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    Originally posted by MyUserName View Post
    God could perfectly recreate his son so he was absolutely identitical in every possible way and would therefore be identifcal to the previous copy and exactly the same ... or are you saying that God is not all powerful?
    Which is what I suggested about cloning your son and implanting memories. Even a perfect copy is still a copy... if your son died and somebody gave you copy that was identical but you knew it was a copy, wouldn't you still mourn your son's death as much?

    Seems a pretty weird argument to go down, though at least it is a bit more original than most of the points raised in this thread.
    Originally posted by MaryPoppins
    I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
    Originally posted by vetran
    Urine is quite nourishing

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      Originally posted by Gibbon View Post
      Free will and predestination are very interesting and the church does seem to have some ambiguity on this matter. This is expressed brilliantly in one of the most famous paintings in the world, Michelangelo’s creation of Adam. We have God bringing life to Adam and passing down his divine law; however in his cloak, containing the souls of those yet to live, we have Eve looking at Adam and ignoring the words of wisdom being whispered to her. God’s left hand has a finger touching a cherub like figure that is no other than the Christ child. In other words God already knows that Adam will fail and that Christ will redeem mankind.

      So the Church likes to use predestination at times, but is either fooling us about free will (otherwise what is the point trying to be good if you’re going to fail at some point) or maybe it has it wrong.
      Predestination which contains free will is probably one for the philosophers, I suppose though that as long as you don't know what the predestination IS, they sort of coexist. A bit like how light-cones work in relativity - if you are 1 light year away from a point in space, it's meaningless to talk about what's happened less than a year ago because in your universe, it doesn't exist yet.
      Originally posted by MaryPoppins
      I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
      Originally posted by vetran
      Urine is quite nourishing

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        Originally posted by d000hg View Post
        Seems a pretty weird argument to go down, though at least it is a bit more original than most of the points raised in this thread.
        I suppose the reason why some points aren't original is that no-one has satisfactorily answered them in hundreds of years
        Hard Brexit now!
        #prayfornodeal

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          Originally posted by sasguru View Post
          I suppose the reason why some points aren't original is that no-one has satisfactorily answered them in hundreds of years
          Thousands, I would think.
          Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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            Originally posted by d000hg View Post
            Predestination which contains free will is probably one for the philosophers, I suppose though that as long as you don't know what the predestination IS, they sort of coexist. A bit like how light-cones work in relativity - if you are 1 light year away from a point in space, it's meaningless to talk about what's happened less than a year ago because in your universe, it doesn't exist yet.
            “I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street”

            ― Stephen Hawking
            We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
            - Douglas Adams

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              Ever driven in India? The philosopy there is that if you're going to die, you're going to die and nothing can prevent that. So overtaking on a blind corner is no riskier than staying in bed with the covers over your head.
              Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                Originally posted by speling bee View Post
                Eternal and sacrificed are not logically exclusive.
                So how did God sacrifice something that he kept?

                Originally posted by d000hg

                Which is what I suggested about cloning your son and implanting memories. Even a perfect copy is still a copy... if your son died and somebody gave you copy that was identical but you knew it was a copy, wouldn't you still mourn your son's death as much?

                Seems a pretty weird argument to go down, though at least it is a bit more original than most of the points raised in this thread.
                But God's son did not die. He is alive and well and living forever in heaven. God can also go back in time and spend as long with Jesus as he wants and create parallel realities where Jesus did not die and lived to be an old man and earth's problems were solved a different way (please do not say he cannot do that as he can do anything).
                "He's actually ripped" - Jared Padalecki

                https://youtu.be/l-PUnsCL590?list=PL...dNeCyi9a&t=615

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                  With your definition, no-one dies. Everyone lives for ever - either in heaven or hell.

                  Jesus died in the sense that his physical body was dead. The view that you appear to have that he was merely embodied rather than actually living as a human, is called Apollinarism. It's not part of orthodox (with a small 'o') Christianity. I.e. it's been declared heresy.
                  Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                    Originally posted by MyUserName View Post
                    So how did God sacrifice something that he kept?



                    But God's son did not die. He is alive and well and living forever in heaven. God can also go back in time and spend as long with Jesus as he wants and create parallel realities where Jesus did not die and lived to be an old man and earth's problems were solved a different way (please do not say he cannot do that as he can do anything).
                    The sacrifice was the suffering and death of crucifixion.
                    The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

                    George Frederic Watts

                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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                      Originally posted by PorkPie View Post
                      “I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street”

                      ― Stephen Hawking
                      Presumably they are predestined to do so.
                      The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

                      George Frederic Watts

                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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