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You know, around 1070 AD, when England was founded and English was new, they used to keep documents for Judgement Day. Even their civilisation is no more.
Many of the things mentioned about the end had not happened previously. It is now actually happening. The destruction of Syria, the beheadings by ISIS of Christians, and the mass genocide of Christians in the Middle East. These things are new.
I have. I've never found the correlations that atheist apologetics sites claim are there. I have seen them quote mine, leave out context, and even lie. They also assume that Christians perceive God as some kind of absolute zero of mathematical "perfection". Nope. We just see Him as the highest possible being that can exist within the construct of infinity.
Example:
Michael Jordan was the highest conceivable being in a finite reality called "a basketball gym".
I'm not certain what "timeless perfection" is, but it does sound edgy. I'm not a person that claims God to be any kind of an absolute zero. I just think He is what He is. It has nothing to do with mathematical perfection.
1)Having regrets doesn't mean you do or do not exist.
2)Being disappointed doesn't mean you do or do not exist.
3)Allowing free will comes with regrets because you cannot force the people to do what you deem "good" without stripping said "free will", thus you must accept the negative or make an alteration to redirect the final outcome.
The regrets may have happened in the third person (As with the trinity. "My father", who is actually him but in another reality who isn't human) beyond time and matter, thus time and the regrets do not even coexist within the same reality.
I'll never say I am certain as to "what He is" because being the greatest of all things that can exists, then begs to ask "what is the greatest thing that can exist?" No human knows the answer. I don't think of God as some perfectly drawn circle with a bunch of perfectly drawn circles around it. I just see Him as the greatest of all beings and things.
In the Bible, on multiple occassions "perfection" is actually obtained by how much you love God.
What you deem to be "good", He may not deem to be "good". "Good" to him would simply be what He personally thinks is good. Does that opinion change based on circumstances? Perhaps.
Example:
You go back and time and kill Adolph Hitler as a child. Are you "good" for stopping Hitler, or are you "bad" for killing a child? The decisions God has to make are based off of an omniscient version of morality. He can't see things from the black and white mentality of the carnel, because he knows if what we label as "good" ultimately winds up "bad".
What you deem to be "good", He may not deem to be "good". "Good" to him would simply be what He personally thinks is good. Does that opinion change based on circumstances? Perhaps.
Example:
You go back and time and kill Adolph Hitler as a child. Are you "good" for stopping Hitler, or are you "bad" for killing a child?
I'll use Darwinian Theory or Survival of the Fittest specifically, to challenge this assessment. What we deem as "the fittest" doesn't dictate who survives in a given environment, only what the environment dictates as "the greatest".
I've not yet even begun on that everything outside of time must remain absolutely constant (or frozen) when observed from inside of it (I sort of have, but you haven't really picked it up far enough).
The Bible was right huh ? Well which one would that be since there are six different versions ?
Explain this quite from Genesis to me: And God said, Let US make them in OUR image... Why the plural ? Jesus hadn't been born and the holy ghost didn't exist either so who was US ?
I know. I used to read the Atheist apologetics and anti-theism sites too until I realized they quote mine, leave out context on purpose, and will blatently lie as well. That stuff will poison your brain. Start thinking for yourself, you'll get further, be better informed, and be able to overcome negative, toxic beliefs.
You and your BonerCrapper butt boy are both bloody daft.
Why not show examples of Christians beheading Muslims or other non Christians during the Spanish Inquisition for just not believing the same superstitious nonsense as did they?
Christians get what they deserve, mate. In view of all the harm and cruelty they've inflicted. It's a bloody plague. A fucking virus. I've no sympathy for any Christian being murdered.
The best thing for the world would be if the Muslims and Christians just went ahead and killed each other off. We'd then be rid of two blights on mankind. Both of which cause pain and oppression and hinder science and progress.
Because that wouldn't fulfill prophecy, and obviously this thread was about Biblical prophecy. Bringing up Diet Coke, eggs, and pizza isn't logical in a debate about prophecy because it doesn't even make any sense to bring random thoughts into a prophecy debate.
Do your own research on Michel de Nostredame, known better by his latinized name of Nostradamus.
Like the Bible, and other publications he cast his net wide and in cryptic script made nebulous predictions which those with sufficiently good literary ability could interpret, or, perhaps to use a better word, manipulate any series of events to mean, such as the rise of Hitler, anything as they so wished.
Unlike Dan Barker I, realizing that the various man made faiths of the world were nothing more than the fanciful notions of superstitious frightened narrow minded intellectual neanderthals, broke free from the shackles of religious hocus pocus at the ripe old age of around 10 years old.
For instance I recognised that the application of medical science as a much more effective way of treating the illnesses of mankind than shaking a few bones in or around the suffering patient in some primitive ceremony or by engaging in the similarly primordial and utterly useless practice of praying to some mythical big shy man who is theoretically zooming around the cosmos.
It took some time but eventually deadly Dan realized the shocking ignorance which religion represents and the inevitable evil it produces.
I'm certain that if it were possible for Jesus Christ, Mohammed, and to a much lesser extent Nostradamus, to know the extent to which their teachings had gripped the easily influenced non-thinking ''sheepeople'' of the world they'd die a second time from shock induced heart attacks.
Impartial and non religious observers from space would look in wide mouthed astonishment as they witnessed the ritual of millions of ''sheepeople'' going, like wildebeest sweeping across the great Serengeti planes, into buildings to worship a non existent God.
All over the world millions of people swarm like plagues of locusts to pray and sing hymns to thin air.
Christians become 'concerned' at the non believers and try to peacefully, but annoyingly persuade them to see the light, while Muslims put ''infidels to the sword, bullet, bomb or heavy goods vehicle.
I will need you to go to Africa, Ghana, in volta region to the town called NOVOKPO.ㅇ Stay there for 2 weeks at most, break all the superstitious rules of the town, i promise you no one will punish you for breaking those rules. They are just for your own good so you can choose to break them.
You don't have to join any groups, i know you are certainly intelligent and knowledgeable than 90% of the town members so no tricks can be played on you. Don't worry about food, there are a lot of free natural fruits to eat especially as a visitor. You can make a little more contigency preparations if you want.
Well, thanks for your suggested travel itinerary to Ghana, which for non racist reasons I'll skip in favour of my stomping ground of Nice, Cote d' Azure where I have a modest apartment.
I'm mindful of two features I read recently on Ghana.
The first one being that after 60 years of Independence it's economy is highly dependent on overseas handouts and the other being the criticism the Ghanaian President made of British Airways customer relations.
That was rich coming from the President of a country whose national airline was suspended in 2010 and has still not paid compensation to the many 1000s of passengers they left stranded all over Europe.
Nor have they paid out claims from commercial concerns which had used this woeful airline to carry their freight.
Naah, I'll give Ghana a miss and drop into the English bar in the Hotel Negresco for a dry Martini, then on to their wonderful restaurant 'Le Chantecler'.