos. I gave you a third option and many more so that your either/or is exposed.
Now, as for my decision to SAVE one over the other, I do it based on what I perceive is that the embryo does not feel the pain to the same extent the three-year-old does plus the emotional attachment of the parents and others being far greater. So, it is a decision base on perception and compassion. If you can convince me otherwise regarding the pain levels or the emotional attachment I would choose the other scenario.At what point does the embryo feel enough pain to change your decision? You're basing your decision on compassion for a baby and its parents. Is there ever a compassionate stance for forcing a parent to carry to term the baby who will live in pain for two weeks then die and leave them with a lifetime of grief and guilt? We can all use emotional language, bro. You also say you're basing it on your PERCEPTION of the level of pain a third party, the embryo, feels. How much pain does a six week old embryo feel?
At what point? I still do not know if the embryo feels pain.
How much pain? I do not know how much pain if any, the embryo feels. I know it is not as aware as in later stages of development. Its brain and neurology are still forming. Thus, at the present time, my choice is based on a lack of knowledge of the one as opposed to the other. As I said, if you can convince me otherwise I will change my view on who to save but not my view on whether both are valuable human beings.
Remember, the choice was which one to save, since only ONE or the OTHER could be saved. In the case of pro-choice, the woman is opting not to save but to kill. I do not choose to kill but my choice will result in the death of the one or the others. It is a dilemma on who to save.
The pro-choice issue brings up many moral issues, chiefly whether all human beings have intrinsic value and if they don't what is wrong with one dominate group killing another or devaluing/discriminating against another? It also brings up the moral question of justice if not all human beings are treated equally? It makes justice a farce if humans are not treated equally and the embryos included because of what they are.
I've said three times now I do not see human embryos the same as I see human babies. They're just not.
Fine, you don't see them the same. Now justify they are not the same kind of being or even that they are not a being if you feel that to be the case. You admit they are alive. What does that mean? Does it mean they are beings? If they are beings and they are human embryos then are they not human beings? If so, then what you object to must be the level of development. You see it reasonable to kill some human beings just because they are not as developed as other human beings. Thus, if that is the case (lack of development), then you do not see all human beings deserving of equal treatment or equal justice. Correct?
Science supports that from conception a new, unique human being begins to grow and develop.Science support that a new human EMBRYO begins to grow and develop, yes, no disagreement there. Yet here you are, totally comfortable dooming through your inaction 1000 people to save one crying baby.
Your language is obscure. Please spell it out so I can understand your meaning.
What is a human embryo? Is it a human being or some other kind of being or does it not exist as a uniquely separate entity or being? Define what you mean by being.
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The one or the other is doomed no matter what I do. That is why it is a dilemma.
Again, I have stated my reasoning. If you can convince me the embryo feels excruciating pain like the three-year-old would and if you can convince me that the emotional lose will be as great and affect as many people then you have won your argument. I will then, given another opportunity to save the one or the others, I will save the others.
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@ludofl3x
So, you are saying the embryos are not alive and not beingsNo, read it again. I'm not saying they aren't alive. I'm saying they're not the same as a baby. So are you, because one baby > 1000 embryos. This is extremely simple, you've already demonstrated it.
Okay, have it your way then. You are saying they are alive. What does that mean? Are they beings? If so, what KIND of beings are human embryos? Are they human beings or other kinds of beings?
I read what you said. You said, "I don't see the embryos as people, as human beings, and neither do you."
Now you say "they are alive." You are saying they are not the same as the three-year-old in their level of development but they are also not as human in their nature and being. Show me otherwise.
That is important to note. If you come round to the point that the embryo is a human being you have problems and I believe this is why you deny it being a human being. It is ludicrous. IF the level of development (i.e., not the same) in human beings disqualifies the embryo from being a human being then that same logic (or lack of it) of being less developed could disqualify others who are less developed and not the same such as the three-year-old in relation to the twenty-year-old and the twenty-year-old in relation to a yet older beings, and so on. Is that the bases you want to judge whether someone should live or die, by their level of development?
Show the human embryo is not human and show the human embryo is not a being. If you can't do that to some degree of factual evidence then you have a bigger problem than I originally thought. Now, if it is a human being (which you have denied) then it is partly/only the level of development that denies you supporting it the right to live. But, as I argued above, that could apply to any human being who is less developed as giving the more developed the "right" to kill it. And where does it stop?
So, your logic and reasoning are very flawed to date.
Now, if you want to argue that the woman has the right to choose what is done to her own body, that is a different argument and we can analyze that, but first I want you to clarify your beliefs regarding the embryo and its 1) being, 2) humanness. I would say in regards to point 1 you need to clarify what a being is and if the unborn/embryo would qualify.
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@ludofl3x
I'm pointing out the fault in your conviction: it's not really there if you're put into a difficult spot and forced to choose on it, you choose the baby not the embryo. Clearly if the embryos weren't embryos and were instead babies, you'd make a different choice: one three year old baby versus four crying newborns. I think you're probably a good person, my guess is you'd make a difficult choice and never forgive yourself, but I think you'd choose the four.Yes, I would unless the three-year-old was my own. There are always circumstances to weigh.This undercuts your entire argument: yes, there are circumstances to weigh. This is a pro-choice argument. Everything else is nonsense in your post: I don't see the embryos as people, as human beings, and neither do you. If you did, you'd be a monster for letting 1000 babies die to save 1. You're not. I'm not. THis is patently different from whatever weird killing scenario you're trying to make equivalent. Pro choce does not = THe Purge. Your last paragraph is talking about people, not embryos.
No, it does not. I am saying I would have a bias to protect my own. That does not in any way mean that I view the human embryos as less than human beings, just less developed than other human beings but just as human. What other kinds of being could they be? Is a human embryo a dog? So, my argument is not a pro-choice argument and I believe you are trying your utmost to influence the thought process by such insinuations. It is nuts to suggest my view is pro-choice and muddy the waters.
The pro-choice argument gives the woman the "right" to kill another human being. Over 1.5 billion unborn killed since 1980 which makes it the greatest and best-kept human genocide in the history of the world to date. And the pro-choice nonchalantly ignores the whole atrocity and steers public opinion to accept such barbary. It sickens me.
Now, as for my decision to SAVE one over the other, I do it based on what I perceive is that the embryo does not feel the pain to the same extent the three-year-old does plus the emotional attachment of the parents and others being far greater. So, it is a decision base on perception and compassion. If you can convince me otherwise regarding the pain levels or the emotional attachment I would choose the other scenario. To date, you have ignored that.
Choosing one or the other does in no way mean I regard the embryos as any less human than the three-year-old. I know what you ignore and deny, the unborn is as much a human being as the three-year-old, just less developed in its structure/formation and awareness. Thus, I reason the three-year-old would feel much more pain and would be more sorely missed because of the three years of emotional attachments made. These things are the bias I have which leads me to save the more developed human being. I can only save one or the other. I'm pretty sure you would demonize me for either choice.
Now, your statement that everything else is nonsense is, in my opinion, a ploy to avoid a discussion on whether the embryos are human beings and personal beings. You just present what you want others to glean from your own biased beliefs while ignoring the most important thing - what is the embryo and what difference does it make?
I don't see the embryos as people, as human beings, and neither do you.
Are human beings by nature personal beings?
What kind of being is the embryo if its parents are human beings? Can you answer that, or do you not see the unborn/embryo as a being? Do I need to refer to science to debate this with you?
No, you are twisting my beliefs to fit your beliefs. It is nonsense and false to say I do not see the embryo as a human being. It is not true to my belief. Why are you telling me what I believe because I only have the choice to save one or the other? I have given you the reasons for my choice. If I had given you the other answer I'm sure you would have had issues with it too, judging from what you have written regarding your take on what the embryo is.
What you have said reveals an uninformed opinion about what human embryos are. To say, "I don't see the embryos as people" goes against logic. Unless there is a genetic deformity all human beings are personal beings by nature. Show me they are not. The difference between an embryo and a three-year-old or a twenty-year-old is the level of development and growth in personality.
When you say, "I don't see the embryos as human beings" does that change the fact that they are beings and they are human? No, and you would be hard-pressed to show they are not from conception. Science supports that from conception a new, unique human being begins to grow and develop.
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@zedvictor4
Are you saying there is no intrinsic value to being a human being? If so, why is there such moral outrage to genocide, devaluing human beings, dehumanization, and discrimination?Human worth is a temporary mind state.
Are you saying that the value of humans shifts so that we can't know whether human beings are intrinsically valuable?
If the idea of human worth is a temporary mindstate what makes human worth valid? Is there any valid reason or should we just terminate those we do not like if we have the power to do so like so many dictators do (Hitler, Kim Jong-un, Xi, Castro, Pol Pot, as so on)?
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@ludofl3x
Am I inconsistent with my view that both have equal value by saving one and not the other?To be more precise, it's not "one" or "the other". It's "one" or "one thousand." All of the reasoning about why you'd save the three year old is why we'd ALL save the three year old. We get that part, you didn't need to restate it. I'm not trying to find fault in a position with which I agree (save the actual baby), I'm pointing out that your decision is at odds with what your stated beliefs are: all embryos past fertilization are in fact every bit as alive and precious as the three year old. Yet you still saved 999 less lives.
And I gave my reasons why.
I object to the pigeon-holing as a fact that I don't think the 10 or 1000 embryos are as intrinsically valuable as any other life. Yes, I identify and relate more with the child yet I see both groups as deserving of life and protection.Well, okay, but you didn't save the box with 1000 times the intrinsic value of the baby.
So you are saying that human worth is measured by the number of lives rather than that the life in question is human.
Either all human life is intrinsically valuable or some classes of human beings are expendable and not as valuable.
The other thing is that with your scenario a choice had to be made. You would condemn me no matter what choice I made. That is why the hypothetical dilemma is just that. I gave my reasons why I would save the child and if I had chosen the other scenario you would have found fault in it too.
This does not match, you see what I'm saying? There's no conditions on your pro life stance. It doesn't matter if you can't imagine the pain an embryo feels, it's still a baby to you and therefore it should be calculated exactly the same as the three year old, times 1000. You're not pro life only when the embryo has a parent already dedicated to loving it, tons of babies are born into loveless situations that will destroy their lives forever, every single day. Their parents don't care if they're dead. Can we now say "those aren't worth being pro life over" because this seems quite close to your "no one cares about those embryos enough yet" to make the box worth choosing.
Again, what is the difference between all human life being intrinsic and only certain classes or specific numbers being intrinsic? If all human life is intrinsic yet there has to be a decision made, what is wrong with saving one over the other? Does multiplying the number make the number of humans more intrinsically valuable than the one?
I am intentionally choosing to save a life in an undesirable situation when no matter what I do life will be lost.You're intentionally choosing to end the 999 lives, though, as a result. Wouldn't it make sense to minimize the loss? You're not doing that. It seems according to your own position, you're choosing something we'd call immoral: death for 1000 children for the sake of a single crying three year old.
I have the option to only save one or the other. I have given reasons for my choice. Now, would you blame me if I chose the other option? You bet you would. You would blame me no matter which option I chose.
Again, I'm not trying to find fault in your CHOICE.
That is exactly what you are trying to do.
I'm pointing out the fault in your conviction: it's not really there if you're put into a difficult spot and forced to choose on it, you choose the baby not the embryo. Clearly if the embryos weren't embryos and were instead babies, you'd make a different choice: one three year old baby versus four crying newborns. I think you're probably a good person, my guess is you'd make a difficult choice and never forgive yourself, but I think you'd choose the four.
Yes, I would unless the three-year-old was my own. There are always circumstances to weigh.
I would. You'd want to do the MOST good, right? But you chose not to save the most lives, according to your own position (all embryos = individual babies, therefore you save 1000 lives, or 200 lives or 10 instead of 1).
I save one child who is going to feel the excruciating pain over the others who I do not know will but I have been told will not. I save the child that the parents, other family members, and possibly many others have grown to love and have an emotional attachment with as opposed to the others that have not. As I said, it is my bias kicking in along with some reasoning. It is a dilemma and I will have to live with that decision. That does not mean I do not believe all human beings have intrinsic value. I do. If I could save them all I would and at the risk of my own life. That is not the scenario you presented. You made it very clear.
I don't see embryos as human beings whose rights supersede the right to bodily autonomy, it's very simple for me.
So, for you, it is alright for humans who are able to kill other innocent human beings to do so. That is a position you can think about but in practice it does not work. As soon as they turn their killing on you or your family your tune would be different, would it not?
Do I have the bodily right to kill other innocent human beings? Yet you want to give the woman that right.
Those embryos aren't lives, they're embryos.
So, you are saying the embryos are not alive and not beings. What is your evidence for this thinking?
You go contrary to the science of embryology that states that a uniquely new life starts at conception where 23 male and 23 female chromosomes from the two different donors form a new life.
If two human beings mate and conception takes place, what kind of being begins to grow? Is it a human being or some other kind of being?
I'll ask you the same questions I asked the OP creator.
Is the embryo a being?
Is it a human being if both parents are human beings.
Is it living or is it dead?
Does it have a human nature?
Are human beings personal beings by their nature?
If so, when does personhood begin? If you can't say exactly, should you not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt?
And in my experience, there's a lot of hypocrisy from the pro life side, because most of the time they don't give two shits about babies that are born into bad circumstances, they just want them born for some reason. After that, sorry poor folks, you're on your own. Praise his name, I guess.
Not as much hypocrisy as from the pro-choice.
So what you are saying is who gives a carp about whether they are human beings or not. Kill them!
What you are saying is that if you can't support it kill it.
What you are saying is that if it is dependent on another the other has the right to kill it. Would you think the same about a year-old baby who is still dependent on the mother yet she feels she cannot support it? Is it alright to kill it too? And what about grandpa? He is dependent on the granddaughter for his well-being since he can't look after himself. Is it alright to kill him?
What about you? If you are in bad circumstances, is it alright to kill you? That is where you discover that what you believe in theory cannot be lived in real life.
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@BrotherDThomas
YOUR UNGODLY EMBARRASSING QUOTE: “Since God is Spirit those who worship [Him] must worship in spirit and in truth and that is obtained via Jesus Christ, the way and the truth. “You have Satanically stated ad infinitum that our serial killer Yahweh God is a spirit only, and without a physical body. How do you sleep at night with your outright biblical ignorance regarding your claim?!
That is a rather cavalier statement --> "serial killer Yahweh."
First, what is the difference between you taking someone's life and God taking that same life? I await your answer.
Second, the very verse you critique says that "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24)
That is what I said previously, as you record above. You called that satanic, my paraphrasing from Scripture? Now you, on the other hand, change what I said to "God is ONLY spirit." Nevertheless, in the Son becoming a human being God the Son, the living Word, took on an additional nature, that of a human, and there is a reason He did so. His human nature is different from His Godly nature. They are not the same nature yet within the Person of Jesus two natures reside.
There are many instances within the scriptures that show our Jewish Yahweh as a physical being, like the time Moses saw our God’s ass!!! For obvious reasons you seemingly forgot about this godly happening, eh? DO NOT be embarrassed about the facts of our Yahweh, understood? The TRUE Christians like myself accept these biblical axioms and just move on.
There are also instances where God is described as invisible, Spirit, not a man, etc., and heaven or the kingdom of God is described as another realm, not of this world, etc.
No, I never forgot about the many instances in the OT where God appeared in human or other forms (theophany) or where either God is described with human attributes (anthropomorphism) or takes on human form. But does that make God a human? The person of Jesus has two natures, a human nature and His godly nature. Somehow the two natures are evident in the one Person. Not only this but I believe He appeared as the Angel of the Lord in the OT and possibly in the instance with Moses you describe which was before His incarnation.
Let me quickly address your bible ignorance, where ol’ Moses is chatting with our serial killer Yahweh “face to face” as one speaks to a friend. Moses asks Yahweh the following: “Show me your glory, I pray” (Exodus 33:8). But, Yahweh says; “You cannot see my face; for no one shall see me and live,” (Ex 33:20) A few verses before Moses talked “face to face” with Yahweh, but now Yahweh says Moses can’t see his face. Uh, okay.Now in Ex 21:23 Yahweh says Moses can SEE HIM, partially that is, when He stated: “Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you WITH MY HAND until I have passed by. Then I will REMOVE MY HAND and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.” (Exodus 21;23)Yahweh once again shows us that he is anthropomorphic by having a “HAND like humans. Anyway, Yahweh then covers Moses face with his HAND and removes said HAND when He passes by Moses! Yahweh did show Himself and was seen by Moses, but only showed his backside, which equals Yahweh’s ASS! If Yahweh had a “HAND” therefore he had an ASS as well! GET IT? Huh?
I find your statements crass and rude as well as irreverent and disrespectful in complete contrast to those whom God has made Himself known to.
Isaiah 6:1-5 (NASB)
Isaiah’s Vision
6 In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called out to another and said,
6 In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called out to another and said,
“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts,
The whole earth is full of His glory.”
4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. 5 Then I said,The whole earth is full of His glory.”
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
3 But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; 4 and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
Ephesians 5:3-5 (NASB)
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The description of God having human attributes in the OT such as hands and feet, eyes and a mouth are figurative ways God uses to help us understand and relate to Him, as also He uses clouds and fire and other terms to describe Himself. Does that mean God is a cloud? Then there are also the appearances of God (i.e., the Angel of the Lord) where God takes on human form, yet God is not human. Then there is the incarnation where the Word becomes human and takes on an additional nature to His Godhood.
Now, if you want to make a greater fool of yourself amongst the brethren of DEBATEART, try and spin doctor this narrative away with actual BIBLICAL vouchsafing instead of opinion dribble this time, understood? Jesus and I get so tired of addressing the most ignorant of His following in DebateArt.YOUR STEPPING IN POO QUOTE, AGAIN: “It is through ignorance and misunderstanding of God's word that these alleged contradictions are charged. I tackled the first seven to give an example.”GREAT, now to save what face you have left, you only have 293 left to Satanically decipher of the New Testament godly contradictions! What are the next 7 are you going to bring forth? Yahweh only knows that Ethang couldn’t defend our Yahweh God like our bible says to do, where at least you are “TRYING,” I repeat, “TRYING” to erroneously perform this ungodly act!We are waiting, with NO EXCUSES, for you to continue in allegedly showing no contradictions is the said previous NT passages. BEGIN.
I'm not going to waste my time explaining as many as I can. As I said, that would take more time than I care to spend on this subject when so far I have had no response to the two posts I tackled on the subject.
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@BrotherDThomas
YOUR CONTINIOUS RUNNING AWAY QUOTE: "Sir, you are being a hypocrite. I do not see you addressing the 200 alleged contradictions. Your previous post was also full of accusations that I find out of place for those who profess Yeshua/Jesus. I also find, from your disclosure in Post 50 that you have a weak understanding of Scripture. "Oh my, you represent just another fake Christian here on DebateArt, where you seem to be proud of this fact. I am not here to address the alleged contradictions, where that has been proven that you and the equally inept fake Christian, Ethang5, are to perform this act. Remember I alluded to the notion that to try and save face, that you and Ethang5 will want others to address the contradictions because you couldn't and remain intelligent looking in the aftermath? Yes? Maybe? You have a lot more to address of the 200 from the NT, therefore, I suggest that you get back to this ASAP.Relative to my post and your perceived notion that I have a weak "understanding" of scripture, you have yet to show me that this is true, other than to continue to RUN AWAY from my post #50. How many times will you run away? Don't you realize that others are watching you perform this childish and revealing act? How long will it be before you have the nerve to address said post? Do you need permission from someone in your paganistic thinking church? Yes?
What a laugh! Why would I take the time to answer your posts when you continue to disrespect me with your arrogant boasting and debasing attitude? Nevertheless, I will. But I'm not going to answer 200 alleged contradictions. I don't have the time nor the will, especially when no one is willing to respond to the ones I already addressed.
YOUR EMBARRASSING QUOTE ONCE AGAIN:"You are judging me for my profession of faith. I am willing to formally debate it with you and find out what your foundation truly rests upon. You apply one scriptural reference while ignoring another. You actually make a big song and dance of a verse of Scripture I used. I will address it later once I think about your post further. I am not impressed. "With your comical and ungodly DIVISION of Christianity, being the ruse of Preterism, then your faith stands out as a "false prophet," whereas this notion should be revisited post haste to show you what you have swallowed, therefore being duped since you accepted this faith. Talk about not being impressed, your faith is as ungodly as if Satan was at its helm!
What do you know about Preterism? Are you willing to formally debate the subject matter as to whether a futurist or Preterist view is biblical? If so, I will set up the debate when I find the time.
I don't need the latest ungodly decoder ring, or crystal ball to determine what our serial killer Yahweh/Jesus states within the scriptures in a literal form, barring some parables, etc., understood? Whereas you on the other hand, seemingly need further enlightenment to get out of bible contradictions, or to spin doctor away what are true Jesus represents. Any further information, read my short biography in my Profile Page.
I already read it. It is a practice of mine to find out what those I exchange posts with think and believe.
It is no wonder that Jesus has continually sent me to DebateArt to clean up the fake Christians like you that make this their home, praise!
Since you are dishing out the ad hominems, bully for you! A self-appointed teacher and a swell Pharisee!
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@3RU7AL
...how can something without intent or purpose do anything?The same way a hurricane can destroy a house.
You assume there is no intent behind it or intent to put it into place or create the process of storms.
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@3RU7AL
If it refers to the latter, how can something create itself?The same way your hypothetical god can create itself.
God never began to exist. He always is. Thus, He is not created. Self-creation is a self-refuting concept. To create, something first has to exist.
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@3RU7AL
I believe the NOUMENON is the necessary ultimate standard for objectivity in origins and morality since IT meets the fixed and unchanging final reference point plus the universe is ITS creation, per LOGICAL NECESSITY.
And the only One who would know the thing in itself is God. Thus, He would be the necessary objective standard. He meets the fixed, unchanging final reference point. And once God revealed we would have an unbiased (because He knows all things), true, reference point, thus objective.
The universe is its creation? Does 'it' refer to the noumenon or does 'it' refer to the universe? If it refers to the latter, how can something create itself? If it refers to the former, how can something without intent or purpose do anything? Both would be a massive unsubstantiated assumption and illogical and inconsistent.
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