Every bad thing that happens to people is the result of their sin and their fallen status. Every member of ISIS has been given a choice: a choice to follow their own selfish desires or a choice to follow Him who Created them. Some might ask why God does not stop ISIS from committing such crimes. And yet, would we really be free to chose Sin or God if God made himself the only option? That my friend, is no freedom. We have been given the Freedom to chose Sin or Life, and if we choose Sin, we must not complain if Sin is what we get in return. ALL BAD THINGS ARE THE RESULT OF OUR FALLEN NATURE.
Yeah, utter bollocks. But your idiosyncratic capitalisation reminded me of my favourite titled person in the history of the world ever, who was the Filipino clergyman Cardinal Sin.
right, because all of those innocent people killed in the crossfire have chosen an evil path and deserve to be murdered in cold blood. Even the children that have never had the chance to make a choice in their short lives.
Nobody in this comment thread said anything about being an atheist. And they certainly didn't say that (not) announcing this was the sole reason they were taking the quiz. Are you guys only here to announce your belief in fairy tales? Some of us came to take the quiz.
"Some of us came to take the quiz..." and post unsolicited opinions and deliberately controversial commentary. Finished your quote for ya, there. You're welcome! XD
Much of what we call evil is the working out of natural laws (earthquakes, fire, disease...). These natural laws might have consequences we don't like, but the things themselves are not evil. The fact that the ground shifts in response to certain internal pressures in the earth is neither good nor evil; it is simply the consequence of the stresses in the earth's crust. The fact that something bursts into flames when the right conditions exist is neither good nor evil; it is simply the consequence of the dry air and the heat of the match. The fact that bacteria multiply in the right circumstances is neither good nor evil. So the only genuine evil is moral evil, sin. What makes an action sinful is the privation introduced by our wills. Evil is a privation; it has no being. It is the lack of due good. So God is not the cause of the existence of evil, because it is a non-being, a privation.
ChrisInAfrica - you suggest ISIS are evil lost souls who refuse to recognize your creator - but consider that they truly believe that YOU are the one who is lost, since you refuse to acknowledge their creator! Adding to the irony is the fact that "your" creator and "their" creator is the same - all "People of the Book" worship the same deity, whether they call him Yahweh, Allah, or God.
komrad: great. Thanks for sharing your unsolicited and deliberately confrontational opinion with everyone.
diva: I'm a realist. I can talk about God loving or not loving the world the same way I can talk about whether Han or Greedo shot first.
thor: if you believe that the world is controlled by natural laws then this goes against the belief that all things happen according to the will of a deity. We know for a fact that every decision we make is also subject to natural laws: the physics and chemistry of our brains. And if you believe in a creator god that is omniscient and omnipresent and exists outside of time, then this deity created the exact conditions that would lead to all suffering on the planet, whether you decide to label that suffering as natural or not. It knew exactly what would happen should it design the universe as it is and chose to go forward with that design.
It depends which version / translation of the original Star Wars text you read. There are deliberate variations and some non-deliberate errors in every version you read. In the most widely read and readily available version it states: Let Him Who Is Without Sin Take The First Shot. Clearly not Han, as he is a thief and a smuggler. But Greedo on the other hand is merely a minor antagonist whose background we can only surmise from his epithet. Is he guilty of one of the deadly sins? Obviously, this is not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any intergalactic transgressor.
Really? You don't need to be a pastor or a scholar of the KJV to ace this quiz. All of these verses are so often quoted in popular culture, literature and even every day conversation.
Translation truly does matter. I think I've read all of these quotes in 3 translations, but the one that is more modern-sounding is easier to remember.
diva: I'm a realist. I can talk about God loving or not loving the world the same way I can talk about whether Han or Greedo shot first.
thor: if you believe that the world is controlled by natural laws then this goes against the belief that all things happen according to the will of a deity. We know for a fact that every decision we make is also subject to natural laws: the physics and chemistry of our brains. And if you believe in a creator god that is omniscient and omnipresent and exists outside of time, then this deity created the exact conditions that would lead to all suffering on the planet, whether you decide to label that suffering as natural or not. It knew exactly what would happen should it design the universe as it is and chose to go forward with that design.
Your last five sentences are word salad nonsense.
"Pride goeth before destruction: and an hautie spirit before a fall."
For some reason I've apparently never heard the genesis 45:18 one before...