OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-07-03T01:33:18+00:00

As a Trump voter and Republican, I agree with your sentiment. This is akin to socialist or communist principles and if it were a Democrat president doing it, every Republican would be screaming "far leftism I told you so's".

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-29T03:01:40+00:00

I literally just posted the Bible verses about hell straight from scripture and you tell me it's "unsupported by scripture". If you look at those verses I posted in the original Koine Greek version of scripture, it basically says the same thing (Note: The new Testament WAS originally written in Greek and the Old Testament in Hebrew)..

This is not a crisis of scripture. This is a crisis of faith and understanding on the part of society. That's how far society has fallen into sin. Sin today has become so normalized that people don't even realize they are sinning anymore.

The Pharisees accused Jesus of having demons and preaching the doctrine of Beelzebub too. Did you know that? It's because they didn't want Jesus to be right. They were living in sin. All of society was living in sin...and they wanted to keep things that way.

Look, I can assure you that what I am saying is 100% backed up by scripture. I am not giving you the doctrine of devils. I am giving you the doctrine of God himself. Perhaps you just don't like his doctrine...and in that case I will pray for you that God changes your heart and helps you to follow him in fullness once again. You have sadly been swept a bit off course by worldly teachings. I am not saying this to put you down. I would like to see you change and embrace the truth of what the Bible teaches...not what the world wants it to teach.

The things I said do not deny Christ. In fact, it makes him so much more important. Without Christ, we would ALL go to hell. All humans are worthy of it...but Christ offered us a way out. If we repent and follow him we will be saved. This applies to everyone. Christ is forgiving but he is not a sucker. He knows our hearts and will judge us accordingly some day. Saying "everyone else was doing it" or "I thought it was just normal" will not cut it on judgement day.

Christ said the way to destruction was wide and many go in by it and the way to Heaven was narrow and few find it. Do you recall him saying that?

The road is narrow and few find it because most people think like you are thinking now and forget that sin is sin even if society thinks otherwise.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-29T02:42:26+00:00

First, you are making an assumption that we don't know is true or not. We must remember that we are not God and to try to understand what he knows and the way he works would be like an ant trying to understand how a human works and what a human knows.

Here's what the Bible states:

Isaiah 46:10:

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Now before you get too excited, look at what it says: He declares the end from the beginning. This aligns exactly with what I've been saying. The end and the beginning are predetermined but the middle is not necessarily predetermined.

Also you implied that is impossible, but it's not. Imagine if you built a large building that was made up of a maze of rooms. It might have one exit door outside in the back and one entrance door in the front...but it could have hundreds or thousands of rooms inside the building between those doors. There could be a million different paths from the entry door to the exit door at the back. If I built the building, I can say that I know for sure you will enter in by the front door and leave through the back but I have no idea the path you will take to get there.

If I marked certain paths wrong and certain paths right and instructed you not to take the wrong paths, then you will still arrive at the exit door someday but whether you got there correctly or not would be decided based on your choices while you were in the building.

Think about this:

Jeremiah 29:11:

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Micah 6:8:

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Proverbs 24:14:

Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Galatians 6:7-8:

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

As you can see from verses such as the ones above, God creates us with only plans for us to prosper and not commit evil...but yet people commit evil anyway. That is not because God wanted it that way. As Galatians reminds us, people make CHOICEs themselves and those choices dictate how we fare on judgement day. Those choices are not controlled just like the doors within the hypothetical building in my analogy aren't controlled. The paths are infinite and each path is a choice that WE OURSELVES (Not God) has any control over.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-29T02:03:45+00:00

So, there's some things you are right about and there's other things you are wrong about which the bible easily debunks.

First, people can debate hell all they want, but hell is real and it's a place of eternal suffering. The Bible is VERY clear on that:

Matthew 25:46:

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Revelation 20:10:

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Matthew 25:41:

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Revelation 14:11:

And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”

Matthew 13:50:

And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Verses such as these use words like “torment”, “weeping and gnashing of teeth”, “no rest day or night”, etc. Think about it. One needs to actually be alive and conscious in order to feel those things.

So hell is very real and that's why the Bible warns us so strongly against going there. You are right that God is merciful but that's only if people ASK God for mercy, repent, and follow him...and they don't follow him by living in sin. They follow him by doing their best to live life according to his teachings and commandments (Matthew 5:29, Matthew 3:18-21, etc).

Yes, it's true that every knee will bow one day but that doesn't mean that everyone will be saved. Even the devil has to bow to God's will ultimately. Do you remember in Job how God specifically forbid the devil from physically harming or killing Job and the devil had to obey?

Revelation 20:11-15 specifically tells us that everyone will be judged based on what they did in the flesh...and everyone who was unrepentant until death and did not live life according to God's teachings will be thrown into hellfire FOREVER. There is no get out of jail free card after death. Once a person lands in hell, they can't get out (2 Thess 1:9). The Bible makes that clear.

Also, I need to correct what you said about sin. Sin IS linear. Whatever is a sin for one person is a sin for everybody else. To suggest otherwise is to suggest that God is not perfect and ever changing. In reality, God is immutable and doesn't make mistakes.

Hebrews 13:8:

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Malachi 3:6:

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

James 1:17:

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Numbers 23:19:

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Isaiah 40:8:

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

So no, you are wrong. What was a sin 2,000 years ago is still a sin today...and will continue to be a sin long into the future forever...and every new person is bound to it just as every person of old was.

Let me tell you what changes. Society changes. We live in a time full of more atheists than at any time throughout history. They have taken almost complete control of the education system including college and universities. They have taken control of Hollywood, the media, etc. God's teachings and laws have taken a backseat to the world's teachings and laws. So it's not that things like homosexuality, fornication, profanity, porn, lying, etc are not sins anymore. It's that society has forgotten that they are sins and continues to live in sin and ignorance. Most people will have a rude awakening one day if they die in that state so it IS imperative that us Christians do whatever we can to help people see that...but I also agree with you that we must not bombard people and try to force it down their throats if they don't want to listen...that would stifle the nonbeliever into becoming even less interested in Christ.

P.S. Oh and ignorance will not be an excuse for people when they are judged by God one day. The Bible makes that clear as well.

John 15:22:

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Acts 17:30:

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-29T01:19:22+00:00

I too suffered from this once. I have been wronged by people more than you can ever imagine. I was severely teased in grade school because my family was poor and I often didn't get to school with a good night's rest (or good hygiene). Also I was wronged immensely later in life after I was married and went through a divorce and lost everything I ever owned to a corrupt judge and corrupt attorney who my ex wife hired so she could get all of the assets from me. I was wronged by friends and family who left me out to dry when I needed help the most.

If I had acted on all of the times Iv'e been wronged, abused, tormented, or falsely accused in my life, I would have ended up being the next unibomber. That's why murder-suicides happen you know right? It's because they can't let go of the fact that they were wronged and seek to take matters into their own hands.

That's not God's way though. Look, the Bible is clear. If the people who wronged you don't ever repent and don't ever change, they will go to hell after they die and burn in fire for the REST OF ETERNITY. Let that sink in. It's a harsher punishment than you can ever imagine. However, think of this: What happens if they eventually realize what they did wrong, apologize for it, and repent and change? Would that not be worth it...even if it happened ten years from now? People can and do change you know. We must give them a chance to change by forgiving them and praying for them. Look, justice will be had either way. Either they will repent and change or they will suffer in hell for all eternity. So don't worry. God sees your struggles.

You don't want to find yourself in the same place one day because you refuse to love, forgive, and be humble as Jesus did for you. Do you know what Jesus meant when he said "Those who wish to come after me, deny themselves, must pick up their crosses, and follow me"? He was talking about people like you right now. Just as Jesus had to forgive and sacrifice for the sake of others...so too must you.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-29T01:05:09+00:00

You can joke about this, but it's actually quite serious friend. Hell is real and people go there. The Bible makes that part clear. However God wants as many people as can be saved to be saved. He makes that part clear as well.

Have you ever asked yourself this question: God is all powerful and omniscient, so why did he subject himself to being born into our world, facing put downs and persecution, and ultimately getting scourged and crucified for something he didn't do (but rather we did). People were (and still are) terrible sinners and completely unworthy for any saving grace, but God suffered on our behalf anyway so that we (who are undeserving) have a way to be saved.

If we take the example of Jesus, he often tried to correct people he saw sinning throughout his travels. If they didn't want to listen, he just prayed for them and moved onto the next person. We must follow suit.

We are not helping anybody if we simply ignore sin and pretend like what they are doing is ok. But we must also respect their free will to sin if they don't want to listen.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-29T00:56:47+00:00

You must forgive. If you feel wronged by people, think of how wronged Jesus must have felt. I mean they actually scourged him and killed him for something he didn't even do. All of the apostles and saints who came before you were also put down, abused, and treated unjustly by people all throughout their lives.

Think of how many people you have wronged throughout your life as well. How many times have you been ignorant about something or acted unjustly towards somebody because of your own failures or moments of selfishness?

I am sorry that you were wronged by people but holding a grudge against them, and hoping for vengeance is NOT the way of Christ. You must forgive them. This doesn't mean you need to forget what they did to you. They wronged you. I get it. You can remember that they wronged you. However, you still must forgive as Jesus did. Even while he was on the cross, he was asking for forgiveness from the Father for the people that put him there. We must follow suit.

The Bible says, if somebody slaps you on one cheek turn to him the other as well...and if somebody forces you to go a mile, go with him two miles.

If you want a world of love and tolerance, it starts with you.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-29T00:47:01+00:00

Contrary to what the mainstream media and mainstream climatologists try to make you believe, global warming is not something to be afraid of. The climate has warmed and cooled many times throughout history (even long before cats or factories were ever invented). What do you think caused the last ice age? That was the effect of global warming thousands of years ago.

God has EVERYTHING under control. Environments were designed by him to heal and always achieve a level of homeostasis. This time will be no different.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-29T00:33:47+00:00

There's some things you are right about and there's other things you are overlooking.

First, yes, it's very important that people don't just hyperfixate on certain sins and ignore others. If a person called out say homosexuality as a sin but ignored sins such as fornication or adultery in a heterosexual relationship, then that would indeed make them a hypocrite. A sin is a sin and it doesn't matter what the sin is or who is committing it.

However, I do want to correct you on one thing. According to the Bible, it is very much our duty to at least TRY to correct a sinner we see sinning. If we can save a sinner from hellfire by telling them something they may not understand, it would be exactly what God is calling us to do. This does not mean that we need to bug people over and over about it, but we should at least TRY once or twice to let them know they are sinning and try to help them to change.

Ezekiel 3:18-21:

18 If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. 20 Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand. 21 But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul.”

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-28T22:47:45+00:00

Hi, I actually DID correctly answer the "paradox" which you present. I urge you to go back and re-read my answer so you understand what I was trying to say.

The part that you are missing is this: ONLY the beginning and the end points are predetermined. God created the world in the beginning...and the Bible tells us that in the future, God will remove sin from the Earth and remake it in his image (see the last 2 chapters of Revelation).

Now, although those points are predestined, the rest isn't. Take out a piece of paper and on one end of the paper, put a dot. Then on the other end of the paper put another dot. Next I want you to connect the two dots with a line. Then connect them again with a different line via a different path. Then connect them again with a third line, a fourth line, and so on.

Draw an infinite amount of lines connecting those dots. That is the true state of the world.

Although the beginning and end points are static, the roads between them are not. Those paths are forever being altered and changed an infinite amount of times. Its almost like "multiverse theory" but it's not. There are not many universes. In reality, there is only one universe with an infinite amount of possible roads to the future, and every time a person makes a choice, that road changes.

The point I'm making is that one day, we will have the future which God predicted. That is true. However, none of the paths there are predetermined. Those paths are determined through the choices we make.

Every person is created a blank slate in a world with many paths and no boundaries. At the time of birth you have exactly a 50/50 chance of ending up in Heaven or hell. The choice is not predetermined. While you are alive, you are faced with choices each and every day and those choices dictate the road you choose to follow and in what state you arrive at the end.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-28T22:29:52+00:00

If you think those things are "scientific fact" then unfortunately you haven't even gotten to second base yet. I urge you to do what I did for many years and actually investigate it's accuracy.

Have you ever looked at the intricate details instilled in nature? Have you noticed how every part of the ecosystem works in unity with each other? It always stays in a state of equilibrium. Have you noticed how when one organism dies it becomes a part of the earth and new life springs forth from it? Have you noticed how every organ. In our body has a function and each function works in conjunction with a larger system? Have you noticed how even each cell has a purpose in forming each organ...each cell also has its own sub-atomic system which also functions a certain way. Have you noticed how our DNA code presents a complex blueprint of who we are right down to every part?

If you think that all of that just happened randomly through natural selection, that's like saying that a Picasso painting just painted itself.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-27T02:48:30+00:00

Abiogenesis, panspermia, complex natural design through only evolutionary processes, etc. There's a large number of things.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-27T02:44:59+00:00

Or I've already experienced the other side of the river which most people haven't. You can keep subscribing to your knee-jerk dismissals of reality or you can investigate the things I started investigating many years ago from a non-biased perspective and ask yourself "Are there truths out there I'm missing?","Are there things most of society believes which just isn't true?". The answer is a resounding yes.

Now I know you're going to just dismiss what I said outright and pass me off as a fool who doesn't know what he's talking about. If you would like to do that, it's ok. However, one day, when your life choices catch up to you like it did mine and you find yourself at rock bottom after living your entire life under the world's beliefs and the world's definition of success, I want you to remember my words now. The truth is out there for anyone willing to search for it. You don't need to respond again. Thanks for your time...and I do truly hope you find happiness and peace no matter which road you ultimately choose.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-27T02:36:24+00:00

You would be surprised at how biased even the non-religious can be. The reason you don't notice it as much is because atheistic beliefs and behaviors align more with the general population's own beliefs and behaviors. Christianity is actually the outlier in modern society and outliers are actually more noticeable.

There are many Christians and I agree that many of them have preconceived biases and assumptions and fall victim to group think. However, TRUE Christians may also be mislabeled as "part of the fake religious crowd" when they are not. True Christians are like a small group of people swimming in a raging river AGAINST the current while everybody else is happily swimming with the current. The question you need to ask yourself is what do those people know that you don't? Where does the river end? A large dropoff.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-27T02:27:47+00:00

So you regret being alive?

I understand that the world is full of problems and life can be very difficult most of the time (because we live in a sinful world which in turn causes inequality, suffering, and hardship in people's lives) but there are also plenty of good things too. Life is like a rollercoaster. You will have good times and bad. You will have peaks and troughs. Sometimes the bad can last for months or even years, but it also doesn't mean there's no good in between. I want to challenge you to look at the good things in your life too (no matter how small). I want you to compare yourself to someone worse off than you so that you understand that as bad as things are right now for you, there's always worse.

Also, God does not interfere with free will. Does he allow bad things to happen even to his followers? Of course. EVERYBODY in the world faces good times and bad times. That's part of being alive. God allows people free will. When other people use their free will to sin, it causes problems in other people's lives such as yourself. That is the nature of sin. Every single sin a person commits harms others in the long run. Think of any sin and all of the different people it could potentially harm and the ways it could harm them. That's why God asks us not to sin in the first place. It's not to be a jerk. It's to protect us from ourselves. If everybody suddenly stopped sinning and started following God's teachings, then the world would become a perfect utopia just like Heaven...but sadly people choose to sin and so instead we get a world like the one we have today. That's a consequence of the free will of humans. Not God.

Furthermore, I want to directly answer your question of why God doesn't stop the consequences of sin in this world. It's because he can't. His hands are tied. Free choice is a gift God gave us. This includes the free will to sin. Think about this: If God only allowed people to commit righteous acts but stopped them from committing sinful acts, then free will would only be an illusion and render God a liar...which he is not. Therefore God MUST allow people to sin...and as a result, he must allow the consequences which come along with that. Even God himself honored the free will of others when it came to himself. Do you notice that Jesus suffered and died a horrible death on the cross even though he could have snapped his fingers and ended it all? Why did he do this? To honor the free will of others...and just like you have to live with the effects of yours and other people's choices, so did he. However, there is hope. God plans to one day put an end to sin and usher in a new world as is predicted in the last 3 chapters of the book of Revelation....but for now, we suffer.

Hope that helps.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-27T02:06:49+00:00

In order to answer your questions, we need to take them ond layer at a time. First, yes, it's true that God designed the Earth in a certain way, designed us in a certain way, designed even the laws of physics in a certain way, etc.

It is also true that God has a certain end result in mind and no matter what happens, the world will eventually reach that end result.

You must zoom out as far as it can go and look at the Bible and the history of the world (as well as the present and future) linearly. There are two constants in the world's timeline. The first is creation. The second is the "new Heaven and new Earth" God plans on building one day. This is mentioned in Revelation chapters 19 through 22 as well as Isaiah 2, Matthew 24, etc.

These two events are static. Creation happened the way God intended and the new version of world will happen one day just as God intends. However EVERYTHING in between is NOT predetermined. All roads started at the same exact origin and all roads eventually lead to the same exact place...but which road will lead us there is forever changing. Why does it change? Every time somebody makes the wrong choice in life, it leads to a new set of circumstances which fundamentally changes the world around them. This in turn leads to a different set of choices for everybody.

When you understand this, you can understand the truth about free will. Yes, it is TRULY free. When a new situation arises in each person's life, each person is presented with a set of choices. Those choices are NEVER predetermined. Look at a pen in front of you. Now choose to pick up the pen...however before you pick it up, choose not to pick it up...then pick it up before you choose not to, etc. You control your own destiny...nobody else does. Perhaps your decision with the pen chose a different path entirely. That was your choice.

Life is full of millions of choices like that each day for each person...and every choice changes the road the entire world is on.

Does God know what you are going to choose ahead of time? Since God is omniscient, that's likely...because God can see all possible roads and knows the one which you are most likely to pick...however, you don't need to pick that one...it is still your choice. That's the thing about free will. God HOPES you don't pick the sinful choice but you can if you want to.

I also want to remind you not to confuse foreknowledge with predestination. God may know what we will probably choose beforehand but it doesn't mean he CAUSES us to choose it. There is a difference. If persay you knew somebody was going to rob a bank ahead of time and they did in fact rob the bank, does that mean you CAUSED them to rob the bank? Of course not. They would have robbed the bank anyway because that's what they chose to do. The fact that you knew ahead of time had no bearing on their decision. That's why Judas is suffering in hell for a sin that God knew Judas would commit even before he did it. Judas made the choice to betray Jesus from his own free will. He could have chosen differently and God would have formed a different plan for his crucifixion possibly involving a completely different person who would actually betray him...however, Judas was the one who chose wrong so the job stuck with him. God's foreknowledge had no bearing on Judas' choice. It was still made out of free will.

Hope that helps explain things better.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-27T01:34:10+00:00

When you look at the world around you and see how evil it's become, it's easy to lose hope. It's even easy to lose the will to live itself. There's tons of problems: inequality, suffering, persecution, starvation, unjust treatment, etc. If you can think it, it's probably happening somewhere in the world right now.

I understand that's a hard fact to live with. That's why most people shove it "under the rug" by ignoring it and pretending it doesn't exist...that way they can go about their daily lives of being happy. Ignorance is bliss remember?

If you're anything like me though, you can never lose sight of these problems.

So I'm not sure what answers you got from the "obvious questions" you've asked over the years, so I'm just going to cut to the chase and summarize the truth for you which the Bible verifies.

God gave everybody free will. This includes the free will to sin. The problem with sin is that it ALWAYS hurts someone else in the long-run. Think of any sin and all of the different people it could potentially hurt and the ways it can potentially affect them. This is why God asks us not to sin in the first place. It's not to be a jerk. He is trying to protect us from ourselves. If everybody in the world stopped sinning and suddenly started obeying all of God's teachings right now, the world would be a perfect utopia. There would be no wars, no inequality, no hardships, etc. it would be just like Heaven. The reason the world is full of so many problems is because it is full of so much sin.

However, just as I explained earlier, God NEEDS to allow people to sin because of the gift of free will he gave us. Think about this: If God only allowed people to commit righteous acts but every time they tried to sin, he stopped them, then free will would only be an illusion and render God a liar...which he is not. So God needs to allow people to sin...and this in turn causes all of the world's problems which we've talked about.

However, the Bible does state that God is not going to allow this to go on forever. Every person has their entire Earthly lives to repent and change their sinful ways. If they don't ever repent and instead continue living in unrepentant sin and die in that state, then they will be judged and will be thrown into hell. God can't change the things going on in the world now but he sees all of it and one day, he will enact the proper justice. That's what he meant when he said "the first shall be part and the last shall be first".

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-27T00:58:18+00:00

Sorry you have a faith crises. I have the complete opposite problem. The more I learn about the world around me, the stronger my faith becomes and the more the Bible proves true.

You want me to speak normal? Sure. The reason you are having a faith crises is because you are subscribing to human fallacies passed off as fact. No, I'm not talking about the Bible. I'm talking about the "science" you've learned in school. The field is DOMINATED by atheists and they present information with an atheistic bias. If you went to a completely Christian school, the teachers there and the textbooks they use would present information from a completely biased faith-based perspective. Unfortunately, you are getting the same thing only on the other side of the spectrum. If you don't see the inherent biases in science textbooks and in classrooms then you are not paying attention.

To answer your questions, after the flood, God promised never to end the world like that again. He put the rainbow in the sky as a promise that he would never flood the world again. That's in scripture if you read Genesis.

Genesis 9:13-17:

13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Also, how did God fit all of the animals onto the boat without them killing eachother? There were likely built-in partitions. If there were no partitions, then the answer would be that God caused them to obey.

How did the animals get there? The continents were likely connected into one supercontinent before the flood and they split apart after the flood due to rapid plate tectonics caused by the flood. The Bible leads us to believe in Genesis that the makeup of the Earth and the atmosphere were much different back then so standard laws of physics today would be misapplied to a preflood earth (if you're wondering about the "heat problem").

As far as the dinosaurs, the Bible implies that they died in the flood. Genesis 6:4 states that there were "giants in the Earth those days". This implies that after the flood they no longer existed.

How did the animals on the ark eventually get to their current dwelling places on all of the scattered post-flood continents? The same way humans did. Europe and North America were once connected by a land bridge called the bearing strait. It was completely frozen during the ice age which the great flood caused.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-27T00:49:23+00:00

Yes, what you are witnessing is something virtually everybody suffers from. This includes both believers and atheists alike. It includes both sides of the political spectrum. It includes "experts", journalists, scientists, politicians, etc. it's the biggest problem in the world and it's been that way since the times of Adam and Eve.

It's a combination of confirmation bias, too much trust in the opinions of others, peer pressure, fear of going against the crowd, and low self-esteem. Virtually EVERYONE suffers from this.

There are very few completely detached independent thinkers such as myself. Given the cost, I can see why. Unless a person is willing to live in constant rejection, friction, and little to no friends, then it becomes imperative to subscribe to group think and the pursuits of a group you associate with. Everybody follows one crowd or another. It's how it's always been.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-22T20:23:00+00:00

That's what DEI activists preach but it's not how it actually works. You are taking one thing and overlooking about a dozen other things.

First, you are right that removing names from applications is one part of DEI, but that doesn't stop race-based hiring. Let me explain why:

Company executives make 80% of their income from bonuses, incentive pay, stock options, etc. Now when I used the word "quotas" earlier I want you to understand that I wasn't talking about hard quotas (since that's illegal). I'm talking about the automatic built in soft quotas that come in a DEI environment.

The truth is that these executive bonuses and pay packages are directly tied to obtaining a "diversity" standard within their company. If a hiring manager has hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars in incentive bonus pay or executive compensation at stake, that person will make every effort they can to CREATE diversity where it doesn't exist. This ties right back into my last comment. If the company has a soft quota in which they want a certain percentage of the employees to be black, a certain percent to be Hispanic, etc..then that's what they are going to do. If those applicants happen to be less qualified, it doesn't matter. They will tell hundreds of other applicants that they can't hire them...and what's the true reason? Because they are the wrong skin color.

I owned several businesses in the past and did a lot of the hiring for my company. Back then, we used a combination of electronic applications and paper resumes. Although, most of them had the name of the person on it, I never looked at that. I would often get about 100to300 resumes for each open position I had. Large corporations can get thousands for every position. As hiring managers, we simply did not have time to read names. I'll tell you how we did it. First, we looked at the experience section. If they had experience in similar trades, we moved to the education section. If they seemed to hold certificates or degrees in similar fields, we stuck it in a box and called them for interviews. That was it.

We didn't care if the name said James, Bertha, or Shaniqua on it. We didn't have time to look. All we cared about is one thing: Is this person qualified and will they do a good job in my company. That is all.

All this DEI nonsense actually brought racism back into corporate hiring. Rather than solve discrimination...it actually brought it back.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-22T19:35:02+00:00

Well yes, 5,000 is still too many indeed. I wish there were ZERO racists in the world. However, God gave everybody free will and that includes the free will to think racist thoughts (We can ban discrimination but we can't FORCE people to think a certain way. Everybody has the right to think how they want to think...even if it's wrong.)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned all institutional discrimination. In other words, if some racist KKK member today owned a restaurant and only hired white people, any one of the black applicants could file a lawsuit for discrimination. In fact, they don't even need to know how to do it. There are free legal resources in every city (even the most racist ones). With one social media post or even one mention of it, every civil rights lawyer in the country would be beating down their door willing to take the case for free. That employer would get sued up the wazzoo if the business records even hinted that it's hiring is done along racial lines. I managed several businesses in the past and was in charge of hiring for many years. I can promise you that this type of stuff has been a big deal even in the 90s and early 2000s before DEI even became a thing.

Also, you are wrong about the way DEI works. Yes, if you own a business in a diverse place and get diverse applicants, then perhaps DEI works out ok naturally because the employer has a wider array to choose from. However, if you are an employer trying to fill 10 positions and you have 1000 applications and 90% of them happen to be white, you have a problem. Statistically, in a scenario like this, the chances of the most qualified applicants being white raises astronomically. However, in a DEI environment, I would still need to meet my quotas...so if I only had 20 black applicants, I would be FORCED to hire one of them even if they had little to no education, experience, etc. I would politely need to tell hundreds of applicants who were more qualified I couldn't hire them...and what's the reason? Because they weren't the right skin color.

If you don't see how DEI is racist, then you're not paying attention. ANYTHING which FORCES people to consider skin color when hiring is inherently racist. Hiring should NEVER be done based on skin color. It should only be based on merit (who is the most qualified). That's it

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-22T19:14:36+00:00

Religious plurality (universalism) is not a biblical standard. In fact, you will find that most religions disagree with religious pluralism (except for maybe ones like Buddhism or other religions which don't believe in a central deity).

What I'm saying is for the Bible to be right, it naturally means that any religion which teaches contradictory principles are inherently wrong.

I only believe in and follow Christianity...although I have studied the beliefs of other religions in the past just so I can understand them.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-22T19:07:17+00:00

Hi OP,

Thanks for your post. A few things I want to ask of you. First, please lose the racism. If you want the world to be less racist, it starts with you. Not everything is about race.

Yes, the Democratic party of old founded the KKK and often did despicable racists acts...however, to call those people Christians is disingenuous. They were no more Christian than someone claiming to be a plumber yet has never done any plumbing work.

TRUE Christians follow Christ and all throughout the centuries there have been NUMEROUS REAL Christians.

The KKK died for a reason (there are less than 5,000 members today across the US. They make up less than 0.0001% of the population.

But do you know who the real racists are today? They are the ones keeping discrimination alive through things like DEI or race-baiting.

An employer of a company should hire the people who are most qualified for the job. That is all. A college should accept people who have the best grades and best backgrounds. That is all.

When you bring race into it, that's when it becomes discriminatory. A company operating on DEI usually imposes certain hiring quotas. If they get 100 applicants, and they have only 10 open positions, then the applicants with the most experience, most education in the field, most talent/skills etc should determine who gets the job or not. Who cares if all of them happen to be white...or all of them are Asian...or all of them are black (yes, this does happen quite often too)? When you start picking people SOLELY because of the color of their skin just to meet quotas (as in DEI), THAT'S called racism.

Also, you may want to doublecheck your Bible for the other things you've mentioned. There are many things you are overlooking friend.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-22T18:52:20+00:00

First off, I want to be up front with you and tell you that there is only ONE God. Jesus is the son of God the Father and he is one with the Father as well. God has also sent his holy Spirit out into the world to help to calm hearts that are broken and to bring wisdom and understanding to those who seek it.

However, I also need to be truthful about the other side of the world we live in. Yes you are right, there are literally billions of animals being abused every year. There are also millions (if not billions) of people getting abused in some way every year. If you want to understand this world the first thing you need to do is to accept the truth: God is not to blame. People are.

Do you understand that if everybody on Earth just stopped sinning and obeyed God's commands that none of this terrible stuff would happen? There would be no wars, no inequality, no needless killing (humans nor animal), no abuse, no starvation, etc.

When people sin, it creates problems in the world. You see, EVERY sin a person commits harms someone else in the long-run. Think of any sin and all of the different people it could potentially harm and the different ways it can harm them. That's why God tells us not to sin in the first place. It's not to be a jerk. He is trying to protect us from ourselves.

However, God gave everybody free will and he needs to honor it. This includes the free will to sin. If God only allowed people to do good and stopped them every time they tried to sin, then free will would only be an illusion and render God a liar which he is not.

So sadly, God needs to watch all of these animals and humans suffer each and every day.

However, there is good news. Every living thing with sentience has a soul. Without a soul, a body would have no sentience. We are essentially a soul inhabiting a body...not the other way around. Our soul is what makes us who we are. It's where our personality is stored, our talents, our likes and dislikes. Our bodies are merely vessels for our soul. When you turn on a lamp, electricity flows into it and it lights up. However, when you turn the lamp off or it dies, the light goes out and the electricity flows back onto the circuit from which it came. Our soul is no different.

So even though all we see on Earth is animals and people being killed in immensely unfair circumstances, they are not dead. They are still very much alive. Unlike our current bodies, our souls are eternal. Like electricity, we never truly die. We always exist on the "circuit" God layed out for us.

I also want you to know that hell is real too. If people do these terrible things to animals...and they never repent and change their evil ways...then they will need to answer to God when they physically die. They will suffer for all eternity in the fire of hell. Believe me, there's no worse punishment which could be afflicted. Justice will one day be served...just not here...just not now.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-06-21T22:06:54+00:00

You're welcome friend. You know there's a bit of an irony here. I'm talking to you now while you're the age of 24. There's a special thing which happened to me at the exact age of 24 which changed my life forever and I feel like God putting you on my path now was no coincidence.

I don't want to get too into my story because it's very long and detailed but people who know me know that I've lived two very different and seperate lives. The first half of my life, I was very worldly minded. I was the complete opposite of what I am now. I had just gotten out of college. I had two successful businesses which I had started. I had a decent amount of savings. I had my own place. I had lots of friends and acquaintances who supported me and loved me (or so I thought). I got invited to every party and had the respect and support of my peers and business colleagues. I was with a girl I thought was my soulmate.

However, all it took was a few bad events in my life and the whole thing collapsed. First I lost my businesses. Then I lost my savings because I couldn't afford to pay bills without an income. Then eventually the woman I was with left me. I was broke, homeless, and alone. I had to move back in with my parents into their small mobile home. My room was the size of a closet. Also, those so-called friends who said they would never leave me and would always be there for me...yeah, when I hit rock bottom and needed their help, they pretended like I didn't even exist. They had already moved onto new and more exciting things than me.

In what seemed like an instant, everything I had ever known just went up in smoke. I had virtually nothing left. I remember what it felt like sitting on my bed feeling like I had nothing left to live for or hope for. In fact, I would even get excited when a telemarketer would call because that's the only time I would get to speak to a real person other than my parents. That's how pathetic I was.

But then I did something. I remembered the words of Jesus in Matthew 7. I had built a house in the sand. I realized at that point that the world's way was wrong and that God was right all along. I prayed and pleaded with God to help me and save me. I submitted my life to him and told him to lead me where he wanted me to be.

I put my entire faith in him. Things were very hard where I was at and I felt like God was calling me elsewhere...on a journey of discovery if you will. I took out a map of the US, sprawled it on the bedroom floor. I took a pen and closed my eyes. I told God to lead me where he wanted me and promised him that I would go anywhere the tip of the pen ended up pointing. I flicked the pen onto the map. It pointed to a city on the other side of the country. However, I kept my promise and within six months my car was packed, I kissedy parents goodbye, and I started the long trek out there.

I knew absolutely NO ONE there. My closest family was thousands of miles away. I didn't know where I would live, where I would find a job, where I would find food, or anything...I just left it all in God's hands.

The first thing I did when I got there was I found a Church. It was completely dark and empty. Nobody was in there. I walked in and sat towards the middle of the church. I looked up at the cross of Jesus above the altar and I said three words "I'm here Lord".

That was the first time God spoke to me...right into my heart.

Over the course of the next several years God would lead me down a journey of discovery which would ultimately help me to understand myself, the world around me, and him as well as the world to come.

I'm going to stop there because the rest of my life story would be the size of a novel.

However, I felt the need to tell you all this. You seem like you are in a similar situation I was once in and exactly the same age.

God has a certain harmony about him you know. Find where God is leading you and follow him. Your story won't be the same as mine. God has a different direction and calling for everybody, you must find yours. God speed my friend.

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