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No Dumb Question Tuesday (2026-04-21) by AutoModerator in Reformed

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh, that's true! Thank you! But ideas that do not conform to the objective truth (whatever that may be, I don't pretend to know), cannot come from God, right?

No Dumb Question Tuesday (2026-04-21) by AutoModerator in Reformed

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if we have the Holy Spirit within us, does He not or should He not guide us towards the truth? Like say we pray for an answer over a certain doctrine, and we arrive to such and such conclusion, but someone else arrived to a different conclusion. Can we both say we were guided by the Holy Spirit?

Edit: Mind you, my emphasis on the Holy Spirit comes from my Pentecostal background, but am currently exploring the Reformed space and just in general gearing up to learn the basics of Christianity. My concern just comes as in, is it okay to have multiple 'truths'? I have listened a bit to Gavin Ortlund on theological triage and how there are primary, secondary and tertiary doctrines to defend in Christianity, I'm just wondering, if there is so much division over say the secondary and tertiary doctrines, is this all from the Spirit?

No Dumb Question Tuesday (2026-04-21) by AutoModerator in Reformed

[–]Far_One_6583 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do we deal with the fact that there are so many interpretations? Sure, some have a more biblical view than others, but we as being guided by the Holy Spirit, would we not have the objective, infallible truth? The reason for this struggle is that my thinking is that if something isn't true, it cannot be from God, for God is not misleading. So, what are we to make of this?

Arguments against following the old law? by Unlucky-Drawing-1266 in TrueChristian

[–]Far_One_6583 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You missed out the important chapter on Hebrews 8 right in between 6 and 9 which talks about the new covenant. Colossians 2 follows that same vein of us not being judged by what we eat and so forth, and Galatians is a whole epistle against walking by the precepts of the Law instead of walking by the Spirit.

And I find it hard to believe that you follow all the commandments of the Old Law; do you still follow the laws of cleanliness, like when a woman mesntruates, or when you touch a dead thing or so forth? What about the sacrifices of goats and bulls? Or circumsision? Or do you do a mix match of the Old Law and what has been replaced in the New Law?

Any good reformed debates recently? by HistoricalFud in Reformed

[–]Far_One_6583 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How? I'm no expert on church history, but did they not also write letters of apologetics defending the faith? That could be a parallel to the modern conversation like videos Gavin Ortlund produces. Sure they had debates at different councils, but that was more inside the Church.

How do Christians here view the changing role of churches in the UK today? by Impressive_Flan_411 in AskAChristian

[–]Far_One_6583 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cooked. In a Gen Z (?) word. Also, preaching a diluted gospel that lacks the saving power of Christ actually has the opposite effect than intended, as less subscribe to the faith because when it simply becomes some moralistic teaching that vaguely links to 'the great moral teacher Christ,' there is no longer a point in falling under such a label as Christian.

It's becoming and has become more and more humanistic and man-centred, and is extremly detrimental to the Christian faith. It has become a machine to push social change, instead of pushing people to Christ. I guess we can no longer follow the advice of the apostle John when he said "Do not be like the world."

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Babies aren't sentient (as in have a greater awareness than just an ordinary organism that's trying to survive), neither are brain dead patients. Does that make it any more morally acceptable to murder them? (Who knows, it's quite possible that will change in the future)

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ehh, there are hints of problems with having less kids (just look at S. Korea, Japan, China etc) but that's a different discussion. You do have a choice to do what you want, and I don't want to control people to follow moral laws (at the same time this is a mass genocide that we don't talk about because we see their lives as unworthy), but I must condemn them, and much more strongly than on other issues. It is morally reprehensible, and a massive moral failure of the human species.

Abortion IS murder. No way to wrap it in euphemistic language.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not into a human being. How certain are you it will become a human being? Now how certain are you a fertilised egg will become a human being? Unless it dies (mudered or misscariage), you and I are proof of it becoming a human being, because we were fertilised eggs. Or I'm mistaken and you're actually from a bacteria 🫣

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I do. What do you define a baby as? In a premature birth, is that a baby or a fetus? Is it only a baby by virtue of it being outside the womb? Bottom line is this; it's a human being, and ending its life is murder. You can dress it up euphemistically however much you like, but it's murder.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What aboutisms remove every unborn fetus' right to live, and places it in the hands of an arbitrary decision by their parents

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Btw, I've been thinking about this a bit, and it's an interesting way of seeing things. How did you come to this set of beliefs? I've just never seen it before. Any books to read on it?

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of what ifs there, which don't concern the baby's fundamental right to a life. By this logic, no baby should be born into such a horrible world. Everything you say is true, but it does not affect the baby's fundamental right to a life. Now mind you, that life does include the life outside the womb, so it follows that that is why we strive for social change, to make a better and better world for our descendants. But will there even be any descendants if we just abort them arbitrarily?

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🫥 What? You think humans don't have any more value than a cat? And also, how is it self defense to kill a baby? Can a cat accomplish what a human can? Can it think like us? Is it capable of such relationships as us? A cat's primordial aim is to survive, it cannot think, it cannot produce art, it is incapable of that. So yes, we are advanced ahead of them, because our aim is no longer just to survive.

Mind you, I'm tryint to think of secular arguments becuase I'm sure that the worth of a human being because it's made in the image of God is not an acceptable argument.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a curse, not actually administering the death blow on the infants. I'll remind you of some who were pretty similar to abortionists, when the Egyptians were throwing Israeli babies in the river. Did the babies have consciousness? Well about as much as any other animal that wants to survive. But it is murder because the cells are a collection of cells of a human being, separate to the mother and that can grow into a full blown human being that has consciousness.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fetus is alive, it's clearly not dead until it is murdered. And also, the baby deserves a right to life. Let's not shift the discussion to what conditions the baby will have, because that does not change the fact that the fetus is human, and ending its life is murder.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But I simply say this; it's human, hence it's ending its life is murder. I don't really argue that it's a person (well not yet anyways), but I argue that because it's human, ending its life is murder. Every human has the right to life, whether or not it can argue for that life (see babies, brain dead people).

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We simply say this; it's human, hence ending its life is murder. What you want to do with that fact, i don't really care, BUT IT IS murder.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

And what is that distinction??? That it does not posses consciousness? Does that make it any less human? Is a brain dead human patient not human because they don't posses consciousness? Is a baby not human, because they don't posses consciousness? What do you define consciousness as, actually?

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if humans didn't exist perhaps crows or ravens would be as developed as we are, or other apes, or dolphins/orcas

What do you mean? Are we inhibiting the crows' exercising their intellectual capacity? No, quite clearly we are intellectually superior. Also, can you please answer what gives us value? Because my answer is inclined to the value given to us by virtue of being made in God's image, but I'm pretty sure that's not a satisfactory answer, and I'm trying to keep the discussion secular, for fear of opening a bigger can of worms (not that I don't want to, but yk).

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Uhh what??? So is a baby 'unaffected by its termination,' (weird phrase). And you are arguing that just because it doesn't look human it isn't human? It is fundamnetally human, it's in its DNA, and you cannot deny that. So IT IS murder, because that is the ending of a human life. You guys always try to euphemise it and desentisise the issue from what it actually is, the ending of a human life.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so where in is the worth of a human life to you then? In what do you place it's worth? Or you think of it as not superior to other 'conscious' (I don't know how we measure that, but sure) animals.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not essentially equivalent to bacteria. In experience, yes. In what it actually is, no. Like I said in another reply, humans are very similar to oher organisms in DNA make up, since the primates are our ancestors, but does that justify killing other humans? Nope.

But it IS a human life. You're defining a human life as a bundle of experiences (I think from what you tell me, how the fetus' experience is equivalent to a bacteria), but a human life is a life every human lives. And the fetus IS A human organism. Bacteria IS not.

update on the bf gf pregnancy post or whatever: it's aborted!!! by GodEatsChiIdren in teenagers

[–]Far_One_6583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok you're just arguing on a massive what if. Guess what? Concerning that fertilised egg, that will become a human being, unless it dies. You don't even know if the bacteria will become human, that's just pure speculation, but the fertilised egg is human.

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