She is bright, funny, loving, very eager to please, but still a dog. I feed her, provide her shelter, take care of her medical needs, walk her numerous times a day, and try to keep the fleas at bay. We don't lock them in a tiny room, turn them into ever obedient slaves, and try to hide them from the world. When they become teenagers, we try to protect them from themselves. When our children are young, we try to protect them from the world. I hope that I have guided her well enough that there won't be too many that are tremendously life altering. She is now a legal adult and she still makes mistakes. How is that good parenting? Social Services would've taken us away long before the bible got to Leviticus. If you believe God is All Knowing, then He created man flawed and then blamed man and gave him a punishment of eternal torment if he didn't remain entirely dependent on Him for everything. Did God take a gamble and hope that even though He gave man Free Will that man would never exercise it? It wasn't a gamble if He is All Knowing. According to the bible, God, in His perfection, created man exactly how He wanted him, flawed and capable of sin. Most people would agree with that statement, but if I applied it to the bible then I would be bashing God. I have said for many years that I believe a parent's job is to make themselves unnecessary to thier children. I believe the truth does set us free and that it demands empirical evidence.
#PASTAFARIAN BIBLE VERSES FULL#
If there is no God wouldn't you want to know? If you wore a big heavy parachute 24/7 for years in case you ever had to jump out of a plane and then one day someone had you open it and look inside and you found out it wasn't a parachute after all, but a backpack full of comic books, wouldn't you be glad you hadn't waited until you jumped out of a plane to find out and be happy to know the truth and stay away from planes as much as possible?"