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AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 19, 7:27pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 19, 7:27pm
richwicks says
It wasn't made by Israelis - it's made by Arameans, another group that lived around modern day Damascus, boasting of their victory over the Israelites, specifically Jehoram son of Ahab, of the line of the House of David. These individuals are mentioned in 2 Kings.
So it's an argument for existence from an enemy.
Alright, my mistake, but a single inscription by Israelis doesn't do much to convince me.
It wasn't made by Israelis - it's made by Arameans, another group that lived around modern day Damascus, boasting of their victory over the Israelites, specifically Jehoram son of Ahab, of the line of the House of David. These individuals are mentioned in 2 Kings.
So it's an argument for existence from an enemy.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 19, 7:33pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 19, 7:33pm
richwicks says
They did that! In fact, the first people killed in that way I believe (from memory) were Polish civilians in 1939.
The judgement as to whether somebody was fit for labor or too sick for it was done in the camps, not by the capturing authorities. Also, people became ill and unfit in the camps.
richwicks says
Because they are labor camps. They also had a large staff. The death camps for the most part are sub sections or satellite camps of the main labor camps.
richwicks says
Already in abundance because of the need to constantly de-infect all the lice and bugs in the camps from the overcrowding. Zyklon B was a common pest control tool already in Germany.
richwicks says
For me, the calculus is simple. We have 1000s upon 1000s of pages of logistics regarding the camps. We have train routing schedules. We have policy sheets and orders down to the most mundane shit for the camps. We have tens of thousands of testimonies from survivors, camp guards, liberators, eyewitnesses, etc.
Taking that into consideration, and the fact that all Socialism leads to mass murder, I'll need extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims.
Why not just feed carbon monoxide into the train cars as they drove them to the "extermination camps"?
They did that! In fact, the first people killed in that way I believe (from memory) were Polish civilians in 1939.
The judgement as to whether somebody was fit for labor or too sick for it was done in the camps, not by the capturing authorities. Also, people became ill and unfit in the camps.
richwicks says
Why did the "extermination camps" have dormitories and kitchens?
Because they are labor camps. They also had a large staff. The death camps for the most part are sub sections or satellite camps of the main labor camps.
richwicks says
Why would Zyklon-B be repurposed to exterminate people?
Already in abundance because of the need to constantly de-infect all the lice and bugs in the camps from the overcrowding. Zyklon B was a common pest control tool already in Germany.
richwicks says
Again, I HATE talking about this, because I'm up against 70 years of propaganda. This is one of those "Big Lies" Joseph Goebbels was talking about. There's plenty of them.
For me, the calculus is simple. We have 1000s upon 1000s of pages of logistics regarding the camps. We have train routing schedules. We have policy sheets and orders down to the most mundane shit for the camps. We have tens of thousands of testimonies from survivors, camp guards, liberators, eyewitnesses, etc.
Taking that into consideration, and the fact that all Socialism leads to mass murder, I'll need extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims.
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richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 7:34pm
richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 7:34pm
Undoctored says
The computer chip you're using right now is a result of analogues to genetic mutations and survival of the fittest. It was routed by simulated annealing. Nobody routes chips by hand today, and haven't since the 1980s. The layout is done entirely through genetic algorithms. It's millions of transistors.
It's not just routed once, it's routed thousands of times, over and over again, approaching a local minima. It converges, and when it does, it's "good enough", it doesn't improve appreciably, and any further generations in "children" are only negligibly useful.
You'd be shocked how often evolutionary algorithms are used and how well they work. Nobody programmed the Tesla cars to do automatic navigation, those are evolutionary algorithms. Engineers don't understand the solution, they just test the fuck out of it to see it works 99.99% of the time, but there's that 0.01% When they run into some new input, it's entirely unpredictable and you end up with a car crash and possibly a dead occupant.
The theory of evolution is a joke. Complex functional structures can never arise from random mutation of genetic codes + survival of the fittest no matter how long the time frame.
The computer chip you're using right now is a result of analogues to genetic mutations and survival of the fittest. It was routed by simulated annealing. Nobody routes chips by hand today, and haven't since the 1980s. The layout is done entirely through genetic algorithms. It's millions of transistors.
It's not just routed once, it's routed thousands of times, over and over again, approaching a local minima. It converges, and when it does, it's "good enough", it doesn't improve appreciably, and any further generations in "children" are only negligibly useful.
You'd be shocked how often evolutionary algorithms are used and how well they work. Nobody programmed the Tesla cars to do automatic navigation, those are evolutionary algorithms. Engineers don't understand the solution, they just test the fuck out of it to see it works 99.99% of the time, but there's that 0.01% When they run into some new input, it's entirely unpredictable and you end up with a car crash and possibly a dead occupant.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 19, 7:38pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 19, 7:38pm
richwicks says
Right. But in 4-5 Billion years, no semiconductor spontaneously arose on this massive rock with a wide range of chemical and physical activity.
The computer chip you're using right now is a result of analogues to genetic mutations and survival of the fittest. It was routed by simulated annealing. Nobody routes chips by hand today, and haven't since the 1980s. The layout is done entirely through genetic algorithms. It's millions of transistors.
Right. But in 4-5 Billion years, no semiconductor spontaneously arose on this massive rock with a wide range of chemical and physical activity.
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richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 7:43pm
richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 7:43pm
In response to AmericanKulak
I may respond tomorrow. It's 19:38, I'm used to going to bed very early now, I'm going to bed.
My point is there were no "death camps", they were simply slave labor camps. What happened at the end of the war is that the Allies cut off supply lines to them because these slave labor camps were making goods for the war - destroying their supply abilities killed the war effort for the Germans. That's why there were terribly starved inmates, the Allies cut off supply lines intentionally. This created a dual problem, not only did the Germans have the inability to produce goods, they have a bunch of starving inmates they had to deal with.
There were no good sides in that war, there never are.
War is an evil thing maybe the most evil thing - state sanctioned murder, propaganda covers that up. Propaganda makes it black and white instead of what it really is - black and black.
I may respond tomorrow. It's 19:38, I'm used to going to bed very early now, I'm going to bed.
My point is there were no "death camps", they were simply slave labor camps. What happened at the end of the war is that the Allies cut off supply lines to them because these slave labor camps were making goods for the war - destroying their supply abilities killed the war effort for the Germans. That's why there were terribly starved inmates, the Allies cut off supply lines intentionally. This created a dual problem, not only did the Germans have the inability to produce goods, they have a bunch of starving inmates they had to deal with.
There were no good sides in that war, there never are.
War is an evil thing maybe the most evil thing - state sanctioned murder, propaganda covers that up. Propaganda makes it black and white instead of what it really is - black and black.
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PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 19, 7:51pm
PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 19, 7:51pm
DD214 says
I stand by my original answer in post 2.
But to elaborate:
1. God existed before time, He created time. But perhaps He was contemplating how to make women appealing to men, so he invented boobs, right @CisTits?
2. The same place He is now. Everywhere.
3. According to the God who created the physicists and physics, “Before Abraham Was I Am”
(John 8:58)
“Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”
The phrase “I am” in John 8:58 comes from two Greek words “egō” and “eimi.” The Strong’s Definitions are:
“egō : “I” (only expressed when emphatic): – I, me.”
“eimi: I exist (used only when emphatic): – am, have been, X it is I, was.” Jesus/God simply states, I am. By I am he means just what he says, no beginning, no end, He just exists. And everything else we know, was made by Him.
The question that should concern everyone who doesn’t know God, is will I spend eternity with God, or will I be eternally separated from God? Separation from God is a living hell. But it does not have to be that way, even though most will choose the later. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
1. What was God doing before he started creating ?
2. Where was God, if there was nothing before he started creating ?
3. According to the physicists etc. there was nothing so how did God come out of nothing ?
I stand by my original answer in post 2.
But to elaborate:
1. God existed before time, He created time. But perhaps He was contemplating how to make women appealing to men, so he invented boobs, right @CisTits?
2. The same place He is now. Everywhere.
3. According to the God who created the physicists and physics, “Before Abraham Was I Am”
(John 8:58)
“Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”
The phrase “I am” in John 8:58 comes from two Greek words “egō” and “eimi.” The Strong’s Definitions are:
“egō : “I” (only expressed when emphatic): – I, me.”
“eimi: I exist (used only when emphatic): – am, have been, X it is I, was.” Jesus/God simply states, I am. By I am he means just what he says, no beginning, no end, He just exists. And everything else we know, was made by Him.
The question that should concern everyone who doesn’t know God, is will I spend eternity with God, or will I be eternally separated from God? Separation from God is a living hell. But it does not have to be that way, even though most will choose the later. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
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richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 7:51pm
richwicks
2022 Dec 19, 7:51pm
AmericanKulak says
Maybe in 4-5 billion years, some intelligent machine might be wondering how life began for it?
You're doing an argument from ignorance. You don't know therefore - god. I'm just saying I don't know therefore, I don't know but I don't make an assumption that it's been explained by some primitive society that thought the Earth was flat. I just don't know.
I DO know, however, evolutionary systems work and they are well tested, not only in computer algorithms but in biological systems in the lab, and it's been observed in nature. It's not horribly difficult to draw a conclusion from that. Evolution doesn't explain abiogenesis. Abiogenesis is an entirely different area for study from evolution although they would inevitably converge if a good hypothesis or theory could be made.
richwicks says
The computer chip you're using right now is a result of analogues to genetic mutations and survival of the fittest. It was routed by simulated annealing. Nobody routes chips by hand today, and haven't since the 1980s. The layout is done entirely through genetic algorithms. It's millions of transistors.
Right. But in 4-5 Billion years, no semiconductor spontaneously arose on this massive rock with a wide range of chemical and physical activity.
Maybe in 4-5 billion years, some intelligent machine might be wondering how life began for it?
You're doing an argument from ignorance. You don't know therefore - god. I'm just saying I don't know therefore, I don't know but I don't make an assumption that it's been explained by some primitive society that thought the Earth was flat. I just don't know.
I DO know, however, evolutionary systems work and they are well tested, not only in computer algorithms but in biological systems in the lab, and it's been observed in nature. It's not horribly difficult to draw a conclusion from that. Evolution doesn't explain abiogenesis. Abiogenesis is an entirely different area for study from evolution although they would inevitably converge if a good hypothesis or theory could be made.
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Patrick
2022 Dec 19, 7:54pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 19, 7:54pm
richwicks says
I don't know enough to say for sure about camps in the east, like Poland, but from living in Munich I know that Dachau was not a death camp in the sense that large numbers were not murdered outright there.
I do have a Polish Catholic relative who was an official in his town and sent to Dachau by the Germans. He became very ill in the camp and was released a few days before he died, so that they would not have to count his death in the camp.
Dachau was torn down after the war, but because so many people wanted to see it, they reconstructed some barracks there. From visiting twice, I know that a lot of people seem disappointed when they find out that Dachau was not a place where people were deliberately killed, only a place where political prisoners were kept in such harsh conditions that many of them died.
there were no "death camps", they were simply slave labor camps
I don't know enough to say for sure about camps in the east, like Poland, but from living in Munich I know that Dachau was not a death camp in the sense that large numbers were not murdered outright there.
I do have a Polish Catholic relative who was an official in his town and sent to Dachau by the Germans. He became very ill in the camp and was released a few days before he died, so that they would not have to count his death in the camp.
Dachau was torn down after the war, but because so many people wanted to see it, they reconstructed some barracks there. From visiting twice, I know that a lot of people seem disappointed when they find out that Dachau was not a place where people were deliberately killed, only a place where political prisoners were kept in such harsh conditions that many of them died.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 19, 7:54pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 19, 7:54pm
richwicks says
I'm saying if there's a code, there's probably a coder. That's the experience so far.
I understand abiogenesis vs. evolution. The problem is that neo-spontaneous generation from warm wet soups (or warm wet vents) is being pushed as the default when there is no evidence whatsoever for it.
You're doing an argument for ignorance. You don't know therefore - god. I'm just saying I don't know therefore, I don't know but I don't make an assumption that it's been explained by some primitive society that thought the Earth was flat. I just don't know.
I'm saying if there's a code, there's probably a coder. That's the experience so far.
I understand abiogenesis vs. evolution. The problem is that neo-spontaneous generation from warm wet soups (or warm wet vents) is being pushed as the default when there is no evidence whatsoever for it.
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Patrick
2022 Dec 19, 8:00pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 19, 8:00pm
Undoctored says
I don't see why not.
You can use mutation and selection to end up with quite complex structures in computer simulations, and you can clearly select for different traits in domestic animals.
Complex functional structures can never arise from random mutation of genetic codes + survival of the fittest no matter how long the time frame.
I don't see why not.
You can use mutation and selection to end up with quite complex structures in computer simulations, and you can clearly select for different traits in domestic animals.
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PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 19, 8:08pm
PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 19, 8:08pm
Patrick says
If life can arise spontaneously from non life, it should be even easier to reanimate the dead, like Frankenstein or The Trible revived by Khan Noonien Singh‘s blood in the new Star Trek. But alas, that, like modern origin myths promoted by “science” falsely so called, is all science fiction. Humans have become so “smart” that they have convinced themselves their Creator doesn’t exist which means of course they are not accountable to Him. How convenient!
Undoctored says
Complex functional structures can never arise from random mutation of genetic codes + survival of the fittest no matter how long the time frame.
I don't see why not.
You can use mutation and selection to end up with quite complex structures in computer simulations, and you can clearly select for different traits in domestic animals.
If life can arise spontaneously from non life, it should be even easier to reanimate the dead, like Frankenstein or The Trible revived by Khan Noonien Singh‘s blood in the new Star Trek. But alas, that, like modern origin myths promoted by “science” falsely so called, is all science fiction. Humans have become so “smart” that they have convinced themselves their Creator doesn’t exist which means of course they are not accountable to Him. How convenient!
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Patrick
2022 Dec 19, 8:12pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 19, 8:12pm
PeopleUnited says
That doesn't seem to follow. Maybe life can arise from non-life, but the dead are rapidly decaying from the moment of death.
Life is like a bubble. When the bubble is popped, it's gone. It can't be unpopped.
If life can arise spontaneously from non life, it should be even easier to reanimate the dead
That doesn't seem to follow. Maybe life can arise from non-life, but the dead are rapidly decaying from the moment of death.
Life is like a bubble. When the bubble is popped, it's gone. It can't be unpopped.
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ElYorsh
2022 Dec 19, 8:13pm
Conversations with God - Book 1 by Neal Donald Walsch is a book that would give you (in my opinion) a good articulated response better than word salad.
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PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 19, 8:33pm
PeopleUnited
2022 Dec 19, 8:33pm
Patrick says
From that perspective life is pretty fragile, and takes the perfect conditions to even happen. You know perfection is one of God’s characteristics.
And the same God that created life, created the decay of the dead to recycle the body. But, then again, decay is a consequence of sin. Prior to sin the world God created was free from death and decay. What we know as the natural world is not natural at all, it is a byproduct of the corruption of sin.
But back to my point a freshly dead body has all the ingredients needed for life. So why would it not be a simple thing to reanimate the dead? You may well live to see the day that the dead rise. Not like the walking dead but more like the mouse in the Green Mile. Think it can’t happen? It already has, and Revelation says it will again. Both the 2 witnesses and the antichrist will rise from death.
Life is like a bubble. When the bubble is popped, it's gone. It can't be unpopped.
From that perspective life is pretty fragile, and takes the perfect conditions to even happen. You know perfection is one of God’s characteristics.
And the same God that created life, created the decay of the dead to recycle the body. But, then again, decay is a consequence of sin. Prior to sin the world God created was free from death and decay. What we know as the natural world is not natural at all, it is a byproduct of the corruption of sin.
But back to my point a freshly dead body has all the ingredients needed for life. So why would it not be a simple thing to reanimate the dead? You may well live to see the day that the dead rise. Not like the walking dead but more like the mouse in the Green Mile. Think it can’t happen? It already has, and Revelation says it will again. Both the 2 witnesses and the antichrist will rise from death.
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WookieMan
2022 Dec 19, 8:59pm
WookieMan
2022 Dec 19, 8:59pm
richwicks says
This.
Fact is not a single person can prove Jesus existed as a person or there's a god at all. Many/most have been fooled into thinking covid is dangerous. 160 years ago we had spears on the ends of muskets to stab people with. These were the people that gave us our history.
Again, feel free to believe, but if I'm being blunt, don't be obtuse. The evidence is blatantly clear in the last fucking 20 years that humans aren't tracking their shit/history properly. Somehow 2k years ago they got it right? My mind is still boggled why this is still a conversation. Have your religion, but just understand like anything humans do, it's to extract money from you. In some cases to fuck your children. Maybe I'm a pessimist, but this is the reality I've witnessed my whole life being someone raised Catholic. It's a fucking con. They also have more money than the biggest corps on the planet if you factor in real estate.
Catholics and Jews could sell their assets (the churches) and give every follower $500k tomorrow. That's not hyperbolic. They own some of the most treasured real estate on the planet in the perfect locations. Religion is a business. It's okay to admit it.
You end up with the same problem though asking how the universe started - how did god start?
This.
Fact is not a single person can prove Jesus existed as a person or there's a god at all. Many/most have been fooled into thinking covid is dangerous. 160 years ago we had spears on the ends of muskets to stab people with. These were the people that gave us our history.
Again, feel free to believe, but if I'm being blunt, don't be obtuse. The evidence is blatantly clear in the last fucking 20 years that humans aren't tracking their shit/history properly. Somehow 2k years ago they got it right? My mind is still boggled why this is still a conversation. Have your religion, but just understand like anything humans do, it's to extract money from you. In some cases to fuck your children. Maybe I'm a pessimist, but this is the reality I've witnessed my whole life being someone raised Catholic. It's a fucking con. They also have more money than the biggest corps on the planet if you factor in real estate.
Catholics and Jews could sell their assets (the churches) and give every follower $500k tomorrow. That's not hyperbolic. They own some of the most treasured real estate on the planet in the perfect locations. Religion is a business. It's okay to admit it.
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Undoctored
2022 Dec 19, 9:47pm
Undoctored
2022 Dec 19, 9:47pm
richwicks says
Analogues, schmanalogues. All computer chips are the result of intelligent design, regardless of whether Monte Carlo methods are employed in the design process.
The computer chip you're using right now is a result of analogues to genetic mutations and survival of the fittest.
Analogues, schmanalogues. All computer chips are the result of intelligent design, regardless of whether Monte Carlo methods are employed in the design process.
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DD214
2022 Dec 20, 5:06am
Undoctored says
What is intelligent design?
A: Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific set of beliefs based on the notion that life on earth is so complex that it cannot be explained by the scientific theory of evolution and therefore must have been designed by a supernatural entity.
https://www.aclu.org/other/frequently-asked-questions-about-intelligent-design#:~:text=Q%3A%20What%20is%20intelligent%20design,designed%20by%20a%20supernatural%20entity.
intelligent design
What is intelligent design?
A: Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific set of beliefs based on the notion that life on earth is so complex that it cannot be explained by the scientific theory of evolution and therefore must have been designed by a supernatural entity.
https://www.aclu.org/other/frequently-asked-questions-about-intelligent-design#:~:text=Q%3A%20What%20is%20intelligent%20design,designed%20by%20a%20supernatural%20entity.
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DD214
2022 Dec 20, 5:08am
PeopleUnited says
Is Death Real? New Experiments Raise Important Questions On What It Means To Die
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42216404/is-death-revesible/
But back to my point a freshly dead body has all the ingredients needed for life. So why would it not be a simple thing to reanimate the dead?
Is Death Real? New Experiments Raise Important Questions On What It Means To Die
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42216404/is-death-revesible/
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DD214
2022 Dec 20, 5:09am
ElYorsh says
I will have a look - tired of word salads
Conversations with God - Book 1 by Neal Donald Walsch is a book that would give you (in my opinion) a good articulated response better than word salad.
I will have a look - tired of word salads
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DD214
2022 Dec 20, 5:17am
PeopleUnited says
First Question: For those who lived were before Christ what is their fate ?
Second Question: If "God" as you state existed before "time", than what are we to make of either ?
Third Question: The dead shall rise again - now if someone has been cremated, the ashes scattered - the Catholic Church talks in terms of the "Spiritual" Body.
Which are you talking about ? Physical or Spiritual and if the soul departs the body upon death, why is there a need to recreate it ?
https://www.tulipcremation.com/articles/tulip-expert-guides/cremation/catholic-cremation-beliefs.html
The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
First Question: For those who lived were before Christ what is their fate ?
Second Question: If "God" as you state existed before "time", than what are we to make of either ?
Third Question: The dead shall rise again - now if someone has been cremated, the ashes scattered - the Catholic Church talks in terms of the "Spiritual" Body.
Which are you talking about ? Physical or Spiritual and if the soul departs the body upon death, why is there a need to recreate it ?
https://www.tulipcremation.com/articles/tulip-expert-guides/cremation/catholic-cremation-beliefs.html
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RayAmerica
2022 Dec 20, 6:47am
RayAmerica
2022 Dec 20, 6:47am
DD214,
Questions for you:
1. Does the Universe, at some point 'end?' If it does, isn't there something on the other side?
2. Scientifically, can matter be created out of nothing?
3. The third of the ten commandments reads: “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
- Exodus 20:7 Do YOU ever use the name of Jesus Christ in vain? If you do, why is that? Could it be that you know in your heart who he really is?
I've known Jews, Muslims, professed atheists, etc. use the name of Jesus Christ in vain. Why do you think that is?
Questions for you:
1. Does the Universe, at some point 'end?' If it does, isn't there something on the other side?
2. Scientifically, can matter be created out of nothing?
3. The third of the ten commandments reads: “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
- Exodus 20:7 Do YOU ever use the name of Jesus Christ in vain? If you do, why is that? Could it be that you know in your heart who he really is?
I've known Jews, Muslims, professed atheists, etc. use the name of Jesus Christ in vain. Why do you think that is?
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RayAmerica
2022 Dec 20, 6:58am
RayAmerica
2022 Dec 20, 6:58am
Why do people, who have been exposed to the truth in Christ, really reject Him? Here's what the Bible says about such people:
"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
AND THIS IS THE CONDEMNATION, THAT LIGHT IS COME INTO THE WORLD, AND MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL."
FOR EVERY ONE THAT DOETH EVIL HATETH LIGHT, NEITHER COMETH TO THE LIGHT, LEST HIS DEEDS SHOULD BE REPROVED.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." - Gospel of John 3:17-21
In other words, people do not reject Jesus Christ for philosophical or scientific reasons. They reject Him because they refuse to allow Him to be Lord of Lords and King of Kings over their life. They prefer their rebellion and find ways in order to justify, to themselves, their rejection of Him.
"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
AND THIS IS THE CONDEMNATION, THAT LIGHT IS COME INTO THE WORLD, AND MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT, BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL."
FOR EVERY ONE THAT DOETH EVIL HATETH LIGHT, NEITHER COMETH TO THE LIGHT, LEST HIS DEEDS SHOULD BE REPROVED.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." - Gospel of John 3:17-21
In other words, people do not reject Jesus Christ for philosophical or scientific reasons. They reject Him because they refuse to allow Him to be Lord of Lords and King of Kings over their life. They prefer their rebellion and find ways in order to justify, to themselves, their rejection of Him.
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Blue
2022 Dec 20, 7:53am
Long time ago watched a show in KQED, sounds like fictitious character "Jesus" was a sequel of "Julius Caesar" to control the population. From the political point of view most of the general population are dumb and stupid often need to control them with "god" a proved effective drug.
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Undoctored
2022 Dec 20, 8:45am
Undoctored
2022 Dec 20, 8:45am
DD214 says
I said computer chips are made by intelligent design. You doubt this?
Let’s face it, the universe and how it was created is a mystery. If there is an answer our minds are possibly incapable of understanding it.
However this world and its inhabitants came to be, the complexity, variety, and interdependence of life is too great to be explained by descent with purposeless modification over generations and generations from a common primitive ancestor.
Undoctored says
intelligent design
What is intelligent design?
[quoting ACLU (?!) ]
“… pseudoscientific set of beliefs …”
I said computer chips are made by intelligent design. You doubt this?
Let’s face it, the universe and how it was created is a mystery. If there is an answer our minds are possibly incapable of understanding it.
However this world and its inhabitants came to be, the complexity, variety, and interdependence of life is too great to be explained by descent with purposeless modification over generations and generations from a common primitive ancestor.
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fdhfoiehfeoi
2022 Dec 20, 9:04am
fdhfoiehfeoi
2022 Dec 20, 9:04am
DD214 says
Whatever He wants, He's God.
Who said there was nothing? And how would any physicist know since they weren't there?
Either God is all powerful, capable of anything, or He's not God. God has no limitations when it comes to space or time. These are His constructs, but He does not have to subject Himself to them in any way.
What was God doing before he started creating ?
Where was God, if there was nothing before he started creating ?
According to the physicists etc. there was nothing so how did God come out of nothing ?
Whatever He wants, He's God.
Who said there was nothing? And how would any physicist know since they weren't there?
Either God is all powerful, capable of anything, or He's not God. God has no limitations when it comes to space or time. These are His constructs, but He does not have to subject Himself to them in any way.
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fdhfoiehfeoi
2022 Dec 20, 9:17am
fdhfoiehfeoi
2022 Dec 20, 9:17am
DD214 says
How do you know what length of time a "day" represented? And again, if God can't create the world in six days, He's not God.
DD214 says
Of course not. The same as you attempting to limit Him to human standards for what He can do. If you want to know who God is, read the book He made for you.
href="/post/1378027?start=1#comment-1909077">WookieMan says
The walls of Jerusalem fell outward. There's your iota. Lots more if you do your research.
No - it is not absurd. Thinking the universe, humans etc. were created in 6 days as we know them (24 hours) is absurd.
How do you know what length of time a "day" represented? And again, if God can't create the world in six days, He's not God.
DD214 says
but is that the case.
Of course not. The same as you attempting to limit Him to human standards for what He can do. If you want to know who God is, read the book He made for you.
href="/post/1378027?start=1#comment-1909077">WookieMan says
There's not a single iota of evidence to state otherwise.
The walls of Jerusalem fell outward. There's your iota. Lots more if you do your research.
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fdhfoiehfeoi
2022 Dec 20, 9:31am
fdhfoiehfeoi
2022 Dec 20, 9:31am
WookieMan says
If God has a beginning, He's not God.
DD214 says
Jesus tells a parable of a rich man who upon dying goes to hell, and a poor man who goes to Heaven. Jesus sacrifice is the even that restored the broken relationship, before His death, even during His life, this had not been accomplished yet. In the Old Testament it says Abraham believed, and it was accounted to him as righteousness. Again, is God constrained by time, or does Jesus sacrifice reach from the first man to the last in it's power to redeem?
DD214 says
To what purpose do they rise? I believe the context is judgement. In that case why would it be anything other than the soul, which is eternal.
RayAmerica says
The Bible clearly states the commandments where not created to save man, but to point out his need for salvation. If your salvation hinges on what you do, you are going to hell, we all are. It is only through grace by the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ that anyone can be saved.
richwicks says
You end up with the same problem though asking how the universe started - how did god start?
This.
If God has a beginning, He's not God.
DD214 says
First Question: For those who lived were before Christ what is their fate ?
Jesus tells a parable of a rich man who upon dying goes to hell, and a poor man who goes to Heaven. Jesus sacrifice is the even that restored the broken relationship, before His death, even during His life, this had not been accomplished yet. In the Old Testament it says Abraham believed, and it was accounted to him as righteousness. Again, is God constrained by time, or does Jesus sacrifice reach from the first man to the last in it's power to redeem?
DD214 says
Which are you talking about ? Physical or Spiritual and if the soul departs the body upon death, why is there a need to recreate it ?
To what purpose do they rise? I believe the context is judgement. In that case why would it be anything other than the soul, which is eternal.
RayAmerica says
The third of the ten commandments reads
The Bible clearly states the commandments where not created to save man, but to point out his need for salvation. If your salvation hinges on what you do, you are going to hell, we all are. It is only through grace by the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ that anyone can be saved.
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Undoctored
2022 Dec 20, 10:36am
Undoctored
2022 Dec 20, 10:36am
@DD214
Is any physicist’s account of how the world came to be not a word salad? If not, please provide one such account and explain why it is not a word salad in contrast to “Thousands of years ago, there was a void. Then, God, who has always existed, called the world into being where there once was only that void.”
Is any physicist’s account of how the world came to be not a word salad? If not, please provide one such account and explain why it is not a word salad in contrast to “Thousands of years ago, there was a void. Then, God, who has always existed, called the world into being where there once was only that void.”
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richwicks
2022 Dec 20, 10:42am
richwicks
2022 Dec 20, 10:42am
Undoctored says
No, this is the anthropic principle. You must know what that is, so I'm not going to explain it.
Interdependence of life is inevitable. And it's not purposeless modification, organisms adapt to their environment to give them advantage within that environment. The reason I have white pale skin is I'm descended from Poles and Irish ancestors. They didn't get much sun, so to make up for the lack of vitamin D, my skin is adapted to produce as much as possible, when it can. I have an evolutionary advantage over dark skinned people in the north - not much of one now that we know what vitamins are though..
Evolution is a fact. Origin of life? We may never know. It may have been a very unlikely set of circumstances to create it. This might be the only planet in the entire universe with life on it. I don't just hope we don't fuck it up.
However this world and its inhabitants came to be, the complexity, variety, and interdependence of life is too great to be explained by descent with purposeless modification over generations and generations from a common primitive ancestor.
No, this is the anthropic principle. You must know what that is, so I'm not going to explain it.
Interdependence of life is inevitable. And it's not purposeless modification, organisms adapt to their environment to give them advantage within that environment. The reason I have white pale skin is I'm descended from Poles and Irish ancestors. They didn't get much sun, so to make up for the lack of vitamin D, my skin is adapted to produce as much as possible, when it can. I have an evolutionary advantage over dark skinned people in the north - not much of one now that we know what vitamins are though..
Evolution is a fact. Origin of life? We may never know. It may have been a very unlikely set of circumstances to create it. This might be the only planet in the entire universe with life on it. I don't just hope we don't fuck it up.
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RayAmerica
2022 Dec 20, 11:43am
RayAmerica
2022 Dec 20, 11:43am
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." - John 1:1-5
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." - John 1:10-14
The above establishes Christ as God, the Creator, the Word that was manifested in the 'flesh,' was rejected by the world even though He created the world and to those that 'believe on his name,' he gives them the 'power to become sons of God.'
What does atheism offer?
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." - John 1:1-5
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." - John 1:10-14
The above establishes Christ as God, the Creator, the Word that was manifested in the 'flesh,' was rejected by the world even though He created the world and to those that 'believe on his name,' he gives them the 'power to become sons of God.'
What does atheism offer?
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richwicks
2022 Dec 20, 11:45am
richwicks
2022 Dec 20, 11:45am
RayAmerica says
It just claims it, it doesn't offer it. It's just a claim.
RayAmerica says
Who said it offered anything?
The above establishes Christ as God, the Creator, the Word that was manifested in the 'flesh,' was rejected by the world even though He created the world and to those that 'believe on his name,' he gives them the 'power to become sons of God.'
It just claims it, it doesn't offer it. It's just a claim.
RayAmerica says
What does atheism offer?
Who said it offered anything?
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Patrick
2022 Dec 20, 12:37pm
Patrick
2022 Dec 20, 12:37pm
RayAmerica says
This is the closest I come to believing. I think that the line between real and imaginary is not as distinct as most people think it is.
For example, when you imagine something, you have given it some limited kind of existence even if only in your brain.
Reality is just arrangements of things, forms. So reality is information, like words, and like the forms in your brain.
When you perceive something, the external form is reflected into your brain. The form is copied like a remote web page is copied into your browser's cache.
When you imagine something, the form is created in your brain, and may be reflected externally if you do the work to implement it. You can imagine and then build a house.
Things move between imagination and reality.
Self is an idea, the idea that we have a distinct separation from the rest of the world. "This is me. That is not me." This is also an image in your brain.
Love is inclusion in the idea of self. You are what you love.
Recursion is central to all this, but my brain is not big enough to really understand how. I think that consciousness arises from recursive perception, the perception of perception itself. When you point a video camera at a TV and it spins down the rabbit hole, I think some kind of consciousness may be created in that instant.
I think it was evolutionarily useful for animals to perceive "self" among the other things in the world. You can literally de-brain a cockroach and it will still scurry away from light. The photoreceptors drive the legs without any model of self. But once you have a model of self included in perception, then it can consider potential scenarios relevant to survival.
None of this is to say that there cannot be a "great programmer" in the sky. Maybe there is and we all exist in the RAM of the great computer.
Sorry this is not more coherent. I can't quite see it all clearly of course. Maybe if I have another cup of coffee.
the Word was God.
This is the closest I come to believing. I think that the line between real and imaginary is not as distinct as most people think it is.
For example, when you imagine something, you have given it some limited kind of existence even if only in your brain.
Reality is just arrangements of things, forms. So reality is information, like words, and like the forms in your brain.
When you perceive something, the external form is reflected into your brain. The form is copied like a remote web page is copied into your browser's cache.
When you imagine something, the form is created in your brain, and may be reflected externally if you do the work to implement it. You can imagine and then build a house.
Things move between imagination and reality.
Self is an idea, the idea that we have a distinct separation from the rest of the world. "This is me. That is not me." This is also an image in your brain.
Love is inclusion in the idea of self. You are what you love.
Recursion is central to all this, but my brain is not big enough to really understand how. I think that consciousness arises from recursive perception, the perception of perception itself. When you point a video camera at a TV and it spins down the rabbit hole, I think some kind of consciousness may be created in that instant.
I think it was evolutionarily useful for animals to perceive "self" among the other things in the world. You can literally de-brain a cockroach and it will still scurry away from light. The photoreceptors drive the legs without any model of self. But once you have a model of self included in perception, then it can consider potential scenarios relevant to survival.
None of this is to say that there cannot be a "great programmer" in the sky. Maybe there is and we all exist in the RAM of the great computer.
Sorry this is not more coherent. I can't quite see it all clearly of course. Maybe if I have another cup of coffee.
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stereotomy
2022 Dec 20, 12:48pm
stereotomy
2022 Dec 20, 12:48pm
I'll just leave this here:
Bicameral mentality is a hypothesis in psychology and neuroscience which argues that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind, and that the evolutionary breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans. The term was coined by Julian Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,wherein he made the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, near the end of the Mediterranean bronze age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/books/ooc/en/
In other words - the "Voice of God" could have been or continues to be nothing more than an artifact of archaic consciousness.
Bicameral mentality is a hypothesis in psychology and neuroscience which argues that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind, and that the evolutionary breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans. The term was coined by Julian Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,wherein he made the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, near the end of the Mediterranean bronze age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/books/ooc/en/
In other words - the "Voice of God" could have been or continues to be nothing more than an artifact of archaic consciousness.
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DD214
2022 Dec 20, 12:52pm
NuttBoxer says
There are an awful lot of people running around at this very moment who take that to mean a day just like we know it right now. That is pretty scary in and of itself, but then again there are still people who believe the Earth is flat.
How do you know what length of time a "day" represented? And again, if God can't create the world in six days, He's not God.
There are an awful lot of people running around at this very moment who take that to mean a day just like we know it right now. That is pretty scary in and of itself, but then again there are still people who believe the Earth is flat.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 20, 1:02pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 20, 1:02pm
DD214 says
There are people who want fines and jail time for misgendering somebody, and to do so is "Hate Speech", which they believe is Evil leading to potential Genocide.
They also believe men give birth and can somehow menstruate despite not having a uterine wall to shed.
That's much more scary than somebody who believes in the Beginning of Time itself, a Divinity created a part of the universe in a literal day.
There are an awful lot of people running around at this very moment who take that to mean a day just like we know it right now. That is pretty scary in and of itself, but then again there are still people who believe the Earth is flat.
There are people who want fines and jail time for misgendering somebody, and to do so is "Hate Speech", which they believe is Evil leading to potential Genocide.
They also believe men give birth and can somehow menstruate despite not having a uterine wall to shed.
That's much more scary than somebody who believes in the Beginning of Time itself, a Divinity created a part of the universe in a literal day.
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DD214
2022 Dec 20, 1:05pm
AmericanKulak says
Let's try and leave current politics and the two party system out of this but a very nice deflection attempt - very nice.
Now if you want to go into details about the same people who think all of this creation etc. was done in 6 twenty-four hour days and on the 7th "god" rested, I am all ears.
There are people who want fines and jail time for misgendering somebody, and to do so is "Hate Speech".
They also believe men give birth and can somehow menstruate despite not having a uterine wall to shed.
That's much more scary than somebody who believes in the Beginning of Time itself, a Divinity created a part of the universe in a literal day.
Let's try and leave current politics and the two party system out of this but a very nice deflection attempt - very nice.
Now if you want to go into details about the same people who think all of this creation etc. was done in 6 twenty-four hour days and on the 7th "god" rested, I am all ears.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 20, 1:07pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Dec 20, 1:07pm
DD214 says
No.
It's important to point out that some of the most vociferous critics of Theism are also the biggest advocates that Men who believe they are Women can Menstruate or even give birth.
Let's try and leave current politics and the two party system out of this
No.
It's important to point out that some of the most vociferous critics of Theism are also the biggest advocates that Men who believe they are Women can Menstruate or even give birth.
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richwicks
2022 Dec 20, 1:10pm
richwicks
2022 Dec 20, 1:10pm
Patrick says
Why not get some weed? It's not a bad drug if used only occasionally.
Sorry this is not more coherent. I can't quite see it all clearly of course. Maybe if I have another cup of coffee.
Why not get some weed? It's not a bad drug if used only occasionally.
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DD214
2022 Dec 20, 1:10pm
A deflection is a defection is a deflection and a meme is a meme is a meme but nice try,
AmericanKulak - Can you do something more than a cartoon meme ? Something with some substance
When all else fails - make it political
Question: which political party did "God" create first and why ?
Who is this "God" favoring in 2024 ? I might want to make a bet if I can get some inside scoop. Maybe I can beat the spread
AmericanKulak - Can you do something more than a cartoon meme ? Something with some substance
When all else fails - make it political
Question: which political party did "God" create first and why ?
Who is this "God" favoring in 2024 ? I might want to make a bet if I can get some inside scoop. Maybe I can beat the spread
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richwicks
2022 Dec 20, 1:21pm
richwicks
2022 Dec 20, 1:21pm
AmericanKulak says
I think (think) what is meant by this is that biological women who are calling themselves "men" can menstruate and do have a uterine wall, but they aren't "women", they're "men" - because they say so.
AmericanKulak says
The "left" are using different definitions than you and I do - they have recently redefined what a "man" and "woman" is. Now it's just in the mind, according to them.
I won't deny the looniness of this, but the WHO just redefined what a "pandemic" is. It's just nonsense of course. It's important though, because people in the future that go through a "pandemic" will not understand what the black plague REALLY was, or what smallpox outbreaks REALLY were.
This is coming from the top down, not from the bottom up. It's not like a bunch of lefties just all spontaneously decided that some guy with two onions and a sausage could be a "woman" just because they declared they were. This comes from our media and our "elected" politicians.
People who repeat this tripe, well, now you have an easy time of recognizing who an NPC is - they are just followers and mindless repeaters, but this is not limited to just "the left". Somebody who states "well, the Earth was created 6,000 years ago and Noah's Ark was really really real!" are in the same boat. If Creationists spent any time thinking about it, they'd realize Noah's Ark doesn't make any sense nor does the Garden of Eden - but it's a pointless effort to try to convince them of this. They are just hopelessly controlled, at least in that one aspect.
I used to think Creationists didn't exist, and they were just fucking with me, that ended when I moved to Indiana and found real ones. They're not bad people, but it was quite a shock to me to find ENGINEERS that actually truly believed this stuff. Now I'm finding out the craziness of "the left" here in silly con valley. Both "sides" can be equally, um, "wrong".
They also believe men give birth and can somehow menstruate despite not having a uterine wall to shed.
I think (think) what is meant by this is that biological women who are calling themselves "men" can menstruate and do have a uterine wall, but they aren't "women", they're "men" - because they say so.
AmericanKulak says
It's important to point out that some of the most vociferous critics of Theism are also the biggest advocates that Men who believe they are Women can Menstruate or even give birth.
The "left" are using different definitions than you and I do - they have recently redefined what a "man" and "woman" is. Now it's just in the mind, according to them.
I won't deny the looniness of this, but the WHO just redefined what a "pandemic" is. It's just nonsense of course. It's important though, because people in the future that go through a "pandemic" will not understand what the black plague REALLY was, or what smallpox outbreaks REALLY were.
This is coming from the top down, not from the bottom up. It's not like a bunch of lefties just all spontaneously decided that some guy with two onions and a sausage could be a "woman" just because they declared they were. This comes from our media and our "elected" politicians.
People who repeat this tripe, well, now you have an easy time of recognizing who an NPC is - they are just followers and mindless repeaters, but this is not limited to just "the left". Somebody who states "well, the Earth was created 6,000 years ago and Noah's Ark was really really real!" are in the same boat. If Creationists spent any time thinking about it, they'd realize Noah's Ark doesn't make any sense nor does the Garden of Eden - but it's a pointless effort to try to convince them of this. They are just hopelessly controlled, at least in that one aspect.
I used to think Creationists didn't exist, and they were just fucking with me, that ended when I moved to Indiana and found real ones. They're not bad people, but it was quite a shock to me to find ENGINEERS that actually truly believed this stuff. Now I'm finding out the craziness of "the left" here in silly con valley. Both "sides" can be equally, um, "wrong".
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The questions I have posed to numerous clergy of all denominations are as follows:
What was God doing before he started creating ?
Where was God, if there was nothing before he started creating ?
According to the physicists etc. there was nothing so how did God come out of nothing ?
https://www.cnet.com/science/stephen-hawking-tells-degrasse-tyson-what-preceded-big-bang/#:~:text=%22Nothing%20was%20around%20before%20the%20Big%2C%20Big%20Bang%2C%22,universe%20is%20best%20described%20by%20a%20Euclidean%20approach.
https://www.livescience.com/what-came-before-big-bang.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/05/what-existed-before-the-big-bang/?sh=67c5e507671e
So as of today I have yet to get anything but a variety of wonderful word salads for an answer from clergy of any church or denomination.
Anyone on here have something better than word salad for an answer ?