(February 11, 2014 at 3:40 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: But what the system allows for importantly is freewill and there is a consequence to evil actions.Errr... no, that's not what you said. You said:
Sword of Christ Wrote:But Christians are still going to be subject to sin ultimately, they do need to be forgiven by God for something otherwise the whole idea would be defeated and Jesus didn't die for any good reason and was wasting his time.In other words, if people do not sin then god wasted his time offering himself up as a sacrifice. God NEEDS for people to sin, otherwise he looks like a pathetic failure. In other words, the "consequence to evil actions" is that evil actions VALIDATE GOD'S PLAN.
It's so remarkably idiotic that it's almost brilliant.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
