darkendless
Guardian of Asgaard
Over-populating jepardises our existance.
The bible states somewhere "go forth and multiply."
Thank you Christianity for bringing about our demise
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programmed to sin
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Over-populating jepardises our existance.
The bible states somewhere "go forth and multiply."
Thank you Christianity for bringing about our demise
what if you don't overindulge, it's still a sin if you murder once, or commit adultery once, etc...AND men LOVE having sex!!!...it's fun...people LOVE to eat...seems like we are programmed to sin....are we to deny our physical needs???
Midnight Pete
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Of course not, but there is such a thing as temperance. It is a virtue.
If we love to eat, then I am hoping that we stop when we get satisfied and don't keep going until we burst. If we like drinking, then I hope that people can stop before they are blacking out, throwing up, and so on. If we like sex, we can only have sex with one person in a monogamous relationship, so we don't spread around disease or have a lot of unwanted babies and don't even talk about abortion.
It is in our power to do these things, we are rational human beings. We have a brain and we can think beyond our instincts.
Over-populating jepardises our existance.
The bible states somewhere "go forth and multiply."
Thank you Christianity for bringing about our demise
On another forum I remember a Catholic using the same argument to tell why we couldn't use birth control. I told him that God didn't say that to us, but to Noah, when there were a lot less people.
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Blackdog22
Well-Known Member
Kind of reminds me of the sites that hire people to put viruses on the internet and then make a protection program against that virus.
darkendless
Guardian of Asgaard
On another forum I remember a Catholic using the same argument to tell why we couldn't use birth control. I told him that God didn't say that to us, but to Noah, when there were a lot less people.Well thanks for putting me in my place Christine
Maybe you interpreted your interpretation wrong and actually i'm right, you never know
........... but i think ill go with you on this one .
Blackdog22
Well-Known Member
So why is there Hell again?
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
It's a consequence of free will.
waitasec
Veteran Member
Midnight Pete
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I don't think we are judged on our ability to lead sinless lives, but on how well we fail at doing this. We are given an impossible ideal (Jesus Christ) and then encouraged to strive toward it. But the good news is that we don't have to be perfect for God to love us. I think it's possible to be spiritually perfect, like Frances of Asissi and Mother Teresa of Calcutta (recently made a saint much to the chagrin of Christopher Hitchens) but lucky for us regular folk it isn't mandatory.
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waitasec
Veteran Member
god so loved the world... that whosoever believes in him...
will deny condoms to the poor people in calcutta
will blame haiti for making a pact with the devil
will blame homosexuality for 9/11
will risk their children's lives hoping god will heal them
will vote against same sex marriages
yes jesus loves me, the bible tells me so....
will deny condoms to the poor people in calcutta
will blame haiti for making a pact with the devil
will blame homosexuality for 9/11
will risk their children's lives hoping god will heal them
will vote against same sex marriages
yes jesus loves me, the bible tells me so....
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but the 'striving' seems to mean that we have to go against what were are 'programmed' to do...seems ridiculous...I don't think we are judged on our ability to lead sinless lives, but on how well we fail at doing this. We are given an impossible ideal (Jesus Christ) and then encouraged to strive toward it. But the good news is that we don't have to be perfect for God to love us. I think it's possible to be spiritually perfect, like Frances of Asissi and Mother Teresa of Calcutta (recently made a saint much to the chagrin of Christopher Hitchens) but lucky for us regular folk it isn't mandatory.
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
If it seems ridiculous that's because it's true. Ridiculously true.
what's the population of Canada??
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
In 2008 it was about 33,311,400 according to the World Bank, World Development Indicators data.
OMG!..33 mil??isn't it like the third largest country--considering former USSR as a whole---??must be a LOT of open space up there-I always wanted to go up there, near the coast somewhere...
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
Yeah, we use a whopping nine percent of our landmass.
If water is the new oil, we are the new Middle East.
tomato1236
Ninja Master
Yeah, we use a whopping nine percent of our landmass.
If water is the new oil, we are the new Middle East.
Why is that? Because most of it is frozen?
Midnight Pete
Well-Known Member
What's frozen needs to stay that way. Up here in the Great White North, the "white" refers to snow and not people.