If you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior it doesn't take away your interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, sickle cell disease, arthritis, Crohn's disease, shingles. Any of it. You suffer until you die. Whether that be at your own hand or of natural causes. When those things could just not exist at all. God inflicts his torture on the believers and nonbelievers alike.
I don't know for a fact or claim to. You're the one claiming this God person exists and told us things about the world. The burden of proof lies with you.
Pretty sure it was accurate. Pretending things are ok when they very well may not be.
Yes, we each have our cross to bear. What's your point? That is known and accepted. He isn't a genie from a magic lamp who grants wishes.
The simplest explanation is that God doesn't exist. But if He does He's an evil sadist responsible for torturing countless numbers of people. Why would anyone want to worship such an entity or do its bidding? Morality would be opposing it.
See why I said you out here defending Bill Gates?
I don't have to prove anything to you. You have the bigger problem - when you meet God one day and you have to explain yourself to Him. I don't have that problem.
I also agree with the majority of what you say in theory but I just don't like the government overreach of passing laws that force teachers into disclosing information that could lead to child abuse or a child's suicide.
I was specifically responding to the previous poster's comments about students that are undisciplined, violent, and aggressive towards other students/teachers in school. I wasn't talking about ALL parents.
For the person who has faith, no explanation is needed…. For the one who does not, no explanation will suffice….
I can just as easily present a determinist alternative to consciousness. When you get up in the morning what do you do? Probably get out of bed and go to the bathroom, or put on clothes, or walk to the kitchen and put on some coffee. Or any number of other household things. Why do you do any of these? Most people's perception of that would be their internal monologue. "I'm awake so I can't lay in bed all day I have things to do!" So you get up and you make "decisions". But you don't decide to fly to Venus on a T-Rex. Because your decision making process is limited by your current circumstances. You can't fly a T-Rex to Venus. So do you make coffee or put on clothes first? You can apparently do either under the current circumstances. You base your "decision" on your whole life history up to that moment. What makes YOU, YOU. Maybe you're very modest and don't like walking around scantily clad. Maybe you drink a lot of coffee and hate mornings without it. Whatever your individual case is, when the moment comes to make any "decision" both the current circumstances you find yourself in and your personal history that makes you you are static at that moment. Locked. Every factor in this so-called decision making process accounted for. Which means you're always going to "decide" the same thing in that moment. You don't actually have the choice, just the illusion of one. You aren't going to decide to squirt mustard up your nose instead of making coffee when you get to the kitchen. There is no such thing as free will. Which makes the rest of your questions irrelevant. Any argument that God's existence is readily apparent from the nature of existence or consciousness is just a rehash of the watchmaker's argument and easily countered.
Great, this will help us communicate better. Just how did I defend Gates there? I agreed with his statement. That isn't even close to defending him. Biden or Trump or my trash guy or one of our resident simpletons could have said the same thing and they'd simply be correct. The very nature of a virus means a pandemic will happen again. We'll all probably be dead then but it will happen.
Interesting take on free will. I suddenly have the urge to squirt mustard up my nose and do a coffee enema while riding a T Rex.
That is not his way. He made the laws and commandments and also abides by them. We are given a chance to live and choose unless aborted and those in my opinion are souls who have already proven their worth. We were given free will to do what we chose to do and the time to figure it out. We make the decisions once again whether we follow him or Satan. After we leave this earth we are no longer in pain and before you reference Hell and eternal fire that is not what the Bible means. Translations in the Bible confuse people because not everything was translated exactly. If you chose to follow Satan, your fate (if God so judges) is the same as Satans, to be thrown into the lake of fire and to be turned to ashes from within instantaneously forever. That is where the forever comes from.
What you're saying is you lack faith and that is your choice. A choice granted to you in our opinions. You can do with it as you wish. We could get into the minutia of chance and theory on many things but there is little point. I will say this though on the matter of faith.
Pretty sure you could do any number of different things than get dressed and drink coffee.
I don't "believe" anything. All of my opinions are subject to revision upon receipt of new information. If Jesus poofed in front of me right now and said He was real and Christianity was the real universal truth I'd be all about it. It just doesn't seem likely to me based on the evidence. If you're talking about an aloof creator God that sparked the Big Bang and then stood back and watched sure maybe. But a personal God as Christianity sells it that cares about you and me and intervenes in the universe? It's as I said, that either doesn't exist or He's the definition of evil. Neither of which is worthy of worship.
The problem with you and your view of communism is that you assume Humans giving the right circumstance will all act like Well trained dogs.
No, he doesn't intervene, not often anyway. If he did, how would we be tested? Everything is about our faith. That is tested best by failure, not success.
He's 100x better than platinumplated.
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Where scripturally or anywhere other than your personal opinion does it say that aborted babies' souls have already proven their worth? They weren't "given free will to do what we chose to do and the time to figure it out." That's such a logical inconsistency that you yourself had to bring it up.
I get that but self harm is a huge problem in the LGBTQ community as a whole. All the more reason for parents to be informed and be vigilant in watching for warning signs in their children. Teachers should care about their students well being but they are not parents. And the relationship between the two needs to be professional. JMO.I also agree with the majority of what you say in theory but I just don't like the government overreach of passing laws that force teachers into disclosing information that could lead to child abuse or a child's suicide.
Maybe require some training on this issue and how to handle it? But to turn it into a law with threats of legal ramifications just seems like more big government overreach.
Each student and every case is different. To paint them all with a broad brush is very problematic.
A teacher is one of the only adults that some kids feel comfortable talking to about their problems. Many students from Uber religious families would rather die than disclose to their parents and family that they are gay. If this law passes....they will be.
At the end of the day...this is a law that will create way more problems than it will solve.
LGBT+ youths twice as likely to contemplate suicide, survey finds
Exclusive: cut off from support networks and often facing tension at home, young LGBT+ people suffered more than most during lockdownswww.theguardian.com
I understand your opinion. We have more in common than that which divides us. Most of us want what's best for our people. Y'all are the ones who claim to follow Jesus. He had many more things to say about greed, wealth, charity, poverty, and compassion than he did about gay sex.
That was me, not VH and whistling by the graveyard means I'm nervous or scared but pretend to be cool by whistling. It has nothing to do tmwith what was said. Also, what was said is the very definition of anecdote. Perhaps you should look that up as well.
If he doesn't intervene how is he relevant at all? You can conjecture about anything you want beyond our universe but if we can never interact with it it's the definition of pointless. Worshiping it has no value as it provides nothing in return. He never made a pact with Abraham or revealed anything to Moses. A noninterfering creator God is the same as no God at all.
I didn't bring Jesus into this. I brought reality. I also agree we do have a lot more in common than not. You just ignore human reality for text book utopia.
