To be able to say something is contradictory with any certainty, one would have had to investigate and ruled out any mistaken view, since things may appear to be, but not be.
Have you done so?
I'm pointing out that what appears to be a contradiction to you, is not. I showed why.
To you, but that too has not been demonstrated by you.
Notice... you only claim it. That's the easiest thing for anyone to do.
You don't? There may be a good explanation for that. Why not listen for the point.
People do not speak in sentences. They connect sentences to make a point.
If you take every sentence separately, it's obvious you won't understand.
It seems that way perhaps because you broke two connected paragraphs into two separate and distinct parts.
Thus, you missed the point.
Since the ones
some people ignore... case in point -
Romans 6:23;
Genesis 3:19 +
Ecclesiastes 9:5;
Psalms 146:4, says A, the ones
some people run for, don't say A is wrong. They simply say, "You misunderstand me, if you think I contradict A. So maybe go back to the beginning and come again."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's equivalent to you showing me
Ephesians 5:28, 29
28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself, 29 for no man ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cherishes it, just as the Christ does the congregation,
...along with
Matthew 22:39
...and I run for
Matthew 5:29-30... ignoring anything you showed me, and said, No. I have a right to cut off anything that offends me, because Jesus said so.
As a series of books? You mean, you read it like differnt novels by different authors?
How does your interpretations work?
Do they go like... "I think this or that, because it appears this is the case."?
Or do they go... "What does he mean? I wonder if there is any clarity given. Let me look and see, or wait and see."?
Or other?
What sort of evidence? What would that evidence look like?
Did you, or do you interpret everything your mother told, or tells you?
Depends on what you mean by sin. The Bible says the one called Devil sinned.
(1 John 3:8) . . .the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. . . John 8:44
Okay. That's an important piece of information.
Do you believe you are in any position to speak with any authority, or with any expertise on any documentation you have not studied?
I said yes.
I mentioned children who actually are born with severe challenges, and grow up with a very positive mentality.
I even offered to introduce them to you.
Actually, I know many children who have suffered serious abuse, and serious painful diseases, who do feel the same way. Would you like to meet some?
Is it the case you really want to see, or have you made up your mind already, on what you think?
What can anyone show you?
Why not google it.
What else is there to say that would take you out of your doubt? Nothing?
I
did not interpret what you said.
I
did read what you said.
This is
what you said...
I can think of a 5. He's supposedly all knowing so why even bother with the earth phase of this bizarre selection process, he knows the results so move straight on to the heaven phase of his experiment.
I
said...
Okay,
so don't create humans then.
There is no heaven phase though.
Many think the earth was made as some temperary dwelling - a "phase."
However, the Bible does not agree with that idea.
Isaiah 45:18;
Psalms 37:29;
Psalms 115:16
The reason anyone goes to heaven is to rule as kings and priests, and they are few only.
Revelation 5:10;
Revelation 20:4-6;
Revelation 14:1-4
That would not have happened without Adam and Eve.
If Adam had not sinned the earth would have been filled with people living with no pain or suffering. A
paradise.
So no humans. No heavenly life. So you never get to exist.
Did you not read that, or did you not understand?
Simplifying...
The earth is not a first phase. It never was. So that so called first phase does not exist. it never did. Nothing for God to skip.
Therefore, if God skipped anything, it would be man's existence. Man simply would not have come to be.
Do you understand?
Sorry.
It does not hurt to learn what one does not know.
I love it when people show me things. I don't complain when people give me information on their evolution beliefs. I welcome it, because they are giving me information they think 1) sheds light on, or 2) explains their beliefs, and 3) I get to take a look at what they offer. In other words, I'm open.. not closed.