[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
[quote]smh23 wrote:
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
[quote]smh23 wrote:<<< Dahmer’s tower is high enough to have cleared the bar for entry into the eternal kingdom, whereas mine is not, despite the fact that I’ve never injected acid into the exposed brain of a living human being in an effort to create a sex zombie. It logically follows that Dahmer’s tower is higher than my own–a position that in my view deserves nothing less than outright contempt.[/quote] You miss the point. One bite from a piece of fruit in defiance of the command of the infinitely holy and righteous creator God constituted an attack upon His authority and hence His person. A mortal crime the result of which was the damnation of every man descended from Adam.
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Oh no, I understand this. But there are two problems:
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I don’t believe that this or anything like this ever happened.
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If–and I consider this to be so crushingly improbable as to be very close to unworthy of consideration–but if it did happen–if I am born into sin by virtue of the fact that my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother took a bite from an apple–then, as I said, I have no use for a petulant child of a God and I will enjoy being as far from Him as possible.[/quote]Actually it was your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandFATHER. It was in Adam that all died (1 Corinthians 15:22). He was the head. That’s why the Christ could be born of a woman, but not a human father.
Nuthin to do with Petulance. His holiness and justice which He CANNOT violate. I of course earnestly hope and pray it doesn’t come to this, but if you do enter eternity without the covering of the blood of Christ, You WILL be far from Him indeed and it will NOT be enjoyable. What you have use for is entirely irrelevant until you become the creator and king of the universe. I learned this the hard way.
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I stand corrected re: grandmother/father.
Anyway, if He is indeed as good as He’s made out to be, I trust that my inability to believe in what my human mind as it was created can only deem utter nonsense will be forgiven at one point or another. If, that is, this all ends up being for reals.
I understand you’ve been busy, but I look forward to the continuation of our conversation over in Gay Marriage. I was going to suggest, since that thread has picked up in light of the recent SCOTUS hearings, that you create a new thread when you’re ready to reply. No rush though.