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Outstanding analogy! I wish I had read this before writing that last post!

Category error. A preference for vanilla is not love in the sense in which we are discussing it, it's a personal opinion and a biologically driven one at that. All things moral require choice. The degree to which volitional choice is not an ingredient, the less we are talking about anything...

No. If a hundred different people asked an AI the same question at the same time, it would give all one hundred people the same answer because it isn't actually a thinking mind that is making intelligent choices. It simply takes the impute and uses an algorithm to formulate an answer. In other...

I haven't read all the way through yet but at this moment I'm thinking of a hundred different other choices you have. How about if you chose to send neither chocolates nor flowers? Maybe pick a third item or nothing at all. No, it isn't the choosing between chocolate or flowers that has to do...

The point is that there is exactly zero evidence that AI has anything to do with any such thing as principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this age or spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. It's a computer algorithm.

It seems that most of your doctrine in based on conjecture. Mediums and familiar spirits DO NOT actually exist. That's why they call them "false" gods and there is no biblical evidence that demons can possess nonliving objects like computers.

You're defeating your own argument. IF God cannot hate, which the bible says He does about a billion or so times, then He cannot love. If He cannot lie then His honesty is amoral. I'm reminded of the fact that this very amorality is the foundation of the Calvinist's trust in God - incredible...

A familiar spirit? As in a ghost or demon?

Holy cow, what a post! You've made my whole month! I mean, Merry Christmas to me! Wow! This long term reaction to things stated over a year ago is precisely what is being talked about when the bible speaks about planting seeds. We would all do ourselves a great service by consciously reminding...

No it isn't above your pay grade. This very sentiment of yours is itself based on a judgment of God, both of His stature and your lack thereof. You'd not be a follower of Christ if you had made the judgment that God was evil. Would you? Spend a moment to think what you've said here through...

And as such isn't really intelligence.

Pretty sure I heard that one from Bob many years ago when he did his Genesis the Fall teaching series. Love is the entire purpose of their having been created in the first place. Of course Adam loved Eve. I do not understand where the question comes from. You aren't supposing that our ability...

So, I had to look up the word "irenic" but, yes, I got the same feeling. Seems like it was giving me the safe answer that conforms to conventional thinking rather than the hard, dispassionate, Spock like logic one might expect from a computer. Clete

There almost has to be a definition of terms issue happening here. With what do you choose if not your mind? "Well before"? Just how long do suppose they went before sinning? There was no television to while away the hours watching and they were both in perfect physical condition and naked...

What an excellent question! If it were, Christ need not have died. The debt is not finite. If it were then God could have simply created another creature of sufficient value to pay the debt. As it is, God's own life is the only coin of sufficient value.

You're so wrong! I reject your reality and substitute my own! Isn't that what people around here do when presented with overwhelming evidence that they've said something that is incorrect? Just tryin' to fit in!

I believe that God would have done so had saving some of Adam's race not been worth the cost. What a cost! Right?! In that light, its really crazy to think about just how incredibly amazing our relationship with God is going to be when this flesh is gone!

Not exactly a stellar start to a burgeoning technology. People will not use it if they cannot reasonably trust it.

Well, "remove from existence" is something of a figure of speech. I meant, "kill them on the spot and send them along with Satan and the rebellious angels to their eternal fate", whatever that would have been had He decided go that route.

"The Lamb slain from the foundation of the World" is simply conveying the idea that God had made the decision to sacrifice Himself to save some of Adam's race, should the need arise, from the very beginning.