My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Yet if adam and eve had just eaten the fruit of immortality, apparently they would have been exactly like god. That’s also in the bible. It’s almost as if there are contradictory parts and it’s full of bunk…

But definitely don’t bring that up with the american ‘christian’ or you’ll have to hear the litany of excuse attempts.

Also, if cancer and other diseases are supposed to exist and kill people for some kind of purpose we don’t understand, why do we have the ability to treat, vaccinate and cure those same diseases

Oh god, now you’ve hit on why some of the sects that we consider cults do what they do. Somehow, wearing clothes, using plows, building structures to provide shelter and warehousing, creating roads that wheeled contraptions (but they don’t have engines!) use, etc., etc., as part of our technological lives isn’t a sin, but using medical advancements is!

the third was the story of the great flood

And don’t forget the really fun part, where you can actually still see the three flood stories smashed into one if you look at the sentences.

At the other end you land in limbo if you haven’t been perfect

Slight correction, but limbo was the ‘first’ area of hell, where you just get bored forever. Purgatory was where you washed off the crusted shit on your soul and could eventually get into heaven.

Only the right half. Arminius was responsible for the left.

I don’t think many Christians would actually argue for that first point tbh.

Then truthfully, I don’t think you’ve had this conversation with many christians. Every single one immediately defaults to that point when confronted with the horrors god would be responsible for if god is in control.

I mean, ATP would be more like the batteries, yeah. The mitochondria would be the whole power plant, and the little spinny generators would be the big spinny generators.

It varies. I didn’t get the phrase parroted at me until in college, when the professor was making fun of the phrase. I bet it was some slide that was created by a teaching board or textbook maker, and just copied ad nauseam.

It’s not always about the cost saving. Sometimes it’s just because it gets more customers! Brominated flour, as an example.

I think most of us do know, and that’s one reason why it’s being poo-pooed.

I mean, that’s been the standard since at least ocarina of time. I remember rolling my eyes at the other characters reading your responses back to you.