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One of the toiughest sayings of Christ relates to the this very issue, which is due to that hackneyed expression "sin".
Men might abuse women, but they will pay for it if they don't repent.
They are merely crystals with the angles between them set by the chemical properties of the bonds of the molecules (in this case water). Nothing more. This is not fine tuning.
"Design" in biology is not the fine tuning of the physical constants. Please take that discussion to a different thread or start a new one. We are trying to examine the physics parameter "fine tuning" question. Cheers.
So it's your opinion that God designed the sexual urge, not to aid procreation, but simply to test us. And by 'us' I mean almost overwhelmingly men. And that countless numbers of women over eons have suffered horrendously because men failed the test. And God, being omnipotent, would have known that that was going to happen. Why design something if you know it's going to fail so badly?
Rather than simply punishing men decades after the act why not stop them before the act of rape. If you could stop someone being raped wouldn’t you?
You wouldn’t even need to create them to rest them because you would already know if they would pass or fail before hand.
I'm kinda bending over backward and allowing for the concept of free will where God allows us to make bad decisions to see if we're good or not. Yeah, I know...He'll already know, so the situation is ridiculous to start with. But it's like putting a fillet steak in your dog's kennel and then punishing the dog if eats it. Hey, what did you expect!
Nope. I don't want that. What I asked above doesn't have anything to do with that. I was asking a separate question.
No, I'm not okay. I've never been okay, and I won't be okay as long as I'm stuck in a Fallen World that keeps poking me.
Amen!
Amen! .....but with the caveat that we truly need to do our best to understand what it is "God said." As you know, prophetic speech and spiritual lessons from God's Word aren't always meant to be easily understood. However, they'll be understood by those who seek God's Will in reaching further, better understanding.
Yes, they do. But philosophers, who ask more questions than anyone, also know that the ability to discern between questions that can be answered from those that can't be answered is an important ability to acquire. And I think Jesus and His Apostles stated similar recommendations. That's where Christian Discernment comes into play. Having faith in Christ isn't fully reliant on answering all of our questions, although a number of our questions can be answered.
Where is the supernatural force? Snowflakes and other complex systems develop because matter has the property of organizing itself when energy is passed thru it, within certain parameters. That property has not been quantified yet, but some sort of Law of Emergence is there waiting to be described. But again, self-organization is built into matter.
Sure. Some bits and pieces of the Bible can be quoted without much difficulty and we all can (more or less) come to immediate agreement about their seeming meaning. However, taking a simple example like Genesis 1:3 that's obviously not bogged down by too much semantic ambiguity (other than the fact that it wasn't written in English, let alone Jamesian English) doesn't make the rule for all cases.
It's not our job as Christians to 'make them believe.' This isn't a war of conquest.
What would be better is to answer their questions in scholarly terms that are congruent with Biblical truth and the strong effort to "showing thyself approved." Personally, I don't overly concern myself with answering questions in other people's terms, particularly when their terms are often illogical, confused or ininformed. Moreover, Reality and Truth don't bend for any of us, even if God Himself does incline down to us in His Spirit.
Perhaps. But that's not always the case. Sometimes, we who are Christian aren't very capable in communicating what God wants us to communicate. I've been at fault for that from time to time, I'm sure. So has everyone else.
