RE: Epicurean Paradox
April 1, 2012 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2012 at 4:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 1, 2012 at 11:55 am)Drich Wrote: Your follow up comment is proof that the content is strong. The issue is you all either skim through my work looking for key words to formulate a stereotypical atheist argument that would address the stereotypical christian statement.
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You simply do not have the basic foundational understanding needed to ask the questions being asked, or follow the answers being given.
The only common denominator in all of our failures in life (however minor) would be ourselves, stop passing the buck and get better at this.
Quote:An example of the second problem is how you champion the word "morality" as the standard in which the universe and everything in it (including God) must yield. Even after a complete explaination of what morality is.
Your explanation of morality was garbage, so it matters very little what point you hope to glean from it.
Quote:The Greatest command we have is to Love our Lord God with all of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Strength. What we will be looking at here is how the Mind" Loves and worships God. Not every "mind" is built the same. Not all minds can comprehend the same things. The Command tells us to love or Worship God at our minds end, or at the fullest capacity that our mind can comprehend. Not to have one singular understanding of God that may push past the understanding or need of some people.
The Omni aspects of God contain enough truth to satisfy the follower who is maybe not meant to spend his or her life studying scripture. For we are a body with many parts. Each part having a different function. Not all can be an eye, nor can all be a hand. all the parts of the body of Christ are needed to be complete.
"Contains enough truth", sounds like a cheap burger "contains enough meat". I have higher standards.
Quote:Again if one is destined to be a missionary abroad then why would he need to spent the next 10 years scratching the surface trying to understand the reveled nature of God?
To avoid coming off like a simpleton with nothing but his own opinions (loudly professed as "truth") to share.............
Quote:Especially when the "omni" aspects will some what accurately describe what he needs to know.
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Quote:It seem you are looking at Christianity like every other world religion. where their is a very specific way to do things and if you do not follow you burn in hell.
Biblically based Christianity does not follow man's understanding of religion.
By george you've fucking got it! Perhaps you give your favorite fairy tale a special pass, I don't.
Quote:Then stop messing around trying to entrap me and ask direct questions. Just because I am new to this web site does not me I just fell off of the Jesus truck.
Entrapment by direct questioning..lol. If you worry that you'll be "entrapped" by a direct question, then you should probably step back and reconsider your platform before expressing it to a skeptical audience. The only person who can entrap you here would be yourself. Let's avoid playing the martyr card, especially if you're going to have to lie through your teeth to do it. Should I link some "direct questions" asked and evaded? I don't think you fell off any "jesus truck" amigo, I think you got hit by one.
Quote:I have been answering questions of people like you for a very long time. I know your question perhaps better than you do. whether you know it or not you belong to a collective, and plus or minus a few personality and eductational descrepencies you all are all the same. That is why I have made a very concerted effort to only answer what has been asked. If my answers seem evasive to you then take another look at your question. If you do not like or understand the answer then re ask the question in a more direct way, making sure it includes all of the points you want to discuss.
There's bound to be a vast and dismal trail of dissappointed people in the wake of answers like the ones I've seen here. I call bullshit again btw, you've been making a concerted effort to be evasive. Why would I need to take another look at a question I asked? More direct, didn't you just complain about that?
Quote:Otherwise know that my efforts and commitment to our discussion will always reflect your own. If you find me lacking then all you have to do to change it, is to readdress your own efforts.
If you want proof of this then look at how some of the longer post are answered. Honest effort on your part yields complete answers and descriptions. I do not hold grudges nor are I being spiteful for the sake of it.
Now that part I believe completely, because it takes me very little effort to have this conversation, and I can't imagine that these sorts of responses take much effort in return.
Quote:Again I am not here to win arguments. I am here to answer questions and bring clarity. I can not do this unless the person who has questions or is in a fog is willing to give an honest effort.
If clarity is what you're shooting for, the bar is just a tad bit higher.
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