FYI, stem and ALL LDS:
Orthodox Judaism does teach that GOD CREATED EVIL.
I don't believe that, but thought you guys oughtta know that...
FYI, stem and ALL LDS:
Orthodox Judaism does teach that GOD CREATED EVIL.
I don't believe that, but thought you guys oughtta know that...
So you think you're in good company, then, huh?
love,
stem
I was what? I said you have to teach your children right from wrong.. That had nothing to do with their creation.. Yes we use biology to procreate our children.. But that isn't all that they are now is it? They are beings of Body, Mind (some people call this soul), and Spirit.. Procreation can provide the first two of these but the Spirit of man is special and God given.. He forms that with in us as we are form within the womb.. IHS jim
Your argument, Jim, was, and I quote..."You teach your children right from wrong.. You teach them to do right but you know they will fail at some time in their life they will sin.. You KNOW THAT.. I guess you are guilty of their sin because you knew they would commit it.. Your logic is garbage."
Essentially you did not in anyway address my argument in this unless you are trying to suggest that us having children is like unto God creating creatures out of nothing. If that is not what you meant, then you should be more clear in your attempted arguments. Either way, you still have not addressed my argument.
love,
stem
JD, you continually think you can go outside of logic and ***ume your beliefs are somehow derived from the Bible. It is your belief system that, if taken to its logical conclusion, that forces God to the be source or author of evil, not the Bible. Not only is it illogical to ***ume your beliefs, as a whole, are derived from the BIble, but it is also illogical for you to jump outside of your belief system and draw a conclusion that does not follow. I mean keep it up if you want...it only confirms the error of your theology...but you should realize, doing so only cheats you of being able to thinking logically for yourself.What DOES the Bible say, jeff??
God is NOT THE AUTHOR OF EVIL.
love,
stem
So you think mortal men and women procreate a body and mind (which some people consider to be the soul) of a child ???Yes we use biology to procreate our children.. But that isn't all that they are now is it? They are beings of Body, Mind (some people call this soul), and Spirit.. Procreation can provide the first two of these but the Spirit of man is special and God given.. He forms that with in us as we are form within the womb.. IHS jim
By "mind" you aren't referring to the "brain", are you ?
What do you think a person's "spirit" is, Jim, and what makes you think mortal men and women are the ones who procreate the mind of a child ?
The point is you are as guilty of the sin of your children as God is guilty of the sin of mankind.. I said nothing about the means of creation.. If you what to discuss exnihilo I am up for it but it wasn't in my mind in this thread.. I was speaking about your heresy of blaming God for the sin of the world.. IHS jimYour argument, Jim, was, and I quote..."You teach your children right from wrong.. You teach them to do right but you know they will fail at some time in their life they will sin.. You KNOW THAT.. I guess you are guilty of their sin because you knew they would commit it.. Your logic is garbage."
Essentially you did not in anyway address my argument in this unless you are trying to suggest that us having children is like unto God creating creatures out of nothing. If that is not what you meant, then you should be more clear in your attempted arguments. Either way, you still have not addressed my argument.
love,
stem
No, not the brain. I am speaking the the self awareness that is inherent in all men.. The soul is the feeling, thought, and action of a person the relationship of the intellectual and the physical.. Animals have such as part of what they are. They feel fear. The feel anger. They even feel tenderness and love.. What they don't know and have no way of knowing is that God is.. It is not that which is given by God.. The spirit that was placed into us by God is incorporeal part of humans that brings our essence of what and who we are. The part of us that makes us conscience of God.. You can disagree with that and call man the combination of Body, Mind, and Spirit.. If you wish.. You can say you have 12 eggs and I can say I have a dozen.. It means the say thing.. IHS jimSo you think mortal men and women procreate a body and mind (which some people consider to be the soul) of a child ???
By "mind" you aren't referring to the "brain", are you ?
What do you think a person's "spirit" is, Jim, and what makes you think mortal men and women are the ones who procreate the mind of a child ?
You are wrong stem and I will tell you why.
WHO IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK YOU (THE CREATURE) ARE TO TELL GOD (THE CREATOR) WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG?
THE SIMPLE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS GOD GAVE THE ANGELS AND US HUMANS FREE WILL.
YOU CAN SQUIRM AND TWIST AND MOCK ALL YOU WANT BUT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO RIGHTFULLY DENY THAT.
QUIT BLAMING GOD FOR WHAT HIS CREATION DOES.
GOD IS A LOVING GOD OTHERWISE HE WOULD NOT HAVE CREATED HIS CREATURES WITH FREE WILL AND THE CREATURES WOULD THEN BE NOTHING BUT PUPPETS AND NOT WORTHY OF CREATING!
ANDY
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Jim.No, not the brain. I am speaking the the self awareness that is inherent in all men.. The soul is the feeling, thought, and action of a person the relationship of the intellectual and the physical.. Animals have such as part of what they are. They feel fear. The feel anger. They even feel tenderness and love.. What they don't know and have no way of knowing is that God is.. It is not that which is given by God.. The spirit that was placed into us by God is incorporeal part of humans that brings our essence of what and who we are. The part of us that makes us conscience of God.. You can disagree with that and call man the combination of Body, Mind, and Spirit.. If you wish.. You can say you have 12 eggs and I can say I have a dozen.. It means the say thing.. IHS jim
Now let's see if we're in agreement on this issue as much as you may think.
I believe there are only 2 main parts to us, or to each man and woman.
1) A body (which is composed of our brain and a lot of other parts), and
2) A spirit (with our spirit being what some people refer to as our mind).
I believe our soul is the comprehensive "essence" of what we are, which in my condition now is a combination of both my spirit (or mind) and my body, but which when I die will be only a spirit until I'm translated or resurrected such that my spirit and resurrected body will re-unite and become glorified to never again be divided.
Now, let's get back to the questions I was asking you earlier:
Do you think mortal men and women procreate a body and mind of a child ???
You've already stated that by "mind" you aren't referring to our "brain", so are you saying that you think mortal men and women procreate both a body and the "mind" of a child ???
What do you think a person's "spirit" is, Jim, and what makes you think mortal men and women are the ones who procreate the mind of a child ?
Yes I really believe that the mind is part of the procreative process.. The mind develops in a child's brain.. It is the total of what they are taught and what they experience.. Dogs have mind but as much as they can learn they will never become God aware.. The part of us that separates us from animals is the spirit that is created by God withing a person.. This part of what we are is what DOES make us God aware.. Our spirits longs to be with their maker. Mormons do like the idea that everything was spiritual made before the world was but the only verses in the Bible that speaks to where our spirits came from and what the order of creation is all disagree with that false teaching.. The Natural is first and then the spiritual.. That is directly from the Holy Spirit.. IHS jimThank you for sharing your thoughts, Jim.
Now let's see if we're in agreement on this issue as much as you may think.
I believe there are only 2 main parts to us, or to each man and woman.
1) A body (which is composed of our brain and a lot of other parts), and
2) A spirit (with our spirit being what some people refer to as our mind).
I believe our soul is the comprehensive "essence" of what we are, which in my condition now is a combination of both my spirit (or mind) and my body, but which when I die will be only a spirit until I'm translated or resurrected such that my spirit and resurrected body will re-unite and become glorified to never again be divided.
Now, let's get back to the questions I was asking you earlier:
Do you think mortal men and women procreate a body and mind of a child ???
You've already stated that by "mind" you aren't referring to our "brain", so are you saying that you think mortal men and women procreate both a body and the "mind" of a child ???
What do you think a person's "spirit" is, Jim, and what makes you think mortal men and women are the ones who procreate the mind of a child ?
---No, wrong. We are NOT ABLE to know which sins our children will commit, and we are not able to prevent those sins by creating our kids any OTHER way. We are not the Evangelical version of God, who is absolutely omniscient and omnipotent and sovereign. Your version of God IS all that, and therefore IS able to alter the programming of ANY of His creations, before He even creates them. We do NOT have those abilities. We are only able to bring our children into this world and do our best to teach them HOW to obey God's will. We cannot pre-program them so they will do it. But YOUR version of God IS able to do that. So if His creations do what He programmed them to do, then He is 100% responsible for that. Who is responsible for the GOOD things you do, Jim? YOU? I don't think you will agree with that. You give 100% of the credit to God. So you must give 100% of the BLAME for the BAD things you do, to Him as well.
--No, I don't blame the REAL God for the sin of the world. I only blame YOUR (incorrect) version of Him.I was speaking about your heresy of blaming God for the sin of the world..
You are not able to know this even though the Holy Spirit made it clear in the words of the Apostle James:[nrajeff;42100]---No, wrong. We are NOT ABLE to know which sins our children will commit, and we are not able to prevent those sins by creating our kids any OTHER way. We are not the Evangelical version of God, who is absolutely omniscient and omnipotent and sovereign. Your version of God IS all that, and therefore IS able to alter the programming of ANY of His creations, before He even creates them. We do NOT have those abilities. We are only able to bring our children into this world and do our best to teach them HOW to obey God's will. We cannot pre-program them so they will do it. But YOUR version of God IS able to do that. So if His creations do what He programmed them to do, then He is 100% responsible for that. Who is responsible for the GOOD things you do, Jim? YOU? I don't think you will agree with that. You give 100% of the credit to God. So you must give 100% of the BLAME for the BAD things you do, to Him as well.
James 2:10
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
That pretty well spells it out doesn't? When you bring a child into the world you know they will be as guilty before a Holy God as a murderer, or an adulterer. No matter how good they may appear for man's perspective.. Because you know this the sin is on you for bringing them into the world. You can't have it both ways if God knows that a person will be evil and doesn't prevent them from being you think they should live you want to blame God and totally eliminate free agency. Then both you and God are responsible for the sins of your children sense you have full knowledge that they will sin and that sin will be just a serious and murder in the eyes of a Holy God.... AS I said before that whole premise is nonsense.. Knowing of future sin is NOT responsibility for it commission..
If I thought for a second that God is the gods of mormonism I would think that he is responsible for the sin of the world.. That Mormon god forced Adam into earth or break God's Law and take the fruit.. They were contradictory commands.. Both couldn't be kept.. The BofM said that:--No, I don't blame the REAL God for the sin of the world. I only blame YOUR (incorrect) version of Him.
2 Nephi 2:25
Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.
According to your book of scripture Adam had to sin in order to bring mankind into the world.. Please tell me this isn't a contradictory command.. Tell me that God wanted Adam to turn away from Him and toward a sinful world.. After all he becames just like God when he ate the fruit, didn't he? He knew good from evil.. But the cost of being like God was death.. The mormon god was involved. Adam's sin was forced on Him. It wasn't just knowing tht Adam would sin Adam was not given a choice. He was trapped in a catch 22. The Mormon god forced Adam to do it. He wanted Adam to sin, he needed Adam to sin.. It was built into his plan that Adan had to sin.. The mormon god required sin to make a plan of his will work.. Don't eat the fruit and Adam is sinning by not having children. Eat the fruit and go directly against the command not to do so.. The mormon God Force Adam to sin. He actually built sin into his plan.. A god that works through the commission od sin.. That is garbage doctrine..
The Christian God's will was that we live forever with Him in a Paradise. In eternal love and joy.. Sin destroyed that perfect will of God so God in his eternal Mercy and Love devised the cross.. You lay in terrific sin before God and then as a "good" mormon tell God that you are worthy of entering His house and baring His name? And you call me wrong.. In God's eyes you are a filthy person, The great prophet Isaiah saw himself to be a liar before God. I liar who lived among liars.. He recognized his horrible sinful place before God. When will you do the same..
Yes we give God the credit for the good we do.. As we do that we are tools in His hand.. What is someone who is not a child of God does good? Bill Gates does a lot of GOOD in the world and take the credit for himself. You don't see a difference here? For the evil I do I blame my fallen heart.. My corrupt flesh.. Did you teach your children to lie Jeff? I know you didn't but they still lied didn't they? It is built into them to do evil.. They inherited man's desire for evil. Adam brought that on each of us.. God came into the world to correct that mess we caused.. You go right on blaming God for the evil in your heart. I am sure at the judgment that many will point their Finger at God and blame Him as they are cast into the Lake of Fire.. IHS jim
It's been explained to you several times now: SECONDARY CREATION.JD, you continually think you can go outside of logic and ***ume your beliefs are somehow derived from the Bible. It is your belief system that, if taken to its logical conclusion, that forces God to the be source or author of evil, not the Bible. Not only is it illogical to ***ume your beliefs, as a whole, are derived from the BIble, but it is also illogical for you to jump outside of your belief system and draw a conclusion that does not follow. I mean keep it up if you want...it only confirms the error of your theology...but you should realize, doing so only cheats you of being able to thinking logically for yourself.
love,
stem
Did God "create" Beethoven's fifth symphony?
Just answer that, ok, stem?
AND...does the Bible declare God NOT THE AUTHOR OF EVIL or NOT???
Just answer that, ok, stem?
That's all fine by me, JD, since my belief system does not force upon God the creation of evil as yours does. But pointing out the very anti-biblical message of your belief system does not help your cause. So, take a deep breath and engage the argument. It'll do you some good, particularly your ability to grasp the concept of logic.
love,
stem
That's not an explanation, JD, its been nothing more than a cop out.
Interesting question in light of my argument. Let's see...So if God knew exactly what Beethoven would create before God created Him ex nihilo, as your belief system would ahve it...then this symphony didn't originate in Beethoven's mind, but God's. Afterall God knew the symphony long before Beethoven did, no?Did God "create" Beethoven's fifth symphony?
Just answer that, ok, stem?I would say the Bible does not address the topic. But sadly, your belief system does force God to be the source of all evil, if taken to its logical conclusion.AND...does the Bible declare God NOT THE AUTHOR OF EVIL or NOT???
Just answer that, ok, stem?
love,
stem
You've missed my point completely, Andy. I do not attribute to God evil designs, like your belief system does if taken to its logical conclusion. I find your belief system to have too many problems to be believable. I humbly accept God and HIs pronouncements.
love,
stem
No stem....you are wrong....that is not the logical conclusion for the Jesus authored Christian Church.
What you say is your twisting Christian beliefs to try and make your cult somehow (though impossible) seem believable.
What do you know about logic anyways...you are entrenched in the evil lds mormon cult!
If you had an ounce of logic, you would readily discern the deceptive, lying motivations of the con man and false prophet, Smith.
It is very obvious to us Christians.
Andy
That's all fine by me, JD, since my belief system does not force upon God the creation of evil as yours does. But pointing out the very anti-biblical message of your belief system does not help your cause. So, take a deep breath and engage the argument. It'll do you some good, particularly your ability to grasp the concept of logic.
love,
stem
Your belief system is NOT BIBLICAL. I don't give a rat's patootie what you believe, stem. I've already explained to you the nature of SECONDARY CREATION...but you keep deflecting 'cause you have no reply.![]()
Originally Posted by Father_JD
It's been explained to you several times now: SECONDARY CREATION.
That IS the explanation, stem. God did NOT create evil. God DID create Lucifer who CHOSE to be evil. Evil is SECONDARY. Got it now??That's not an explanation, JD, its been nothing more than a cop out.![]()
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Did God "create" Beethoven's fifth symphony?
Interesting question in light of my argument. Let's see...So if God knew exactly what Beethoven would create before God created Him ex nihilo, as your belief system would ahve it
Ex nihilo or out of pre-existing "matter"...it's IRRELEVANT. You supposedly believe that the Mormo-god is OMNISCIENT, no?
Yes or no??
...then this symphony didn't originate in Beethoven's mind, but God's. Afterall God knew the symphony long before Beethoven did, no?
So you're really saying that God wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?? That's your position? Why do you think because God KNOWS everything in advance that MUST mean that He "created it"??
That's a non-sequitur, stemster.
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Just answer that, ok, stem?
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AND...does the Bible declare God NOT THE AUTHOR OF EVIL or NOT???
Just answer that, ok, stem?
I would say the Bible does not address the topic. But sadly, your belief system does force God to be the source of all evil, if taken to its logical conclusion.
The Bible declares God is HOLY, WITHOUT SIN, CAN NOT SIN, IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF EVIL and you posit, "the Bible does not address the topic"??? How is anyone supposed to tkae you seriously when you write such nonsense???![]()
I replied appropriately to your deflection of appealing to secondary causes, JD. I explained how your appeal to secondary causes does not address the thrust of my argument. To which you replied....
love,
stem
Very appropriate reply, Andy. Seeing as you nor any of your partners here can adequately address the issues I've raised it would be best for you to whine about me in particular as reply. Good show, you've helped me more than you know.
love,
stem
I got your cop out long ago, JD. Again you did not address the arguments I've raised in appealing to your cop out. So its up to you at this point.
So you won't answer a simple question huh? Instead you'd like to pose an unrelated question to me huh? Okay, let's allow you your attempted escape route in changing the subject here by answering your question. God is omniscient yes. I know you'll attempt to run from the question and topic, but so be it.Ex nihilo or out of pre-existing "matter"...it's IRRELEVANT. You supposedly believe that the Mormo-god is OMNISCIENT, no?
I didn't say God wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. I reasoned to a logical conclusion based on your belief system. And you have run from answering the question again, JD. Did God not know Beethoven's Fifth Symphony before God created Beethoven out of nothing?So you're really saying that God wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?? That's your position? Why do you think because God KNOWS everything in advance that MUST mean that He "created it"??
That's a non-sequitur, stemster.
Thanks, JD, again for declaring how unbiblical your belief system is. But, let's just leave it there for now.The Bible declares God is HOLY, WITHOUT SIN, CAN NOT SIN, IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF EVIL and you posit, "the Bible does not address the topic"??? How is anyone supposed to tkae you seriously when you write such nonsense???![]()
love,
stem