No. Invalid analogy.Yes... and since there is cannibalism throughout the animal kingdom... we should eat one another?
Homosexuality is a common and normal variation, not a rebellion against God. It should be accepted as such.
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No. Invalid analogy.Yes... and since there is cannibalism throughout the animal kingdom... we should eat one another?
Thank you for that.Jesus came on a suicide mission to take the consequences of our evil deeds on Himself.
Jesus death and resurrection was to draw us to Him to reap the benefits of His death, as ordained by God in the Hebrew scriptures. Since then people have been born into the Kingdom of God.
We are human and God wants people who freely choose Him not people who are changed by a snap of God's fingers.
This of course is only part of the story.
No, it's pretty clear that Jesus knew from the start that the intention was that he should die (eg Mark 2:20), and it's unambiguous that he refused opportunities to escape because his purpose was to be killed.Everyone who goes to war could be said that he/she is potentially going on a suicide mission.
Then again, He lives?
If God is omnipotent then (as I said) EVERYTHING that happens only happens exactly and always as [he] perfectly foresaw and intended at the time [he] created the universe. The question of freewill doesn't arise at any point. (Not that it does in physics either, but that's not a secret.)Yes... and since there is cannibalism throughout the animal kingdom... we should eat one another?
Jesus is the man, the myth, the legend! God set him apart from all the rest for a reason.
No, it's pretty clear that Jesus knew from the start that the intention was that he should die (eg Mark 2:20), and it's unambiguous that he refused opportunities to escape because his purpose was to be killed.
You may recall in Jesus Christ, Superstar, that Judas complained he was getting the blame for Jesus' death, when he was only doing exactly what Jesus wanted.
If God is omnipotent then (as I said) EVERYTHING that happens only happens exactly and always as [he] perfectly foresaw and intended at the time [he] created the universe. The question of freewill doesn't arise at any point. (Not that it does in physics either, but that's not a secret.)
No... the analogy is correct. If homosexuality is normal because it happens in nature then cannibalism is normal too.No. Invalid analogy.
Homosexuality is a common and normal variation, not a rebellion against God. It should be accepted as such.
Good afternoon. Are these sincere questions, or rhetorical? (usually if rhetorical, the person doesn't want an answer)I've never understood just what the reason was. Perhaps you can help me?
Why was Jesus on a suicide mission from the start? (Mark 2:20, Mark 14:36 and so on).
What did Jesus' death actually accomplish? What aspect of reality was different afterwards?
Why did it need a death? Why couldn't an omnipotent God have effected any change [he] wished with one snap of [his] omnipotent fingers?
No can do. Last time I checked people don't chew their cud and have cloven hoofs. Of course, since you don't observe kashrut - בתאבוןYes... and since there is cannibalism throughout the animal kingdom... we should eat one another?
I thought for sure I saw a man pure and then start chewing again.No can do. Last time I checked people don't chew their cud and have cloven hoofs. Of course, since you don't observe kashrut - בתאבון
Good Appetite!
Yes... and since there is cannibalism throughout the animal kingdom... we should eat one another?
No, but it was quite a success as an entertainment, and the point Judas made which I referred to is completely supported by the gospel stories. To put that another way, what did Judas do that Jesus didn't want him to do?Jesus Superstar was not an historical account.
And in your view, what in the gospels is the equivalent of Hitler's nuclear program?
Well, yes, that's another problem, isn't it ─ Jesus' redeeming death wasn't death at all. So once again, what was the point of it all?Besides, our Christian belief system is that He lives. So, as far as Christians are concerned, your point is quite mute.
Then I'd be grateful if you'd refer me to the parts of the bible that directly address the question. And the question is a simple one ─ if God is omnipotent then [he] can't avoid responsibility for everything that happens. All the bucks stop at [his] desk. [He] planned it, set it up, and knocked it down, and there's nothing anyone can do about that.Then, apparently, you haven't studied the Bible
Yes, a point on which I should be clear. It's clear from the biochemistry that the human brain is an extremely complex thing that has evolved to work in particular ways, which we're still exploring, describing and endeavoring to explain. It makes many kinds of decisions, and for most the brain processes involved are understood in principle. We make decisions as the result of complex and interacting chains of cause+effect. In that sense there is no such thing as free will anywhere, since the sole alternative is randomness.Good afternoon. Are these sincere questions, or rhetorical? (usually if rhetorical, the person doesn't want an answer)
Sometimes I notice your questions can involve key assumptions about free will. Are you using a premise that free will is illusory, or quite limited, or just non existent?
Not quite. The explanations of physics, about which we appear to be in substantial agreement, are not the same as the explanations of theology, and it's to that that I direct my enquiry.I once thought (late teen years) that seeming free will was just an artifact of physical complexity, that the future is merely incalculable. Only later did I learn it's plausible in physics that there could be true randomness in the heart of nature, and that Bell test experiments make that look more and more likely. Of course, even merely a physical randomness alone would already render certain questions you raised moot, can you see?
Sure it has a lot of cool messages but you can also interpret certain parts of it however you wish. I really do believe God wishes us to have our own thoughts and feelings regarding him.Ah, so the bible has no intrinsic meaning ─ only whatever the reader would like it to mean!
I'm reminded of Dr Who's psychic paper.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Cannibalism is rare, and it's a behavior, not an inborn drive or orientation.No... the analogy is correct. If homosexuality is normal because it happens in nature then cannibalism is normal too.
Ask a cannibal
Ah, you're referring to the Eucharist!No... the analogy is correct. If homosexuality is normal because it happens in nature then cannibalism is normal too.
Ask a cannibal
No, but it was quite a success as an entertainment, and the point Judas made which I referred to is completely supported by the gospel stories. To put that another way, what did Judas do that Jesus didn't want him to do?
And in your view, what in the gospels is the equivalent of Hitler's nuclear program?
Well, yes, that's another problem, isn't it ─ Jesus' redeeming death wasn't death at all. So once again, what was the point of it all?
Then I'd be grateful if you'd refer me to the parts of the bible that directly address the question. And the question is a simple one ─ if God is omnipotent then [he] can't avoid responsibility for everything that happens. All the bucks stop at [his] desk. [He] planned it, set it up, and knocked it down, and there's nothing anyone can do about that.
Or are you arguing that God is not omnipotent? ─ which would solve that particular problem.
It's not something you choose, as a rule,
and who has done the testing?Cannibalism is rare, and it's a behavior, not an inborn drive or orientation.
Cannibalism is learned. Cannibalism cannot be seen on a brain MRI.
Which testing are you referring to?and who has done the testing?