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Is reality (or the Universe) the same to every life form?
It is
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It isn't
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It is impossible to know anything with absolute certainty, including whether or not my subjective perception of reality reflects the objective reality. That hardly matters, however, since whatever reality is objectively it would necessarily encompass all real things independent of my perception. Side: It is
It is impossible for you to know anything with absolute certainty because you like not knowing with certainty. God gives absolute certainty. You don't know because you say you can't know. I know you are wrong about it because I know with absolute certainty that my sins are forgiven and I am going to heaven and God is good all of the time no matter how much pain and suffering there is for or around me. Side: It isn't
I would actually much rather know with certainty, but the simple reality is that we cannot. Your belief in your God gives you an illusion of absolute certainty, but even if your God actually existed there is no reason to suspect your subjective perceptive experience of His certainty would be an absolutely accurate reflection of His certainty. You do not know with absolute certainty; you believe. Side: It is
I know with absolute certainty that Jesus is risen from the dead, He is God, He took my place in death, paid my price, and I am forgiven by God. God loves you. You can know the same as I know, but you never will if you will not believe that God loves you so much He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. When I realized I was a lost sinner like you, unbelieving, with no hope if Christ is not risen from the dead....I knew my sin separated me from God, I knew the gospel (which means "good news") is true, Christ is risen from the dead, I believed on Him and received Him and He came in to me, gave me a new heart, made me a new creature, and saved my soul from Hell. One day I will have a new body like His resurrected body which will be free of corruption, free of sin, incorruptible, immortal. I know with absolute certainty. It's God's promise. God cannot lie. I have no doubt. You are rejecting knowing not because of the lame excuses you pretend are making you proud, smart, strong, free, whatever.........you are rejecting knowing because you love your sinning, you love your own mind and the pleasures of your pride, you love the pleasures of sin whenever you feel like doing it however you feel like doing it, breaking the holy law of God when you think it suits your wants and needs best........You love your sin more than life and you are paying for it and can't get out of paying. You wish you could get out of paying so you say "I'm being annihilated, hahaha God, you can't get me, You, God, can go to Hell because I'm not going there and I'm not going to see you wherever I go..."...or whatever your mental gymnastics lead you to say......you are only fooling yourself. I hope others who are not so closed minded like you, but who wonder if your thinking is right, will see the truth and repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as you could, but I guess you never will. Side: It isn't
You believe with absolute certainty. You do not know. That is the essence of faith. I prefer knowledge. Call that a sin if you like, but the allegation is an empty one to me since I do not believe in sin. Gymnastics is good exercise, by the way. Maybe you should exercise and stretch your brain a bit more than you do. Right now, you are wont to fall off the the balancing beam. Side: It is
You are living in sin being against God....actually, dying in your sins. You are separated from God by your sin. Believe it or not. I know it. I have been reconciled to God by the blood of His Son who paid for my sins with His blood and secured my pardon, forgiveness, in His resurrection. You don't want Him, so you don't have Him. That's your problem, not mine. Side: It isn't
And exactly how do you know JC is risen? As I asked you yesterday---in a post you never answered; Imagine that! LOL--I asked you AGAIN how you can prove to us or even give us a bit of evidence how ANY of your claims about how JC fixed you can be proven to us. That is, ONE facet of his "fixing" your life that could not be attributed to you yourself and simply making some better choices. Same deal here: how do you know JC rose again? And it is not a belief of yours? If I said I KNOW for a FACT that Satan has taken me under his wing and is responsible for me successes in life, I could prove that idea just as effectively as you can prove yours. Which is to say: I could not. All I could do is say, Prove he did not take me under his wing! Which is what you're gonna do insofar as JC and you. Or am I wrong? LOL Let me know if I am. And...as always, some reasons--ANY reason--would be nice. Thanks!! Side: It is
To start with, for knowing Jesus is risen from the dead, I heard the stories that were passed down by the eyewitnesses. There were over 500 at one time. They knew He is God and risen from the dead, and they feared no torture or execution seeking to force them to renounce their conviction of His power. Next, I realized that as a dying sinner I had no hope, no expectation other than death and I feared God due to my frightful awareness of the evils I have done...without even having to remember individual deeds of evil, I know I'm an evil doer and wicked in God's sight, and the thought of dying without knowing I am forgiven scared me to death....right to the point where I realized it's my death that Jesus took, and it's His life God is offering....... Then..... I received Him as my life and He gives me eternal life in His resurrection. I will have a new body like His glorious resurrected body when I see Him face to face....with no more sin in my flesh, no corruption of death, no more capacity for evil and immorality.....and I am now one of those who fear no torture or execution if haters of God demand that I deny my Savior's name or power. Side: It isn't
"If I said I KNOW for a FACT that Satan has taken me under his wing and is responsible for me successes in life, I could prove that idea just as effectively as you can prove yours." There are many in this world who believe this experience is true for themselves, and they believe they can prove it more effectively than what I claim to know. One more little tidbit about myself, I have rubbed elbows with some of those people. I have seen you at times talking like you actually are one of those people. You could be one, as they will pretend that they are not what they are and may joke about what they are as a means of hiding it as they recruit others to join their covens or groups. I do not think you are one of them, I think you are much too materialistic...but it would not surprise me at all if in reality you actually are one of those people in various kinds of occult and different levels of Satanism. They sure would cheer in agreement with a lot of the things you have said. Really, you might as well join them. They will give you more of what you want.......as long as God allows them and you to continue going for it. You think it's all a joke, and the devil has a death grip on you and is pulling you down to Hell...the only way He can strike back at God in his anger over being denied God's throne. Side: It isn't
If I said I KNOW for a FACT that Satan has taken me under his wing and is responsible for me successes in life, I could prove that idea just as effectively as you can prove yours. Which is to say: I could not. All I could do is say, Prove he did not take me under his wing!---------------------------------- I would say I believe you (except that your "successes" only come by God's permission and the abilities God has given you, and Satan is trying to take credit he does not deserve) ..................... If you say you have given yourself to be taken under Satan's wing, why should I not believe you? I know the devil will do that for you, and use you as long as he can in order to try to bring others under his wing before they are destroyed in Hell.' Really, the devil has you under his wing already, offering you the pleasures of sin in exchange for your soul, and you are in danger of losing your soul in the fire of Hell where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched. You need to wake up man. I'm not your enemy. Side: It isn't
Are you still spittin and slobbering as you curse God and life? I think you are a fraud, a phony...anybody who claims to be educated but insists that bacteria spontaneously come to life from non-living chemicals when a food source is placed in the open has to be one of three things: 1. A liar. 2. A lunatic 3. Both of the above. You have totally lost my interest. I have only read like ten percent of your stuff from day one because you are obviously bitter and nasty but I read more than enough to see what you are...Hell bound and proud in your ignorance so you are a hater and nothing more. I really feel sorry for you. I guess getting a few teeth knocked out was not enough for you to learn anything. Side: It is
and God is giving you what you want, an eternity void of knowing His goodness....but He's still being good to you now. How long do you expect Him to be good to you while you insist He is not good and not being good to you? He's giving you what you want, but He really does not want to give you that. He wants to give you eternal life, He does not want to give you an eternity void of anything indicating His goodness....you are trying to get Him out of your life and you are making a mistake. Side: It isn't
If every life form exists within the same reality, then reality is the same to every life form in the objective sense even though each perceives it differently in the subjective sense. My observation is topical, owing to the ambiguity of the original question if nothing else. Side: It is
"living" and "experiencing" are two different words with two different meanings. The meaning of life must be clear or it cannot be explained. It cannot be changeable in different contexts, and the words used to explain the meaning cannot be changeable or the explanation is not valid due to being inconsistent. Side: It is
You are rejecting His Son who died for you, so you will be rejected by God and die for yourself. He offered Himself as payment for your sins so you don't have to pay in Hell, but you think you can pay just fine for yourself so go ahead and prove it. God is offering you forgiveness now through faith in the blood of His Son which He gave to pay for your sins, and you are refusing God's offer. You finalize your death and you will have no more opportunity for mercy, and the One you rejected from being your Saviour will be the One you face in Judgement after you have trampled His blood under your feet and your hands are bloody for refusing to all Him to cover your sins with His blood....so you will stand before Him and all your evils exposed, and you will be rejected in death by the one you rejected in life, and you will be cast away like garbage to fry like eternal sausage in the burning dump of the Lake of Fire. "Lucifer" is Satan now, the adversary, and he isn't doing you any good leading you into Hell with him. Side: It is
god could have at least given Lucifer a heater to last him the duration of his icy imprisonment. I love God but why do I need to do everything he wants me to for a ticket to heaven? I don't harm anyone, I don't steal, I don't kill, so why are you telling me that I'm going to hell? Why are you trying to play God? You don't choose who goes to hell. You don't even know me, you self absorbed cumquat. Side: It isn't
I can't choose Hell or Heaven for you or for anybody else, it's between you and God and you are making the choice, I don't have the power to condemn you any more than I have the power to forgive you. It's God who does, and it's His mercy you need, not mine. Are you trying to tell me you have never done anything wrong? Do you really expect me to believe that? I'm sure your mother, father, siblings, or spouse (assuming they are honest) are well enough aware in detail of the things you have done wrong. Your employer or clients probably could name a few too. It's because of your corrupt nature, you act according to what you are, a sinner. In saying you are good and don't deserve Hell, you are being proud and denying the fact that the tiniest wrong which apparently you think is ok in God's sight is equally evil with what you think are the big wrongs such as murder or theft (and it's hard to believe that in all of your life you never stole, never took anything that belonged to somebody else.....not even a leaf off a plant on somebody elses property, nothing. One little theft makes you a thief the same as the largest theft, in God's eyes you are no better than the worst thief if you steal one little thing.) Your sin separates you from God. You are unholy, God is holy. He is Righteous, you are unrighteous...you and me both are the same, sinners who deserve to die as we have sinned against God and are not worthy of life. If your sins are not paid for, you have to pay yourself in Hell. The gift of God is that He Himself paid for your sins entirely when in innocence He took your place in death on the cross as the Son of God sent by the God the Father. God Himself paid your price with His own life's blood in a terrible agonizing death which we deserve. I'm not sending you to Hell or judging you, I do not have that power. Neither do I have the power to forgive you, as does no man (not even the Pope) You have sinned against God and need His forgiveness. You can be secure in His forgiveness if you will A) Admit you have sinned against Him, He is pleading with you to agree with Him on this point, admit you have sinned against Him and deserve to die. B) Believe He died for you as the Son of God, and God raised Him from the dead and He is the Living God, God the Son sent by God the Father to pay for the sins of the world so the world can be forgiven and saved from their sins. C) Call on God the Father in the name of God the Son, Jesus, to save you, believing in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Side: It is
It isn't theft if they let you keep it. If they don't know it's gone then they can never not let you keep it. If you give it back then it was never stolen! Therefore nothing is stolen until one of the people dies because there is always a chance to return it until that point. Checkmate, Satansplow! Side: It isn't
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