Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.

[Lek]

Serving God doesn't mean we are puppets or don't think.

If 'free will' is the ability to sin, then yes, it means you are, or are trying to be, a puppet who just does what it is told without question or thought, though however occasionally, you glitch, leading you to express your free will and do things that are self-serving.

I really love that emphasis on 'self-serving' being a pejorative, by the way. It's a hallmark trait of a chronic abuse victim.

I'm using it because I mean it. If you live only to serve yourself, then you don't have any desire to help others in a way that would cause yourself to suffer. I see self-serving people as being selfish people. The fact that we might do something for ourselves doesn't make us self-serving, but it's when that becomes the focus of our lives. The focus of a christian's life is serving God and, in following his teachings we also serve others. Loving God also means loving others.

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It is a story. There's true stories and there's untrue stories. I don't refuse to believe in something because I believe the main character is a monster. I think Putin is butthead, but I still believe he exists. By the way, scientists told me there were nine planets in the solar system and now they tell me there's only eight. Why can't they be consistent? I can't accept science anymore because they're always changing their minds. Scientists have been wrong more times that I can count. Next thing you know they'll tell me that bloodletting treatments can be harmful.

You don't even understand the basics of the scientific method.

I was just pointing out that what we believe from science changes all the time. It doesn't have anything to do with my understanding of the scientific method.