Poly's pick 08-03-04

Originally posted by BillyBob

If everything is predestined, then what is the point in doing anything?

There would be no point in evangelizing because certain people would already be predestined to get the message and certain people would not. Why waste your time? And why would God deliberately disclude certain people through predestination? If you believe in predestination and you also believe that salvation requires an active role [confess with thy mouth], then you believe certain people are doomed from birth to never receive salvation.

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Originally posted by philosophizer

I figured you were thinking of identical twins. Let's face it, though. We have been getting very nitpicky on the issue of when conception occurs-- asking if it's when the sperm meets the egg, or at penetration, or at sealing, or at chromosome sharing, or at the beginning of cell division, etc. If we want to be that nitpicky about when conception occurs, we should be at least as nitpicky about how much experience a living fetus or embryo or zygote has, shouldn't we?

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Originally posted by Crow

:bananna: good one, philo! :thumb:

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Originally posted by Crow

Sorry. I forgot the right way to spell banana wrong.

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Originally posted by Crow

Yup.

I get offended each and every day I log on here. I see Christians advocating homosexuality, abortion, polygamy, and a host of other disgusting things.

If it's too hot for someone, they need to step out of the kitchen. Many of us get disgusted here.

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Originally posted by BillyBob

Hey, I can't edit my typo. :think:

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