Did he have any thoughts on how that might be achieved?  Any suggestions what those “investments” might be?

Somebody was mean to a pregnant lady? OH, NOES!

Do you really need me to do the actual Bible website cut-n-pasting to point out all the places the Bible where it says God knows everything everywhere that has or will happen or can happen from the beginning? Like from the very beginning of the conceiving of the Universe? It’s kind of one of the foundations of some…

Your mother didn’t plan for you to eat the pie nor did she place it there with the intention of tempting you. She didn’t set those bonfires with the intention of having you come to harm. If she did, that would be morally reprehensible and, in the case of actual physical harm arising from her acts, legally actionable…

Impeach him for what? Whatever those investigations finally turn up?

I can, if a vote for Pence is considered vengeance for Trump.

And how much worse will it be for the rule of law if he get’s re-elected.  Rallying the MAGA hats behind a “Remember the Alamo” moment will go a long way to making that happen.

Sure the GOP will say that about anything. The problem comes will be when the general public looks at what the GOP is saying and says “You know, they’ve got a point.”

Yay.  Another candidate that will have to be voted for with nose firmly held.  That worked so well last time.

Toby Keith is also the music of an entire culture.  And it sucks.

Adam and Eve WERE created with the ability to make the wrong choice but the understanding to make the right one, and yet they fell for the Devil’s trap and were deceived.

And as far as Jesus sacrifice, I get that man’s punishment is a spiritual death, eternally. I think I have already made that clear. If Jesus’s purpose was to assume our punishment-why wasn’t his punishment also eternal?

If God has foreknowledge of everything, then he knew for an absolute certainty that Adam and Eve would fail to resist the Devil. The consequence of that was the eternal damnation and torment of a vast multitude of creatures born for nothing but that fate. In fact, according to Ephesians 1:11, this eternal damnation…

That “Jesus was prophecied in the Old Testament” as proof of the prophesied nature of the Christ is especially mystifying given how ham handedly it’s shoved into two of the four gospels.

You still haven’t answered my question. Death isn’t the penalty that God requires of us—everybody dies Christian or not. The penalty is eternal separation and suffering. Christ didn’t take that on.

That seems pretty convoluted for an omnipotent deity that never the less has to follow rules that he himself created.  None of this makes any sense if you think about it for more than five minutes.

But if our punishment is eternal disconnection, and Jesus wasn’t eternally disconnected, then he didn’t take our punishment.

But what was the sacrifice on the cross?

I never understood what Jesus’ sacrifice was supposed to be. Humans are supposed to die and be eternally separated from God (plus, in the bloodthirstier sects-eternally tormented) because of their sin. Christians say that Jesus supposedly paid that price-but how? According to them, he’s not dead nor eternally separated…

Aww, now you ruined it by trying too hard. Shame. You used to be cool.