@Pybro5@TheSkepticWiz Jep was going against God’s will here (just like many people in judges) and clearly shouldn't have kept such a foolish oath (or made it in the first place) and offered his best animal instead if he felt lead.
@FaithPhoenix123@TheSkepticWiz I get you, but I think anti-abortion causes harms women's health. In the sense that it causes something called the Chilling Effect, where there is something in a woman's uterus that is causing issues but you would not call a featus, but it's a legal grey area.
@Pybro5@TheSkepticWiz Hi Pybro!
I don’t think I have ever mentioned this Scripture but am happy to put my hat in the ring.
Being open, I am pro-life and think everyone is made in God-image. We shouldn’t kill innocent human beings and this is an important topic to me as I could have been aborted.
@Pybro5@TheSkepticWiz Ezekiel 16:20-21 and 23:37-39 does show God’s hatred for burning children alive (which I think we can all agree is evil) and 18:4 demonstrates God’s authority over life. Context: this was to do with the evil child burning at the time and Israel’s rebellion against God.
@FaithPhoenix123@TheSkepticWiz I don't recall anything in the Bible on pedophilia. But the Bible does condone chattel slavery. Leviticus 25:44 - 46 condones it.
@Pybro5@TheSkepticWiz I think Ezekiel was interested in tackling child-sacrifice. I believe God has transformed society over time, such as getting rid of death games, widespread pederasty, chattle slavery... We should stop all forms of sacrificing children and support mothers to care for their kids
@Pybro5@AgainstAtheismX Thus saith the Lord: For I paid the wages of sin; the work is already finished, and there is glory in heaven. I love you. Please come to Me.
@Pybro5@sola_chad God is fully in control of all things, yet humans still make real choices and are responsible for them. Christianity holds both as true, even if the tension isn’t fully resolved.
You should read On the Freedom of the Will by Edwards.
@Pybro5@NotEvolution1 You can lecture God Himself about it before He banishes you to Hell forever and see how well it works out for you. Whining about it to christians doesn't change anything.
@Pybro5@sola_chad The basic premise is optically a simple narrative regarding the fall of angelic beings and how that synthesizes when comparisons are made with mankind within the context of the omnipotency held.
How much have you studied on the paradox of free will and sovereignty?
@dypethic@Online_Pastor1@darwintojesus Then why ask any of those questions in the first place? For Balaam, we, the readers, know the question, so it's redundant.
But if we are going into the original text in Job, Satan is translated as satan, an improper noun, thus making it not a name.
@Pybro5@Online_Pastor1@darwintojesus As mentioned it's epistemologically derived original writing and dominant readings of the original text within the contextuality of the examples you cited.
You're more than welcome to explore this topic and check if you don't think the conclusion presented is inaccurate.
@dypethic@Online_Pastor1@darwintojesus How do you know that? How do you know the Judge knows those facts, vs just being ignorant? None of those examples is about revealing; he is asking a question like how you would to another person.
@Pybro5@Online_Pastor1@darwintojesus A judge asks questions in court, whilst knowing the facts, it's revealing not discovery. Deliberate questions doesn't equate to ignorance.
It's referring to anthropopathism in the original form, expressing displeasure with Saul, not error.
Question is why anything exists at all
@dypethic@darwintojesus No, but can choice exist in a pure realm? If yes then, God can make a place where evil can't exist, but choice does. If no then what is the point of having free will if you aren't going to have it for most of your existance?
@Pybro5@darwintojesus Can wickedness exist in a pure realm?
Evil is a privation of good, and in the final state the will is perfectly ordered. Heaven is the result of moral formation and choice.
C.S. Lewis explores this topic and conundrum you're wrestling with.
It's **God** not "god."
And God doesn't need to serve you or make you happy to deserve worship. We worship and celebrate greatness. Why do you think we love Plato, Napoleon, or Micheal Jordan? Because they were great, not because they served us. God is the greatest possible being, so if any being in reality should be worshipped, it would be God.
But since you ask: God made humanity, He sustains humanity, and He died on a cross for humanity...
Also, whatever you have in this life that you value, you have because of God. He made it and allows you to have it.
That goes for literally everyone.