Is engineering a ‘super’ human being a good idea?
- By Fervent
- Creation & Theistic Evolution
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I'm not disputing the study, but your misappropriation of it.you should read it.
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I'm not disputing the study, but your misappropriation of it.you should read it.
Well, the kind of Christians that take Carnival cruises.All this time, I thought it was Carnival Christians...
The Greek concept of pneumotheos wasn't what you think it is. It was applied to things like combs and other such religious paraphenalia and was used to indicate that they took on life through their association with the Divine. It wasn't a theory of inspiration.2. 2 Tim 3:16 says scripture comes from God, and not "the best idea that primitive man could think up"
I don't think anyone should be allowed to be President past 74 in running for a term. That means they would be done at 78. A two term ambition you should start no later then 70 and be done by 78.I also think his brain is now at a place where he shouldn't be running the country. It's too far gone.
Y'all need to make your government far, far younger.
you should read it.someone's gotta prove the old adage right, "There are lies, d**ed lies, and statistics." It really seems like you're reaching for any cherry picked data to claim some sort of harm, rather than looking at the available data and coming to an informed conclusion.
Just...what?
This is international trade we are talking about, not filling an expletive deleted pool! People who make and grow things overseas have workers, have mortgages, have profit margins, have transport costs, have employer costs - they have to ship their goods over seas and continents and they base how much they are going to make on orders from their customers and a reasonable stable price. That allows them to take on more workers if needed be, or even lay some off, sometimes difficult to replace. They have to invest in material and equipment and machinery and offices and trucks and pay taxes. They don't want to over invest or they'll go broke. And they don't want to under invest or they won't make a profit.
Trump, on a whim, has added tariffs, dropped them, increased them, raised them again, reduced them again...and this has been going on for months. Nobody, including Trump himself, knows what in blue blazes is going to happen next month, let alone next week. Ye gods, he could change his mind again today and sent out a tweet at 3:00am changing things yet again With some Letters Capitalised and lots of exclamation Points Into the Bargain!!!
It's a ship of fools and ol' Cap'n Trump is flicking switches and pulling levers and making announcements at random. There is no plan. He's making the whole thing up as he goes, because his poll figures aren't in the toilet any more. They have been well and truly flushed. And I swear, if he does another 180 and reintroduces the tariffs then you'll do exactly the same and say 'it's a great idea!'
This is incompetence on a scale I've never seen before in a modern western government. To say his fiscal policies are idiotic is an insult to idiots.
What sort of fool would make a such a ridiculous claim, "that hell is God's choice for some". That would have to be the most absurd statement I've ever heard. I don't know, where you heard t but I can tell you that it is a lie straight from the pits of hell, as it portrays God as being evil.And that’s what makes the alternative, that hell is God’s choice for some, all the more repulsive. The pain of hell is the absence of God, the absence of love in favor of the cold, selfish, pride that already causes the harm we see everyday in this world.
And my opinion is at least consistent with the millennia-old opinion of the Church Christ established.
2. 2 Tim 3:16 says scripture comes from God, and not "the best idea that primitive man could think up"
Yeah if you want to put it that way fine. Could be our Canadian politicians purposely have kept our dollar lower to appeal to U.S. investment that's possible too I don't know. Keep in mind the U.S. economy raising the debt ceiling with no end in sight isn't necessarily as strong as it should be either for the world invest in U.S.. bonds propping up your standard of living to give you the space to do that. That's one thing President Trump should consider when saying all nations of the world have taken advantage of the U.S. Could be an element of that but he needs to keep in mind the world is propping up U.S. debt. There's always a two way street in there somewhere.I forgot how weak and unstable the economy was.
Seems kind of a leap from poetic imagery like that to Spacemen & Flying Saucers, unless you already believe in SM&FS a priori, and are just looking for some way to stick 'em into Scripture. I don't believe in them, and thus see no rationale in the Bible for doing so .Prophetically we therefore see truth related to the stars being cast down.
someone's gotta prove the old adage right, "There are lies, d**ed lies, and statistics." It really seems like you're reaching for any cherry picked data to claim some sort of harm, rather than looking at the available data and coming to an informed conclusion.you can support the system all you want but there is systemic rejection of people's concerns due to the prevailing notion that vaccines were safe. as such perhaps 90% of various ills that came in many cases months later were swept under the rug. we now have entire countries disagreeing with each other over if the vaccine is safe for pregnant persons lol. sorry, women.
did you read this study?
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Observed-to-Expected Fetal Losses Following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination in Early Pregnancy
Background The clinical trials used to approve COVID-19 vaccines excluded pregnant women, and existing safety assessments of COVID-19 vaccination, particularly during early stages of pregnancy, are limited to observational studies prone to various types of potential bias, including healthy...www.medrxiv.org
50% increase in actual miss carriage rate. from 9 to 13 out of 100.
now here is the thing...
those miscarriages and lack of those specific persons born on earth may appear to increase the overall state of health of the whole earth, on a short term timeline.
this is where the "good" that is done by vaccines becomes irrelevant as well on a long enough time line.
you need to think 40,000 years from now
what impact will there be of vaccinated the whole world against a small strain of a certain type of corona viruses?
you won't be there to witness it.
but you will be judged later.
Why would he need motivation to do something normal, i.e. keep investigative files confidential?But what motivated Biden to keep them hidden?
So is that a yes or a no? Because Trump is not releasing the files so if Clinton is being protected Trump is following along.If Biden was protecting Trump by not releasing the files in the four years he had them, I suppose that's a possibility.
But they all know he's lying. They cannot not know. Doesn't it eat away at your soul to keep denying it?Indefinitely.
That's pretty funny.Love one another in verse 23 is not love our neighbor
I asked if you believe our "unsaved neighbors" are going to burn alive forever or be permanently annhilated.Above is the OT law to love your neighbor as you love yourself. If we love Jesus, we will keep this one. If we don't keep it we will not be in the Spirit, and the Father will discipline us. We will not lose salvation.
Doesn't your church teach the bible? Do you read the bible?
Adam and Eve ceased to be individuals the moment God spoke His Words to them, ala Mark 4:15Is it what they had or did not have which caused them to sin?
Brilliant deduction proving to each of us, inside, that evil is in fact present withIN us.Romans 7:7–11 is the classic passage where Paul identifies the dynamic that the giving of a law creates an occasion for sinful desire. To put it another way, the command itself provokes the impulse to violate it.
We're wrong before we even open our mouths.Sin as a reality precedes knowledge. Wrong actions are objectively wrong, even if the person does not yet know.
You shot by the obvious point. Evil present can not be moral. We do put on a good act though don't we?Moral responsibility begins with knowledge.
Uh, not the case on several levels.Once awareness arrives, the person is accountable for the wrongdoing. This principle appears dozens of times in Scripture.
Sin was always meant to profligate under the command, Romans 7:13 and sin is empowered by the law to do so, 1 Cor. 15:56Legal guilt is tied to command + knowledge. The command creates the standard. Knowledge triggers accountability. Before knowledge, there is sin but not accountability.
Just...what?It's like filling a pool with a garden hose, but the rules to filling it are such that it has to be filled using only a specified amount of water per day, and has to be filled within 90 days, and the water cannot be shut off until completion, and the dimensions of the pool walls are mathematically unattainable (randomly lumpy).
So you turn the valve a little higher, then a little lower, and adjust it accordingly as you see fit, so as to not overflow it, or have it too shallow.
This sounds like an unfounded presumptive attack, rather than a substantive critique. Louw-Nida is far more often theologically driven in its definitions, particulary because of their reliance on biased historical sources rather than dealing with the source material itself.TDNT has several well-known issues among actual Greek lexicographers. Its method is concept-historical and frequently theological rather than strictly lexical. That means its entries often trace interpretive traditions around a word rather than isolate the word's semantic core in Koine usage. So yes, it is extensive, but page count doesn't equal precision. It can and does sometimes import Johannine theology (or an interpretation of it) into its lexical discussion, effectively commenting the text back into the word. It functions more like a commentary than careful lexicography.
Barr's Semantics of Biblical Language is the classic critique (a dismantling, really) of this style of semantic history. Moisés Silva, John Barton, and others have also shown the limits of TDNT's approach. BDAG, Louw-Nida, etc. are corpus-based, usage-driven works that aim for tighter semantic delineation. Hence, their conciseness is a strength. It reflects disciplined lexical method.
None of this is relevant, and instead appears to be a pretext to force fit your pre-arrived at understanding rather than dealing with the contextual usage.As to the quote itself, TDNT is correct to note that ἑλκύω has both literal and figurative uses (e.g. John 18:10, 21:6 literally; John 6:44, 12:32 figuratively). What it misdescribes is the figurative sense: figurative application to persons or will does not by itself strip the verb of its forceful, effectual core. The figurative use shifts the object of the pull (from net or rope to a person), not the verb's basic sense of bringing about movement. This doesn't entail success of the action, but it does mean that failure (in both the literal and figurative senses) requires contextual indication (e.g., John 21:6); that is, "an attempt that may fail" is not implicit in the verb's meaning, and that is not what is "figurative" about the figurative use. Just as "lift" in English still means "raise off the ground" even when someone fails to lift a boulder, ἑλκύω carries an effectual sense; apparent failure in a context is an extra-lexical matter to be proven from context, not assumed as part of the lemma.
and your whole argument is theologically driven, particularly in your failure to recognize the role of context in meaning and instead seeming to cling to a word-concept fallacy of meaning.So TDNT should be treated as theological commentary; it is the wrong authority if you expect a discipline-level lexical argument about what ἑλκύω means in Koine.
In order for the Calvinist conclusion to follow, sure. But not for it to make sense in the context of the passage. All you're doing is imposing your theological baggage onto the word rather than actually presenting a grammatical argument. It's abusive of how languages actually work, and fails to carry force with anyone who isn't set on arriving at your conclusion.You're not representing the Calvinist argument accurately. The claim is not that ἑλκύω must mean "force" in order for the conclusion to follow. The reason Calvinists hold that all who are drawn are saved is grammatical, not because of the semantics of ἑλκύω. The argument is that the grammatical objects of ἑλκύσῃ and ἀναστήσω in John 6:44 are identical. The one who is drawn is the one who is raised. That observation does not depend on a particular interpretation of the verb's "forcefulness." The preoccupation with arguing for a "less forceful" understanding of ἑλκύω frequently leads to this misunderstanding of what the Calvinist argument even is.
I would imagine what's happening all over the US in the video below is another factor in a decline in tourism. I used to love visiting Seattle, but not anymore because it's become like this.
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