Exactly. "Oh, aren't these nerds just so inappropriate? Haha, laugh at them being actually broken while we frame it as normal. canned laugh track"
Atheism killed God. Who will wipe this blood off us?
dig a little deeper beyond what gets radio play and you can find some good shit.
Don't leave us hanging! What are your suggestions?
No. A negative can be proven. It's done all the time in science and mathematics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#Proving_a_negative
How do you eat a whole elephant?
One bite at a time.
Nah, talking about what kids eat compared to what their parents eat.
Smorgasbord theology
Yeah, that's what I was already pointing out in my original comment.
but it is very convenient to set up things like the older couple struck dead for not giving Peter all their money in Acts 5.
But they didn't die because they didn't give the money. They died because they said they gave all the money but hadn't. They died because they lied, not because they didn't give money.
I don't know how you can read that passage and come away with the idea that they died because they didn't give money to the church.
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
Acts 5:1-10 [emphasis mine]
[Jesus] reversed the prohibition on carrying a purse when ministering
Why can't things change across a narrative? That's like saying "Harry Potter can't be a wizard because at the start of the story he didn't have magical powers. So he can't go to wizarding school later on. This story makes no sense."
Assuming God exists, the end goal of many religions is just that, we end up in a divine state.
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Only for a few, and only those who have a gift for it, which Paul claims he had.