Recent content by Bombila

EC has Byzantine rules that include ensuring only one question to a thread, only one non-believer to a thread, no debate among competing Christian sects, and essentially none of your arguments you naughty agnostics/atheists/seekers. :) I suspect you have no real idea how restricted...

Whether third trimester abortions are legal or not depends entirely on the laws where you live. In Canada, there is no law concerning abortion at any stage. It is considered entirely between a woman and her doctor. Third trimester abortions are very rare, and here at least are only performed...

I don't think it is at all rare. I think many, many nominal Christians have exactly the same experience, and are agnostic in all but the final act of naming themselves as such. Many of those are ministers and priests and preachers, people who think long and hard on these things. It may be rare...

I don't think it's trivial at all. We are discussing a myth (my belief) that is at the very beginning of the purported fall of humanity, the original sin. It must be important to understand what is meant by knowledge of right and wrong, and whether Adam possessed it before his disobedience to...

That has not been my experience. Believe it or not, I was a Christian for the first part of my life, and like many, I cried out to God many times, without ever experiencing the slightest indication that I was heard. Yet what else is one doing when trying to 'draw nigh to God', having no prior...

The point is that there is no 'mind' there to experience pain, and earlier there is not enough neural development for any such reaction to be readable as 'pain' by the fetus. Not to be gross, but you can put a skinned dead eel in a hot frypan and it will writhe - do you think the eel is feeling...

Yes, the accusation that non believers don't value life is one I hear often, yet in fact most non-believers are more likely to value life highly, as they are convinced we only get one and when it's over, it's all over. You won't hear an atheist rationalising mass killing by stating that God will...

Well, thanks for the faint acknowledgement that it isn't a very definitive story and cannot really be analysed much further as to what is meant by 'knowledge of good and evil' in the context of Adam's choice. :)

Well, to be fair, Calvinists don't exactly say God created people specifically to send to Hell, but that he creates all humans but of necessity, being omniscient, knows before he creates them which ones will go to hell, yet creates them anyway. They do dismiss the passages you quote as being...

I don't see how anything you've said negates Adam's status wrt to knowing whether his disobedience was evil or not. I see no difference at all between 'being aware of what he should do' and being aware doing the opposite was wrong, which equates imo to knowing the difference between right and...

His being informed not to do something is irrelevant if he did not know disobedience was 'evil'. After all, Eve, having been told the opposite by the serpent, gave Adam a new piece of information. How was he to know (or Eve) that all information is not equal in terms of good and evil? And if...

I don't entirely agree. People automatically think of the Duggars and families like them who do sponge off the system to an extent in order to support ultra-large families. But even in this day and age it is possible to have a large family and maintain them, depending on your lifestyle - it's...

It appears to be. If Adam and Eve did not know that disobeying God was wrong/evil, and obedience conversely right/good, then their disobedience was innocent, afaics.

From being homo sapiens. Even monkeys have morals, of a sort, and certainly chimps and gorillas exhibit very basic morality - and immorality - within their groups. Start with reasonably intelligent social animals (elephants, dolphins, wolves) and you always are able to detect a little altruistic...

It's always dangerous to try to persuade people with lies. They don't trust you so fast next time you tell them something, for one thing.