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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Seems like a perfect occasion on which to express gratitude to my Christian brothers for the valuable lessons that they have taught me over the holiday this year
Thank you, Stiggy Wiggy, for confirming what I have long contended:
God didn't create us - we created Him!
In the thread titled: 'How CARM'S Discussion Board is beneficial to a certain type of atheist as well as society in general'
Stiggy, in post #123, stated that:
"God is good no matter what He does because God IS good no matter what He does"
Then, in post #143, Stiggy asserted that:
"God did not create evil" because "evil doesn't exist until it's chosen"
Of course, it goes without saying that if evil didn't exist until we chose it then nor did good {i.e. God} exist until we chose it!
The one cannot exist without the other - a truism that Stiggy, himself, has long championed
Thanks for the crystallization, Stigs!
I'd like also to thank SteveB
I'm forever thankful to Steve for setting me straight on the nature of observation
Stupid me, I was always under the impression that an observation did not necessarily entail any sort of demand
In the thread titled: 'who here can build a fence?'
Steve, in post #124, had this to say:
"Repent and believe the gospel of the Kingdom! Repentance is the word for changing your mind and agreeing with God's Word on all things that he's saying matters. To believe is to place your trust in the written word of God"
Then, when I asserted, in response to Steve's admission:
"You do NOT think for yourself!"
Steve, in post #186, responded with:
"Well, if this is the case, then you're demanding I think according to what you want me to think, and that's DEFINITELY NOT thinking for myself"
Then, to drive his point home, Steve declared in post #202 that:
"You spent an entire post telling me that I am not thinking for myself. This makes it really clear that unless I think like you, no matter what, under no circumstances could I have been thinking for myself"
Gracias, Steve! Without you I would have never known that an observation that a young child does not dress himself is the same as a demand that the child dress like me!!
And, finally, I'd like to thank Furion aka James the Lesser
In the thread titled: 'When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear...':
I made the claim that human lives are of an infinitely greater import than are the lives of rats, pigs, dogs, and all other creatures of earth
Jimmy countered in post #16:
"Anyone who thinks humans are "infinitely greater" than other creatures. The height of arrogance in a material universe"
Many thanks to you, lesser fella
Here I was thinking, like an idiot, that because God created us in His own image
{Genesis 1:27
"So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them"}
this must mean that we are valued above and beyond all other creatures...
And, like a dolt, I was laboring under the impression that because Jesus Christ reiterated our favored status
{Matthew 6:26
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"}
this must mean that we ARE of greater import than the animals of earth...
Thanks, Furion, for setting me straight
Now that I know that agreeing with God is arrogance, I won't do it again
Seems like a perfect occasion on which to express gratitude to my Christian brothers for the valuable lessons that they have taught me over the holiday this year
Thank you, Stiggy Wiggy, for confirming what I have long contended:
God didn't create us - we created Him!
In the thread titled: 'How CARM'S Discussion Board is beneficial to a certain type of atheist as well as society in general'
Stiggy, in post #123, stated that:
"God is good no matter what He does because God IS good no matter what He does"
Then, in post #143, Stiggy asserted that:
"God did not create evil" because "evil doesn't exist until it's chosen"
Of course, it goes without saying that if evil didn't exist until we chose it then nor did good {i.e. God} exist until we chose it!
The one cannot exist without the other - a truism that Stiggy, himself, has long championed
Thanks for the crystallization, Stigs!
I'd like also to thank SteveB
I'm forever thankful to Steve for setting me straight on the nature of observation
Stupid me, I was always under the impression that an observation did not necessarily entail any sort of demand
In the thread titled: 'who here can build a fence?'
Steve, in post #124, had this to say:
"Repent and believe the gospel of the Kingdom! Repentance is the word for changing your mind and agreeing with God's Word on all things that he's saying matters. To believe is to place your trust in the written word of God"
Then, when I asserted, in response to Steve's admission:
"You do NOT think for yourself!"
Steve, in post #186, responded with:
"Well, if this is the case, then you're demanding I think according to what you want me to think, and that's DEFINITELY NOT thinking for myself"
Then, to drive his point home, Steve declared in post #202 that:
"You spent an entire post telling me that I am not thinking for myself. This makes it really clear that unless I think like you, no matter what, under no circumstances could I have been thinking for myself"
Gracias, Steve! Without you I would have never known that an observation that a young child does not dress himself is the same as a demand that the child dress like me!!
And, finally, I'd like to thank Furion aka James the Lesser
In the thread titled: 'When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear...':
I made the claim that human lives are of an infinitely greater import than are the lives of rats, pigs, dogs, and all other creatures of earth
Jimmy countered in post #16:
"Anyone who thinks humans are "infinitely greater" than other creatures. The height of arrogance in a material universe"
Many thanks to you, lesser fella
Here I was thinking, like an idiot, that because God created us in His own image
{Genesis 1:27
"So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them"}
this must mean that we are valued above and beyond all other creatures...
And, like a dolt, I was laboring under the impression that because Jesus Christ reiterated our favored status
{Matthew 6:26
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"}
this must mean that we ARE of greater import than the animals of earth...
Thanks, Furion, for setting me straight
Now that I know that agreeing with God is arrogance, I won't do it again
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