(February 23, 2019 at 12:45 pm)CDF47 Wrote:(February 23, 2019 at 12:16 pm)pocaracas Wrote: No, you didn't.
You couldn't. You were brainwashed far before that!
Just because my mother read me the Bible at probably the age of 2 on up does not mean I am brainwashed. My parents also taught me math, reading, and writing prior to kindergarten. Does that mean they were brainwashing me? No. Again, I took a critical look at my faith many times so I am not brainwashed. Based on all the evidence before me, I believe Christianity is the one and only true faith.
Here's the evidence of your brainwashing:
(February 23, 2019 at 3:28 pm)CDF47 Wrote: I am correct that the information in DNA proves a Designer.
I read the Bible cover to cover and I studied it extensively. It makes perfect sense. The Lord is loving and forgiving. He is also very merciful. He has a wrath though and He hates evil. Also, due to man's disobedience to God, man lost paradise for now. Man can be redeemed with the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. Truly believing in Jesus will get you saved from the judgment to come. It is not that complicated.
Bottom-up:
1. Why would there be any judgment? What sort of god does that?!
2. Why would a god value faith?
3. Why the blood of the god? That is the most cultist notion there is.
4. Man can be Redeemed from what? Man is a social animal, always evolving, always finding new things, being put in new situations.
5. If man disobeyed a god... wait what?! What sort of idiot would disobey an entity such as a god?! Either one that was totally foolish, or one that didn't know what he was up against... either bad design, or punishment imposed by the one entity that was responsible for providing information and never did. Either way, the guilty party, in that story, is the punisher, not the punished.
6. Why does a god possess human emotions such as wrath? If that god is the creator you claim it to be, why did it create evil?
7. A loving and forgiving and merciful lord is not one that expels people from paradise and regulates slavery.... actually, such a god would never have been absent in such a way to allow people to start slaving, nor to permit that disobedience. Why do you accept an incompetent god such as the one depicted in your book?
8. No, the bible makes no sense, unless you engage the "[url?https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief]Willing Suspension of Disbelief" (yes, this is a link)[/url]. It's the same thing that lets us accept Lord of the Rings as a great story. When you try to square it with reality things go a bit awry. Just look at how you and your ID friend want to make DNA fit with design, while everyone else sees standard evolution.
Tell me, have you ever posed any of these questions, oh mister critical and logical?
