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  1. Shem Ben Noah

    Ask The Idiot Anything...

    OK, this thread will do. I'm now inactive, gone to search for Noachide forums. There's nothing for me here. I hate politics and that's all there is here now. TTFN
  2. Shem Ben Noah

    INACTIVE

    INACTIVE
  3. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Nope, Pharaoh did it first, or are you forgetting how Moses got his name?
  4. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    I'm pretty sure 'global' isn't in Genesis. I doubt they knew the world was even a globe, back then. To them, the world was flat and probably only a tenth as large, if even that. It would only be as big as the furthest anyone had ever traveled, right? A big enough catastrophe would be their...
  5. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    What makes you think it had to be global? The flood only needed to destroy man's world, the earth that he inhabited. Polar bears and kangaroos were not on the ark, because they weren't in the world of man, not yet.
  6. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Yes, I understood what you said then, but I disagree. You include time as a factor, but to God there is no such thing as time. Adam hides NOW. The floodwaters are NOW. Sodom is destroyed NOW. Humanity failed (and fails), and only for the sake of the righteous is consequence of that regret...
  7. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    How so? I think the regret stands, only the reaction has changed.
  8. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Yes. He did. But think about this. Imagine you are a perfect being, and your task is to create something that is imperfect. How? Not directly, surely. Anything you make will be perfect. You have to set up an environment where conditions are separate from you, isolated as much as possible from...
  9. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Evidence is difficult, as my beliefs about why god made us grew slowly over some two decades of study of Torah and Kabbala. Quoting chapter & verse will be therefore problematic, as some things I simply will not remember where exactly the info came from. However I believe that understanding the...
  10. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Berei**** - Genesis - Chapter 6 (Parshah Berei**** and Noach) (lol.... swear filter fail)
  11. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Since god has no body and is pure spirit, the image is talking about of our mind and soul. The body is merely the vehicle that lets that image manifest in the physical realm, where there is imperfection and fault possible. I don't believe in a revolt in heaven and a rebellious angel. The angel...
  12. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Regret in the past was motivation for extermination. What's the result of regret now? Seems like abandonment to me. Yes and no. Knowing all possible outcomes is not the same as knowing which particular path a being with free will takes. That would be the whole point of free will, right? If the...
  13. Shem Ben Noah

    Am I bad for Church Hopping?

    I was raised Catholic, so I understand her POV. In that view, there should be only ONE church. But, one size does not fit all, and I won't even get into all the evil that the RC has done.... No, church hopping is good and normal. None of them are perfect.
  14. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Then we are robots, nothing but wind-up toys, and why bother? All possible outcomes are known, this is true. Which out the infinite possibilities will occur, perhaps he does not know. I'd imagine knowing the whole thing would be the ultimate boredom.
  15. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Actually, according to some this is the seventh time he has created the universe. Maybe next time he won't base his humans on goddam monkeys. Pick something less evil. I guess according to his own rules, that Noah existed meant he couldn't 'reset'.
  16. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Yes, I am asking about if he regrets making us still. My point was, I don't think that regret ended after the flood. We see him tell Noah that he won't wipe out the animals again, but that's all. If Abraham was not around, the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah would have been for all of...
  17. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    For starters, because in the time of Abraham he still wanted to wipe us out (only us, not the animals this time around, with fire not water) and it was only because of Abraham that he did not. So at that time, he still did regret us.
  18. Shem Ben Noah

    Does God still regret us?

    Gen. 6: The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I...
  19. Shem Ben Noah

    I've got the blues

    I find that almost always, people online guess the wrong gender for me. I make a point of never declaring my gender because it doesn't truly matter online. I know little about Islam's stand on LGBT and don't actually care about the stand of Xianity. All I know is that the Torah only mentions...
  20. Shem Ben Noah

    Evangelical Christians and obesity

    It's more a culture thing than anything else. When you're working hard you eat hardy. Problem is, most folk don't live that lifestyle any more so need to stop eating as they do. I'm a farmer, and eat like one, but I do only eat poultry and fish now, like your UU.
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