Message 586 of 591 (727672) 05-19-2014 5:07 PM

Reply to: Message 580 by Blue 05-19-2014 4:04 PM

Apart from when god orders rape and murder. There he is using rape and murder to take away the rights of people not to be raped and murdered.

If god had not made us with the capaciry to do evil he would not need to judge us. Why not take away our ability to decide to go to hell by being evil? He could have done it: he can do anything.

I know this is not aimed at me but I do have to take exception. I've 'known' Modulous on this site for nearly ten years and hypocracy is not one of his character traits. Would you care to specify his hypocracy?

All the best.

Message 587 of 591 (727673) 05-19-2014 5:49 PM

Reply to: Message 584 by Blue 05-19-2014 4:27 PM

Mod may be many things but I don't think he is a hypocrite. What did he say or do for you to come this conclusion? Because it certainly seems there is nothing hypocritical he has said in the discussions with you.

Oh yeah
You are a troll.

Message 588 of 591 (727676) 05-19-2014 6:19 PM

Reply to: Message 587 by Theodoric 05-19-2014 5:49 PM

I'm pretty sure I'm a hypocrite. I have a pulse after all I think to label me a hypocrite might be stretching the word too thin, of course. I may have broke him/her with Message 574

On the other hand, I don't think we should confuse the noble art of trolling with someone losing an argument and losing their thin veneer of civility.

Message 589 of 591 (727677) 05-19-2014 9:08 PM

Reply to: Message 588 by Modulous 05-19-2014 6:19 PM

Well you are certainly more open minded than I am.

Message 590 of 591 (727678) 05-19-2014 9:32 PM

Adminnemooseus

Message 591 of 591 (727774) 05-20-2014 2:40 PM

Jesus

'And God so loved the world...'

Evil existed before humans. So humans did not create evil. Before humans, Satan was not evil. Therefore evil either has always existed or it was created. There is only one creative spirit. Jesus.

But the abstraction of evil is not real evil. For real evil to come into the world, there needs to be evildoers. For evildoers, there needs to be free agency. God created free agency. God created evildoers. God created real evil.

But there needs to be more than free agency. There also needs to be the desire to commit evil. It is one thing to be free to commit evil, but if humans lacked the desire, there would be no real evil. For real evil there must be desire. God created desire to commit evil. God created the knowledge of how to commit evil. God created disobedient and curious humans who would acquire that knowledge and their desire to enact it.

God, and therefore Jesus, created evil. The Bible provides me with all the evidence I need.

Satan

Satan did what God told him to, and was absolutely essential to realize God's goals. Satan cannot create evil. Even in the New Testament, whose authors slander Satan at all opportunities by 'creating'^* a new character, the devil, and insinuating they are one and the same. Even if we assume he is the temptor - he is working with tools God created - human desire, human's poor reasoning skills etc.

The fact of Jesus and Satan is not a fact. It is a Belief. Now...what if this belief were false?

1) People known as Christians would be made out to look as ignorant and stupid as possible. Much of it would be their own fault, for they would try and live as believers and as worldly people at the same time.
2) Other religions would be involved in conflict just like Christianity.
3) People who practiced and studied occult and ancient mystery religions would be quite intellectual and bemused by all of the hoopla over supernatural reality. They would consider it all an exercise in intellectual mystic states of achievement.
4) Many would call themselves Christians who were not.
5) The Bible would be ridiculed and scorned for its fantasy, yet concepts such as alternative universes and the Tao of Physics would be reverently considered.
6) People with Williams Syndrome would love all of us...buffoon and bartender, professor and psychotic (incidentally, what's wrong with psychotics, are the unloveable? 1 in 20 people will suffer an episode of psychosis, 1 in a 100 will be plagued by it and are typically called schizophrenic. Two of my closest friends suffer(ed) with psychosis. One of them was killed by it.)
7) Satan would not let us know about him.
8) Anytime that the topic was brought up, people would attempt to either refute the basic message or distract attention from it.

^* by creating I mean by stealing from pagans.