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February 14th, 2013, 8:05 am
(quote not shown) What does it mean to love your mother and father? If we follow the logic of what Jesus says about loving him: " If ye love me, keep my commandments. " ( John 14:15 ), then hating Jesus would be to NOT follow his commandments. Loving mum and dad would be to follow their co...
February 14th, 2013, 3:01 am
(quote not shown) Having just done a little research on this, the answer is, no (or 0 in digital form). There are a number of proofs that the number of primes is infinite found here . Here's something like the logic of Euclid's proof (300 BCE), modern notation excepted. Theorem. There are more prime...
February 13th, 2013, 9:40 pm
(quote not shown) This was necessary because you replied concerning my emphasis on the Ten Commandments, " it seems that now you are arguing for Judaism and not Christianity ... ". (quote not shown) You have to read further, Neznac. You've only got half the story in regard to "the law...
February 13th, 2013, 7:30 pm
(quote not shown) 00000110 doesn't really mean anything to the computer. It could be meaningful to a program running on the computer, but then that meaning has been hard-wired by a programmer, and would only be meaningful to the programmer if it represented the answer to a question. There is a diffe...
February 12th, 2013, 8:16 pm
(quote not shown) " I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. " -- John 5:30 " I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father that sent me. ". Jesus esteemed...
February 12th, 2013, 5:39 pm
I can see that you do understand my objection enegue, and I appreciate your response. However, it seems that now you are arguing for Judaism and not Christianity, per se . Of course, being that the Law and the Prophets were replaced by the Golden Rule, there is indeed some overlap between the two f...
February 12th, 2013, 9:53 am
Neznac wrote:... a morality based on one's appreciation of other people as equals versus a morality based on a purely subjective motive (like an eternal life in heaven).
I had resolved not to say anything further, but you make it really hard not to. Can you tell me what the Ten Commandments have to do with eternal life in heaven?
I know you don't like a lot of questions, so I'll leave it at one.
Cheers,
enegue
February 12th, 2013, 9:40 am
(quote not shown) You are describing an alternative means of representing numbers. Humans use ten symbols {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} and place value, whereas computers use two {0, 1} and place value. As you say the symbols are arbitrary, but 00000110 for a computer is the same as 6 for a human. What does...
February 12th, 2013, 9:05 am
Hi, Logicus. Thanks for your observation. It is important to figure into your thinking, though, that the OP was based on a POV opposed to the tenor of scripture. The Bible is a collection of documents that were written by those who REVERENCED God as the creator of both the physical and the social un...
February 11th, 2013, 9:56 pm
(quote not shown) One of your problems is you don't give enough thought to what's happening in the story. You don't ask yourself important questions like, "How did God harden Pharaoh's heart?". I have an answer because I've bothered to ask the question and give it some thought. You say my ...
February 11th, 2013, 3:39 am
(quote not shown) Who was telling Eve she could be a god? It wasn't God's voice whispering in her ear, it was Satan's. You consider yourself a god. Who told you that you were? It's the same voice persuading you that you're something you're not. (quote not shown) I haven't been intimidated, Greatest....
February 10th, 2013, 8:56 am
(quote not shown) Why would a being who is beyond your reach, in any capacity you care to mention, need to show you how great he is? His greatness, just is, and your smallness in comparison, just is. You only need to recognise what is, is. He demands nothing from you. If he did, he would simply take...
February 10th, 2013, 8:27 am
Hi, guys. Mathematics has an obvious foundation - COMMUNICATION. Numbers have developed as a natural consequence of language. When the number of animals you possessed, or baskets of grain you harvested, was small, the need for mathematics was confined to ways of describing HOW MANY animals or basket...
February 9th, 2013, 9:32 am
(quote not shown) Pharaoh was responsible for the killing of the first born, because he would not relent. We are told that a mixed multitude left with Israel in the Exodus: " And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside...
February 9th, 2013, 9:02 am
(quote not shown) This is good to know, so we can exercise our free-will while we are still alive and choose to dwell with God, ETERNALLY, by adhering to and promoting his governing principles of abundant life, HERE AND NOW. You know, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Cheers,...