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  1. amatuerscholar

    Is this the right translation?:

    The problem with your argument is that half of the translations you gave didn't say man became a living soul, but other things like man became a human being, or living creature. So you really don't have an argument here. Job isn't really that old. It does take from an old story, but the core of...
  2. amatuerscholar

    Let's TALK about Paul...

    Whether Paul was a Roman citizen is debated. He never mentions it, it's only mentioned in Acts. So even if he was a Roman citizen, according to him, he never used it to his advantage, and in fact allowed himself to be treated as a non-Roman. The idea of Pharisaic lineage also makes little...
  3. amatuerscholar

    Why do you believe Jesus is the Messiah?

    To come to the idea that Jesus is the Messiah, the idea of the Messiah had to be changed. While Second Temple Judaism didn't have a firm, specific idea about the Messiah, as there were a few different ideas, the core idea that connected all of these is that they would lead Jews to salvation in...
  4. amatuerscholar

    "Pious Frauds" done "in the name of Jesus"!?

    The big problem with the idea Paul, or Paulines (which is something Paul himself said shouldn't be a thing, as it wasn't who brought you into the faith that mattered, but the fact you came into the faith) are pious frauds is that it ignores what we are actually told. Specifically, in Galatians...
  5. amatuerscholar

    How popular is suicide?

    I think this may be addressing the question in the wrong way. Suicide isn't really popular, in that most see it having a negative stigma. Now, if you're talking about the right to end one's life, that becomes more popular, depending on the actual situation. For instance, the idea that one should...
  6. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    I see what you're saying. I'm saying you're wrong. You're trying to make exceptions to what you said so that you can be right, but it doesn't work like that. You can't keep moving the goal post because the information disagrees with you.
  7. amatuerscholar

    Job and Chaos; It's okay to question God

    I will second the book recommendation. Great work. As for the amateur podcast, I phrased it like that as I'm not a professional scholar. I don't teach at a university, I don't have a doctorates, but I'm working on a master's degree. The reason I started the podcast is because while there is a...
  8. amatuerscholar

    Job and Chaos; It's okay to question God

    We should question a lot of things. There is nothing wrong with that. And Job is in fact questioning conventional wisdom, which I point out. More so, questioning God has nothing to do with not liking God.
  9. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    That really is just making exceptions based on information that doesn't agree with your argument, which isn't sound logic. They didn't lack the knowledge. Many Germans argued it was wrong, and fought against it. They proceeded anyway. Already went over this. No. You're arguing something I'm not...
  10. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    Why would I justify that? I don't know why you're hung up on this idea. I don't understand how not being able to hurt someone with their arms and legs, because they don't have them, has anything to do with free will. Because it literally has nothing with free will. Why can't rocks be good? More...
  11. amatuerscholar

    Jordan Peterson vs. Sam Harris on God

    Both individuals are low hanging fruit.
  12. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    Your challenge here simply makes no sense as it is fundamentally misunderstanding what free will is. Free will has nothing to do with being prevented from harming one another with arms or legs. It has nothing to do with physical prevention at all. I can throw someone in jail and that isn't...
  13. amatuerscholar

    Job and Chaos; It's okay to question God

    Reading through Job and the chaos So I'm including a link to a podcast and article that I made about Job, for those who want to more in depth look at the subject. But my basic argument is that most people misunderstand the book of Job because they only focus on a very small part of it. They...
  14. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    I never said anything about people must being able to harm one another with their legs and arms. You went off on that tangent. I said people have to have the choice to harm others. Your second sentenced doesn't follow the first. As for suffering not being justified, the problem of evil exists...
  15. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    I don't think any of that would imply that the conditions of Earth are ideal for God's purpose. But I don't think they have to be ideal either. I would say that the answer to most of the questions you pose is a self-limited God. A God who sparked the universe, who emptied Himself into the...
  16. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    Or in other words, I did what you asked, I showed why your interpretation is wrong, and why your argument is wrong, and you can't defend your position. You can't offer a rebuttal, so you have to use an ad homniem instead. That really is the definition of intellectual dishonesty. But I guess when...
  17. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    If we are stripped away of choices at a divine level, that is stripping away free will. Free will, by definition, means we have the choice to do evil. If we are stripped of that, it's not free will. And no, a tetraplegic isn't stripped of having free will. They can still harm others. They still...
  18. amatuerscholar

    Question about God

    The Abrahamic God. If it is a big G, then it's a proper name, and thus refers to the Abrahamic God. If it was a little g, then it could be any god. But really, most gods aren't deemed omniscient either, so that also would suggest that it is the one god that is classically seen as all knowing...
  19. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    Besides Job, your quotes are from the New Testament. Isn't it possible for the passages in the Bible to contradict other passages? Yes, and I think we'd both agree with that. And we can look at a number of verses that suggest God doesn't know everything. In Genesis 3:8-13, God has to look for...
  20. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    Yes, there would be a problem. If we can't feel pain, it either means we most likely will die as we have no warning system in place to prevent us from possibly harming ourselves, or we simply can't be harmed. If we can't be harmed, that will lead to a massive amount of problems unless we are...
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