Speak for yourself. I am not a slave to sin, I am not a perversion, I am not a hypocrite.
You make several premises here.....all of which are testable. Here's what this study says:
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- People lie, research has shown, in one-fourth of their daily, social interactions. But according to Cornell University communications researchers, people are most likely to lie on the telephone.
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Here's another study: "let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written"
So is lying a good thing or a bad thing would you say? This is why I used the word hypocrit. Because people practice what they claim is bad and then turn around and judge others for what they are guilty of. Like the WT social groups have lots of unwritten rules about what kinds of lies are more grevious than others, and whether of not you are friends with the person you are lying to.
I guess your statements above could be proven if you could show that you approve of lying, have never judged others for lying to you and never presented yourself as an honest person. I am curious....have you ever told a lie?
Perhaps I should have said, most people are in touch with their humanity and can tell when they are causing harm
Like all the people on FBI Files, Court TV, COPS, Justice Files, Current, Cold Case Files, the Local and National News, as well as the millions upon millions of inmates in our justice systems?
If you need a book to tell you that hurting other people is wrong, that's a comment on your limitations - not mine.
People don't need a holy book as much as they need ability. Knowledge alone won't do it. The JW spin on John 17: 3 is a lie.
Human judges are not God. God is purportedly all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful. He alone invents his own laws. He alone can correct the structures he has created.
Human judges determine crime and punishment and so because God is more powerful he must correct something called the structures he created. I don't get it. Most people would assume that the better the judge, the more crimes would be solved. Can you spend a little more time articulating this point?
If you knew everything there was to know about God, he wouldn't much of a God would he?
My point exactly. Why anthrpomorphize him, but only where convenient? Why make him omnipotent, but only where convenient?
Where exactly did I take away his Omnipotence? I did give an opposing example in response to your premise that if we can't know everything about God, then we can know nothing. I fail to see the correlation between this and limiting his Omnipotence "where convenient".
If we are truly made in His image, we would be equipped to understand and judge Him. If He is utterly alien, then He's not going to follow our expectations very well.
I want to keep this resectful, but that is just silly. Can a dog or a bird imagine an omnipotent being, existing outside of time where he could call himself the Alpha and the Omega? But we can imagine such a Being precisely because we are in his image, and they are not. Because of such qualities, we cannot judge Him because we cannot see the end but he can. Have you ever walked into a seemingly awkward situation and everyone had to explain the details because what seemed to be happening wasn't really what was happening? Sitcoms are based on these kinds of scenarios.
Those kinds of things don't happen to God. You are in his image but you are not infinite....I'm sorry.
If the holy spirit can restrain evil, why not just go all out and prevent evil?: ----Shall He prevent other's or yours first?
He's God - why does he have to do things in sequence, as if he's a mere man? Will he stalk the Earth killing the apostates one by one at Armageddon?
I have truly had a hard time with this particular argument. I think another poster was saying essentially the same thing.
What I think this argument is basically saying is that why doesn't God just prevent sin and evil instead of punish it. I don't know. But I know that he knows. He can see the end product, I can't. Keep in mind that he deflected a great deal of the punishment meant for mankind onto himself.... for us; enough of it where in his dying breath he could claim "It is Finished". None need suffer punishment, he took enough of it for all.
I know with my 2 1/2 year old we are moving out of prevention and into punishment phase and getting great results.... time outs, strong talks etc.
If I accurately described your argument about the prevention of evil; can you comment on how a person could be Free in such a restrictive world?
