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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.

He also painted the line leading up to it, if I remember the gag correctly. The real road is off camera.

I read a biography on Oppenheimer back when I was still a youngun in school, and among the few bits of trivia I remember were Teller being vile, and lozenges were a thing.

They're usually also managed by visa and such. I can't remember the exact numbers, but they have a higher initial fee and a lower percentage for a purchase.

I found that they have semi-weird spreading in the alcohol, and definitely taste different. I always mused that it was the acidity of the flavorer not reacting like it should due to the acidity of the alcohol.

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.