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If this universe is all there is, then its materiality must be endless. I can easily imagine that existence must be infinite in all directions, for i can not imagine total nothingness beyond its borders. So the idea of something lesser existing beyond all universes seems far fetched because life as ...

God aint real is how i really feel. The Bible is full of erroneous judgments from ancient sand dwellers. They cant keep the story straight and its amazing that the book caught on like wild fire. Its pure nonsense. With the exception of Eden story, and a few other curiosities, id trash the whole thin...

I am talking about the anointed cherub in ezekiel 28. God made him perfect in all his ways. A cherub is the highest ranking angel. He was perfect til iniquity was found in him. God made something perfect, and it became a terror. Its as if God did not realize from the first that God's created beings ...

They did not know they were naked because they had no shame of it, in their perfectly naive innocence. Everything they learned was starting from nothing. God screwed up so bad the first time by making his first creation perfectly knowledgeable, and thus perfectly dangerous. So God decided to make hi...

Competition is made to create the best alternatives. I do not see it as being evil. Neither do I and I did not say it was. The losers of a competition must find what they are best at, when defeated. The losers of a competition are not murdered, nor destroyed. Correct, that is why the loser would se...

Some leeway is always required with myths. Christians are always trying to absolve God of moral culpability in the fall by whipping out their favorite "free will!", or “ it’s all man’s fault”. That is "God gave us free will and it was our free willed choices that caused our fall. Hen...

Your assumption is not following the story line so I doubt that we will get far. How could they have knowledge and understanding of good and evil before consuming the knowledge of what good and evil from the knowledge tree? Regards DL God made them with free will, and the capacity to understand, it...

They had the presence of God, and the presence of Satan. As they experienced both of them, they already had sufficient understanding of good and evil. To eat from the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil was redundant, and therefore a waste of an action. God did not create them without minds, and...

Nahh i would of sought out God, and ate from the tree of life. This reality bites the dust. All Adam and Eve did was already in their hearts to do. They had every good thing otherwise then what they did. They had freedom and chose defiance. Why defy God? They could have known life instead of good a...

Nahh i would of sought out God, and ate from the tree of life. This reality bites the dust. All Adam and Eve did was already in their hearts to do. They had every good thing otherwise then what they did. They had freedom and chose defiance. Why defy God? They could have known life instead of good an...

They screwed up so bad in life they figure so did everybody else. And their God saves only sinners, so they specifically qualify for redemption. I had a Christian tell me, " you know you did it, confess it to God". He did not know anything about me. So basically they blow off people as sin...

Theists are mostly those who worship an us versus them god, i agree with that. Perhaps if they worshipped a truly benevolent god, and a truly just god, then they would be left alone and not find themselves in constant opposition. Also many theists delude themselves about the nature of reality. Thats...

To me that is empathy. To care for others as well as self. The self and selfless aspects of being a person. The monkeywrench in all that is the problem of evil. How does one handle an evil person? Mercy and punishment. Self motives are not all bad. Rather its the nature of the motive. The care of se...

We are all totally separate beings. The idea of oneness with everybody i find totally absurd. Why would anybody want to lose their individuality? I would rather not exist. And that is my humility not egocentric hanging on to an illusion.

As knowledge and information grow perhaps people are becoming more intelligent. And the more intelligent they become, the more religious myths become mythology, and less and less of it is taken literally. However the motivations of religion are not going to go away. Those motivations of eternal life...