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You're just dismissing the Bible, aren't you?
The blasphemy is you saying that the GOD changed HIS mind. That is a blasphemy against the omnipotence of GOD, the ALL knowing GOD, who knows the end from the beginning. The GOD is not a gambler, HE does not test as science does to see how things will go. HE knows from the beginning.
What you're saying annihilates the possibility of free will. It also implies that God is responsible for all the suffering in the world because He knew in advance that people will sin, He knew the consequences of sin, and it was in His control to stop them from sinning, but He chose to not do it.
Avatars are fiction. Transfer of consciousness is fiction. God has consciousness outside of a body. It is not seen possible for people to live outside of their bodies unless God commands it. God has freedom of choice as to save a soul after death or cause it to perish. God can also kill, but sent Jesus to show mercy.
You know what else was considered fiction less than 100 years ago? The internet that you currently use to type the word "fiction" on. Also, organ transplants. Also, antibiotics. Go back 200 years and we can add flying in a plane, driving a car, taking a photo and filming a video to the list of "fiction"al things.
Commands it or allows it? Did God command Satan to harm Job or did He allow it? Did God command the Romans to kill Jesus or did He allow it?
But this is not about what happens after death. This is about how to postpone death and increase longevity through technological means.
Predestination and free will are contradictory concepts. Free will cannot exist if actions are predestined / predetermined.
A fallen world that God knew would happen. A fallen nature that God knew would exist. And yet He allowed them to happen despite being able to stop them from happening. Therefore, He is responsible for them.
I'm not mocking anyone. And I find your assumption that I have not sought God, as well as your constant accusations of blasphemy, offensive.
Keep this in mind when reading the Gospels. The "contradictions" there are actually much more minor. I wouldn't even call them contradictions. You don't even need to be an inerrantist (which I am, by the way) to see that. If you get different people writing about the same thing, you're bound to get some differences in narratives for one reason or another. In fact, if you have different witnesses in court and they all give exactly the same description of an event, this would be a reason to get *suspicious*, not trusting.I am speaking the truth... IF you question the Omnipotence of GOD, you are blaspheming HIS Most Holy Character.
Avatar is a fantasy, a delusion. It is like cold fusion or extracting gold from sea water. I would not invest a dime in it. So far people have not been able to keep a brain alive apart from a body, much less keep it alive in a machine robot. A computer chip cannot think. A transplanted kidney will grow old and die. As many as one third of people over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's. It is a condition that leads to brain death. If you look at an elderly person, you can see the flesh withered. It is no longer young and strong. The flesh perishes, the spirit gives life.
The worlds been immoral since before Adam and Eve left Eden.
I think we need to be careful anyway before singling out dates on the calendar in relation to future events in Scripture. We are told the events but not the exact dates.
