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I'm sorry, I have seen quite inaccurate and illogical statements coming from you today, so I don't have confidence that you understand what "accurate"...
June 04, 2019 at 20:16
Eh... too broad a statement, no? One can, with irrationality and perseverance, run anywhere with it.
June 04, 2019 at 20:02
Oh, so you claim to understand inner workings of God. Don't sweat it, you'll know when the time comes.
June 04, 2019 at 19:19
Or maybe you don't understand art, among other things you don't understand, so you create a "problem" to justify your own ignorance, consciously or un...
June 04, 2019 at 16:01
Aside the fact that it's impossible to show that "There are no objective purposes" is a truth claim, I actually didn't mention "objective purposes" an...
June 04, 2019 at 15:09
Maybe you are the one who doesn't comprehend? So you resort to insults.
June 04, 2019 at 14:35
I guess, keep insulting away, since that's better than "anti-conversation".
June 04, 2019 at 14:24
At least I wasn't labeling you with insults.
June 04, 2019 at 14:21
- I almost puked. I just saw a man eating his own feces, through my window. - Eating feces? What's the problem? There are no objective purposes. - You...
June 04, 2019 at 14:08
- Hey man, what the f***? Why are you shitting your pants in the office? Go to the bathroom, what's wrong with you? - To the bathroom? There are no ob...
June 04, 2019 at 13:56
- Hey coach, why did you lose all ten games from the start of the season? - Lose? There are no objective purposes. - You are fired.
June 04, 2019 at 13:52
There's justification for it, and not only a little. Art has a purpose, and when we understand the purpose we can understand which piece of art fulfil...
June 04, 2019 at 13:42
We are conscious (at the level we are conscious at) because God is creating a man in His image. If you irrationally presuppose that your existence is ...
June 04, 2019 at 10:10
You literally have to be a fool in order to be an atheist. That's an absolute. What fool says, then, in this case you, is irrelevant. Of course, there...
March 06, 2019 at 21:29
Fool says there is no God. Even greater fool says, if there is God, so what.
March 06, 2019 at 19:28
The main claim of the OP is that human cannot have free will, even without considering existence of God. So, main claim doesn't require your belief. Y...
February 27, 2019 at 08:57
If God doesn't make your life and actions, then your life is made and acted, ultimately, by randomness. Isn't that something to be sceptical about?
February 27, 2019 at 06:47
The person who came to be your grandfather might have eaten some bad shrimp and fell out of mood for lovemaking that day. As a result, it happened a c...
February 27, 2019 at 06:42
Neither does activity between the sperm and the egg. Everything what man does and what sperm "does" and what woman does and what egg "does" is part of...
February 26, 2019 at 15:27
You know how babies are made. There is a specific action man does to a woman, before sperm even comes into contact with the egg. That action is part o...
February 26, 2019 at 06:11
That's fine. A thought given to you without an option to deny it, but which you can then call yours, doesn't make you have free will.
February 25, 2019 at 13:28
Maybe I wasn't clear. There is no choice in you whether you will do the command or not. You do execute it.
February 25, 2019 at 12:47
Who owns the code in a piece of software? Software or programmer?
February 25, 2019 at 12:45
God gives command that at certain point in time, in certain situation, you have a thought "I intend to do x." And then you do have such thought. In a ...
February 25, 2019 at 12:41
It is not God's thought. It is God's command for what your thought as certain point in time is to be.
February 25, 2019 at 12:37
It's of God. Or, theoretically, it's from randomness, which makes the subject inconsequential. You can label randomness produced through your mind as ...
February 25, 2019 at 12:31
If free will is a willful act of a conscious being which ultimately originates within that being, then a being has to be eternal, without being create...
February 25, 2019 at 12:27
Can you rephrase the question a bit? What is required for what?
February 25, 2019 at 12:13
Aside from contradiction in the two statements, as I see it, what is "something internal to you" that is originating cause, the root cause, of your ex...
February 25, 2019 at 12:12
Theoretically, randomness produces acasual act. Although, reality has to already have a quality which allows randomness to occur. Even randomness is l...
February 25, 2019 at 12:00
I am ok with what Google returns as first result for "root cause" - an initiating cause of either a condition or a causal chain that leads to an outco...
February 24, 2019 at 19:13
You are mixing "originate" with "ultimately originate" in this discussion. "Ultimately originate" is the root cause. Vinegar and soda are not the root...
February 24, 2019 at 18:11
Originating cause of your existence is definitely something external to you. Do you disagree with that? Do you claim that originating cause of your ex...
February 24, 2019 at 17:47
New mixture originates from the vinegar/soda mixture, on surface level, or on first level. Honey in my tea originates from a jar, but it doesn't mean ...
February 24, 2019 at 15:46
That's not the question here. Your decision doesn't have to be predestined in order for you to not have free will. God can make the decision for your ...
February 24, 2019 at 15:45
There are. But the first thing an atheist does wrong is not understanding what the claim for God actually is, including it's consequences. When you tr...
August 03, 2018 at 18:54
No, I'm stating a fact. It is absolutely impossible to logically show that there is more chance that God doesn't exist than that God does exist. That ...
July 30, 2018 at 16:45
You don't have to engage. You still don't have any good argument for your position. Again, it is impossible to logically show that there is more chanc...
July 29, 2018 at 20:04
I get your point. What do you propose as solution? If not to say "God exists", what to say then? Maybe I missed it in your post...
July 29, 2018 at 17:23
The logical conclusion to make, exclusively based on probability, is that life is not the result of random process because God created it. If you want...
July 29, 2018 at 17:20
I don't see it that way. My analysis here comes from applying probability thinking, defined within mathematics, that results in conclusion that there ...
July 28, 2018 at 20:03
There are only two possibilities here, not a random amount of possibilities. Either process of creation is random or it's not random. And when we obse...
July 28, 2018 at 19:15
The issue is about probability for created unit of reality to exist. We are created unit of reality, meaning we are created through a process, we don'...
July 28, 2018 at 16:03
I didn't read the whole thread. Now I see your response from previous page which is in the same line of reasoning as mine.
July 28, 2018 at 12:55
This is not a philosophical question, but mathematical, since you are trying to find out what is the probability between two options. We can use Bayes...
July 28, 2018 at 12:45
God already forgives out of mercy, because penalty for sin is death, non-existence, yet billions of sinners who sin every day are alive. What you are ...
July 27, 2018 at 13:05
It's a good question. I have an understanding that I think is true and explains a lot. And is based on the Bible. But I don't want to give it here, re...
July 26, 2018 at 22:15
There is no "free will" so your argument is wrong in premises 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Maybe 6 is technically true but since it would be detrimental to reali...
July 26, 2018 at 21:12
We are all sinners while we are in flesh, so it is not a question of God clearing up confusion, but us being sinners in flesh, including Christians, a...
July 26, 2018 at 20:32
I think it's useless to use the term at face value. I like percentages much more. Although one doesn't calculate them with math, everybody has a ballp...
July 26, 2018 at 20:00