 | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —Steve Chapple
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| | | In retrospect, perhaps I should not have responded to David's post. I certainly didn't expect to spend this much time here. :-) I'll do my best to answer questions posed to me, and I don't mind civilized debate, but I don't see how sweeping (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | The only time I have hostility towards Christians (or any other religion) is when they won't shut up and leave me alone when I request it. Beyond that, you can call it bemusement, I guess. (...) An omnipotent, omniscient God removes free will from (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —Steve Chapple
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| | | | | | | (...) You keep saying that, but I have yet to grasp the reasoning behind it. <snip> (...) The knowledge of good and evil has been a part of all of us since Adam and Eve - yes. I don't follow you on the coopting/selfish/silly part. (...) lol Yes, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | (...) Then you aren't reading all the posts in here. (...) I don't believe in Adam and Eve as the true basis of our being. Morals have been around since before the Bible. (...) Thank you. -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Free will (was Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity)) —Steve Chapple
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| | | | | | | | (...) All? No - Just the ones in this thread - and even then it's taking up too much of my time. As I tried to elaborate on before, if I went back in time a minute or a day or whatever and knew that you decided to post this message, how could that (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —James Brown
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| | | | | | (...) (I'll give a more logical breakdown below, but first:) Omnipotent= Can do anything, by the definition you are using. "grant free will" falls under the catagory of anything last I checked. (...) Ok. Let's specifically break out this (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) I think "not a single christian in here" is pretty strong. But I'll go "very few in here and proportionally even less in the general population". The only christian *here* i've seen explicitly acknowledge (and integrate into their arguments) (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —James Brown
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| | | | | | (...) I'm a stubborn old goat, sometimes. Found the cite. --> You can have whatever opinions you want. It ain't my place (or anyone else's) to say otherwise. I will also make judgement calls (of others) based on my moral code - I just won't claim (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —Constantine Hannaher
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| | | | Finally. Something I can contribute. (I have extracted only the relevant sentences.) The SI prefix femto with symbol f is ten to the minus fifteen. To be on the cutting edge of small, there is the atto with symbol a (10^-18), zepto with symbol z (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Not to mention Zeppo and Gummo. Dave! (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity) —James Brown
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| | | | (...) ten to the power of Marx? <grin, duck & run> James (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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