Junk DNA: goodbye!: Review article (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Sunday, March 22, 2015, 23:47 (3534 days ago) @ dhw

TONY: I'm no closer to God than anyone else, and please do not put those words in my mouth. I do strive to cut out habits/practices from my life that I find to be at odds wit what the bible teaches, but the only one that has the right to say who is closer and who is not is God himself, and I would not presume to claim to speak for him. That is why I try to reference the bible when talking about God.
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>DHW: I'm sorry if I offended you. You wrote: “God says: The dead are conscious of nothing.” That suggests you know or think you know God's mind. David also thinks he knows God's mind (e.g. God planned everything in advance so that he could create human beings). As a mere speculating agnostic, I must confess I am always surprised by the confidence of such beliefs, and so I'm afraid there was a gentle irony in my remark. My apologies. Perhaps the irony would have been clearer if I had said: "I'd best leave the two of you to fight over what God might have known and not known, since you both seem to know more about God's mind than I do."-I'm not offended. The key difference, I think, is that I view the bible as the divinely inspired word of God, and you don't. (Course if you did, you couldn't be agnostic...) So, when I say "God says.." it is equivalent to "it is written in the bible..."

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.