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  1. amatuerscholar

    Question about God

    Here's a different option than what has been proposed. This is a very old question, It's the problem with the idea of omniscience, as it prevents free will. The common solution is to propose that omniscience, when applied to God, isn't that God know everything that will happen, but everything...
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    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    What is unnecessary suffering? You point out pain is unnecessary suffering. So we must be super strong, our organs must be perfectly operating. We must be impervious to both hot and cold. We can't get sick. We can't really have emotions as well. If my wife leaves me, that will cause a lot of...
  3. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    First off, you're really repeating what I said. To understand the first section of the passage, you have to understand the Hebrew Scripture that is being referenced. Because this is taking ideas directly out of places like Isaiah 40:11 and Ezekiel 34:11-16. Isaiah 56:8 is actually placing that...
  4. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    First, I'm doing this in two posts. This really is mainly sillyness. The next post will be just a discussion of John 10. So I guess we can just ignore all the other definitions because they don't agree with you right? Just ignore everything that disagrees. I mean, it's not like I quoted the...
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    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    If we take this to the logical end though, what we are looking at are people who are superhuman. The alternative really would be people who were invincible. Basically we'd be looking at robots, and at that time, we get away from humanity. The person being hit by a car would be bad suffering for...
  6. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    I'm going to move past the whole suicide thing because we clearly have different definitions. As for good referring to moral good, you're trying to pigeonhole ideas in order to fit with a conclusion. That doesn't work. If you're only talking about moral good, then that really answers nothing as...
  7. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    I will agree that the examples you used, for those who are literalists, make a great argument. I'm not getting how Isaiah 45:7 says that. But as for what most Christians think is really irrelevant when it comes to the argument I'm forming. Most Christians can be wrong. When we look at what the...
  8. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    I don't think non sequitor means what you think it means. Unless you're assuming that by taking me out of context, you can create a non sequitor, but that doesn't really work. But lets look at our handy dandy dictionary. What does desire mean? DESIRE, WISH, WANT, CRAVE, COVET mean to have a...
  9. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    If you intend to die, you must have a desire to die. Here's the definition for desire: DESIRE stresses the strength of feeling and often implies strong intention or aim. So the whole idea of having a desire to die means that one would have the intention to die. So the second sentence is...
  10. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    This argument is only relevant if one believes the Bible is the literal word of God. If one sees it as maybe inspired, or even just the product of humans, gets rid of all of that. I agree that there is immoral behavior that is justified in the Bible. The Bible has a number of problems, and...
  11. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    Suicide, by definition, is the intended and purposeful act of killing oneself. The desired end result is death as one is intending and purposefully ending one's life. So that doesn't address what I said. I'm not jumping to an unjustified conclusion just because you can't form a rebuttal. John...
  12. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    But that isn't a stumbling block for most believers. Faith can overcome lack of evidence. That really isn't a problem. Suffering though does make many with faith question if faith is justifiable. That is why there was such a theological change after the Holocaust. That doesn't explain why evil...
  13. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    Most likely not. That really is just a false argument. Knowing you have to die doesn't equal suicide. You're doing what you're chastising others for, making up a definition. For instance, being handed over to be crucified isn't the same as intentionally killing oneself. Saying that he has to...
  14. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    So if the desired end result isn't death, then by definition, it is not suicide. I did address it. I even cited a source for this. So we can look at what the Jesus Seminar says here, and they say it probably wasn't Jesus. It's completely unique to John, so it's not independently attested to. We...
  15. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    How does that solve anything? I'm not coming from a dualistic point of view. This really isn't an argument. In the podcast, I go much more in depth about this, but we can use the example of throwing babies into a fire. That is near universally accepted as being evil. Thus we can say it is evil...
  16. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    I don't create earthquakes or tornadoes, so your argument is illogical. More so, if you listen to the podcast, or the article I linked to, I do talk about natural evil, which is different from moral evil. You're talking about natural evil, which is part of a chaotic world in which God created.
  17. amatuerscholar

    Did Jesus commit suicide?

    I'm going to do two things. First, I'm going to repost my previous post as I don't think you really understood it. I will then explain how it does address what you said. Not the same thing though. In order for it to be suicide, one has to intentionally and purposefully take their own life. You...
  18. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    I don't think so. Satan or an adversary isn't needed. We can overcome adversity that we create.
  19. amatuerscholar

    Does history match the prophesies of the bible?

    In my previous response to you, I explained why none of this is true. You're misconstruing what Revelations is saying, and then you're interpreting it wrong.
  20. amatuerscholar

    God and Evil, working towards a solution

    God and Evil, working towards a solution As part of a class I'm taking, I'm working towards an argument to show that it is rational to believe in God. But before I get to that point, I'm looking at what is probably the biggest stumbling block, which is the question of theodicy; why does evil...
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