[Peter]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

Because God is perfect.

In order for God to know Himself as perfect, there must be something imperfect, ie: sinning hoardes. To remain perfect, God must punish the sin because it is imperfect. To not punish the sin would make God imperfect, as sin is evil and God is good.

If your god would be perfect, he would make a perfect planet, with perfect living creatures, because only perfect things could make other perfect things. And the planet isn't perfect (with all the wars and stuff...) so that means your theory about "a great powerful being" is wrong.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

If your god would be perfect, he would make a perfect planet, with perfect living creatures, because only perfect things could make other perfect things. And the planet isn't perfect (with all the wars and stuff...) so that means your theory about "a great powerful being" is wrong.

What an idiot you are. You really have never read the Holy Bible, have you. But you expect us to all listen to you....Pathetic.

I'll leave you with three scriptures to consider. And know that I'll be praying for Jesus to pull the scales from your eyes.

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. --Romans 14:23

God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned.--2 Th.2:11-12

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.--Isaiah 45:7

[Deaner]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

If your god would be perfect, he would make a perfect planet, with perfect living creatures, because only perfect things could make other perfect things. And the planet isn't perfect (with all the wars and stuff...) so that means your theory about "a great powerful being" is wrong.

No. Now you are into the issue of free choice. What would free choice be if there was only the choice of perfection?

God allows you to choose between perfection and imperfection. Then he perfectly guides you to perfection by punishing your imperfection (ie. sin) until you achieve perfection also.

[Ahimaaz Smith]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

He can only if He already knew he was going to change my mind. Let's do some role playing:

I'm going to be God for a little bit

Stop right there. No need to read further. What an ego you must have to think that in any way you could even approach the majesty that is Our Heavenly Father!

If God is truly omniscient, and he "knows" something will happen, then that thing must happen. If he hopes that it won't that means that his knowledge is not perfect, therefore he is fallible.

Did you come up with this pathetic argument all on your own, or have you been reading The Bible for Dummies again?

If your god would be perfect, he would make a perfect planet, with perfect living creatures, because only perfect things could make other perfect things. And the planet isn't perfect (with all the wars and stuff...) so that means your theory about "a great powerful being" is wrong.

Whoa! Why do you say that the planet isn't perfect without wars and stuff? God likes wars and stuff! That's why he put so many Amalekites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Edomites, Egyptians, Greeks, Midianites, Moabites, Persians, Philistines, Romans, Hittites, and Arameans in and around the Holy Land for the Israelites to slaughter. It's why he created Arabs, too. You seem to be confusing peaceful with perfect, when they are entirely different concepts.

God allows you to choose between perfection and imperfection.

This is an amazingly simple concept, but Ling has obvously chosen imperfection, which is why he can't understand this at all.

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

If God is omniscent then why would He create a species that He knows will sin?

You are looking at this from the wrong perspective. You are looking at it from the perspective of the species God destroys. But those are irrelevant, as is proven by the fact that God destroys them. The perspective that counts is the one of the survivors. They can witness how our Almighty LORD smites those that do not live up to His expectations and learn from that. Punctuated smiting is a way to improve all of us!

A recent example of this is Obama. Many Americans made the huge mistake of voting for Obama and God is punishing us for that each and every day so that we can all learn from that big mistake. E.g. by letting gays destroy our army from the inside out and by reducing our nuclear arsenal. And if we do not learn from that mistake God will just hit us harder and harder until we do. Not unlike what every loving father would do for his children.

Isn't it amazing to see God's might in action?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

Shout GLORY!!

Glacier breaks in Peru, causing tsunami in Andes

LIMA (Reuters) - A huge glacier broke off and plunged into a lake in Peru, causing a 75-foot (23-meter) tsunami wave that swept away at least three people and destroyed a water processing plant serving 60,000 local residents, government officials said on Monday.

The ice block tumbled into a lake in the Andes on Sunday near the town of Carhuaz, some 200 miles north of the capital, Lima. Three people were feared buried in debris.

Investigators said the chunk of ice from the Hualcan glacier measured 1,640 feet by 656 feet.

"This slide into the lake generated a tsunami wave, which breached the lake's levees, which are 23 meters high -- meaning the wave was 23 meters high," said Patricio Vaderrama, an expert on glaciers at Peru's Institute of Mine Engineers.

Authorities evacuated mountain valleys, fearing more breakages.

It was one of the most concrete signs yet that glaciers are disappearing in Peru, home to 70 percent of the world's tropical icefields. Scientists say warmer temperatures will cause them to melt away altogether within 20 years.

In 1970, not far from Carhuaz, an earthquake triggered an avalanche of ice, rock and mud on the mountain of Huascaran that buried the town of Yungay, killing more than 20,000 people who lived below Peru's tallest peak, which sits 22,204 feet above sea level.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

"This slide into the lake generated a tsunami wave, which breached the lake's levees, which are 23 meters high -- meaning the wave was 23 meters high,"

The Peruvians do not seem to have much of a grasp of things if the best they can come up with by way of an explanation is that something bigger than 23 meters (or ‘feet’ as we say) is bigger than 23 meters.

said Patricio Vaderrama, an expert on glaciers at Peru's Institute of Mine Engineers.

Is there money in mining glaciers?

I feel God has smitten these people because of their stupidity.

[ringworm]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

Surely such a lose of life isn't something to be cheered?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

Surely such a lose of life isn't something to be cheered?

We are commanded to support God's endeavors. How dare you question His wisdom?

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

We are commanded to support God's endeavors. How dare you question His wisdom?

Yes, is this sinner suggesting that Jesus did something wrong by drowning those sinners like the rat fornicating scum they are?

How dare you be so judgmental Ringworm!

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

It goes like this;

God creates a species for His ineffable purpose.
The Species angers God for some sin it commits.
God is wrathful and destroys the species.
God repents of His wrath, creates another species that is slightly different.
God replaces the smoted species with it.

This makes perfect sense as to why the Trump administration is taking so many animals, including the Canadian Lynx, off the so-called Endangered Species List. It's clearly because they don't want to get in the way of the LORD's Divine Work:

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it’s moving to strike the Canada lynx from the endangered-species list, despite a 2016 assessment concluding the species will die out in its northern range by the end of the century without federal protection.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: The Christian Science theory of Punctuated Smiting

Won't be long before some "environmentalist" starts whining. And these are the very people who claim (without any evidence) that had not ancient reptiles gone extinct there would be no vacant niche for mammals to "evolve" into and thus (according to them) no humans?

By denying that opportunity to future species (in their delusion) are they not denying existence to the very superhumans they look to for environmental resuscitation they claim we are incapable of?

Joined-up thinking. To these conservationists the very words are meaningless. God has explained the reality here but that's one transcendent being they'll never pay heed to!

Haggai 2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.