80sTrish

The whole lot of y’all are pastor kids, that’s awesome! Do your Dads study ancient Hebrew, modern, or both?

@freed_and_redeemed

But if their hands wrote mistakes/faults, then how can we know it’s true? If it’s possible that there are many, many mistakes in the Bible simply because it was written by man, then why not deny every bit of Scr…

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@theducktator

I had to google a definition of infallible for this, so hopefully I understand what you are talking about. I think that all of the stories and ideas in the Bible are true, but that there is room for error in things like spelling, and errors in translation. For example, Nebuchadnezzar is spelled two different ways in the Old…

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@whalekeeper

We can’t know if it is or not, besides through the faith of the Spirit. But what is the most logical option?

If you take Biblical philosophy and try to find a verse that directly contradicts it, you aren’t going to find anything more than vaguer verses that have open-ended statements, or use a less conventional way of explaining som…

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@trailblazer

You’re both mistaking what I’m saying though. I’m not questioning if scripture is inspired by God either, I’m just open to the idea that scripture is written by imperfect hands, and therefore even when inspired by an infallible God, can be mistaken in some ways. Why do we have many gospels of Christ’s life instead of 1? Why do they…[Read more]

@trailblazer

No worries! I’m glad you here though!

@whalekeeper

I think this is what most would say yeah.

So here’s my question though, how do you know that scripture is infallible?

For me, I’m not taking the parts I like the best, I think that we need to consider all scriptures as the word of God, but I simply don’t think we can say that…[Read more]

Anyone want to discuss the idea of infallibility? I’d like to challenge the notion as a whole.

@jonas

I’m down. I’d love to see people try to work with my settings, lol!

@keilah-h

Effectively, mental state is a solid form in this universe. Interesting. So a random chunk of mahn could theoretically have a consciousness stored inside of it?

Yes and no. You may be able to store a mental state, but not a consciousness. Mahn is reducible to lesser parts like a brain, but a consciousness comes from something more…[Read more]

@keilah-h

Lol, thanks! Synian is under mutual custody between me and princessachronicle. He’s the mysterious quirky type character that explores the Sceptrum.

Yes, so in the Sceptrum, all existing matter and energy can be broken down to the 7 core elements and their respective stone. The 7 stones can absorb or emit their respective element. The…[Read more]

@princesachronicle22 @jonas @rae @beth-torres @highscribeofaetherium @keilah-h

Umen

“And maybe we can find a towel for you along the way.” I said, giving Synian a hand out of the water. He took it, arm drooping.

“What’s the point? A towel will never dry away the tears of my worthlessness Umen.” Synian wined.

“What is worthlessness Synian? Are…[Read more]

@stephie

That’s what happens when a page is full. It pushes you to the next page, but the next page doesn’t exist yet. It’s a bug that should be brought up to Kathleen.

Has this Forum been inactive for too long?

@theducktator

Who put the Ram in the Ramalamadingdong?

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?

If Pinocchio says “My nose will grow longer right now”, will it?

Can you trust when a statement says “this statement claims to be a liar paradox, but it is lying”?

How many toes does a fish have, and how…

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@stephie

Hmmm, I’m not sure about that. Could you elaborate on what you mean? Are you speaking in a moral and/or historical context? Because there’s a lot of things outside of scripture we can know, even in a moral context.

@jonas

All you do is get on voice chat, then share your screen for the most part. I’ll be busy too. I have work most days now, though only in the first half of the day, and I’ll be serving a mission not long from now. That’s awesome that your doing karate!

Maybe we could figure something out in the near future, but I don’t know. I’ll just say…[Read more]

@jonas

Yeah, I do have discord. I don’t use it very much but I have it. You can stream things on discord?

Yeah! I don’t know why I haven’t thought of it before. Although, the question is whether it will stream well, but I’d say it’s worth a shot if you’re up for it!

@jonas

Here’s one

@jonas

I would also say that it depends on the villain’s role. Sometimes you need a sympathetic villain for the story to work. But yeah, in and of themselves, a non-sympathetic villain isn’t a bad thing.

True, of course ignoring the fact that a non-sympathetic villain by definition, is bad😂 (Someone was bound to do this, so I thought it might as…[Read more]

@keilah-h

True, anti-heros are separate from villains. The mere fact that he can be considered an anti-hero can push him over to likeable, though not always.

@princesachronicle22

Yeah, some of these villains you can root for for different reasons. Some are sympathetic with sad backgrounds, others and just intriguing.

@keilah-h

Well I’m sort of referencing the first character you mentioned, but I’m also speaking broadly. There’s plenty of stories where people root for the villain, despite them not being redeemable.

@princesachronicle22

100% I think Azula is a much more compelling villain, but I still think Ozai is underrated. We don’t know why he’s so evil, but he’s the personification of the evils Zuko and Azula face, so he’s interesting, because they’re interesting, if that makes sense. He’s not so much his own character for this reason, but it works, and…[Read more]