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Allstarslacker  3 stars
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Registered: 2006-5-23 20:09:28
Does a biblical perspective have to be literal?
Altra_Shadowstalker  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-1-17 11:48:15
Allstarslacker posted:

You are here, and you will do what you will do.

I do not think there is a tab to be paid.



I don't think it is a tab. I think its Man growing up and getting out of the house.

I think at this stage of our development, we're in our mid-twenties. We don't have that bloodlust or adrenaline coursing through us but we still want to protect our own. We're learning about responsibility for things we effect and are able to express compassion on a worldwide scale. Every decade that passes we lose less and less to the childish sins of unjust wars and our targets when we do fight are precise. We are beginning to realize there are options other than our first instincts.

I imagine we were old, matured men in the Garden, who knew nothing of warfare or sin. I imagine, one day we will return to that state, but we will bring with us the knowledge and experience of having lived our lives. Just as some return home to finish their lives in the houses of their families, returning with their own families, experiences and memories. I think you get more out life that way than if you spent it sheltered by your parents.

Damn dude, this is really mellowing me out. I don't even feel like baiting Ron Paul supporters anymore.

 

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Altra_Shadowstalker  4 stars
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Allstarslacker posted:

Does a biblical perspective have to be literal?



I think what he's getting at is there is a Divine Law or Morality if you believe in the Eden story. These, or the commandments for instance, are not subjective.

 

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reesescups  4 stars
Title: //Captain America
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Registered: 2003-5-26 14:45:53
Allstarslacker posted:

God created man to be what he was. To live as he would. Part of that freedom is the ability to judge (eat the fruit), but it is also the ability to abstain from judgement.

So God created us as an animal and somehow we obtained enough knowledge to rise above the station in life that God created us to be in.

Um, ok - so what's your point?

 

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Altra_Shadowstalker  4 stars
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Who says God didn't intend for us to be what we are? Who did he create the tree for? Who did he create lucifer for? Who did he create Eve for?

 

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Allstarslacker  3 stars
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reesescups posted:

Allstarslacker posted:

God created man to be what he was. To live as he would. Part of that freedom is the ability to judge (eat the fruit), but it is also the ability to abstain from judgement.

So God created us as an animal and somehow we obtained enough knowledge to rise above the station in life that God created us to be in.

Um, ok - so what's your point?



There are no stations.

Knowledge is created not discovered.

We are part of a greater whole.

God is that whole.
Allstarslacker  3 stars
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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:

Who says God didn't intend for us to be what we are? Who did he create the tree for? Who did he create lucifer for? Who did he create Eve for?



God may or may not be aware, and may or may not have intended anything.

I do not think it matters.
GrilledCheez  4 stars
Title: The Lord's Balls
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Registered: 2006-3-22 11:06:32
god as a philosophical abstract is kind of lame. What's the point?

 

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Allstarslacker  3 stars
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What's the point of anything?
Shimatta33  1 star
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Poop.

 

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