Is Biblical Morality Situational, Based Upon the Arbitrary Whims of Yahweh?

by leavingwt 268 Replies latest jw friends

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  sabastious

  Do you feel the account of Job is literal or symbolic?

  The man Job really did exist because he had to. Job was a huge test of YHWH's genetic testing. Job is the part in the Judeo-Christian narrative that teaches us a whole lot about the Dark One. Where YHWH pulls back the hand of Abraham about to kill his son, the Dark One wants to see it done to the end, just for sure. So far, in the Bible narrative, no one had been tested in such a way.

  Out of ALL the people in human history why do you think the Dark One chose to test Job? It was because he had built a grand and honest (KEYWORD) life for himself. Something extremely rare even today. It was JOB that didn't deserve the treatment so that's why he was chosen. It's a very dark story. Why wasn't someone choosen such as the Wise King Solomon and strip him of his lavish life of sex and power? Because he deserved such a sentence and he got it by natural cause and effect. He became too powerful, got noticed and was killed along with all the people he swore to protect. Job was blameless and upright, he was never going to hurt nobody nohow. A perfect example of what God knew was possible through his puppy farm. The love he encoded into our DNA is so powerful that he knew that Jesus could easily withstand the pressures of the 1st century to conform to a corrupt religious system and slave for a corrupt government.

  -Sab
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  NewChapter

  Natural selection involves raw material

  No. Natural selection describes the process through which living organisms speciate and evolve. There is no time between survival and procreation, since those two things are not exclusive. Since natural selection favors reproductively successful individuals, you cannot separate the two in the context of natural selection.

  It is much more about successful procreation than life. Bring in the peacock tail. Those tails are expensive (need lot's of energy and food) and make the bird much more suseptible to predators. They shorten the bird's life. However the heavier tails attacked the peahens---If natural selection was favoring life, then the lighter tails would prevail. But it favors sex and procreation.

  Not sure where raw materials comes into the mix---although you may be talking about geology---and certainly new environmental niches can come about which species will utilize and evolve to use more fully.

  NC
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  sabastious

  I'm off to my therapy session. Been fun discussing things!

  -Sab
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  SweetBabyCheezits

  Hey, what's goin' on in this heya thread? I want some of what you guys are smoking.
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  sabastious

  Not sure where raw materials comes into the mix

  Mutation:

  Mutations are changes in the DNA sequence of a cell's genome. When mutations occur, they can either have no effect, alter the product of a gene, or prevent the gene from functioning. Based on studies in the fly Drosophila melanogaster, it has been suggested that if a mutation changes a protein produced by a gene, this will probably be harmful, with about 70% of these mutations having damaging effects, and the remainder being either neutral or weakly beneficial.

  Mutations can involve large sections of a chromosome becoming duplicated (usually by genetic recombination), which can introduce extra copies of a gene into a genome. Extra copies of genes are a major source of the raw material needed for new genes to evolve. This is important because most new genes evolve within gene families from pre-existing genes that share common ancestors. For example, the human eye uses four genes to make structures that sense light: three for colour vision and one for night vision; all four are descended from a single ancestral gene.

  New genes can be generated from an ancestral gene when a duplicate copy mutates and acquires a new function. This process is easier once a gene has been duplicated because it increases the redundancy of the system; one gene in the pair can acquire a new function while the other copy continues to perform its original function. Other types of mutations can even generate entirely new genes from previously noncoding DNA.

  The generation of new genes can also involve small parts of several genes being duplicated, with these fragments then recombining to form new combinations with new functions. When new genes are assembled from shuffling pre-existing parts, domains act as modules with simple independent functions, which can be mixed together to produce new combinations with new and complex functions. For example, polyketide synthases are large enzymes that make antibiotics; they contain up to one hundred independent domains that each catalyze one step in the overall process, like a step in an assembly line.
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  NewChapter

  My head hurts. I think I just got a nosebleed.

  NC
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  cofty

  Sab - You are just making stuff up without a shred of evidence and throwing in some pseudo-science.

  Truth is not to be found in introspection as you and a few other believers around here seem to imagine.

  How much effort have you made to discover the history of the book of Job and the evidence for the later addition of the Yahweh-Satan dialogues?

  It only took a simple observation about Noah to destroy the foundation of your theory and yet you are still trying to develop it.
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  still thinking

  Sab...that looks like a Willy Wonka contract...where do I sign?
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  sabastious

  You are just making stuff up without a shred of evidence and throwing in some pseudo-science.

  I'm sorry I interupted you in your religious cermony. Carry on.

  -Sab
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  sabastious

  YOU DID DRINK FIZZY LIFTING JUICE!