First I had to remove some stuff from your quotes so I could fit everything in the post. I am not avoiding anything and addressed as much as I could fit.
You could have always continued it, as I have done, rather then limit it as if you couldn't answer it.
That doesn't answer my question. This is a weak and irrelevant point.
Then why didn't you leave it out and put something more important in.
That's a non sequitor; him existing or not has no logical connection with us being here.
So, you think that our existence is independent of God?
Also saying you know its true because you hear voices from a Ghost isn't an argument.
You have never heard me say that I have heard voices. I always describe it as a exterior source of intelligence that communicates conceptually. So, yet again another misrepresentation or an outright lie.
Its an assertion, and an unlikely one at that. Why would you expect anyone to buy into this argument?
2.2 billion other Christians do not describe it as unlikely, however, I certainly do not expect anyone to buy into it.
I mean Muslims say the same thing. Mormons say the same thing. Its all a matter of faith right?
Firstly, Mormons are Christians. Secondly, God exists so you would expect other denominations to say the same thing.
Well what about all the faiths of all the different religions?
What about them.
Your word that your mind didn't make an illusion for you isn't persuasive or convincing to anyone.
I have never seen anything divine with my earthly eyes so I have never claimed it. If I had I certainly would not cast my pearl before swine.
I don't trust that you perfectly understand everything. [/QUOTE]
If I knew everything I would be omniscient, like God, I am not omniscient, or anywhere close to it.
And even if you did have it "confirmed", it could be the devil trying to trick you. That would require even more impossible knowledge that you probably don't have access to.
You don't know that. I would certainly recognise him again.
You're making more assumptions. I'm actually an agnostic
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Yes, assumptions based on the content of your posts which suggests that you are an atheist.
You have a tendency to make conclusions on things that you don't have enough knowledge to know, including your conclusions on God and religion.
No, that is your interpretation of who I am.
Also this is another non sequitor.
It is non-sequitur and you are using it incorrectly.
Being God doesn't have anything to do with him sinning or not.
Sorry, but you are speaking from ignorance. You don't know what you are talking about.
A God isn't defined as a being who can't sin
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God is not defined by a single definition He is defined by many definitions, sinless is just one of them
Also the body is very imperfect. Each time someone gets cancer or suffers a disease it reflects its many imperfection. I mean is it perfect that many bodies can't eat gluten, where glueten is prominent in many many foods? That isn't perfect at all.
What on earth are you talking about. Our bodies are imperfect, and Gods is perfect.
Many people don't choose to do evil or don't recognize they're doing evil because of psychopath.
All of us will be judged fairly with all of the extenuating factors. You can only be judged by a law that you know.
You really need to educate yourself on genetics before making all of these claims. Here's just one source showing how wrong you are. I have dozens of other sources too.
You really need to educate yourself on religion. Why are you intent on trying to make me wrong? Genetics is not a massive part of my general knowledge, I have never said that it is. I find it hard to conceptualise it, however, genes do not control who I am. The person inside of me and my cognitive reasoning. If they did my entire existence could be predetermined and everything I do could be attributed to a sin. Justice could never be served as it will always be attributable to a gene. Murders would get off by claiming to have a killing gene and rapists would say they have a rapest gene. By your logic there is no immorality and no sin we are all the product of our genes.
Genes that affect emotion and personality:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21835681
Also, you're implying a false Dilemma--its not that either genes do determine our actions or they don't. Genes interact with the environment to shape us and our actions. Genes have an effect that combined with the environment leads to traits we have. Genes don't solely determine us, but they greatly affect the outcomes. Also, the environment isn't decided by us anyways, so really most of our decisions are a result of things that aren't our choices. You would make entirely different decisions if you were born in india 1000 years ago.
A conscience cognitive mind is capable of determining the difference between right and wrong and then making a choice as to which one it will choose. Again, if your logic is true then how could we determine whether someone is guilty or not have murder?
Regardless, the point is that we don't have full free will. We only have partial free will, or sometimes no free will, that determines what we do.
I do not believe that. It is a copout and excuse for our wrong doings. There is nothing in my life that I can say is not the result of my choices that I have knowingly made.
You might think you have a choice, but its possible you're predisposed to having religious experiences, and then combined with your family means you're very likely to be religious.
I was raised an atheist. I became a Christian because it was logical and felt right. I grant you that I laugh like my mother did, however, she laughed at different things to me
That's an example of environmental and genetic factors making you believe what you believe. You could have also had a gene that makes you predisposed to skepticism and doubt, which means that you would be an atheist or an agnostic.
I do not discount that, however, it beggars the question as to whether our whole experience here is predetermined by genes and that we are all products of genes without any individuality.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19961060
Adam and Eve didn't exist. There were never refer than a few thousand human beings to preserve genetic diversity. I mean humans couldn't have emerged from the incest resulting from two human beings.
Adam and Eve had perfected bodies whilst in the Garden of Eden. When they sinned and the body became immortal they had bodies of flesh and blood that were in pretty go shape. To then procreate whilst in that condition would not have cause any problems, especially since Eve was created out of the rib of adam.
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Not the biblical Eve[edit]
However, the theory does not suggest any relation between biblical Eve and Mitochondrial Eve because Mitochondrial Eve:
is not a fixed individual
had a mother
was not the only woman of her time, and
Y-chromosomal Adam is unlikely to have been her sexual partner, or indeed to have been contemporaneous to her. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
You call speculation research, really? You do realise that there are those who criticize the existence of a Mitochondrial Eve:
This again reflects your lack of research in important scietnific arenas. How can you argue about this stuff and make claims about adam and eve when you haven't even checked if they ever existed?
I have checked if they existed. I was told that they didn't by a source far greater then men. But you carry on delivering you unnecessary insults and unfounded accusations against my person, it only tells the reader who you are, unless they are one of the same ilk.
If I started seeing fairies I would first get an MRI and then check myself into a psych ward for observation. People with mental disorders or those who take psychedlic drugs are enabled to see fairies and have other hallucinations, so no I wouldn't give it a go. Seeing something doesn't mean it exists. It just means your brain thinks it does. Those are very different.
I don't know what you are talking about or who you refer to as seeing things that nobody else see. As you accused me earlier, you are assuming without evidence to support your assumption. You are clearly not familiar with things divine or or what Christianity is all about.
No, people getting Luekemia isn't a result of our choices. Leukemia is a result of mutation and genetic problems.
I didn't say that it was the result of our choices. I said that it is the result of a weakened gene pool or hereditary as a result of gene transmission, which is pretty much the same as you have said here. It is the result of mans actions that have caused it and nothing to do with God, whom I was defending
Would anyone decide to have leukemia? Obviously not, thus disproving your point.
I did not say that we choose the illness that we have, how preposterous, I chalked it up to genetics, which you would have known if you were reading for comprehension instead of looking for trivialities to catch me out on. You clearly haven't disproved my point, you have corroborated it, but why do you want to so desperately?
Also God doesn't know much if he doesn't know what happens in the middle.
God knows all thing that can be known. I would say that is a lot because there is no more.
That means he only knows the beginning flash and the last bit of darkness in the unvierse. But any physicist could tell you that as well.
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