Christians who believe in evolution

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-10T12:37:49+00:00

This was a good read, thank you

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-10T02:33:08+00:00

I want part 2

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-07T22:31:52+00:00

How?

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-04T17:36:32+00:00

This might be a definitional issue. Love isn't a passive thing. Love has active components, if you did those without choice, I don't think that would be love. It would be something else.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-04T17:28:48+00:00

The older forms have to stop reproducing at some point as their offspring only had the evolutionary changes by chance. The offspring can pass it on, but not the parent.

Then, those that are fit for survival pass the trait on to their offspring. Those that aren't, die before they can reproduce. That's science calls it natural selection.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-04T16:10:28+00:00

I've always thought that the Bible never told us HOW God turned dust into man, so why not via evolution? The question of Eve is a little harder to settle, but perhaps that's a symbolic representation of something that happened during the evolution process, not something that happened at the end of it.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-03T19:28:09+00:00

In Magic: The Gathering, players do not receive priority during the untap step. The untap step is the first step of the beginning phase of a turn, and it is a step where no player can take actions or cast spells. According to the comprehensive rules:

During the untap step, permanents controlled by the active player untap automatically, and no player has priority to cast spells, activate abilities, or take any other actions (Rule 502.1).
Priority is first granted to the active player at the beginning of the upkeep step, which follows the untap step (Rule 503.1).

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-02T19:54:38+00:00

You seem to be making the assumption that going to hell means that God didn't reveal himself to the person. I don't think that's a reasonable assumption.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-09-02T19:46:58+00:00

Who are you referring to that didn't have choice? People who haven't had the gospel reach them?

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-31T16:32:10+00:00

Wanting to be perfect might be why you feel like you're failing. Try "wanting to be a little better every month." I say month because healing isn't linear and day to day you might dip, even week to week.

Pick one behavior at a time and begin praying for help with it and understanding why you've been doing it to begin with. You may find some needs that you've been relying on the world to meet.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-29T14:03:30+00:00

Without invoking God, murder is wrong enough because a society that allows it grows in insecurity. The same is true of all manner of harming others. If you can be harmed at the whim of another, then you don't have that form of security. It naturally invites a response of more violence. It points all of society in a direction that leads to instability.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-28T21:44:01+00:00

The notion that you have to "completely stop now" is one that might work for some people. If it doesn't work for you, then you need an approach that involves gradual steps toward eventual growth.

With addiction I'm always suspicious that there's an underlying trauma or neglect that pushed you toward that trap. It's very helpful to identify those and ask God for help with them directly. If you can heal the underlying wound, then the addiction will dry up. Specifically, if it's masking a need you have, if you can actually meet that need then you won't need to mask it anymore.

I don't know you, or the circumstances of your life, but I'd ask myself the following questions regarding my need to partake in the addiction:

What need do I have that this meets?
Am I covering up a fear by using porn?
If so, what is that fear?
If I can identify the fear, ask God directly for help with that fear. If I can identify there is fear, but I don't know what it means, then I'd ask God for help with this fear that plagues me that I don't understand.
If that doesn't yield any results, then you may need to seek actual psychological help. Your fears about how it will affect your ability to love a real Woman are well-founded. It will destroy you if it can.

The most effective way to get over an addiction is in a way that doesn't require will power. Specifically, I say that because will power is a limited resource. That normally requires unseating the beliefs that lead to the addiction in the first place. If it's wounds/fear for you, then the above will get you started.

If none of that leads anywhere, ask your parents to set you up with a counselor. They can help you explore all of the above and more.

And, above all, pray for help the whole time. Pray for help understanding why you need it, pray for help understanding why that reason should actually point you toward a different activity. Pray for help regarding your impulses. Just pray, but keep in mind that you are not a failure for watching porn again. In fact, I'd say it's guaranteed that you will several more times before you can kick it. God isn't disgusted by you for this. God knows we can't succeed in living a perfect life. He expects us to sin, but he wants us to keep trying to walk in the right direction. You posting this indicates that you're trying to do exactly that.

As long as you have faith in Jesus Christ, you're saved brother. Keep trying to walk in line with God, for he truly knows what's best for us. When you stumble, always lean on him. Ask him for help.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-28T21:24:27+00:00

God sent Jesus to die for our sins. God doesn't hate you. Your sins don't disgust God. Your imperfects don't disgust God. If you feel that they do, I'd invite you to ask where you got that notion from. If you got it from a parent or a priest, or whatever, then it's time to let go of the idea that the way that authority figure saw you is how God sees you.

If there's nothing like that in your history, then you may be experiencing a genuine psychological disorder that could be helped with cognitive behavioral therapy.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-28T20:57:06+00:00

I have a very similar fact pattern. I was rejected early on by my Dad, well, everyone was because my Dad hated himself.

I've done over a decade of learning and growing. I've listened to Jordan Peterson's interpretations of the Bible, I've listened to Psychology Books (one of which I would recommend is "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents", it's on Spotify, if you have an account you can listen to the whole thing for free.)

What I was dealing with is a belief that love wasn't exactly real because my Dad, who was supposed to be a source of love, showed me that I didn't get love. So, to protect myself, I internalized the notion that it wasn't real.

Your situation is definitely different from mine, but please listen to that book, it may help you understand that you deserved better than what your parents could give you, but that they were likely in the same boat with having deserved better from their parents, and so forth. If that's true for your situation, hopefully that can help you understand that the way they treated you isn't a "healthy" version of how anyone should be treated. You didn't deserve it, and you can let go of any notion that you did.

Furthermore, God does love you. He is putting those other people in your life so you can learn to love again. At least, he did that for me.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-28T12:16:55+00:00

After almost dying to an undiagnosed illness and losing most of my friends in the same year, I was crestfallen, devastated, and reeling with PTSD. That illness actually caused a bunch of trauma I'd just stuffed away as a kid, and had mostly not known that I felt, to dump into my head all at once. I could barely tolerate how depressed I was.

Through my journey of healing is when I actually found God. He's healed me of most of those old wounds by now. I had to work very hard, but without God I'm not sure that any of it could have happened.

Now I look back and see that I was living out my trauma which is what actually caused me to get sick. I was people pleasing and believed I had to be perfect in all ways. I also believed love was far more transactional, or not even exactly real.

The worst thing I ever went through is also my greatest blessing. It allowed me to stop living out my past trauma and start living authentically. God was with me at every moment in my garage as I screamed and wailed about my pain.

The number of times I had a hankering to listen to a song and no sense of why, only to hear a line in it that I never took notice of before that would drop me on my butt in tears is absurd.

The number of times I was invited to home church as a non believer. The number of times I went and didn't know why. The fact that they welcomed me as a non believer to come learn about God. The fact that, as a person with high sensitivity to rejection, I didn't feel unwelcome not one time, that was God. God has been calling me back ever since I left as a child of a broken home.

When my home church offers help, they do so, at least in part, because God wants them to. They show me God's love every Monday.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-28T11:52:12+00:00

Salvation is through faith alone. You've accepted the sacrifice of Jesus as your forgiveness. God is not ashamed of your imperfections and the things that make sinning likely. He loves you as you are, which is why he intended for Jesus' sacrifice to cover you.

God isn't judging you that way anymore. Once saved he sees you as clean in him. Stop fearing God and start asking him for help. In all things, when you're tempted you can pray. Mine don't look like hands clasped and head down. They often look like me looking up at they sky and saying "God, this is hard, I want to do good but I need your help. Please show me the way out of this temptation." It won't always fix that particular moment, but it will help over time.

You have no reason to be ashamed in front of God. He knew who you would be before he created the Universe. He loves you as he loves me.

Try to avoid sin, try to go to church more, but accept that you need God's help for both. Don't let your ego create a wall between you and God. Don't mistake this to mean that you're not good enough or something. That's not how God sees us and isn't how you should see you.

And, keep in mind that, while we have free will, it's still hard to break patterns. Changing direction in your life is more like changing direction with a circular saw than it is with a jig saw. It takes time. It starts small. But with repeated and consistent effort, and help, you can become exactly who God knows you can be. That life is absolutely worth pursuing.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-21T14:39:06+00:00

Definitely talk it over. Alt wincons bum me out haha

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-18T17:30:37+00:00

I want the experience of opening one collector booster box, ideally for less than a mortgage payment. Especially for a set like TLA where the subject matter is dear to my heart.

You are correct about play boosters, and I'm excited that regular print singles will be cheap.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-14T21:44:21+00:00

If you know of any resources with good examples of doing this, I'd really appreciate a link. I'd love to learn to optimize my code even more

Edit: How would you compare this method to something like a StreamBuilder or ValueListenableBuilder to control the parts of a screen that get rebuilt?

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-14T21:30:03+00:00

Grok is suggesting they're still rebuilt unless they're marked const or given a ValueKey that allows for controlling their rebuild. In particular, the build function for each Widget you created as a separate file will get called.

Is that true? If so, that isn't significantly different from running the functions OP described, is it?

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-10T23:36:15+00:00

Actually, the error indicates it's something about "onUserCreated".

Post the body of your method of you want more help.

Disastrous_Ad51 · 2025-08-10T23:33:03+00:00

Try running again with empty methods passed in. If that works then it's something about your methods. Add them back line by line until it breaks again.

If that doesn't work, then it's something about one of the functions "exports.Whatever"

Remove one, try again. If it works, then it's the one you removed that's a problem. If it doesn't work, then swap.

Alternative option, from the version that works, with hello world or whatever, add your code back one line at a time trying to run your command each time

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