Despite bible thumpers whining we keep finding transitional fossils

Gilgul/Gilgul neshamot/Gilgulei Ha Neshamot (Heb. גלגול הנשמות‎, Plural: גלגולים‎ Gilgulim) is a concept of reincarnation in Kabbalistic esoteric mysticism. In Hebrew, the word gilgul means "cycle" or "wheel" and neshamot is the plural for "souls." Souls are seen to cycle through lives or incarnations, being attached to different human bodies over time. Which body they associate with depends on their particular task in the physical world, spiritual levels of the bodies of predecessors and so on. The concept relates to the wider processes of history in Kabbalah, involving cosmic Tikkun (Messianic rectification), and the historical dynamic of ascending Lights and descending Vessels from generation to generation.

The esoteric explanations of gilgul were articulated in Jewish mysticism by Isaac Luria in the 16th century, as part of the metaphysical purpose of Creation.
 
Cypress said:
That does not make sense. The traditional conservative conception of God is omniscient, all knowing, perfect. He would be perfectly aware of what he wanted to create without experimenting
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Maybe Jim Eagle believes God can experiment without accepting the "conservative conception" of God. Or, maybe that is your interpretation of the traditional conservative conception. The views of the public on these issues is much more fluid and varied than you try to picture them.
 
Flash said:
Maybe Jim Eagle believes God can experiment without accepting the "conservative conception" of God. Or, maybe that is your interpretation of the traditional conservative conception. The views of the public on these issues is much more fluid and varied than you try to picture them.
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Agree. Cypress deliberately creates Strawmen he can pound on.
 
Flash said:
Maybe Jim Eagle believes God can experiment without accepting the "conservative conception" of God. Or, maybe that is your interpretation of the traditional conservative conception. The views of the public on these issues is much more fluid and varied than you try to picture them.
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You know as well as I do that biblical literalism is a real thing in American Protestantism, and that the term bible thumper used in the thread title does not refer to humanist christians, liberal Christians, or any person who reads the Bible as allegory, metaphor, or literature.
 
Cypress said:
Genesis.

Though I myself am not a biblical literalist, so you will have to make one of them explain how that makes sense
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Nice try except that the book of Genesis only says "
Man and woman created in the image of God implies that God has ownership over our lives and will one day justly pass eternal judgment upon us. Genesis 1:27:
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nowhere does it hint that man means human by our concept. So sorry.
 
BidenPresident said:
Cypress does not read the read the Bible because he is Catholic.
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The he is an idiot. Even his church teaches
The Catholic Church*teaches “theistic evolution,” a stand that accepts evolution as a scientific theory and sees no reason why God could not have used a natural evolutionary process in the forming of the human species.
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Cypress said:
A truly transitional fossil representing an intermediate stage of evolution between modern aquatic whales and the land mammals they evolved from.
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Very cool. A 1300 lb, 9 foot dog-faced aquatic predator whale. W00t!
 
Cypress said:
That does not make sense. The traditional conservative conception of God is omniscient, all knowing, perfect. He would be perfectly aware of what he wanted to create without experimenting
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Agreed given those conditions.

Relatedly, an all knowing, all powerful God could toss out a figurative handful of sand and seed knowing that life would spring forth, grow and die.
 
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