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Isn't that a limitation on God, that there never be any limitations on God? God has limited Himself in numerous ways: "I am not a man that I should lie." "I change not...lest you be consumed." "He humbled Himself, and became obedient even unto death." Now, we know about these limitations...

If God has always known every thing we'd ever do, then everything we'll ever do was decided before we existed, so if we are punished for what was decided about us before we existed, God is immoral.

Yes. Sorry for not responding back then. I don't always remember to go back and reply to everything. I don't understand why you take my words as if God didn't have perfect knowledge of the past and present in that case. What He didn't know, just like He didn't know with Abraham and Isaac's...

This is what we've been arguing about. I don't know that I agree with you that's what the bible teaches. Yes, I agree. Yes, I agree. See above where I didn't agree with you. :rolleyes: Ok.

GPS takes both general and special relativity into account every day. This link is a paper written by Van Flandern that discusses GPS, relativity, and some related subjects. Here's the relevant paragraph: To offset these two effects [general and special relativity effects], the GPS engineers...

No, I can't. That's why I keep bringing up these questions, because it doesn't make sense that God would not know something, but He knows He doesn't know it, and He knows how bad it is (without knowing about it), so that He can then deal with it at the proper time. Well, that's one way to...

Sure. But the non-vacuum seems to be filled with creatures that are not so holy that they can handle perversity, while God cannot. This doesn't make sense to me. Yes, that is possible. And it's possible that angels are watching and reporting everything to Him. Perhaps there's a threshold...when...

How does He know what He doesn't know and needs to find out? This is not an off-the-wall question. I asked my teenaged daughter this question, and she said, "He would have to know what He doesn't know, in order to know whether He needed to know it or not." You're the one who is suggesting it is...

How does He know what He needs to know if He doesn't know all? This seems like a legitimate question to me. Follow me on this...if God has not determined to know all about a particular person, then that person does something that warrants God's attention (good or bad). If God isn't "paying...

You're probably right that the "good" is not necessarily for that believer, as it would appear to him in this life. For instance, the martyrs being fed to lions would not experience the good in this life. But that doesn't mean it isn't counted as good for them in some way leading into the next...

Been there, done that. Thanks for persevering on this. Jesus sent them out two by two, [Mar 6:7 KJV] And he called [unto him] the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; It's the parallel passage to the one are talking about. Yes, but He...

Yes, that's true, and that's why I suggested we consider the children, which Jesus pointed at and said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." I'm purposefully conflating righteous people with innocent children. Nor can most believers at the time of the trial/evil inflicted on them. Yet we can...

Bobbsey twins...same theological clothing.

I agree, at least in part. I am very hesitant to say that God doesn't even know a lot of stuff about the past and present. If there are evil acts He doesn't want to pay attention to, that suggests that there are victims, possibly innocent or children, of those actions that are being hurt...

Right. He had to see something. It wasn't something that happened in the past. It could only be to see something that might or might not happen in the future. What happened in the future, with respect to God's conversation with Abraham? The episode with the angels in Sodom. God didn't gain any...

I don't have a usable model for a system without a thinking mind, but anywhere there's a thinking mind, time/sequence exists. That's because thoughts are sequential. They come into focus and go out of focus. Some are new. New thoughts mean they didn't exist and then they started to exist...

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Therefore, though I like a lot of TGP's content, I am more wary of the intent of it's owner.

My pastor mentioned that Jim Hoft was a sodomite. I looked it up, and apparently he "came out" several years ago, after the Orlando club shooting.

i made it through the first half before having to stop for the night. I'm amazed at Tucker's patience. And I'm not too surprised at Putin's story, especially about how the West doesn't trust him. I don't either. But I don't trust our own leaders, either.