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Yes....."it" .......unless you can indicate some significance in assigning it a gender....?
So we won't think like you?

(Is that significant enough?)
 
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So we won't think like you?

(Is that significant enough?)

Trivial....so " it " will do just fine....

Now, despite your attempt to run from the argument, explain why you worship this sadistic invention, given that it makes judgement of you for actions that it purportedly always knew you'd take....?
 
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No, not 'trivial.'

You're doing the very thing you're complaining about:


... only worse, by assuming God is a machine.

Your beating around the bush conveys a very clear message....answer the question...
 
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Who says...? After all, people like you have constructed this free will / omniscience paradox which creates a contradiction in your god's character....
It does not matter what people like me have done. This is between you and God and I have NOTHING to do with it. Oh to be sure the atonement is two fold. IF you were saved you would be reconciled with the father AND ALSO Jesus paid the price so Christians are reconciled with each other. From your attitude toward Christians I would say it is a pretty safe guess that you have not been rescued, saved, healed and delivered. This is your choice and God leaves it up to you to decide what you want to do with your life.
 
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Is that what you think of yourself? a bush?

God is a machine and you're a bush?

I don't talk to plants.

I suspect you have been listening to Gene Roddenberry too much.

Playground response....how predictable from one who lacks either intellectual honesty or courage to address a question that they find difficult.

Quite sad really....
 
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It does not matter what people like me have done. This is between you and God and I have NOTHING to do with it. Oh to be sure the atonement is two fold. IF you were saved you would be reconciled with the father AND ALSO Jesus paid the price so Christians are reconciled with each other. From your attitude toward Christians I would say it is a pretty safe guess that you have not been rescued, saved, healed and delivered. This is your choice and God leaves it up to you to decide what you want to do with your life.

If your god exists, then he would know which choice I was going to make, even before I was born.....free will wouldn't come into it. You god's claimed omniscience means that I was already programmed to behave in a particular way...
 
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You god's claimed omniscience means that I was already programmed to behave in a particular way...

Wouldn't it be nice if our computers were programmed by someone omniscient?

It could log you into CF before you even sit down.
 
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If your god exists, then he would know which choice I was going to make, even before I was born.....
He could have know if He wanted to know. But He can also choose NOT to know what choice your going to make. Either way, first you want to blame me, now you want to blame God. What you need to do is maybe quit trying to peddle the blame off onto others. Your not going to get anywhere until you start to take a little bit of responsibility for yourself in life.

You god's claimed omniscience
I do not know what "omniscience" is. I have never seen that word in the Bible.
 
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Well, to be fair, AV did say does not control, not can not control.

Not the "all-loving" being then I imagine. As it appears to have created something and given it control, and this something it knows is the utmost evil incarnate.
 
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Not the "all-loving" being then I imagine.
An atheist who imagines "all-loving" ... hmmm.
As it appears to have created something and given it control, and this something it knows is the utmost evil incarnate.
This machine you're talking about, is your level of understanding of theology excluding the fact that this "thing" gave control to Adam, who then turned it over to this "something"?

No middleman (or middlebot) in your corporation, is there?
 
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An atheist who imagines "all-loving" ... hmmm.

This machine you're talking about, is your level of understanding of theology excluding the fact that this "thing" gave control to Adam, who then turned it over to this "something"?

No middleman (or middlebot) in your corporation, is there?

No verification of either the end product or beginning product either. It's almost as if this is nothing more than a series of hypotheticals in a fantasy?
 
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No verification of either the end product or beginning product either. It's almost as if this is nothing more than a series of hypotheticals in a fantasy?

At least try to get the "fantasy" right, will you?

Just because you think it's a fantasy, doesn't mean you can toss accuracy to the wind.

Or are you making up your own story, then expecting us to sort it out?
 
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