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Recent content by mitchellmckain

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    Where is the soul?

    I know that this is what you believe but I don't think that this is what the Bible says. What it says in Revelations and the OT is that everyone is resurrected and then faces judgement. But more importantly, Paul asks and answers the following question: "With what kind of body are we...
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    Where is the soul?

    1 Cor 15:44, if we have a physical body then we have a spiritual body (Standard Revised). Or putting it back in context 1 Corinthians 15:42-50 using the International version: A physicist like me who reads this will tend to conclude that the spiritual is outside the mathematical...
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    Where is the All-Giving gOd?

    It is benevolent to withold what is not in their best interest to receive quite yet. When dealing with living finite creatures that grow and learn, timing is important. So you cannot give all the water a plant needs all at once, but just a little each day, or the plant will not grow. So a...
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    Communicating with God?

    Life in general is communication with God. Of all those that we communicate with, God is the most non-localized and being omnipotent and omniscient, there is nothing we do that is not a communication to Him and everything that happens can be a communication from Him. The question is only whether...
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    The watch analogy

    After reading the Wikipedia article on this topic, I can only say that I would personally be very skeptical of so called evidence taken from the Rig Veda for the invasion theory. But I find the linguistic and genetic evidence to be much more objective and convincing. It seems obvious to me...
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    what can a soul reincarnate into?

    You can see it as the limitations of my metaphysics if you like. I don't believe in souls or spirits animating living things so much as living things creating spirits by the choices they make. I see the physical universe as a womb in which we develop and are born from. To go back into a womb in...
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    what can a soul reincarnate into?

    It does indeed seem to me like a perversion that is very similar. Old people thrusting themselves into the lives of the young. That is just how I feel about it. Well my honest opinion is that it is incorrect. But I am not incapable of imagining such a thing and that is how I would feel about it...
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    What is a god?

    A god is something you think is worthy of worship -- worthy of your highest praise, adoration and emulation. So what does it take? absolute power? not for me. limitless knowledge? no that's just another name for power. For me there is only one thing that does it and that is goodness --...
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    what can a soul reincarnate into?

    None. I find the whole idea to be completely obsene. Like old men lusting after children.
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    The watch analogy

    I had never heard of mathematical theology before so I looked it up. Of course I know about Pythagoras. In so far as mathematics is the language of physics and the universe is a creation of God, I can agree with the idea that God speaks to us in this language to some degree. I think that God...
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    The watch analogy

    Sounds to me like the way some people have decided the holocaust was jewish propaganda. An observation of the pattern of human history shows that it is all too likely that every place on the planet was acquired by the people who live there by conquest at some time in the past. These events...
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    The watch analogy

    Not 100% sure what you mean by dumski. The god of the magical christians maybe? The God of the Bible? Any personal God? Any God apart from the universe? As for the ancient necromancer god of the magical Christians I couldn't agree more. As for the God of the Bible, well people seem to see...
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    The watch analogy

    You mean that God is the first cause -- the one because of whom anything exits? I assume you do not mean that I cannot create or do anything that is my own idea and responsibility rather than God's, as in absolute predestination, absolute divine sovereignty or pantheism because then I would not...
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    The watch analogy

    Well it was not exactly meant as a complete explanation of what is happening. This is an unresolved puzzle in quantum physics. I simply explained where the wave collapse is ocurring -- what is the significant agent that causes it to occur -- and that is this process of amplification that any...
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    The watch analogy

    Yes as I said previously I think the key to how this happens is in the process of amplification which is an inherently non-linear (as in non-linear differential equations) process, because the only way that a detector can inform us of the state of a particle is by making the behavior of a...
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