In the film Equilibrium, Mary O’Brien asks the main character in her cell why he exists. He answers: “I live… I live to safeguard the continuity of...
I think there might be a confusion of issues here. One's attitude before and after a rape are two totally different issues. Jenyar has very...
Thank you for the correction. I agree with you, religion has persecuted those who have quested for knowledge throughout the ages and in that they...
I have been thinking and reading a lot in the last while and have come to the conclusion that the science vs. religion and creation vs. evolution...
Time is only percieved to pass due to events. Humans grow older. The foundation of a house is built in the beginning and at the end, the roof....
EmptyForceofChi, I liked your sketch about the officer, I can imagine that he would walk away. Many African tribes believe their children are their...
EmptyForceOfChi, I'm wondering, have you ever tried to understand the tribal customs of Africa? Have you ever been on the brink of starvation? Have...
I would like to build on this by linking the above to Jenyar's last post in this thread. If the Programmer built a random component into His program...
Thanks Adstar, using God to explain all calamities (by the way, rape is a calamity according to the difinition given by the Oxford dictionary) is...
You said the following in a previous post which I did read: You must then have misunderstood the hypothetical example. It was meant as a model...
(Q), "A meteor strikes the Earth and kills every living thing upon it. Was this gods plan?" Adstar, "Yes." How? Where in the Bible is...
Why? If I take a dice and throw it and know on what number it is going to fall, I have not pre-determined that it will fall on that number. Lets...
If Joseph Smith restored anything, that which has been restored would have been mentioned in earlier scriptures. He did not restore, he added and...
Ok, I can agree with that. On the other hand. Say God does know each possibility as well as the choice that the chooser will make, but had no...
Your logic can follow a different path if you bring free will into the picture. In the begining all was good. It is stated many times in the first...
I would like to start by thanking Jenyar for putting into words which I have struggled to do. God does intervene, I agree, but He does not...
"Has it told you so" can be asked for everything that is percieved to exist within the universe. The existence of an electron or the particle...
Indeed they are. Predetermination is the active intervention to determine a set outcome. Forknowledge implies no intervention or, rather, no set...
I must disagree with you on this one. Making jokes about the situation is only putting it into a context with which you feel comfortable. In other...
I agree with you, it is very easy. However, someone who feels justified by treating the person that they are in a relationship with badly is in a...
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