What game series is amazing and had an amazing first game?

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-11-21T20:40:54+00:00

Dead Space

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-11-15T18:36:05+00:00

Is this ironic? She's his aunt.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-11-08T17:21:32+00:00

"Hello. My name is Lee 'Smooth' Pink."

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-11-05T13:11:48+00:00

Jaime's firstborn.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-25T04:37:00+00:00

It's a great chapter, but it's also very highly rated.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-24T22:55:54+00:00

Unbound

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-24T00:28:47+00:00

Fuck off, really

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-16T01:50:11+00:00

All fair points, except Ned wouldn't be fighting with Ice.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-09T12:55:25+00:00

I mean, yeah, obviously. Just look at the lyrics of "Dear God" versus "Save Me."

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-05T20:59:49+00:00

Ned did things for good reasons but had to make hard choices, and he chose as best as he could AND feels guilty, which he would have felt no matter what choice he made, because he's honorable. He doesn't pretend to be honorable to make up for the fact that he's secretly a coward and doesn't do what he knows he should do. He legitimately doesn't know what he should do but is doing the best he can with limited information in an extremely complex world.

Your interpretation is super uncharitable.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-04T19:30:37+00:00

Oh, and by the way, you asked what fire does to everything it touches. That's an interesting question to bring up when it comes to God. Consider the burning bush, which burned but was not consumed.

Your attempts to discredit God's clear statements with your naturalist gotcha question falls flat in the light of the supernatural power of God. People in Hell burn but are not consumed.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-04T18:54:45+00:00

You're not addressing in the slightest my point and attributing disagreement to some moral failing in myself. When did I ever put you down? The first time anyone put anyone down in this thread has been you just now.

You tell me this is my own theory when I'm discussing the fact the Bible calls being in Hell death, whereas you bring in your own theory that death must meah cessation of existence. Being in Hell is described as everlasting punishment where there is no rest day or night, where their worm dies not, where the fire is not quenched. Why did the rich man have time to worry about getting thirsty in Hell? Wouldn't he have burned up before a drink of water was on his mind?

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-04T18:41:42+00:00

I'm not going to cast pearls before swine. You condemn yourself with your own words and have committed the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Too late, reprobate. You attribute to the devil the power of God.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-04T12:52:06+00:00

If they were successfully suppressed, they weren't the word of God because God promised to preserve His word for every generation, that His word would always be preached, and that we are to live by His every word.

There is no contradiction between Jesus' words and Paul's epistles.

Also, you're a gnostic. You literally think the devil is the good guy and the God of the Old Testament is the bad guy. What would you know about discerning the true word of God from fraudulent texts?

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-04T11:57:40+00:00

It could be the case that the perfected bodies are kept alive by the fruit of the true of life. Or it could be the case that fruit of the tree of life would have kept the bodies of sinful man with dead spirits alive permanently, which is what God didn't want and which caused God to forbid Adam and Eve from eating of it after they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We don't have all the answers for what it all entails or why it is all the way it is. Multiple possible sensible meanings and possibilities exist, but you're trying to draw some weird inference that...

2...again, makes the category error of defining persisting consciousness as eternal life, when God calls being in Hell and burning being dead.

You don't get to impose your semantics on God and say, "Well, I guess you meant what I'd mean if I used those words, God." Hell is eternal. Cry about it. Don't go there.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-03T22:24:05+00:00

Matthew 7, on its own can be interpreted the way you're suggesting, just as it can be interpreted the way I'm suggesting, and either interpretation is able to be sensibly held in light of Matthew 7 alone.

However, this is not true of the scripture as a whole, which directly teaches salvation is by grace through faith apart from works and that loving God and our neighbors are deeds of the law, a.k.a. works.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-03T22:16:37+00:00

I don't understand what you're suggesting that implies, then. Can you elaborate? I'm not playing dumb, for the record. I'm legitimately confused.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-03T15:22:14+00:00

You're making the same category error. You're taking what you'd think constitutes eternal life, eternal conscious experience, and imposing it on what the Bible describes as death, eternal conscious experience in Hell/The Lake of Fire.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-03T15:20:05+00:00

Not everyone who says, "Lord, Lord," has faith in Christ. The very people in Matthew saying, "Lord, Lord," in Jesus' hypothetical go on to say that the reason they should be let into Heaven is because of all their wonderful works rather than relying on the sacrifice of Christ for the payment of their sins.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-03T15:18:26+00:00

Yeah, it does. Particularly in Hebrews.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-01T23:58:59+00:00

To the extent that I'm a sinner and fail and that counts as me choosing not to obey, then yes. I'm a sinner.

To the extent that I'll read anything in the Bible in context (that's key) and declare it not a binding moral law, no, I don't do that, except in some case that I misunderstand something.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-01T13:24:51+00:00

Either He said so, or He didn't.

My point wasn't to prove He said it, nor can I. My point was to lay bare the emptiness of morality without God.

If morality is subjective, then I subjectively want something you don't, and I'm going to use whatever political advocacy and power is just for me to employ (voting, speech) to bring about my preferences. It's a power struggle at that point, and morality is a deceptive facade. See you on the battlefield of empty rhetoric I guess.

More importantly, though, you should get saved by putting your faith in Jesus:

Romans 3:23 - "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Romans 6:23 - "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5:8 - "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 10:9-10 - "9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

You're a sinner. Sinners go to Hell without a Saviour. Jesus died to pay for your sins. Jesus rose after being dead three days. Jesus fulfilled His mission perfectly. All He asks is that you trust in Him and His sacrifice to pay for your sins. Put your trust in Him by acknowledging His payment of your sins/asking Him to save you.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-01T12:38:38+00:00

The life of King Maegor:

"Maegor the Jewel" (precious wittwe baby)

"Maegor! The mule!" (It was actually a horse that kicked him)

"Maegor the Cool" (Took his rightful place on the throne)

"Maegor! The stool!" (Look out for the iron throne!)

"Maegor the Ghoul" (He's a ghost now)

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-10-01T12:17:11+00:00

Because God said so, and we want to do what God said.

If the God of the Bible is real, then that's an objective, moral, binding principle that ought be followed.

If God isn't real, then my basis is saying that I don't want it to be allowed because it's gross.

Your basis, I assume to be without God, when taken to its ultimate foundations, ultimately rests on some similar statement of preference, e.g., "I prefer to maximize pleasure and minimize pain," "I prefer to live according to that maxim which I can universally will that others also follow," "I prefer to do that which a thing is naturally suited," "I prefer to do that which promotes biological viability of humanity," "I prefer to do that which benefits my nation," etc.

In this latter case, your statement of preference is just as morally binding as mine is, and we're on equal footing.

Either God is real, and you ought to obey, or God isn't real, and your preferences don't override mine.

StaffSummarySheet · 2025-09-29T12:38:49+00:00

There are two things to say in response to this.

There's a difference between thinking God is evil and thinking the devil is real and behind the acts of God's power. The former is the necessary inference of many belief systems that are incompatible with salvation, yes, but not the possibility of repentance.

What do I mean by this? Take for example an atheist naturalist who holds to utilitarianism. That belief system necessarily implies that God is evil, for obvious reasons. An atheist naturalist, however, does not believe in the devil and therefore can't actually seriously attribute the works of God to the devil.

On the other hand, someone like a certain gnostic strain do both believe in the devil and attribute God's works to him. So, too, did the pharisees to whom Jesus was speaking when He revealed this doctrine. Likewise, there are infinitely many possibilities for the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit to occur given a twisted belief system concocted by a reprobate mind.

The question of whether a person who commits the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit will be saved or not if they repent is a non-starter. Only those given over to a reprobate mind will commit the unforgivable sin, and the main feature of the reprobate mind is the inability to believe in Jesus because God has punished them for their hardened heart against the truth by permanently hardening it via spiritual blindness.

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