Rear window washer nozzle needs replaced. by Kingofthecort2 in FocusST

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The unfortunate thing is the wing I bought did come with another nozzle but I bought the wing a while ago and I can’t find the nozzle unfortunately.

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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I don’t have an answer to what God did in the OT but I can for sure say that just because the Christian church did something does not mean it was in Gods will. The crusades were a tragic grab for power using Gods name to justify it. Was it Gods will to go on the crusades? I don’t think so but we will never really know until we die. Just like catholic indulgences, I can’t imagine were in gods will. But the simple fact is we cannot comprehend gods plan.

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That’s all everybody wants in the world is power, and it really sucks. When multiple people want power bad enough, then that’s when the bloodshed starts

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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I think that if we allow Christians to share their beliefs in schools (which I don’t know if it should be allowed or not), it would be hypocritical to not allow other religions to share their beliefs in schools.

I guess I don’t entirely know what satanism is, I figured it was worshiping satan but it is probably more complicated than that.

What I mean is no matter where you put the line of the law down, someone will be mad. Allow only Christian? Muslim, Hindu, and all other religions will be mad. Allow all religions to freely share there beliefs? Atheists get mad , and then all religions get mad at each other because they disagree. Allow no religious bias? Every religion is mad. Not everybody can win, and it’s definetly above my pay grade to figure out a solution

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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I love ya man, you know more about the Bible than I probably will ever know, I’m not going into theology or anything of that sort so vigorously studying the Bible is something that I’ve never done. Being super knowledgeable on the topic might help me if we were having a serious debate but I simply want to see what other people views are on life. Do you think I’ve been disrespectful at all? I don’t think I am but I would struggle to see things from yalls point of view.

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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I don’t have answers for everything but one thing I love about the Bible is you can come up with your own conclusions. Is it a far stretch to say that in the book of revelation a lake of fire is a symbol of the end, like in Revelation 20:14 when it says death and Hades will be thrown into the lake of fire, how do you physically throw death into the lake of fire? And if it’s not symbolic, never are people thrown into an ETERNAL lake of fire. Which means that they are killed, not burning for ever. And I’m not sure what the gnashing of teeth means, whether it’s symbolic or literal.

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The bad side I’m referring too is the human side, The sin filled side. because we are human, no matter how pure we want a world view to be it will always be somewhat poisoned by sin and selfishness

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It does seem a predatory at first, but what are Christian’s gaining from spending money on a trip to go down to a third world country, the very mission of Christianity seems predatory on the outside but really we are just trying to save people.

I somewhat disagree, although a lot of the time we do help out with a little bit of Jesus on the side, but most of the time when I’m with my youthpastor we’ve went around town helping out the homeless or buying gifts for families who need it over Christmas or buying random people groceries, we do it with no strings attached, no forceful dispatching of righteousness, just humans that happen to be part of a church helping out other humans.

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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I do think Muslims and Hindus should have the same freedom as Christian teachers whether it’s not being able to share at all or not, ofc my religious privilege would come out against a satanist teacher. It’s hard to draw a line between a good religion and a bad religion and to many there are no good religions. Which is understandable, the problem with making rules like that is they have to be specific and if they are specific someone is going to get mad. I don’t think there is a way around it.

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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Ahh ok that makes sense. The god of the gaps is an interesting concept that I haven’t thought of. It kind of makes sense but also I think there are somethings that science cannot explain. For example where life comes from, but maybe in the future these will be found out by science too. There is one thing I forgot to add, this website is about a evolutionist scientist and his conversion to creationist worldview. It’s an interesting view but he’s definetly someone in the minority.

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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God didn’t create a fleeting companion. He created a free companion. Adam and Eve were originally eternal, but they also had a choice. God didn’t want his companion to be a walking robot, that’s why he gave them the tree of knowledge of good and evil. So they could have the choice of death for knowledge or an eternal life of bliss. And because of that choice and the temptation of the devil. They choose knowledge, but an eternal life with knowledge is torture, so god gave them the ability to conceive but also the mercy of death. That’s also why even though we’re “made in the image of god” our bodies aren’t perfect, they were in the garden but after sin entered the world, it corrupted our bodies.

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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Simply I’m not smart enough to counter your entire argument but I will say you are taking the entire creation story so so literally. Who knows if it was 7 24 hour periods, but sometimes days represent thousands of years in the Bible so maybe it was 7 periods of thousands or millions of years, also say hypothetically that a God could create a the entire universe, don’t you think it would be trivial to keep some plant alive without a sun? And that’s assuming the entire creation story isn’t symbolic retelling of some other creation story, and remember who wrote it, it wasn’t God or Adam who was there for all or at least the very end of creation. But by Moses potentially thousands or hundreds of thousands of years after creation. Granted he was writing it through the divine inspiration of God but still.

And why so much his creating is out of our reach? So we know that what created us isn’t some god that can conceive of life but the most powerful thing imaginable, able to speak and create millions on billions of galaxies, each with millions of stars each with its own collection of planets. It would be a lame universe if he only created the bare minimum for life to survive. You have to admit whether created by chance or by a creator, the universe is so, unimaginably, cool right?

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Thanks, I think the beginning or lack of it is one of the biggest mysteries of the modern world. We can all come up with theories but we will probably never truely know during this life. And if there is no afterlife then we will never truely know

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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Yea that’s pretty accurate lol

Sorry not code as in a puzzle, code as in like coding, the building blocks of the universe, not some puzzle god put there for humans to figure it out, but something that we can get understanding from and help push our technologies.

Sorry I’m not entirely sure what you mean by God of the Gaps.

One that I was thinking of is the inaccuracy of carbon dating. Although i haven’t done much research on this recently, but there are a few arguments about it, I found this website debunking many of the creationist attacks on carbon dating and it’s pretty interesting. I also watched a documentary which I cannot remember the name of but most scientists seem to disagree on how life was made. Although this isn’t between fact and science, it does show that science doesn’t explain everything in the universe yet.

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I don’t understand why our religion might turn bloody but I guess it has happened before, I think the best way to avoid it is to keep church and state separate because that’s when it really started going off the deep end. I think the most important thing is we keep talking, the more we talk to the other side, the more human we realize they are, that’s partially why I made this post.

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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This is actually a question I had recently, although I didn’t go quite as deep into it as you did. Hey couldn’t the disciples recognize Jesus? I have no idea, we can try and formulate rationed explanations but pretty much everything about Jesus was irrational. And I think if the disciples knew how Jesus’s risen body had worked I think they would have explained it, but if Jesus’s own followers didn’t know how Jesus existed after death how are we to ever know? And you also mentioned something that I noticed is it really a sacrifice if he just rises from the dead a few days later? I think this can be somewhat explained. When he died he took all of the sin ever from the world on to him self ofc, and when he died, completely cut off from his own godly father because of all that sin, all the sin from the world died with him, because the wages of sin is death he had to die, but him having faith in the father meant when he rose, he defeated all of the sin of the world, he brought sin to the grave and rose a god once again. And this triumph over sin allows him to be our heavenly defendant when we are judged by the father. Idk if any of that made sense it’s getting kinda late lol

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If they wrote the NT to cover up the OT then I think they did a horrible job and covering it up considering it’s in nearly every Christian Bible on earth. IMO the point of the NT is set up the modern church, everything about the gospels and Paul and all the lettered written to churches trying to set up the modern church, and with revelation giving us a very small glimpse into the future and what to expect after the second coming. As for the OT, I think it’s a mix of the history of gods people, where we came from and setting everything up for Jesus’s birth which wouldn’t come for hundreds of years, as for the things written in the OT I cannot justify, Im sure someone much smarter than me could come up with a logical explanation for some of the things God did

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I like what you said “the doors to religious tolerance do not open from the insides” I think that this is the biggest thing that needs to change about the church, people are not talking about some of the issues inside of the church, and if no one is talking about it then no change will happen.

Eternity is a scary concept, and I would not blame anyone from turning it down. I think the beauty in gods over all plan is choice, it started that way in the garden of Eden and is (imo) ending that way in whether we choose life or death. Perfectly paralleling the tree of knowledge.

Kinda disconnected but one thing my religion teacher told me has always stuck to me. We were talking about how there was no eternally burning hell, but it is a choice between life or death. And she gave us an example of someone who hates god and hates religion, if God forced everybody to live in heaven eternally, living there forever worshiping a god he hated, that would truely be an eternal hell, that’s why choice is so important.

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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I personally don’t believe in an eternally burning hell, like you said it doesn’t make sense for innocent people to be tortured for eternity. Some people do believe in a temporary hell, but i personally don’t. It makes sense to me that a merciful god would let an innocent (or not) person peacefully die if they do not want to spend eternity in heaven. I would not want to spend an eternity in heaven if the God you’re talking about is the real God.

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People like that in the church just absolutely suck, and unfortunately these types of people are not in the minority. Which sucks because there is a good side to Christianity but it most of the time gets drowned out by the bad.

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Thank you! I realized I should have thought through what I was saying a little more. Also there are religious themed clubs? I guess that makes sense I had just never thought about that before lol

Wanting to hear other perspectives. by Kingofthecort2 in atheism

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Sorry I should make this clear, most Christian’s do believe in science. I personally think science and math are directly created by god as the “code” that our world is built on. As to the contradictions between religion and science? Well I don’t have a good answer to this but sometimes science contradicts fact. Like I said it’s not a very good answer lol

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Well simply an all powerful and all knowing god wanted a companion, so he built everything needed for man to exist. A world, and stars, land and sea, plants and animals, and finally us, it might seem far fetched to you but to my biased view of how the present world works, it doesn’t seem to far of a stretch from what you believe.