The Sage of Main Street
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Grammar Hereticsthen just let nature take it's course.
God created the apostrophe and the diabolical Netrix turned it into an apocalypse.
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Grammar Hereticsthen just let nature take it's course.
Matthew Invented the SweatshopSure about that?
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Left and Right: Two Wings of the Same Prep SchoolOnly if you think he would have been a Republican.
God removed their access to the tree of life, but did He punish Adam and Eve or did He cover their sins and remain with them?So God punished the innocent to punish the guilty? Well it wouldn't be the only time.
As I said...Rabbinical commentary throughout the years. As far as the rest of your post...shrug. I had the same questions and most were answered by Rabbinical commentary. I was puzzled by the differences of what I new of God and how he was presented in the Old Testament. Learning about the Hebrew language, history, and culture from Rabbis and scholars and I learned they know the same loving God of my own experience.From the Book of Meriweather?
But, the Bible has God hands on from the beginning to the return of Christ.My answer is the Creator is a non-intervening "God". He created life and set the initial conditions and then just let nature take it's course. Simple as that.
You mean like being created according to the laws of nature which are fine tuned for life?On the contrary, the universe is exactly the way it has to be based on natural laws.
People have tried to weigh the soul and found it to be zero. Flesh appears to be all there is.
I think I understand life as well as anyone, but it is you who seem struggle with my sense of right and wrong, not me.
That's nice.Matthew Invented the Sweatshop
But, the Bible has God hands on from the beginning to the return of Christ.
Not even close my friend.Left and Right: Two Wings of the Same Prep School
I thought mortality and birthing pain were part of the deal? Sounds like punishment of their innocent descendants. No?God removed their access to the tree of life, but did He punish Adam and Eve or did He cover their sins and remain with them?
If he is not evil he is certainly harsh:As I said...Rabbinical commentary throughout the years. As far as the rest of your post...shrug. I had the same questions and most were answered by Rabbinical commentary. I was puzzled by the differences of what I new of God and how he was presented in the Old Testament. Learning about the Hebrew language, history, and culture from Rabbis and scholars and I learned they know the same loving God of my own experience.
Still, there are those who are determined to see God as villain rather than seeking to actually know him. Their loss and enough said.
For life, for radiation, for gravity, for quantum foam, for everything in the universe. Life is a tiny part at best.You mean like being created according to the laws of nature which are fine tuned for life?
I happy that you're happy.I couldn't be happier for you to believe you have no soul.
Absolute truth, yes, absolute morals, nope.Every argument you make shows you believe in absolute truth and absolute morals even if you don't believe it does.
Wat does being a tiny part have to do with anything?For life, for radiation, for gravity, for quantum foam, for everything in the universe. Life is a tiny part at best.
I happy that you're happy.
Absolute truth, yes, absolute morals, nope.
I have my own beliefs that are probably closer aligned to Judaism or Native American beliefs.But, the Bible has God hands on from the beginning to the return of Christ.
Those are consequences of Adam and Eve's actions, not punishment from God. They weren't in Eden anymore...I thought mortality and birthing pain were part of the deal? Sounds like punishment of their innocent descendants. No?
Of the Solar System's eight planets and its eight most likely dwarf planets, six planets and six dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 299 natural satellites, or moons. So far as we know only one has life. That is 0.03%. Not many in a universe geared to life.Wat does being a tiny part have to do with anything?
If that were true, why are morals different between cultures and times?Morals are standards. Standards are based upon logic. Logic is absolute.
Hatred of God should not be so intense that one closes ones ears and mind to what Rabbi's have said, which in essence, man's actions have consequences. Secondly, when hardships happened, the people in Biblical times took the opportunity to assess their own behaviors in both good times and bad. In good times, there is the luxury of having leisure to focus on parties, good times, and independent ways that please self at the expense of what pleases God. In bad times...people turn to God--and to better behavior.If he is not evil he is certainly harsh:
God himself has brought suffering on the people in order to get them to turn back to him. This is stated in a series of divine laments in Amos 4:6-12. God indicates that he brought famine, to try to get the people to repent: “yet you did not return to me”; he brought a serious drought: “yet you did not return to me”; he destroyed their crops with blight and mildew and locusts: “yet you did not return to me”; he brought an epidemic and military defeat: “yet you did not return to me.” And since they have failed to return to him, despite everything that he has tried to do in order to get them to sit up and take notice, the outcome will be dire: “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!” (6:12)
Those are consequences of Adam and Eve's actions, not punishment from God. They weren't in Eden anymore...
An neither are we, what did we do to deserve that?Those are consequences of Adam and Eve's actions, not punishment from God. They weren't in Eden anymore...