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Let's be biblically literary
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RE: Let's be biblically literary
(September 4, 2019 at 10:19 am)Acrobat Wrote:
(September 4, 2019 at 10:11 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Huh? No. That’s not what I mean. 

Then what do you mean then? Efficient for what purpose? If it isn't for the purpose of disclosing some supernatural or god like equivalent of a scientific or historic fact, that what purpose does this efficiency you speak of serve?

I ask because it's not clear. If i said a spoon is more efficient for eating a bowl of cereal than your hands, you get when I mean by efficiency here, because you recognize the goal in which this efficiency serves. It's not clear what goal you have in mind when you brought up efficiency.



Quote:Is god a rational mind?

If by rational mind, you mean a sort of mind that ponders and thinks things, and does running calculations in his head, than no, because omniscience, being all knowing, requires no such pondering. Why think when you already know?

I mean efficient for allowing for as many people to be saved as possible.  And, by “rational mind”, I mean, a rational mind. Can his actions contradict logic? Can he act irrationally?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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Messages In This Thread
Let's be biblically literary - by Silver - September 3, 2019 at 8:49 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Grandizer - September 3, 2019 at 8:55 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Fake Messiah - September 3, 2019 at 10:19 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 4, 2019 at 1:43 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Fake Messiah - September 4, 2019 at 2:04 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Grandizer - September 4, 2019 at 2:06 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 4, 2019 at 2:10 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Grandizer - September 4, 2019 at 2:16 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 4, 2019 at 3:30 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Grandizer - September 4, 2019 at 3:45 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 4, 2019 at 4:08 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Fake Messiah - September 4, 2019 at 3:02 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Acrobat - September 3, 2019 at 10:38 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by LadyForCamus - September 4, 2019 at 1:11 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Grandizer - September 4, 2019 at 1:23 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Acrobat - September 4, 2019 at 7:01 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by LadyForCamus - September 4, 2019 at 9:55 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Acrobat - September 4, 2019 at 10:00 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by LadyForCamus - September 4, 2019 at 10:11 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Acrobat - September 4, 2019 at 10:19 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by LadyForCamus - September 4, 2019 at 10:34 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Acrobat - September 4, 2019 at 10:53 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by LadyForCamus - September 4, 2019 at 12:21 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Acrobat - September 4, 2019 at 3:52 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by LadyForCamus - September 8, 2019 at 10:16 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Acrobat - September 9, 2019 at 7:01 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by LadyForCamus - September 13, 2019 at 3:06 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Succubus - September 4, 2019 at 9:29 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Acrobat - September 4, 2019 at 9:36 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Mister Agenda - September 4, 2019 at 9:12 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 4, 2019 at 5:58 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 5, 2019 at 2:56 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by EgoDeath - September 5, 2019 at 3:04 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Vince - September 5, 2019 at 10:16 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 5, 2019 at 5:24 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Vince - September 6, 2019 at 10:18 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by EgoDeath - September 5, 2019 at 5:53 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Mister Agenda - September 6, 2019 at 10:46 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 7, 2019 at 12:49 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by EgoDeath - September 9, 2019 at 1:12 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Belacqua - September 9, 2019 at 2:21 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by EgoDeath - September 9, 2019 at 2:47 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Abaddon_ire - September 9, 2019 at 11:09 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Fake Messiah - September 10, 2019 at 2:37 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Stoneheart - September 20, 2019 at 3:52 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Grandizer - September 20, 2019 at 3:58 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Stoneheart - September 20, 2019 at 9:38 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Grandizer - September 21, 2019 at 3:00 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Stoneheart - September 21, 2019 at 11:12 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Grandizer - September 21, 2019 at 11:19 pm
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Stoneheart - September 22, 2019 at 12:52 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Nay_Sayer - September 22, 2019 at 12:05 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2019 at 5:45 am
RE: Let's be biblically literary - by Stoneheart - September 24, 2019 at 7:15 pm

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