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Right there, you did the same thing. You made claims that aren't supported and drew the conclusion that I would go to Paradise if I believe you.
You believe that the Bible is an authority on the subject. More precisely that you are an authority on what it means and it is an authority on God.
Agree, provided you are not implying that "sinlessness" in thought mind and deed can be achieved by a depraved human. Sanctificaton certainly occurs, but if it led to sinlessness, the cross would only be an insurance policy. Being perfect and sinless is required, but it is yours by faith in him and acceptance, not by becoming a perfect, sinless human. There have been only 3, and two fell from Grace, there will be no more till the world begins anew.
If god is omnipotent and omniscient, then this is only logical if you assume god is also perverse, unfair or uncaring (in some combination).
Your first point is correct, however, God doesn't know what hasn;t occurred. God's purpose isn't to "remove" sin, it is for humanity to return to a proper faith, by use of free will. It is further to demonstrate fully the tragedy of free will exercised improperly. Sin is a human choice, based upon the desire to arrogantly be ruled by a series of rules and laws, and then the cumulative effects of the the constant failure of this choice. You use the term "logical", .i.e. logic. As I have pointed out elsewhere, by the laws of logic Christianity is proven to be logical. Perhaps you need to refresh your knowledge of what logic actually is, s well as what justice is.,
So not omniscient, then?
So what did you mean when you said "God seeks to remove sin from people's lives"?
Free will from the point of view of an omniscient, omnipotent creator is clear nonsense - such a creator would effectively control all our nature and all our nurture.
So why the 100% failure?
No idea what you mean by this.
Christianity logical? In what way? Where is this proof?
No, God isn't omniscient, but he is perfectly prepared to deal with any possibility. Well, I didn't say that God seeks to remove sin from peoples lives, but he does. Not by fiat, but by an established relationship with him, freely entered into. There is no failure. Failure means your goals weren't achieved, Gods goals will all be achieved. So, you believe that free will given to the created by the creator is nonsense ? Are you a parent ? Does a parent allowing free will on the part of the child, first within parameters, then totally any different ? There are a series of fundamental laws to follow in applying logic, that have been known since ancient Greece. There is a process using these rules to determine what is logical. Logic has been corrupted to mean " if I don't like it, or if I disagree, it isn't logical". Applying these laws to Christianity ALWAYS proves it to be logical. I am sure there is plenty of info about logic on the net. Or, you could simply find a proper word to express your disdain. As an aside, I find it amusing that on a site called "religious forums", atheists infest it. Not that I think it's wrong, I am happy to engage anyone. Nevertheless, I can't help but wonder wonder why "they protesteth too much"
So where is the information before the organism exists?
OK - so where is God's mind? Is it part of physical reality or part of an unchangeable immaterial non-reality? If it is outside of reality, how does it get in? At what precise moment does, for example, the information that describes the reality of a bacterium that just split off a parent get transferred from God's mind to the new organism? How does this immaterial information become encoded in the new organism's DNA?
You asked about the information required for the alleged very first organism to exist and function. The information for all organism's is the result of replicating DNA, from one generation to the next. The very existence of this DNA and it's replication, is the result of encoded information in the DNA of the parent organism. A very, very complicated system that does what is required elegantly. A system, I believe, that was designed and created by it's designer. IF that very first organism didn't have the required information to grow and function, according to the natural concept of the beginning of life, then no life would be possible. Which still begs the question, where did that complicated, encoded, huge amount of information come from ? I am pretty darn sure, in fact, I am positive that no one who asserts a naturalistic explanation for life can answer the question. To answer your reality questions I will use the old analogy of a mechanical watch. The watchmaker designs and builds it, then winds it every couple of days. All the natural functioning systems in the universe, replicating DNA to volcanic action to the universe was designed and built to function by the "winding" of God. All the energy that turned into matter, that turned into stars and light, that powers the universe, is the winding. So the material reality that we know and experience by our senses exists, but there are other realities that are totally unknown to us, that exist in the same space as we. Paul called them in the Bible "powers, principalities and kingdoms unseen"
That's a very Newtonian position.
belief is logical...after you drop the dogma
He doesn't have to tinker with it, further, using the analogy, I said he wound it one time, at the beginning when all the energy and potential for energy burst forth at the BB, which he caused. As to evolution, I am an evolutionist in that I believe animals organisms can adapt to environmental circumstances in a limited fashion. However, the idea that chance mutations leads to the neat bogus chart we were shown in school of that magical first organism ultimately becoming a whale is way way from proven, in fact it has a plethora of serious flaws, but, that's another conversation. If you would reread my post, you would find that I don't agree with Newton at all.
My apologies, I took the "winds it every couple of days" as part of your analogy of God's work in relation to the universe. But if you meant he just wound it up once and then watched it go, then that's equivalent to a deistic view of creation. I'm wondering though how you can doubt the evolutionary origin of species and yet hold that God does not intervene, at least occasionally. Presumably you accept that different species have appeared on earth at different times.