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I guessed it was something anyone outside a bible class convert would never bothered with and I was right.
Almost bound to be haha
If he truly believes that the scenario (he called it silly, I call it entirely possible) is OK, that takes guts to admit, far more than me calling an imaginary being evil
Im guessing I won't get a straight answer though, does he have the guts?
So you'd be happy for your creation to not know you? To not enter in to a loving relationship with you? How would your creation know love? Would they be self replicating? Lots of work to make this analogy stick, Paben.
This response is bordering on the weird. Why on earth would I want or expect my creations to know me, to love me or enter into loving relationships with me? What does that even mean? Would I expect a car I had built from the ground up to have this sort of relationship with me? Of course I would not, that would be an indicator of a serious underlying form of madness. Yet God, our alleged Creator, expects this love and devotion from us or it's off to Hell with us. As we are supposed to have been created in His image presumably he is suffering from, at the very least, a massive narcissism.
Bulldog, anyone who thinks the author of the Sermon on the Mount is evil requires my prayer. I'll also ask my church to pray for you and ask that the Lord has mercy on you.
This response is bordering on the weird. Why on earth would I want or expect my creations to know me, to love me or enter into loving relationships with me? What does that even mean? Would I expect a car I had built from the ground up to have this sort of relationship with me? Of course I would not, that would be an indicator of a serious underlying form of madness. Yet God, our alleged Creator, expects this love and devotion from us or it's off to Hell with us. As we are supposed to have been created in His image presumably he is suffering from, at the very least, a massive narcissism.
Bulldog, anyone who thinks the author of the Sermon on the Mount is evil requires my prayer. I'll also ask my church to pray for you and ask that the Lord has mercy on you.
I "require" your prayer? Again wow, just wow, please don't waste any part of your life praying for me, have u not got anything better you could be doing? enjoy ur time whilst u are here, it's all you have got, u must be able to think of a better use of your time,
Go visit your relatives?
Kiss your wife?
Play with your children?
All the above are much better uses of your time than wasting it praying for me, how about if I pray that you don't pray for me? Would that work? Now there's one to mentally wrangle over
I "require" your prayer? Again wow, just wow, please don't waste any part of your life praying for me, have u not got anything better you could be doing? enjoy ur time whilst u are here, it's all you have got, u must be able to think of a better use of your time,
Go visit your relatives?
Kiss your wife?
Play with your children?
All the above are much better uses of your time than wasting it praying for me, how about if I pray that you don't pray for me? Would that work? Now there's one to mentally wrangle over
He doesn't have a wife because he would rather sin or if he does marry force his bull**** beliefs on her
Ordinarily being a creator is synonymous with fatherhood. That's how it's relevant.
That's a very well worded response, but does nothing to answer the question asked of you, as usual, but I give you your dues, it does sound very good, have you thought of becoming an author, you employ good use of the English language.
Sadly you have failed to answer a single question put to you in the past few pages, I had the "guts" to answer your question, u failed to give me the same courtesy? Now that is not very Christian is it?
That's a very well worded response, but does nothing to answer the question asked of you, as usual, but I give you your dues, it does sound very good, have you thought of becoming an author, you employ good use of the English language.
Sadly you have failed to answer a single question put to you in the past few pages, I had the "guts" to answer your question, u failed to give me the same courtesy? Now that is not very Christian is it?
Some of the questions you have asked I have no immediate answer for. Apologies.
Ordinarily being a creator is synonymous with fatherhood. That's how it's relevant.
Being a creator is not synonymous with fatherhood. I'm sure the creators of Microsoft, Samsung, Facebook, Apple, even ScoobyNet, don't regard themselves as fathers, nor do they demand that their creations revere and adore them. I don't require my cars to abase themselves before me, nor do I give them a bashing if they misbehave. But appparently God doesn't afford miserable humans the same consideration. This is not really the behaviour one might expect from a supposedly superior being, more a petulant child.
Being a creator is not synonymous with fatherhood. I'm sure the creators of Microsoft, Samsung, Facebook, Apple, even ScoobyNet, don't regard themselves as fathers, nor do they demand that their creations revere and adore them. I don't require my cars to abase themselves before me, nor do I give them a bashing if they misbehave. But appparently God doesn't afford miserable humans the same consideration. This is not really the behaviour one might expect from a supposedly superior being, more a petulant child.
They are just as likely (or unlikely) to have a soul as a human being. Impossible to prove either way of course.
So you're of the opinion that silicon, software and machinery is as likely to have a soul as a human. Surely it would be easier for you to state that humans are soulless. That way we have an objection to the nature of love, a statement that God is evil and one that humans are soulless all from team atheist. Jolly bunch aren't you?