Creationism at it's finest!

[Eastoff]

http://www.newseveryday.com/article...eveal-how-our-ancestors-evolved-onto-land.htm

Isn't Creationism majestic?

 

[magnifier661]

Yes God is good

 

[crowTrobot]

Yes God is good

define good. skilled? beneficial? well-behaved?

 

[magnifier661]

define good. skilled? beneficial? well-behaved?

omnibenevolent

 

[MarAzul]

http://www.newseveryday.com/article...eveal-how-our-ancestors-evolved-onto-land.htm

Isn't Creationism majestic?

Your intuition must be much more active than mine. Since the article did not mention creation and nothing in it cause me to think of it, but then, somehow you did.

 

[Eastoff]

Your intuition must be much more active than mine. Since the article did not mention creation and nothing in it cause me to think of it, but then, somehow you did.

I was being a smart-ass. =[ Sorry.

 

[BlazerWookee]

It's "its finest."

Just sayin'...

 

[Eastoff]

It's "its finest."

Just sayin'...

Yes, I know the difference, but I was too excited to post. I did not think it through.

 

[MarAzul]

Yes, I know the difference, but I was too excited to post. I did not think it through.

I am going to have the Wook edit my book.

 

[crowTrobot]

omnibenevolent

define benevolent without using the word good...

I always wonder what theists mean by God is good. It's such a vague, anthropecentric thing to say.

 

[MarAzul]

define benevolent without using the word good...

I always wonder what theists mean by God is good. It's such a vague, anthropecentric thing to say.

I can't find that in the dictionary.

Did you mean "anthropocentric"?

 

[magnifier661]

define benevolent without using the word good...

I always wonder what theists mean by God is good. It's such a vague, anthropecentric thing to say.

That's like trying to describe green without the color green.

God being omnibenevolent is full of love, pure morality, true grace. I guess I summarized it enough.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

A gorrilla's erection is just over one inch long, and that humans are the most endowed of all primates.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

A gorrilla's erection is just over one inch long, and that humans are the most endowed of all primates.

Male humans suffering from rabies can sometimes ejaculate uncontrollably up to 30 times a day.

 

[julius]

That's like trying to describe green without the color green.

Easy.
a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass or of the emerald or is that of the part of the spectrum lying between blue and yellow.

No where did that say the word "green".

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Easy.
a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass or of the emerald or is that of the part of the spectrum lying between blue and yellow.

No where did that say the word "green".

It's not easy being green.

[video=youtube;57ta7mkgrOU]

 

[crowTrobot]

That's like trying to describe green without the color green.

Green is not vague. It's a word we use for the specific visual sensation humans experience when they observe a certain wavelength of light.

"Good" without any qualifiers on the other hand is just vague. And when it's defined with any precision it seems to become a highly anthropocentric concept.

God being omnibenevolent is full of love, pure morality, true grace. I guess I summarized it enough.

Love, morality, grace are all also extremely vague concepts, defined differently by different people.

My theory is that when most Christians or other theists say "God is good" they are subconsciously actually referring to their feelings in some sense, rather than mentally formulating a specific meaning of the phrase or specific definition of good. Your analogy suggesting you mean something you can't begin to describe would support this. No offense or anything, I'm just fascinated by psychological non-cognitive language stuff.

 

[magnifier661]

Easy.
a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass or of the emerald or is that of the part of the spectrum lying between blue and yellow.

No where did that say the word "green".

Easy or is it easy just to say "green"?

 

[magnifier661]

Green is not vague. It's a word we use for the specific visual sensation humans experience when they observe a certain wavelength of light.

"Good" without any qualifiers on the other hand is just vague. And when it's defined with any precision it seems to become a highly anthropocentric concept.



Love, morality, grace are all also extremely vague concepts, defined differently by different people.

My theory is that when most Christians or other theists say "God is good" they are subconsciously actually referring to their feelings in some sense, rather than mentally formulating a specific meaning of the phrase or specific definition of good. Your analogy suggesting you mean something you can't begin to describe would support this. No offense or anything, I'm just fascinated by psychological non-cognitive language stuff.

Love is hardly a vague concept. Just as Julius used some technical description of green. Because if you believe love is vague, then you don't believe in it

 

[crowTrobot]

Love is hardly a vague concept. Just as Julius used some technical description of green. Because if you believe love is vague, then you don't believe in it

I don't believe love as it refers to the human emotion is vague.

However when you say "God is full of love" or whatever, that's getting into extremely vague territory. Are you saying God experiences emotion similar to humans?

 

[magnifier661]

I don't believe love as it refers to the human emotion is vague.

However when you say "God is full of love" or whatever, that's getting into extremely vague territory. Are you saying God experiences emotions similar to humans?

Pardon me for a day. I am tripping on CID. We can have this debate later