Do you know what a whim means? It is a violation of cause and effect. A whim is not connected to an actual logical reason. It is something felt and acted upon spontaneously. _______________
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion” ( Romans 9:15 ).
Is this the best we can get from the Bible? Jehovah is the boss and He does what He wants. Like it or lump it. How does this differ from NO EXPLANATION at all? _______________________________________________________________________________
Here is the problem as I see it from my own analysis. A writer cannot write a character who is more intelligent than himself. A writer cannot transcend his own limitations. . The writer cheats by resorting to a fake explanation. Writer's cheat by violating cause and effect!
This is the essence of fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________
Why does the character of Jehovah behave the way He behaves? The writers aren't geniuses so they cheat;
"I shall prove to be what I prove to be."
This is saying nothing while seeming to say something. It is a non-explanation and a deflection.
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As previously mentioned, we live in a cause and effect universe. Bible writers, however, are writing about a different Universe of fiction.
How do we know? The intrinsic principle of cause and effect do not apply.
For one thing, GOD does not have a cause.
How is a cause and effect universe caused by an uncaused cause?
FICTION! The very definition of this character of God relies on an uncaused cause!
The writers simply declare it to be true and move on!
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When cause and effect are removed from a fictional universe, characters do not operate by fundamental reasons of logic.
Jehovah himself declares:
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion” ( Romans 9:15 ). ______________________________________________________________________________________________
In the real world it is reality which determines what is true because truth is nothing more than a description of reality.
A contradiction in description is a signal of non-truth.
A policeman interrogating a suspected perpetrator asks questions and looks for contradictions.
Contradiction is the key to discovering both truth and lies.
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If God is a fictional character operating in a realm without cause and effect we should rightly EXPECT that character to operate out of WHIM.
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion” ( Romans 9:15 ).
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If we are rational we do things out of reasons and not whims.
If we are whimsical we do things out of impulse and later justify our actions by saying: "I just felt like it."
Does whimsy mean we are fictional? No, it signals we are irrational and any claim of reason is fictional.
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Our feelings, our emotions are what, then?
Emotions are a kind of spotlight signaling the significance of our values.
What we value comes solely from what we understand to be worth valuing. That is, IF we are reasonable.
If we cannot connect a strong impulsive feeling to a value--we have no reasonable value, therefore we cannot locate the source of our emotions.
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JEHOVAH, the character written in the Bible, is not reasonable because His emotions, whims, impulses are not connected to VALUE.
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This makes JEHOVAH an unpredictable being without any anchor whatsoever!
It is impossible to predicate of a thing a quality which is its contradictory.
We might find such a character requiring LAW in the Old Testament and suddenly operating out of MERCY in the New Testament.
Israel might be a tribe in the Middle East one era and suddenly become nothing tangible and physical at all in another era, simply a connotation of spirituality.
This whimsical character might LOVE mankind one minute and repenting of having created them the next. He might destroy men, women, children, unborn babies, animals, plants in a worldwide flood and then promise not to do it ever again under a rainbow.
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As Aristotle says in his Metaphysics: Thus "it is not possible to say truly at the same time that the same thing is and is not a man"
And yet. . .
In the New Testament we seem to find another character, Jesus, disconnected from such logic.
How can this be? The answer is simple, really. The writers vacillate between the real world and the world of fiction.
After all, what is a "miracle" but a violation of cause and effect in the physical universe? Recontexting reality with fiction
is what writers can do with ease. The contradiction with a cause and effect universe comes only when this is described as TRUE!
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The Bible mixes the real world with the make-believe world and there is no effort made to distinguish between the two.
This is where humans who are rational get to use their brains.
If we truly wish to remain homo sapiens we cannot abandon our only advantage over the lower animals: our rational minds.
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Here is where you make your choice. The decision to be included among the human race of intelligent, reasoning creatures depends
on your decision to embrace the THREE CLASSICAL LAWS OF THOUGHT--or, to be a person of WHIMSY.
You cannot be rational and be a person of whim. The contradiction is violent and irremediable.
Do you choose to live in a world where pigs fly and deuces are wild? Or is this a world of cause and effect where contradiction signals LIES?
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3 Classic Laws of Thought
1.Law of Identity
2.Law of non-contradiction
3.Law of the excluded Middle
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Look the above up and study them. Choose them and be sane. Reject them and be Spiritual.
If you think you can be rational and spiritual you are violating the 3rd law already.
Once again, a cause and effect universe operates no matter if we recognize the causes or not within ourselves.