Anyone have questions for PoetWarrior?

[puniraptor]

PW, do you live in St Marys?

[puniraptor]

Did you have enough time to think about my earlier question re: timbre matching?

[The Big Train]

The Big Train is making the rest of you look bad through his effort and intellect.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395972/Atheists-higher-IQs-Their-intelligence-makes-likely-dismiss-religion-irrational-unscientific.html

[The Big Train]

pw, please explain why jesus had to die to redeem people, that part has always confused me.  why couldn't god just be like "it's all good".  seems pretty human sacrificey

God could have, I suppose, but it would have been like cheating a perfect system. Jesus' sacrifice defeated sin and death and through God's grace can cleanse us and provide a bridge that can get us back to the perfection we once knew with God before sin entered the world.

so we are trying to get back to the 10 min that adam and eve were alive before the tree incident?

[star seed 7]

I don't have a response to the article you posted other that "ok." and that I'm aware of at least one Christian who is smarter than at least one atheist.

Haha

[The Big Train]

pw, please explain why jesus had to die to redeem people, that part has always confused me.  why couldn't god just be like "it's all good".  seems pretty human sacrificey

God could have, I suppose, but it would have been like cheating a perfect system. Jesus' sacrifice defeated sin and death and through God's grace can cleanse us and provide a bridge that can get us back to the perfection we once knew with God before sin entered the world.

so we are trying to get back to the 10 min that adam and eve were alive before the tree incident?

Things were perfect before our choices messed it all up(eating of the forbidden fruit in the garden), resulting in pain, death etc. We don't have the ability to get it back. We needed help.  We are all guilty. Sinful by nature and choice. But we got help, if we believe in Him.

so, if we were created in his likeness, why did we eff up so easily/early? is he not perfect?

[DQ12]

have you seen ex machina?  did you like it?

[Spracne]

To what end, disturbing the dust on a bowl of Roses?

[PoetWarrior]

Things were perfect before our choices messed it all up(eating of the forbidden fruit in the garden), resulting in pain, death etc. We don't have the ability to get it back. We needed help.  We are all guilty. Sinful by nature and choice. But we got help, if we believe in Him.

so, if we were created in his likeness, why did we eff up so easily/early? is he not perfect?

Our likeness to God is in our personal nature. Christianity is the only religion whose God is both infinite and personal and what sets it apart as the only one that works. We are given access to Him which is unique and necessary as we are obviously personal beings who need to communicate with each other, love, etc.

He also gave us choice, however, and Adam and Eve were tempted and sinned as a result. God didn't create robots, he created personal beings who He could have a real relationship with.

[star seed 7]

have you seen ex machina?  did you like it?

I liked it OK. I thought the trailers conveyed a more sinister tone that was lacking in the actual motion picture that would have helped it succeed. But it was interesting to think about, the AI. I wondered afterward if it is ever moral to see a nude body of one not your own.

What is immoral about it?

[The Big Train]

Things were perfect before our choices messed it all up(eating of the forbidden fruit in the garden), resulting in pain, death etc. We don't have the ability to get it back. We needed help.  We are all guilty. Sinful by nature and choice. But we got help, if we believe in Him.

so, if we were created in his likeness, why did we eff up so easily/early? is he not perfect?

Our likeness to God is in our personal nature. Christianity is the only religion whose God is both infinite and personal and what sets it apart as the only one that works. We are given access to Him which is unique and necessary as we are obviously personal beings who need to communicate with each other, love, etc.

He also gave us choice, however, and Adam and Eve were tempted and sinned as a result. God didn't create robots, he created personal beings who He could have a real relationship with.

let me ask you this, if adam and eve were the first people, and biblical scholars seem to think were on earth ~6000 years ago, why do we have a chronological record of different species of humans up until ~15,000 years ago?  why do we have fossils that shows the evolution of hominoids back over 2 million years?  did god just put all that stuff in the ground so dumb people like me would question him and be sent to hell?  or in your blind faith do you not even think about it because it leads down a road of proving it isnt real?

[slobber]

If you are not able to conceive of a way that this could happen, then you aren't very smart. I am pretty sure you are smart, so I'll assume you just aren't trying. It doesn't feel like you are gEing, but I could be wrong.


Gonna win 'em all!

[puniraptor]

Do you often eat lunch? What did you have for lunch today?

[meow meow]

the crunchy peanut butter is the hack then?

[puniraptor]

wow

[puniraptor]

what form do your lunch carrots take? baby carrots? crinkle cut chips?

[star seed 7]

Baby carrots are the Jesus of carrots 

[HerrSonntag]

Things were perfect before our choices messed it all up(eating of the forbidden fruit in the garden), resulting in pain, death etc. We don't have the ability to get it back. We needed help.  We are all guilty. Sinful by nature and choice. But we got help, if we believe in Him.

so, if we were created in his likeness, why did we eff up so easily/early? is he not perfect?

Our likeness to God is in our personal nature. Christianity is the only religion whose God is both infinite and personal and what sets it apart as the only one that works. We are given access to Him which is unique and necessary as we are obviously personal beings who need to communicate with each other, love, etc.

He also gave us choice, however, and Adam and Eve were tempted and sinned as a result. God didn't create robots, he created personal beings who He could have a real relationship with.

Should efficacy be the grounds for a system of beliefs over veracity?  It would seem awfully convenient for something to be both the most effective and the most in line with reality. 

[puniraptor]

What brand PB?

[puniraptor]

Great Value? Best Choice? Kirkland?

[The Big Train]

was that last question directed at me or herrsonntag?

[HerrSonntag]

If I speak of these things and argue and defend to save others from eternal damnation, why do you do it? What is to be gained by proving me wrong?

Hopefully, a world most concerned with the here and now, embracing the one shot we all have at making something of our existence.

And no, it was not BT

[The Big Train]

i mean im just breaking PW balls(vag?)

[PoetWarrior]

I'm talking to anyone that has shown disagreement at any point.

One thing I want to make clear. Christianity is not simply a comfort or something that due to tradition I've gravitated towards. It is the truth. It answers the necessary questions men should have about why they exist, why we think and act the way that we do and what else is there beyond us. If you have ever asked any of these questions, science or other beliefs cannot adequately answer them and you know that. But the true God who is there, can, and He's calling you to himself.

[Spracne]

Aw man, I thought we were this close to getting PW to renounce his faith and accept nothingness.  Moving on:  I'm now taking bets on which of PW's agitators will be the first to reject nothingness and turn to God's Truth, as revealed by the 17th-century English poet John Milton?