Hello, jgill.
Your example is greater in quantity not in quality.
Big difference. — Joe Mello
No combination of lesser things can create a greater thing without something greater than the greater thing added to the lesser things. — Joe Mello
emancipate, I’ve given many.
So, again — Life is greater than the elements, and thought is greater than life, and love is greater than thought, and God is greater than us. — Joe Mello
reaching out for support of like minds and administrators — Joe Mello
If you haven’t found anything in my posts to ponder because in your mind I haven’t justified them according to your ideas of what such a justification looks like, then you are simply riding along a rail you can’t get off. — Joe Mello
Life is greater than the elements, and thought is greater than life, and love is greater than thought, and God is greater than us. — Joe Mello
And the failure to love God and others because of this love, which is our truest purpose, is far more important than what the thoughts rattling in our head have to say about God.
Skeptics live and die in their heads. — Joe Mello
Garrett, your trust in your thinking is scary. — Joe Mello
The truth about God and love of God are intertwined in that more we come to know God the more we love him; and vice versa, as in your case. — Joe Mello
No combination of lesser things can create a greater thing without something greater than the greater thing added to the lesser things. — Joe Mello
No scientific discovery has shown to us that, for example, a combination of the elements created the first ancient bacteria. Or that living tissue created thought. — Joe Mello
the simple fact that, for example, a living being is "greater" than a rock. — Joe Mello
The thinking of evolution as a top down order is supported by every failure of scientists to move past theory to proof where evolution is evolved. — Joe Mello
an infinite line of finite things is illogical. — Joe Mello
human beings are the spokespersons for reality. There are no others. — Joe Mello
a multi-universe is illogical. — Joe Mello
Only an omnipotent infinite being can be the logical beginning of a finite universe. — Joe Mello
placing a human being at the pinnacle of creation. — Joe Mello
the physical universe is made up of only finite things. Nothing else. — Joe Mello
nothing could exist without God. — Joe Mello
only the science of Logic creates a metaphysical principle. — Joe Mello
God is the greatest being we can imagine, but our imaginations are not a perfect understanding of God's abilities, or even of what words mean.
It is God's will that dictates what he does or does not do, not his omnipotence. — Joe Mello
I went through the thread and pulled out many of the statements Joe Mello has made with no attempt to provide justification or even explanation. Here they are: — T Clark
To be honest, I get the striking feeling these have been long held beliefs of his that he has never explored the strength of his arguments against, in genuine interaction with other's. I am a philosophy student myself, I know what kind of training your recieve to cut through the fallacies that characterize everyone of these arguments. There's no way a philosophy degree holder is failing to see this. We're talking basic stuff, if you yourself don't already know. — Garrett Travers
Although his way of seeing the world is different from mine, I have no trouble with him making these assertions. My problem is that he has not justified, or even tried to justify, any of them. — T Clark
Even Neil Degrasse Tyson said that Dark Energy is pretty good evidence that a God could possibly exist, and I explained to you why it's so. But you ignored it to talk to yourselves, just as you ignored every example I gave of where the evidence of God can be found. — Joe Mello
You are lazy thinkers and lazy human beings. I sacrificed years to come to a knowledge and love of God. And you expect to intellectually receive God on a plate.
Why would God put himself in the only place where you want to look?
He is a divine being who could care less what a bunch of pride-filled delusional skeptics think or demand.
Enjoy your conversations with each other. No one else is listening. — Joe Mello
Are those things independent of each other or relying on each other? — Joe Mello
You are lazy thinkers and lazy human beings. I sacrificed years to come to a knowledge and love of God. And you expect to intellectually receive God on a plate. — Joe Mello
Garrett, you're the perfect example of a person who is so filled with pride and self-love that he will only trust the thoughts bouncing off the top of his head.
Look around you at your family and friends to see if anyone else does.
A tree is known by its fruit. — Joe Mello
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