(April 1, 2019 at 6:38 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Wrong. Words do not have meanings, they have usages. There is a difference.I guess you will argue over anything. Words to have meaning and they have usages. Those 2 things are very different and one "usually" depends on the other. To spell it out for you, the usage you had was with an incorrectly defined word. But I digress, so on to your points above.
-You don't need God to have morality. You can be subjectively or socially moral without any God. Your definition of perfectly well is what matters here.
-You call salvation blackmail, bribery and extortion. Your definition of salvation is relevant here.
-If you don't have any evidence for something existing the default position would be that it's unlikely, not impossible. You and I don't know what's on the other side. Evidence is the definition in question there.
- God is omnipotent. He/she/it/housecat has logical limitations. Thiessen defines omnipotent as: “God is all-powerful and able to do whatever he wills. Since his will is limited by his nature, God can do everything that is in harmony with his perfections.” See definitions matter.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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