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simple enough.... you posted the picture. I figured it was your picture since you posted it, so you had a specific idea in mind.
first I would say I am glad you are a survivor, and second, I would ask you where God is in this picture.
Thank you. I am too!
Breathing clarity of mind, and thought so the medical staff can focus on their jobs, without being distracted, or losing focus.
This temporary life is indeed quite short, but there is a Life eternal.
No, homosexual behavior is an abomination in the eyes of God but having those desires or any sinful desires and repenting of them and any behavior associated with it will give you eternal life. For Hitler being gay basically meant you should be executed irrespective if you repented. Many reformed homosexuals have been good Christians, some even possibly leaders in the church. Paul says as much in his writings. Huge difference. Actually there is some evidence though that many butch homosexuals were involved in the Nazi Party.
No, because I was convinced by the evidence for Christianity not just what it promised. Christianity explains reality better than any other belief system with more evidence backing it than any other belief system.
There are such small amounts of historical, scientific and philosophical evidence for Christianity, just as there is very little for any other religion.
Provided, of course, that you assume the Bible is flawless. But after you look at the flaws in that book, what is left?
One would think that, if God is all powerful, he would be able to do more than breathe clarity of mind into a medical staff.
Thank you. It's not often you find a Christian who is brave and honest enough to admit that they lost the debate.
I think of it this way--
If you imagine you won a 'debate' (which I didn't even engage in...) then you have harmed yourself again. It's not a win-lose situation at all. Either each person wins, together, or loses, together.
I have no idea. I'm not involved in all medical staff's lives, and endeavors. I had 6 cancer surgeries, and am still alive after 33 years of living with, instead of dying from, my cancer.
see above.
But the "essential consciousness/self" is gone. All our memories, emotions, and thoughts are a function of the brain. If the brain is dead, it cannot produce these any more.
Avalanches and pebbles are just rocks acting on gravitational forces, how is that complex? There is no information produced or complex sequences of causes and effects.
Ok provide an example of overcoming entropy without using living things because that would be assuming what we are trying to prove.
Ok provide an empirically observed example of that occurring.
Persons producing the personal.
Ok provide an example of a purpose for something coming from an impersonal cause. You cant use living things, because that would be assuming what we are trying to prove.
See above about the ultimate cause of the personal.
Something can logically be ontologically transcendent to something else. So it is with God and the universe.
So you dont believe that scientists study effects and their characteristics to determine the cause of those effects? If you dont believe that, then you dont know much about science.
The leaders of atheistic and humanistic nations tend to be evil because they tend to live consistently with their atheistic philosophies because they dont have governmental constraints on them like the common people. Also, because humans are naturally religious many dont go along with their leaders philosophies.
Most of what I was referring to regarding China has occurred in the last 30 years. The US has not had slaves in 150 years. And genocide was never committed against blacks or even native Americans' in any real sense it was just a series of wars that they mostly lost due to the superior technology of the Americans. Not sure what warmongering you are referring to. Locking children in cages in recent times was to protect them from being sex trafficked and locked in jails with their parents and the so called cages had TVs and video games and they could come out and play soccer if they wanted. The present US prior to the corona virus had the best economy in the world, among the lowest rates of unemployment for minorities in US history and more freedom than any nation on the planet.
Fraid so, see above.
Sorry, Halbhh, but that's not actually how it works. You believe one thing; I believe another. We cannot both be right. We could both be wrong, of course, which could mean that we both lose (or, perhaps, "win" - but it's also entirely possible that I am shown to be right and you are shown to be wrong.
Thank you for your concern. Please, don't worry. I'm fine. I encourage you to shoot my argument down in flames if you feel you are able.
Of course avalanches are more complex than a few rocks falling. They have many more parts, they interacts in vastly more complicated ways, and scientists are finding out they are much more complex than they had thought.
Okay. The sun puts out vast amounts of energy. This energy is collected by living things on the earth. They use this energy to overcome entropy.
Sure. Easy.
Depends what you mean by "produced". Yes, we all emerged from our mother's bodies at birth. So in that sense, we were "produced" by personal beings. But they didn't create us using their personal qualities. We were created entirely impersonally, as a result of chemical chain reactions that evolved over billions of years.
Yeah? Prove it.
Sure I believe that's what they do. It's just, that's not in the slightest what you're doing. You're just, well, making things up.
