OK. First off: I absolutely don't believe in God, or a divine power or heaven of some sort. I believe in evolutionary theories and that life originated that way. So sue me (no pun intended, Timber

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I thought I'd reply to your last three posts, Yorick as they do pose a couple of questions:
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1.You cannot limit God. You cannot limit a being that creates light, thought, philosophy, mathematics, gravity, oxygen, trees, life and water.
This is my belief. That the Creator is beyind limitation. As such, using the limitations of humans to back up a point of yours is futile. It's like me using the bible to convince you of truth. Your point of reference is different.
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My question is: how can you be so sure that God is limitless in what he does? Is it only your belief that tells you so, or do you have true and factual arguments for your belief?
What I think is good about your point is that you *do* state that it is your belief, contrary to other points you've made.
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2.Humans have a soul. Just as we are fully human physically with an eternal soul, so I believe Jesus was fully human, but with the divine soul. He was God within his own artwork.
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OK, another one of your beliefs. And yet again I state the (obvious?) reply. How can you prove that humans have a soul? Just because it is believed that life does not end after death? That your soul will continue to live on eternally in His realm of Heaven?
My opinion in this matter is some that I know is shared by at least some people on Earth. With the ability to think, and to act, the humans created a problem; they started thinking about themselves, about who they were, and where they came from. Because they couldn't comprehend/believe that life was over after their deaths, they started believing in Heaven; a place where they would live on forever.
Life is, in my opinion, not something that goes on. Humans do not have a soul. We *want* to have a soul, because it would make life itself easier. The greates fear of all, for most humans, is to die, after all.
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3. Your quote here :"Think about it logicaly for just 1 second. There has never been a single case of spontaneous pregnancy in the history of all humanity." is quite odd considering THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT. It has never happened before. The very aspect that makes the situation what it it, is what you are using to suggest it didn't happen. As though the uniqueness of a situation is proof the situation could not have happened.
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Well, actually, the fact that a situation has happened once, and not ever again is considered 'proof' that it could not have happened. Why? Because why shouldn't someone make up a story about a supposed spontaneous pregnancy? The quote by Faceman isn't so odd, you're only turning the table on him, which is, in my opinion, not a very valid argument. It's like the following conversation:
Person 1: "I believe that...."
Person 2: "Why?"
Person 1: "Why not?"
etc.
The fact that you believe something could have happened is NOT an argument.
Furthermore I don't think you can compare the Wright brothers with something as the 'spontaneous conception' of Jesus. The point is that the 'spontaneous conception' is biologically IMPOSSIBLE (even for us now, while we are far more advanced in technology than they were back then), whilst, as the Wright brothers showed us: flying is possible, if you use the right equipment and material. Why do you think they wanted to fly? Because if birds could fly, then it should be possible for any other (conscious) creature to fly as well.
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Hence, yes God can do anything. If he can make the rules, he can break them.
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This is actually quite funny that you say this. As I recall God was flawless. By going against his own rules, he would make himself obsolete. Could be mistaken of course...
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Such is living life with an open mind, without the need to control everything around me.
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This is the most confusing point of your entire speech (including post before and after this one. You try frantically to CONVINCE us that you are right, and that you hold the truth, and in the above quote you say that you live with 'an open mind, without the need to control everything around me'.
Obviously this is not true, because otherwise you wouldn't be so frantic to tell us that we are wrong. Especially this quote of yours:
This is kinda scary. Why is it wise? Will you smite us if we don't change our minds? Or am I just misinterpreting things?