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"I wish I was never born!"
God knew, gave us a chance anyway and planned to give His own life to fix it since before it happened. God is good, we are not and it is only because of His grace that we are talking about this on our fancy computers with our God given freedom.
TheStraightener said:Believe or Burn!
Yes, pray harder or you will suffer.
TheStraightener said:Where is the God given freedom of homelesss people who can't get to a computer? Or the God given freedom of people in the third world? Or the God given freedom of people like Joseph Fritzels daughter who was locked in a basement for 25 years. How come its only people fortunate enough to be born in developed countries and can afford things have a God given freedom?
Yeah the ape that was TAUGHT sign language?
TheStraightener said:Wow. So I'm racist now? Please highlight my racist comments. In fact, please highlight where I mentioned anyone's race at all? The ridiculous lengths that people will go to to justify their own absurd beliefs never cease to amaze me. And he didn't give his life to fix it at all. From what I recall he was alive again a few days later.
Why the emphasis on "taught"? I was taught english, too. Do i give you the impression that I am unable to communicate?
Sorry, but that is some crazy goalpost moving you are doing here.
It's racist, or prejudiced, to assume that because people are poor or in 3rd world countries, that they don't have freedom, or that god can't reach them. Actually it's the poor people who could teach us a lot.
Jesus was innocent and took everyone's sentence. He bore all our sins. He rose again in three days because his accuser was false, but make no mistake he DIED he gave up his life he was 33 and loved his friends and family he was tortured and spit on. For us. He was god but he was fully man and hurt the same way we do.
Of course they can't. (Unless by magic/miracle, of course).
You were talking about any animal, though. So you'd lose this bet.
Why do you pick out only the "here and now" ? It's one thing to say you don't believe in scripture it's another when you are misrepresenting what it claims. The scripture clearly states death is not the end only the beginning. And don't think about misquoting Ecclesiastes as Solomon continuously used phases like "under the sun" and "I said to my heart" in that book.
You are taking the atheist belief that the material world is all there is and trying to apply it to God. If you believe the material world is all there is then take the Bible advice to eat ,drink and be merry for tomorrow you die.
Being unable to even consider it does.
You know, even if this didn't happen a second time, it doesn't mean it never happened. Same goes for the flood of Noah. It didn't happen a second time, but it doesn't mean it didn't happen the first time either.
Same with the creation of the universe.
Some things are just miraculous
Many things described in the bible are miraculous
which made them noteworthy enough to record them
Other things recorded there are not miraculous at all, which I'm sure makes those things easier for athiests to accept
which makes me wonder why they can accept those things, but not the rest.
You've been given enough information by now. And sorry, I don't have time to reply to all of what you've said. I think you're starting to make completely baseless analogies. Satan is the bad guy because he preys on the innocent and seeked to destroy God, the protector of the innocent. That's all you need to define him as bad.
Maybe you need to think about where your dragon imagery and made up religion is taking you.
Death entered the world because of SIN, not because of God!
Does Jesus require too much thought?
Nithavela said:Why the emphasis on "taught"? I was taught english, too. Do i give you the impression that I am unable to communicate? Sorry, but that is some crazy goalpost moving you are doing here.
In the garden of eden we had a connection with animals that allowed us to communicate. Not just that, but Satan was present in the serpent. Or it's partially allegorical.TheStraightener said:I'm not moving any goalposts. I never even brought up the monkey in the first place. I was trying to emphasise that a monkey being taught sign language does not mean that a snake or a donkey can converse with humans.
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