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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 27, 2014 at 4:09 pm
Surely it was harder, but they must have learned. Probably the biggest mystery in any new thing is how the first person figured it out. No one to teach you. You just have to examine it and learn how to control it on your own.
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 27, 2014 at 4:22 pm
I am pretty sure some lightning and forest fires taught them about fire itself, and no it wasn't zeus doing it. But it is pretty amazing how they managed to do it.
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 27, 2014 at 4:22 pm
(October 26, 2014 at 8:23 pm)Christian Wrote: Somebody asked me this question a while ago and this is my answer. It may help others on this forum to know God better.
God graciously allows the Angels to fight the battles with the Devil and his demons. God is omniscient and already knows who will be successful in every battle. If God himself were to oppose Satan it would not be a battle since God is omnipotent.
Seems like it wouldn't be much comfort to those who died fighting God's battles that the reason they had to do it was so Satan couldn't say God was unfair.
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 27, 2014 at 4:30 pm
(October 27, 2014 at 4:22 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: I am pretty sure some lightning and forest fires taught them about fire itself, and no it wasn't zeus doing it. But it is pretty amazing how they managed to do it.
Sure, natural fires were helpful in some ways. Eventually they would find out what could contain such fire, how to keep it going, and eventually how to start it themselves.
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 27, 2014 at 4:34 pm
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(October 27, 2014 at 3:53 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: A bit like SMITE I suppose, since as per religion, both parties involved are just gods plaything.
Smite is a lot of fun... I particularly love for Scylla 
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(October 27, 2014 at 3:58 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It's a bit sad when people want to make stories explaining Humanity's greatest successes as being gifted to, or stolen from, some other power. How else could we figure otu something as complex and mysterious as...fire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8C8qPoMZdo
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 27, 2014 at 7:14 pm
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(October 27, 2014 at 4:01 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: Fire is a true enigma. Throughout my several camping trips I have never been able to grasp how ancient humans would light a fire without a match or lighter.
Fire saw, hand drill, and bow drill, amongst others. All technology circa earlier than 10,000BC, and none requiring any technology more advanced than stone tools.
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 27, 2014 at 7:17 pm
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(October 27, 2014 at 4:22 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: I am pretty sure some lightning and forest fires taught them about fire itself, and no it wasn't zeus doing it. But it is pretty amazing how they managed to do it.
Once you observe that fire requires heat, and friction creates heat, it comes down to experimenting with methods of creating friction. Prehistoric man wasn't stupid.
It seems likely to me that man obtained fire by natural means and first learned to preserve and transport fire before learning to make it himself.
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 28, 2014 at 3:47 am
(October 26, 2014 at 8:23 pm)Christian Wrote: Somebody asked me this question a while ago and this is my answer. It may help others on this forum to know God better.
God graciously allows the Angels to fight the battles with the Devil and his demons. God is omniscient and already knows who will be successful in every battle. If God himself were to oppose Satan it would not be a battle since God is omnipotent.
God can't defeat iron chariots.
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 28, 2014 at 4:18 am
We have alot of modern iron chariots. God has nothing on us 
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RE: Why does God use an army to fight, when He Could Do it alone?
October 28, 2014 at 4:22 am
He has countless idiots ready to jump in front of those chariots.
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