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True but so long as the Earth keeps its orbital velocity then we shall forever be falling towards the sun. WOW what a ride it is!!!!Perhaps. Although relativists might suggest the world is rising to the divers.
I had in mind the way Earth is continuously falling towards the sun.
Anyone speak 'allhartish' here? I don't understand what you are saying
So why is suicide a sin if one does it alone?I believe he is stating that good and evil can only happen when humans interact with one another.
People tend to blur the lines between right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust and means to an end......People want to live in the gray area, but can you be moderately dead? For there are absolutes of this world and the next!My two cents:
Rarely is right and wrong on a purely black and white spectrum, and the few times when it is it's often so hard to actually DO the right thing because of our nature to do what we want or what is fun.
Often it is on a grayscale shifting in shades and it is very hard to tell where one shade begins and another ends. Take the obvious moral choice of:
Should you kill Hitler to prevent the murder of 6 million Jewish people (plus gypsies and homosexuals etc)?
I think for certain I would have given the chance, but is that not still murder? Isn't murder wrong? So murder to prevent a different murder, is that actually justified morally?
Things like that make morality subjective no matter the situation.
People can self regulate sure and I ask you what is the minimum reasoning to going to Hell? Or can a moral person go to Hell? See Hell wasn't created for us, but what determines anyone going to Hell is they chose to and I don't get why anyone would want to do that!Being atheist myself (time to come clean), I can tell you that I'm confident in my sense of morals. Observe that I created a profile here with ulterior motives of deceit and satire, but my conscience got the better of me. In stead, I've decided to be the reasonable, compassionate voice of atheism on these forums.
An atheist's morality may not come from the Christian God, but it is no less mature or respectable.
With all due respect, it does not take God for someone to understand that murder is wrong or any other injustice.
We can see it in the lives of prisoners that are incarcerated, no? Are you asking me for my personal day to day convictions?Not only are we in a fallen world but it is still falling.
Re: knowing good and choosing wrong: An example would help. What have you chosen to do wrong and why did you do it?
I appreciate the irony. Note how I don't respond in poor spirit, like a true atheist should.
God bless you too
So why is suicide a sin if one does it alone?
Hey, hey. Not tryin ta start nuthin.
I just know to many atheists with an agenda against God so I applaud the people with open hearts and open minds even if they aren't of my religion. I then try to set an example as a Christian who doesn't beat people with a Bible, or attack the character of some simply because they don't believe.
The more Christians TALK about love, acceptance, kindness...etc and the less they SHOW it the less powerful the concept of God is to anyone. I make great strides to try to ensure that I am not some elitist, in fact I may enjoy the company of atheists more.
ya'know there are those that are disingenuous that come to destroy rather than seek! It reminds me of cage fighting with weight classes w/style! But here is where the battle ideas of the mind conclude and where the spiritual war fair really lies! Ideas and actions have consequences. America is an Idea as is Heaven,also coming to know one or the other is all in how you perceive it!If an atheist has an agenda against God they might want to find another label for themselves.
I have to admit that this is another of these things with Christians I never understood.The more Christians TALK about love, acceptance, kindness...etc and the less they SHOW it the less powerful the concept of God is to anyone. I make great strides to try to ensure that I am not some elitist, in fact I may enjoy the company of atheists more.
I have to admit that this is another of these things with Christians I never understood.
I support any person who shows love, acceptance and kindness... but what does that have to do with God, the concept of God or the power of that?
If Atheists show love, acceptance and kindness... does that strengthen the concept of Not-God?
I´d say that your behaviour shows what kind of human you are... nothing else.
Since then I have experienced a definite difference in my life when I "walk in faith" as us Christians would say.
Yeah, I was stroking my ego a little. I'm a narcissist, ngl. But I really do have positive motives. Get over it.
Yeah, I was stroking my ego a little. I'm a narcissist, ngl. But I really do have positive motives. Get over it.
Motives don't matter, results do.
You haven't really contributed much to this thread, so far as I can see.
So... whilst you're here, any baby recipes you wish to share?
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