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awesome thought!there are actually spinning motors in nature:
A Rotary Motor Drives Bacterial Motion - Biochemistry - NCBI Bookshelf
I view certainty, for the most part, as a form of arrogance.
I think we both are native English speakers. The use of the subordinate clause "for the most part" indicates that the view of "certainty" and therefore the certainty of that view are conditional.Are you 'certain' .. about that?
Perhaps you see certainty that oppresses you as arrogant?
Little kids sometimes hate their parents for that reason.
I think we both are native English speakers. The use of the subordinate clause "for the most part" indicates that the view of "certainty" and therefore the certainty of that view are conditional.
I'm not aware of being oppressed. What makes you think I am?
I think we both are native English speakers. The use of the subordinate clause "for the most part" indicates that the view of "certainty" and therefore the certainty of that view are conditional.
You're welcome. There's nothing honest whatsoever about passion inspired rejection of reality, and there's nothing contrived from grace. It's real, as is the God Who gives it.Thank you for a lengthy, sincere, well-meaning reply. I regret we will not have a meeting of minds. I will feel sad for you, for what I perceive as your self-delusions. You, perhaps, will feel sad for me. The greatest difference between us is that you think you have seen "the answer", whereas I am certain I haven't. Though disappointed by this, I am not troubled by it. I prefer an honest uncertainty, to a contrived certainty.
because there is no stepwise from a self replicating molecule into a car. for instance: a minimal car need at least several parts like wheels, engine etc.
Contrition of heart is a gift of the Holy Spirit and leads to poverty of Spirit. It's a blessing and it is valuable. "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, Thou, O God, will not despise" (Psalm 51). Sin is usually not always behind us. Rarely if ever does a day go by in which we don't commit some sin, and even the majority of our thoughts (thoughts we may have befriended) may be sinful. If we are sorry and confess them, resisting these evils, then our spiritual Life continues as we progress in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit (grace). If not, we can very well fall from grace, and be lost.Believe 1 John 1:9 properly, and sins become simply a detail in this life. It teaches us not to dwell on what will always be forgiven instantly, and be made clean by grace. So, we can have happiness in life with a clarity of purpose. Dealing with our sins is taught to baby Christians like toilet training. We are to know what to do to keep ourselves clean before God. Its not something mature Christians dwell on. Its become a detail, just like knowing how to use a toilet and to wash your hands is a detail. Christians that fail to grow as God wants them to, keep dwelling upon what should have long become integrated in their spiritual life. Becoming no more an major effort as tying one's shoe laces. When we first learned to tie them we needed to concentrate and we might have even made mistakes. But, now its an automatic response.
That does not mean we so not sin. Rather, being able to forget what is behind, we press forward to the prize.
Spirituality is what causes believers to be able to grow and expand their never ended process of learning (and gasping) more and more of God's Word. Venturing into passages that were not learned yesterday. Scripture is the New Frontier. Many parts have yet to be explored. We are not to remain in the small village of the past where it all began. God created time so that we would advance and progress in more and more understanding of God's Word.
There may be some development of custom and the like over time, and this is to be expected. There is a certain "Apostolic Tradition", however, that has been established in the world, or in the Body of Christ in the world, that remains unchanged. Remembrance of the saints and the outcome of their lives of faith is one part of the Apostolic Tradition, and its existence in the Body of Christ is evidenced in Scripture and is taught by the holy Apostles there. If a thing like this is dropped from a Christian tradition, then that tradition is no longer complete and full, as was the holy Tradition of the Apostle's (2 Thessalonians 2:15). As for the addition of chapter and verse to the Bible, this doesn't do any harm to holy Tradition, and is a valuable and useful tool. "Sound doctrinal thinking", however, has introduced more false doctrines and deviations from the faith of the Apostle's than can be listed, because all souls are not perfectly sound. Most souls are not perfectly sound, even of those nearly perfect in the faith, and such souls can introduce errors in accordance with their own personal flaws. I think you're well aware of this too.Well then. You should remove chapter and verses from the Bible. That invention came later.
Revelation speaks of the future. Faith is not ancient. Its not bound by time.
We are not to remain stuck in time, living in the past. The body of Christ is to be a living organism that is always growing and learning and reproducing offspring..
When we board a plane today.. we do not board the Wright Brothers craft. Yet, they were the beginning.
Sad to say.. That is what Muslims also do. In nations controlled by Sharia law they live stuck back in time. To me, its living in a make believe world. One where they wish to freeze time as a means to control predictability.
All things are made new in Christ.... Always being made new. How can you evangelize people in the modern world, if one demands that they revert back in time to find what you have to offer? When Jesus died for our sins he was dying for sins to be committed in the the next century and beyond.
God does not remain in the past. He sees it as clearly as He sees the future. God is not afraid of the future. God does not fear change as long as the change is motivated by sound doctrinal thinking.
To be frank, the part of this that I find saddest and most distressing is the lack of faith that creationists have in God. They seem to think that science can somehow undermine God by giving us forbidden knowledge, or perhaps that God has made his creation in order to trick us into blasphemy.
Pretty sunsets aren't the sort of evidence I'm alluding to. Christ is risen from the dead. He's been seen after having risen, and is known to be risen forever, glorified, and all powerful. He Who rose from the dead has foretold the resurrection of all at the end of the ages. By the Holy Spirit we know it to be True. Examine this.
so if we do have a self replicating molecule with mutations+ natural selection+ generations we will get a car in the end?
You didn't read a word of what I said, did you?
BY DEFINITION, A CAR CANNOT DO THE THINGS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR EVOLUTION.
How can anything evolve into something that can never evolve?
But as I have noted we are not going to have a meeting of minds on this one. I have not rejected reality - I have investigated reality, directly and indirectly, using the skills, talents and attitudes that, if you are correct, are God given. To reject the consequent findings would be a form of blasphemy, if I were a believer.You're welcome. There's nothing honest whatsoever about passion inspired rejection of reality, and there's nothing contrived from grace. It's real, as is the God Who gives it..
You're not getting your way. There will always be some who are fooled all the time. Those are no indicator to how well you or anyone else is doing. You are not getting your way.
Semantic content: nil.But, just the same? You were certain about what you were saying, even with the subordinate clause.
Were you not certain? Certainly, you know.
So, certainty is suddenly becoming a non issue... For arrogant people will always see others who are not arrogant as being arrogant.
But but what about my self replicating robot penguin car? Can it evolve into a dog?
Checkmate evolutionist.
To be frank, the part of this that I find saddest and most distressing is the lack of faith that creationists have in God. They seem to think that science can somehow undermine God by giving us forbidden knowledge, or perhaps that God has made his creation in order to trick us into blasphemy. What a strange notion!
That, and the fact that cars can't have babies makes it impossible for them to evolve.because there is no stepwise from a self replicating molecule into a car. for instance: a minimal car need at least several parts like wheels, engine etc.
A car cannot evolve because it cannot reproduce.If there were survival pressures on it such that being a car provided greater survivability, why would it not?
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