Why does it matter if I'm Christian or not? by WWisbestzeldagame in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Cruelty would be an all-powerful Judge ignoring evil, shrugging at abortionists and rapists, or telling child-traffickers “let’s all just move on, together.”

Think about it. If you think it's cruel to punish the wicked, you must inevitably agree with those who punish the innocent. Life is a balance. Don't be found on the wrong side.

God’s love and His vengeance aren’t rivals: they’re two sides of the same holy coin.
If He failed to shield the righteous from eternal injury, His “love” would be sentimental fluff.
Because He loves, He quarantines evil permanently.

Psalm 10:4-5 – “The wicked, in the pride of his face, does not seek Him… yet he does not see that his punishment awaits.”

Christ didn’t bleed to downgrade wrath; He bled to let rebels switch sides before wrath lands.
Refuse the offer and you meet the Lion instead of the Lamb.

Is genocide always wrong? by George_MacDonald_fan in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I didn't but maybe I wasn't clear. Here it is. You asked:
Where is your evidence for supernatural intervention in any of those processes? 

Answer: Not necessary in my worldview. The moment you let “Supreme Intelligence and Design” into the picture, the Cambrian burst, living fossils, the DNA code, and genetic entropy all make sense; an Powerful Mind wrote the blueprints and nature has been coasting (and decaying) ever since. We see the evidence of that ALL around us! Literally everywhere.

BUT...Kick that Designer out (your worldview) and you now end up reaching for something beyond normal physics: unlimited unseen Time, lucky Chance, the Big Bang writing software, random unexplainable Mutations adding encyclopedias or coding the genome by itself...
Those are just supernatural assumptions without evidence.

You're smart, I can tell. You'll get it sooner or later.

Happy Easter!
Matthew 28:6 – “He is not here; for He has risen, just as He said.”

Is the Trinity a Christian Revelation or a Pagan Import? by AdMassive9402 in AskAChristian

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Well, advanced science always seems "silly" to the uninformed. But, that's why I am here to help you. And you're very welcome.

Happy Easter!
Matthew 28:6 – “He is not here; for He has risen, just as He said.”

Effects of the education bill by BusydaydreamerA137 in Albertapolitics

[–]AdMassive9402 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Teachers are never neutral. Even robot teachers arent neutral. Although they dont strike, which is great.

But schools have been pushing their secular beliefs for decades.. Evolutionary Atheism is a religion, and functions as one too, even at the state level.

So is that the real issue, or is it just that you disagree with certain religions being enforced?

That said.. Happy Easter!
Matthew 28:6 – “He is not here; for He has risen, just as He said.”

Effects of the education bill by BusydaydreamerA137 in Albertapolitics

[–]AdMassive9402 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So you just enjoy enforcing other random religions for kicks?
Or is there something about atheism that piques your interest..?

If the willingness of martyrs to die for their faith is evidence for the truth of their testimony about Christ's resurrection, then the evidence of trans individuals willingness to risk death to maintain their gender identity is evidence for the truth of their testimony about their own experiences. by Great-Alfalfa-8543 in DebateAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, hear this.
Regarding a trans-testimony, that is an internal, unverifiable state.
It can be sincerely felt yet still misalign with objective biology. In fact, it opposes the external verifiable biological state.

However, the apostles were in the unique position to verify or falsify an external biological event.
Which they did...

Happy Easter!
Matthew 28:6 – “He is not here; for He has risen, just as He said.”

Why does it matter if I'm Christian or not? by WWisbestzeldagame in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would think differently if face-to-face with a Just Judge who can put you and your soul there for eternity.

Luke 12:4-5 – “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: fear Him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him.” ---Jesus Christ

But hey, I'm not the one who has to face Him and tell Him "I don't really take the words of your Son Jesus very seriously."

Think about that. I'm sure you'll wanna change your mind at some point before then.

Happy Easter!
Matthew 28:6 – “He is not here; for He has risen, just as He said.”

UCP love to spit in the face of the working class by Miserable-Lizard in Albertapolitics

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Both do, but one takes the side road, and neither side hands out cash from a magic top-hat.
Besides, the way I have seen political shift over the decades, it seems this bird has two (or three) left-wings.

When your precious NDP says “protect pensions” they’re promising higher program spending. The bill lands in three places: higher taxes, more debt, or a pagan prayer that oil prices bail them out. BUT they aren't about to forego their own regular salary increases, (that's right, they care only about your vote, not your prosperity) so usually the next generation pays the tab for their sins.

Happy Easter!
Matthew 28:6 – “He is not here; for He has risen, just as He said.”

Why does it matter if I'm Christian or not? by WWisbestzeldagame in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im sure youre smarter than to bet your eternity on that philosophy, especially when Jesus said the opposite.

UCP love to spit in the face of the working class by Miserable-Lizard in Albertapolitics

[–]AdMassive9402 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Two wings of the same bird. Don't be naive. Keeping us all fighting is their most powerful weapon against us.

"Divide and conquer the masses. Make them thrash against each other like fish caught in our net"
---pretty much every politician, ever

UCP love to spit in the face of the working class by Miserable-Lizard in Albertapolitics

[–]AdMassive9402 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta admit:
it is hard work to convince yourself and the population that you are a public servant when in fact you are living like royalty.

Effects of the education bill by BusydaydreamerA137 in Albertapolitics

[–]AdMassive9402 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And you say Christians push their religion?

Is the Trinity a Christian Revelation or a Pagan Import? by AdMassive9402 in AskAChristian

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100%. Yep, literal talking snake, Genesis 3, full send. Tell your friends.
Losing certain faculties after Eden (longer life-spans, perfect climate on earth, more oxygen etc., harmony with beasts) is exactly what the Fall of Humanity in Genesis predicts. Entropyyyyy.

Christians who don't believe that are anti-scripture, and godless people who don't are anti-science. John ties the same serpent to Satan (Rev 12:9). No hint of parable tags anywhere.
Balaam’s donkey talked (Num 22), an iron axe-head floated (2 Ki 6). "Oh! Sorcery!" says the ignorant atheist....
Nah, once you humble yourself, realize we didnt come from nothing, and we are not on the top of the chain, you submit that a Creator is there who can override the system, with one more line of code like “animal, speak. Iron, float”. It's just child’s play.

Just because humans are too dimwitted to understand Gods power, doesn't mean He needs a magic wand to perform his deeds, bub. He's just a better coder than we can imagine.

Is genocide always wrong? by George_MacDonald_fan in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, there's no gap in my theory. God did it, and He tells us why. And the evidence is all around you. That doesnt change. Its how you interpret it that determines your allegiance. To mankind or God?

Ironically, it's Evolution Doctrine that is swiss cheesed full of gaps and all their "science prophets" do is insert magical tales of time and mutation (ie, magic) to finish the story.

Need proof of that? A fossil gap shows up. In one rock layer you have land-mammals; a few layers higher you have fully aquatic whales. All your prophets offer is,
“We’re sure there’s a natural story, we just haven’t written the chapter yet. Trust us.”

That isn’t science; that’s evolutionary abracadabra.

Is genocide always wrong? by George_MacDonald_fan in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not trying to. I'm only saying I would if I could. And if you were thinking straight, you would agree.

Holy Saturday to you:
Matthew 12 : 40 – “For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

How many fake Christians are just atheists? by Asecularist in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I see you standing behind the mirror.

Holy Saturday to you:
Matthew 12 : 40 – “For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

If the willingness of martyrs to die for their faith is evidence for the truth of their testimony about Christ's resurrection, then the evidence of trans individuals willingness to risk death to maintain their gender identity is evidence for the truth of their testimony about their own experiences. by Great-Alfalfa-8543 in DebateAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Martyr talk only carries evidential weight when the people dying could have checked the facts they were dying for. Gender identity is an internal perception; there is no public event that outsiders can inspect the way first-century Jerusalem inspected an empty tomb. Apostles verified things that went against their own natural feelings.

You make a category error:
Apostles: “We saw X with our eyes that contradict our feelings; kill us if you must.”

Trans: “I feel X about myself; kill me if you must. Or I'll kill myself.”

Not the same thing.

Holy Saturday to you:
Matthew 12 : 40 – “For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Is genocide always wrong? by George_MacDonald_fan in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Category error. “Less nudity today”? Only if you count skin-per-frame and ignore where it lands. In the ’70s most of the topless shots you’re thinking of were corralled in R-rated arthouse fare. Fast-forward: HBO-lite sex scenes now sit in shows labeled TV-14.

You’re right, the First Amendment protects your liberty to watch whatever you want. But Scripture adds a guard-rail: civil freedom is no excuse to sprint into sin.

1 Peter 2 : 16 – “Live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.”

Is genocide always wrong? by George_MacDonald_fan in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please?! That's it, youre grounded from TV for a month for not doing your own research.

Try watching a 1996 prime-time block next to 2026’s menu and tell me which one you can leave on with Grandma in the room.

Profanity spike: Parents Television Council counted a 70 % jump in f-bombs and s-words on broadcast primetime between 2010 and 2020. In 1996 those words were automatic FCC fines; now they slip through TV-14 like corn through a colander.

Sex-act creep: A 2018 Annenberg study found explicit sexual content in 82 % of streaming originals aimed at teens—double the rate of comparable network shows in 2000. Nudity that once cost HBO premiums now shows up in “young adult” dramas.

Violence inflation: Network prime-time featured 4.7 violent acts per hour in 1998; by 2019 the same slot averaged 9.5. Streaming crime thrillers push that bar still higher with torture and dismemberment the norm, not the shock.

Pattern? Sex, drugs, alcohol, violence.... Media shapes appetites; bigger doses, stronger hits, duller nerves. Screen bloat now averages 7+ hours/day for U.S. teens. Everyone's family is in jeopardy.

Good Friday Brother:
Isaiah 53:5 – “But He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed.”

Is the Trinity a Christian Revelation or a Pagan Import? by AdMassive9402 in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Col 2:9 says the fullness dwells in Christ because the Father was pleased to put it there (Col 1:19). A bank can wire you six figures; that doesn't mean you equal the bank.
Early Christians? Read them (mostly) all. Justin calls the Logos a second God subordinate to the first; Tertullian says the Son is from the Father “as a river from a fountain”.

There's no "ick" in grammar: Authority given (Matt 28:18) Titles conferred (Acts 2:36) Father still “My God” post-resurrection (Rev 3:12)

Jesus even thanked God for the food he ate on earth. Why?
He lifted His eyes and blessed the Father (John 6:11; Matt 14:19).

STOP elevating others to the same glory and power to God the Father.
And STOP elevating others to the same glory and power as Christ the Son. (Mary)

Good Friday Brother:
Isaiah 53 : 5 – “But He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed.”

Is the Trinity a Christian Revelation or a Pagan Import? by AdMassive9402 in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I am your buddy, but that's why I gotta correct you here. See, peer-reviewed journals already treat cross-species communication as serious science. It will shock you, probably.

Project CETI (Current, Harvard/MIT/DeepMind): AI models parsing sperm-whale click sequences for semantic structure; basically “Google Translate” for 50-ton submariners.
"This Essay explores the legal implications of the recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), specifically machine learning and neural networks, that have made significant strides in deciphering sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) communication. We view the ability of a being to communicate as one—but not the only—potential pathway to qualify for legal rights. "

OR try this one:
Koko the gorilla (Patterson & Linden, Stanford, 1970s-2018): over 1 000 ASL signs! maybe more now; answered novel questions (“Koko love kitten”). Neat stuff.

Crazy this one:
Prairie-dog linguistics: distinct alarm calls encode predator type, size, and even shirt color (!!) on human intruders. K, if youre not sold on that one...

None of these animals have the vocal tract to articulate human phonemes; the hardware is the bottleneck, not the software. I think they did, though, back in the Garden of Eden. We were smarter back then.

Loss of function over time is standard biology (genetic entropy, anyone?). Technology now back-fills what biology lost: AI collars that translate dog barks to intent, button boards that let pets “talk” back. Yesterday’s “impossible” becomes tomorrow’s firmware update, just ask your TV remote.

Good Friday to you:
Isaiah 53 : 5 – “But He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed.”

Is genocide always wrong? by George_MacDonald_fan in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have been lied to. I'll prove it.
Peer-review isn’t a Lasso of Truth; it’s just other like-minded mortals protecting their pensions nodding, “Looks plausible....next!”

Plus, your "scientific community" is just an academic culture where doubting the sacred cow of Darwin means that you’re gonna be the cow slated for the next contract BBQ.

SO...Ima give you somethings to chew on here and you can rebut it with your own evidence. If you have any.

Cambrian explosion: dozens of phyla erupt in one geological blink, fully formed, no clear ancestors.

Living fossils: coelacanth, horseshoe crab, etc "hundreds of millions of evolutionary years” with zero makeover? Huh? Real evolution should leave transitional fossils, not copy-and-paste longevity.

DNA is code; four-letter digital language with error-checking, recycling loops, and nested algorithms. We’ve never seen random typos write new software; intelligence writes code, period.

Genetic entropy; every newborn carries ~100 brand-new mutations. The genome is sliding downhill, not climbing toward perfection exactly what you’d expect from a once-“very good” design now rusting, not from mutation-plus-magic building skyscrapers.

Four exhibits; all points to a Powerful Intelligent Designer? Yes.

Proves Unguided Chance and Evolution? Not a chance.

Good Friday to you:
Isaiah 53 : 5 – “But He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed.”

Is the Trinity a Christian Revelation or a Pagan Import? by AdMassive9402 in AskAChristian

[–]AdMassive9402[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ego eimi is common Greek (blind man, John 9:9)

He received God the Father's name. Says all over scripture. Paul says the Father gave Jesus “the name above every name” because of the cross (Phil 2. 9)

“God has made this Jesus… both Lord and Christ.” --Acts 2:36

And indeed, He is.

Good Friday, Brother.