You said, "I don't care what you believe, I care about what you can establish with scripture and plain reason."
I do make actual arguments. Not my fault that you don't listen.
No you don't! 99 & 44/100% of what you do is to flatly state what you believe, not why you believe it. And then when pressed to explain the "why", you call the questions asked in that direction, "stupid".
See, here's a great example of you doing exactly that...
Rhetorical or not, it's a stupid question. "Do you suppose God would have broken.....? I openly scoff at your stupid question. It doesn't deserve an answer.
I told you in advance, one might say that I "declared from the beginning" that you wouldn't answer the question!
You're such a buffoon! Why believe things that you have no ability or even desire to actually defend?
Oh, and my "snarkily repeating" what you say ad nauseum must have gone over your head. Have you lost touch with the real world while wandering through your made up world?
I say it as often as I am presented with statements that are presented without foundation. I say it to point out unsupported personal opinions. Just the very thing you implied a moment ago that you don't do but this very typical post of yours proves that you do all the time.
I know what God's plan was because it makes complete logical sense. Unlike whatever it is you're trying to put forth.
Saying it doesn't make it so, glorydaz!
It doesn't make "complete logical sense" just because you show up here and make the claim!
If it makes sense then make the argument! Show me how it makes "complete logical sense"! That would be interesting! That would be fun! That would be something that we could have a substantive two-way debate about! Wouldn't that be something?!
You underestimate our Great God. Even a fool would know that they would eat of the fruit.
Saying it doesn't make it so, glorydaz!
Adam was not created with a sinful nature....nor are we born with a sinful nature. Children are just as "very good" as Adam was. You've fallen for the Catholic lie.
Saying it doesn't make it so, glorydaz!
Where are all these arguments you claim to make?
If anything your own statements about children's behavior contradicts your own doctrine here. If children are not born with a sinful nature (i.e. not at all the same as the doctrine of "Original Sin", which I fully reject, by the way) then why is it that children do not have to be taught to lie? Why is it that children need to be trained to obey their parents? Why is it their instinct to disobey and to do wrongly if they have no sin nature?
WHY?
That's what I want to hear from people on this website! WHY? All you offer and most all I ever get from anyone who disagrees with me is WHAT they believe. The what is fine so long as it is accompanied by why they believe it but getting anyone to answer WHY is all but impossible.
You are no exception!
Prove me wrong by answering the question.
You won't do it.
You're completely stupid for thinking God wasn't well aware Adam would sin.
Saying it doesn't make it so!
I explained clearly that God wasn't surprised or caught off gruard by his disobedience but that isn't good enough for you. You must have it that God absolutely knew without any question or doubt that Adam would, without fail, eat of that Tree. You believe that God was incapable of making an Adam with any such ability. Either that or that He intentionally chose to make Adam such that He could not but sin. Either way, in what way would it make any sense at all to call such a creature "very good"?
That's another question you won't answer.
Ah, "the slightest ability to obey". You're lowering the bar quite a bit there, Clete.
Are you suggesting that Adam COULD have not eaten that fruit?
God knew what you clearly aren't taking into consideration. He knew that man would need some incentive to love Him and put all his faith in Him. God knew it was a matter of growth for all of mankind.
Are you actually saying that God wanted Adam to sin?
You're a fool. You can't even follow the Bible on this one. TRAIN up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. You go right ahead and tell your little boy to walk beside you and don't step away for any reason. Beat him til he's black and blue, and then weep tears of sorrow if he follows a cat out into the street to save it and gets hit by a car.
If you ever state or even imply that I beat my children until they are black and blue again, I will not stop until I have successfully gotten you permanently banned from this website.
And my kids were very well trained to stop dead in their tracks whenever they heard either me or any other adult yell, "Stop!".
Trained, Glorydaz, trained. Do you understand the concept of training? We practiced it. We practiced when there was no danger at all. Just the same way the military trains for combat when there is no enemy around, or how folks who carry guns on their person go to the gun range and shoot at paper pictures of bad guys.
I didn't once say I had no expectation of obedience from my children,
Yes you did say that!
You said "I would not for a minute expect my child to obey....especially if they were young."
That is a verbatim quote, gloydaz! You have to remember two things...
1. I respond to what people actually say.
2. The entire thread is still here for the whole world to read and refer back too!
but I am smart enough to be honest on a forum, unlike you, Mr. Perfect.
I never even implied that I'm perfect! I simply raised my kids based on biblical principles and have them as proof that those principles work and that any parent that "would not for a minute expect their child to obey....especially if they were young" doesn't know how to be a good parent and therefore is not one.
Incidentally, I suspected at first that you weren't a parent at all when you made that statement, at least not of teenagers anyway because anyone who has raised children knows that the younger they are, the easier it is to get them to obey you. They get more rebelious as they get older, not less. Girls in particular, seem to lose their minds between the ages of 12 and about 18 to 20 or so. Then they turn back into normal people again.
All my kids grew up to love the Lord, and my grandkids mind as good as your children. But I have to laugh at your incredible EGO.
Laugh all you like. My comments were in reaction to your own claims about your own relationship with your own kids. If you raised your children with no expectation of obedience then how is it that those same children have an expectation that their kids will obey them?
Did you lie when you stated that you would not for a minute expect your children to obey?
His love is indeed amazing.
What's more amazing is someone who claims to be filled with the Holy Spirit can be filled with such PRIDE that he can't even carry on a conversation without making false accusations based on his own inability to understand what is being said.
Where has your peace gone, Clete?
I'm at total peace, glorydaz! It's laughable the way people take straight talk from a man who knows what he's saying to be an expression of anger or hostility. Thin skinned cry babies annoy me to death!
And, as I explained already, I respond to what people actually say. I am not responsible for what you "mean" if it is something other than what you write. We are talking here, first and foremost, about the nature of God and this discussion about expecting our kids to obey is being held in the context of what God would have expected of Adam and so when you claim that God knew with absolute certainty that Adam would disobey the first and only command that he got, and then try to support that belief by making a parallel between that and the fact that you "would not for a minute expect [your] child to obey....especially if they were young", then how else am I to respond to that other than the way I did? If the fact is that you actually did have some normal expectation that you kids would obey you more often than not then how would that not only agree with what I said about the raising of my own children but also agree with what I am saying God expected of Adam?
Do you see, the point I'm making there, glorydaz?
No, I know you don't. Let me explain....
The point, in addition to what I just said about it's connection to the overall discussion, is that I very much can carry on a conversation and keep full track of what is being said and why! The fact is that it is you who can't keep you eye on the ball and instead react emotionally to my direct, factual and biblical responses to
your own claims!
Clete