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YenTheFirst

Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 2620 Location: Slightly less than crazy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:07 am Post subject: |
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that is assuming they did understand fully the consequences, and what they did could be called a sin.
if a child runs out into the street it is not a sin.
when he is hit by the car, it is not a punishment for running into the street.
when the parent is unable to fix the child's problems, it isn't because the parent doesn't love the child.
bad analogy, i know. but it works mostly. _________________ Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS" |
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TestTubeError

Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 178
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Bad analogies do not work. That's why they are judged bad. Why someone would present an analogy they personally consider bad is beyond me.
Analogies are dangerous. They are rarely done well, and they all break down. One is more likely to hurt his own argument by using one. |
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YenTheFirst

Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 2620 Location: Slightly less than crazy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:51 am Post subject: |
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well, the format of that analogy is what I was going for.
I consider the first two lines a perfect analogy for my viewpoint
I consider the analogy 'bad' because of the last line.
in the analogy, the parent is limited, and lacks the capability to give the child health. With better medicine, this limitation may or may not be removed.
With God and Adam and Eve (or whatever), God is assumed to be all powerful. thus, He is not 'limited' by being unable to raise a dead child (which could not raise itself) the only limitation of God (which is self imposed), is that He will not force free will decisions.
thus, the analogy is bad, because the 'limitation' doesn't quite translate between the two cases. _________________ Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS" |
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TestTubeError

Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 178
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Another point for you believers who thrive on analogy (and they do because they can't even comprehend their own beliefs):
Trying to draw analogy between an all-powerful god and his creation and a human parent and his children is pointless and will not help your argument. Because of the critical differences between the popular defined nature of the gods and the known nature of human parents, a parallel cannot be drawn. As a parent, I don't have the ability to protect my child from physical harm, as I try to do every chance I can, 100% of the time, as the popularly-defined god can, supposedly. The dynamic MUST be different in the two types of relationships, since the gods don't protect children from harm 100% of the time.
Don't analogize gods to parents. Please.
If I could, I would protect all children from parents who would molest them. If there is a god, he does not do this, either because he can't or he won't. |
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TestTubeError

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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | the only limitation of God (which is self imposed), is that He will not force free will decisions. | So, the question remains: Why would he consider it an evil, punishable by eternal damnation, for people to make a free-will decision not to obey him? And the follow-on question: why did he make people such that they would do anything harmful if he himself would never do anything harmful? What's the difference? It's not free-will, is it?
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YenTheFirst

Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 2620 Location: Slightly less than crazy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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but do we agree that the child running into the street is not a sin,
and the following death is not a punishment,
even assuming the existence of a God who could raise the dead child?
is God's choice to refrain from raising the dead child a punishment? _________________ Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS" |
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TestTubeError

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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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???
Is kicking Adam and Eve out of the garden NOT a punishment? Was his kicking them out an accident resulting from them being too young to see the oncoming car?
I am talking about Mellowfish's Bible here.
What is your point? |
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Kibate

Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 670
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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MellowFish wrote: | And by the way, God did create perfect humans at least in the physical sense: Adam and Eve were immortal before they sinned. |
pff, the physical aspect is the least im interrested in, we don't even know how immortal they were. Were they able to get sick, get shot etc. or were they just forever young?
And shouldn't a perfect physical human have "powers" like...transforming into other animals or something like that? Weren't humans originally supposed to be the master of all earth, water and animals? Maybe shrinking and growing is something a perfect physical human should have too. Maybe even wings, now that would be cool. Or no wings at all, maybe just a super brain(we use only about 10% of our current brain according to some scientist) which enables us to fly without anything else. Maybe a perfect human wouldn't have a body at all. ... Ok, i stop now...
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The only "flaw" if you want to call it that was giving them free will. But imagine a world without free will: would you really want to live in such a place? |
Since i don't believe in free-will it's kinda complicated to answer that, but i will try it anyway: Yes, if a perfect being wouldn't have free will, then he would like it, because he would be perfect, and perfect equals no sadness.
Yes, "perfect" is something that doesn't sound like it that could happen in 1million^1million years, but that's what "perfect" means. It's not great, not super, not the best thing "in the world" but "perfect". _________________ If it's pretty, hit it:
There is no gay |
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YenTheFirst

Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 2620 Location: Slightly less than crazy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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no. no.
kibate wrote: | (we use only about 10% of our current brain according to some scientist) |
not at all true. check out snopes
kibate wrote: | Maybe a perfect human wouldn't have a body at all. |
then why bother calling them a 'human'?
kibate wrote: | and perfect equals no sadness. |
since when?
perfect is based on the greek word meaning 'complete'. sadness is part of the human experience. The bible indicates even God and Jesus, (whom we will argue are 'perfect') experience sadness.
kibate wrote: | doesn't sound like it that could happen in 1million^1million years |
same argument is used against evolution. problem is, 1million^1million years is a finite number, and will, therefore, eventually happen. _________________ Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS" |
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Teh Digital Dragon

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1888 Location: THE WORLD OF LARNING.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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Huh, when I saw this comic I wasn't thinking about the theological aspects so much as why didn't we have a "Badass of The Year" catergory in the sinnies? |
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Brain.Damage

Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 1336
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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I guess I agree with Slick, God is so silly. |
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YenTheFirst

Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 2620 Location: Slightly less than crazy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Teh Digital Dragon wrote: | Huh, when I saw this comic I wasn't thinking about the theological aspects so much as why didn't we have a "Badass of The Year" catergory in the sinnies? |
next year, I guess _________________ Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS" |
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Brain.Damage

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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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It's been very... God orientated lately.
What ever happened to social observations?
And I don't just mean the romantic ones. |
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Secret

Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 5429
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Tat got sacreligion? _________________
rm wrote: | the grail is patient. |
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Twister87 Guest
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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A sack of religion, maybe? |
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