Is Magic the Gathering an Evil Game? Can Christians Play It? The cards simply contain arbitrary sub-rules and conditions that you employ to reach a win condition There's no real magic there The fluff on the cards is just to give some interesting context to the sub-rules So, enjoy!
The Conjunction of Opposites | Page 9 | Christian Forums Arbitrary in the sense there is no qualitative difference Both would be equally obedient to his command and in this sense things like morality and justice operate as superficial illusions
Morality without Absolute Morality | Page 8 | Christian Forums The reason this is arbitrary is because it can be done for anything you like Every so-called "absolute moral rule" that you propose could be recast as a "contextual moral rule " "My prohibition against rape is not absolute because rape is sex in the context of non-consent, and therefore is contextual rather than 'absolute' "
The Conjunction of Opposites | Page 10 | Christian Forums Without perfect examples, we have an indivisible God where good and evil are ultimately arbitrary and only useful to the beneficiaries of goodness, making morality subjective and utilitarian
What is Calvinism and its beliefs? - Christian Forums One problem with 4 and 5 point Calvinism is that it has difficulty avoiding the problem of "arbitrary selection" Where God sends the majority of the Matt 7 folks to the wide road of hell and the few of Matt 7 get "zapped" into accepting the Gospel Some will say that all deserve hell so then this is an acceptable image of God
SNAP benefits ( gentally) | Page 7 | Christian Forums It's not super compassionate to the disabled to cut their benefits or defund Snap because you've got a superficial snapshot of another third party's life, judged them by a non-standard you specific and arbitrary metric, found them wanting, and labeled them a leech, and therefore because they're not conducting themselves to your standard
SNAP benefits ( gentally) | Page 9 | Christian Forums So you saw a guy who looked poor enough by your arbitrary measure, who was buying junk food, junk food, and junk food, and you were so moved by this display you gave him $5
Morality without Absolute Morality | Page 47 | Christian Forums If all morality is just arbitrary anyway, one arbitrary standard is as good as any other If you want to talk, you'll have to present me with a reason for thinking you're capable of making an evaluation
A conversation I am having right now with DeepSeek LLM AI. A conversation I am having right now with DeepSeek LLM AI My first starting off this conversation with DeepSeek: This is going to start out being about full omniscience, determinism, and free will, and I'm going to ask you to try to be 100% objective about it, ok And I'm going to start out