[quote='Darkstar' pid='348359' dateline='1350013149']
[quote]Kind of sounds like Stockholm syndrome. God makes us, then threatens us with horrible vengence unless we are absolutely subserviant. Escaping hell to continue in our worship for eternity is a 'reward'.[/quote]what century are you from? where is you ablity to reason here? If God made all of creation and you spend this life trying to deny God and live for yourself. where in all of God's creation will you hide from God to do this, when His glory and magesty has been revealed to you? Hell or the absence of creation is the only place you can go to seperate yourself from God.
[quote]Does cancer treatment have a 100% sucess rate? Whose poor design made us susceptible to cancer?[/quote]who uses chemicals in everyday life that promote cancer? (BTW I asked a yes or no question)
[quote]Disease serves no positive function.[/quote]look at the dark ages, and even the cival war. It thins the heard it forces us to clean and wash our monkey butts so we do not live in filth. So we bury or burn our dead so we care for our water and food. It only serves no purpose if you think we would do any of these things with the threat of sickness or death.
[quote] If promoting single-celled organisms at the expense of his chosen creation isn't an act of malice, what is?[/quote]wow what a narrow view of the world you live in. You only look to what is infront of you. take a step back and look the all of the other things we as a people have gained from our exposure to 'single celled organisms.'
[quote]Do you have evidence to suggest it isn't? Claiming that Jesus's miracles were the work of demons is apparently blasphemy against the holy spirit, but one would think it is the intent that matters.[/quote]
If Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit was saying "Spirit damn it" then where is the thou shalt not? If there were a phrase then wouldn't Chrsit at least warn us not to say this given phrase?
[quote]Kind of sounds like Stockholm syndrome. God makes us, then threatens us with horrible vengence unless we are absolutely subserviant. Escaping hell to continue in our worship for eternity is a 'reward'.[/quote]what century are you from? where is you ablity to reason here? If God made all of creation and you spend this life trying to deny God and live for yourself. where in all of God's creation will you hide from God to do this, when His glory and magesty has been revealed to you? Hell or the absence of creation is the only place you can go to seperate yourself from God.
[quote]Does cancer treatment have a 100% sucess rate? Whose poor design made us susceptible to cancer?[/quote]who uses chemicals in everyday life that promote cancer? (BTW I asked a yes or no question)
[quote]Disease serves no positive function.[/quote]look at the dark ages, and even the cival war. It thins the heard it forces us to clean and wash our monkey butts so we do not live in filth. So we bury or burn our dead so we care for our water and food. It only serves no purpose if you think we would do any of these things with the threat of sickness or death.
[quote] If promoting single-celled organisms at the expense of his chosen creation isn't an act of malice, what is?[/quote]wow what a narrow view of the world you live in. You only look to what is infront of you. take a step back and look the all of the other things we as a people have gained from our exposure to 'single celled organisms.'
[quote]Do you have evidence to suggest it isn't? Claiming that Jesus's miracles were the work of demons is apparently blasphemy against the holy spirit, but one would think it is the intent that matters.[/quote]
If Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit was saying "Spirit damn it" then where is the thou shalt not? If there were a phrase then wouldn't Chrsit at least warn us not to say this given phrase?