And hopes his wife isn't doing the rigger.

On "faith" ...

Mentioning the word "faith" on this board as some sort of argument to buoy your position in a discussion should generate an automatic invoking of Godwin's Law.

Anyone mentioning the word "faith" on this board in defense of their position in an argument should receive an automatic suspension of one month.

The concept of "faith" is fundamentally and diametrically opposed to the process of reason. It's use in an argument is absolutely offensive in these confines.

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Does it matter that one has never bought or played a computer game?

Will the result be the same if one continues not to do so or must one start and
then stop?

One of the things about the bible, is that it was a work that spanned thousands of years. What may have been true at one time, changed and evolved with time. Say we compile the best of science for the past 400 years. Based on the best science claims of 300 years ago we apply this to modern times and judge science by that. We may conclude science is also suspect. Pluto was a planet not too long ago. A few years ago low salt was good, now it increases the risk of heart problems.

The valid and rational approach would be to say, at that time in history, science didn't know the things we know now. At that time, this was state of the art and became the platform for future changes. When it comes to morality, humans were different, way back when, and may they actually needed such laws. It indirectly tells us about human behavior further back in time. Two old laws that always come to mind was shell fish and pork being forbidden. Shell fish spoils quickly without refrigeration and pork needs to be cooked through to kill parasites. Maybe at that time, there was no ice and maybe people liked their meat on the rare side. This saved lives. Nowadays there may not be any practical reason for either law, but traditions continue. Those laws, in these times, seem out of place.

If one believes in the New Testament, Christ supposedly superseded the old laws. These had reached the end of their usefulness for human behavior since humans had advanced where they were ready for a new and improved set. Not everyone agreed with the new set but wanted to keep the old set active, too. It may be the morality version of Newton, Einstein and gravity where both are still taught, with Newton more common sense, and Einstein starting to become a little more abstract pushing common sense.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Thus; Our level of comprehension is proportionate to our vocabulary. This means generations in the future having a greater vocabulary, will be able to comprehend things we cannot.

Our relationship with words, is our relationship with God. As our vocabulary grows, so does our relationship with God, through the generations.

That means, that if someone was really an atheist, (person who believes that there is no God), he would be found not using words.

Helen keller, was an example of an atheist. Until her teacher took the time to get her to realize everything in our world has a word for it, once it is noticed and becomes part of our world.