Re: Neither the 5th or 14th amendment mentions anything about women's rights ...[W:86
I do read everything you write ...
OK, but it sure seems to me that some of your writing indicates otherwise. That's why I felt I needed to reiterate certain things, like Christianity interpreting "born again" differently than literally.
Yes, I'm well aware that's the only part that matters to you. Context means nothing.
IN THAT PARTICULAR CASE, nothing about the context changed the depiction of God interacting with a soul before the soul's body began to exist.
That's why the part I focused on was the only part that mattered.
You do realize, however, that God made everything. He formed everything. He created everything:
AN UNPROVED
CLAIM. Not to mention PARTLY FALSE; God most certainly did not create everything in the manner described in the Bible.
Only an ignoramus would have done it that way!
WHY CREATIONISTS THINK GOD IS STUPID
God did not know that the Big Bang could produce clouds of hydrogen gas, so He had to Create them, Himself.
God did not know that Gravitation could coalesce the clouds into galaxies and stars, so He had to Create them, too.
God did not know that if some of the stars were very big, they would shine very brightly, use up their hydrogen very quickly, create heavy elements in the process, and finally explode, seeding Space with clouds of dust, so He had to Create the dust clouds, Himself.
God did not know that the clouds of dust could mix with slower-coalescing gas clouds, and ultimately Gravitation could cause stars accompanied by Earthlike planets to form, so He had to Create the Earth Himself.
God did not know that when ultraviolet sunlight, geothermal heat, lightning discharges, and radiation from rocks bombard simple chemical molecules (like water, carbon dioxide,
ammonia, methane, and various salts), and did so for millions of years, then complex organic molecules could gradually form, break, interact, reform, re-interact, rebreak, and reform in multitudinous ways.
Also, God did not know that some organic molecules are tougher than others, and could tend to persist.
God did not even know that less stable molecules could randomly obtain a degree of protection if they managed to loosely link to the more stable ones.
Certainly God was ignorant of the fact that loose groupings of molecules constitute a crude degree of organization, and that an energy-rich environment could naturally promote more stable organizations over the less stable.
We hardly need mention God's further unawareness of the simple fact that the more stable an organization is, the more complex it is capable of becoming.
Yes, it is entirely due to God's lack of knowledge of the principles of feedback (wherein simple chemistry, energy, and Time could combine to drive molecular organization toward enormously complex dynamic stability) that God had to Create Life all by Himself.
This same lack of information about the evolutionary process ultimately forced God to Create sexual reproduction and multicellular life, also; He merely made it look like a billion years or two had passed, before He got around to it.
Then there was all the experimentation with life-forms that God had to conduct, occasionally rejecting up to 90% of them at once with global extinction events, before finally populating the land masses with various mammalian types.
And God is so unoriginal with His Creation that he had to maintain the same amino acids and genetic code, from viruses to bacteria, through every plant and animal.
Further proof of God's lack of originality comes from the fact that the more closely two species resemble each other, the more genes they usually have in common. Why, God only needed to alter 2% of chimpanzee genes to "Create" Man. As if chimps and humans couldn't possibly have merely evolved 1% in different
directions from a common ancestor.
A PERFECT GOD WOULD GET CREATION RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! ONLY AN INFERIOR ENTITY WOULD HAVE TO TWEAK AND TWIDDLE WITH CREATION, UNTIL MAN FINALLY APPEARED ON THE SCENE.
When Creationists Accept the Evolution of Galaxies, Stars, Planets, Life, and Man as a Masterpiece of Total Omniscience Regarding the Consequences of Just One Act, Only Then Will They Cease Insulting God's Know-How!
Then again, I'm talking about context, so I'm sure you're not interested
The context that describes God as a bumbling ignoramus? Of course not!
