God cannot do anything. One thing God cannot do is sin, because by definition, sin is not of God, and therefore, God cannot sin. By the way, God can't make a rock so big that He can't pick it up, because there is no limit on infinite power. So God is logical, and you are not, because your argument can be false even when all the premises are true. Please, study logic formally before you make assumptions.
I am a devote Christian, and am proud to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I am not posting to argue about what people believe or the specifics of one religion versus another, I would just like to share my understanding of human nature and the reasons that I believe certain kinds of people are drawn to computers more than others.
I believe that God created all mankind in His Image, and as such, we reflect how He is in many of our fundamental desires, but we are also imperfect, which skews our implementation of these desires. Thus we like to create, to exercise power, and to be in control of ourselves, our creations, and our investments. In addition to these things, we enjoy receiving praise from or about these things, as it reaffirms our self-appointed position of god of our own lives. So we have a world full of mini-gods running around, all seeking these same things, not that they are all self-serving. Humans are God's ultimate creations, with both a spirit and a body, created to be like Him, to live with Him and in this world, and to praise Him. For most people, they themselves and their children are the most important things to them, because human life is the ultimate creation that we can make. Once again, I am simply offering explanations from my own understanding, not passing judgements.
Computers offer an environment where our creative energies are nearly boundless, a place where I can exercise my power to create programs, to customize my interface, and to test my power against others online through games. These are only a few of the things a computer allows me to do. I could also exercise my power in tyrranical ways, if I choose to crack. Here on my computer I am a king. All hackers to some extenet want to be in complete control over their machines and others as well, to be gods. Computers allow us to do that.
Personally, I have decided that the best and most powerful I could ever be is a servant of the One High God, letting Him be in control, letting His Power be used through me, still creating and exercising power, but not my own power, and not for my own reasons. This, to me, is the ultimate of human existance, since every need is filled and I lack nothing. God just wants to dwell with us, to be our personal friend, and to have us give Him the praise and love that He deserves. This is why I love Jesus and why I love computers. I am a Christian. And I am a hacker.
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God cannot do anything. One thing God cannot do is sin, because by definition, sin is not of God, and therefore, God cannot sin. By the way, God can't make a rock so big that He can't pick it up, because there is no limit on infinite power. So God is logical, and you are not, because your argument can be false even when all the premises are true. Please, study logic formally before you make assumptions.
I am a devote Christian, and am proud to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I am not posting to argue about what people believe or the specifics of one religion versus another, I would just like to share my understanding of human nature and the reasons that I believe certain kinds of people are drawn to computers more than others.
I believe that God created all mankind in His Image, and as such, we reflect how He is in many of our fundamental desires, but we are also imperfect, which skews our implementation of these desires. Thus we like to create, to exercise power, and to be in control of ourselves, our creations, and our investments. In addition to these things, we enjoy receiving praise from or about these things, as it reaffirms our self-appointed position of god of our own lives. So we have a world full of mini-gods running around, all seeking these same things, not that they are all self-serving. Humans are God's ultimate creations, with both a spirit and a body, created to be like Him, to live with Him and in this world, and to praise Him. For most people, they themselves and their children are the most important things to them, because human life is the ultimate creation that we can make. Once again, I am simply offering explanations from my own understanding, not passing judgements.
Computers offer an environment where our creative energies are nearly boundless, a place where I can exercise my power to create programs, to customize my interface, and to test my power against others online through games. These are only a few of the things a computer allows me to do. I could also exercise my power in tyrranical ways, if I choose to crack. Here on my computer I am a king. All hackers to some extenet want to be in complete control over their machines and others as well, to be gods. Computers allow us to do that.
Personally, I have decided that the best and most powerful I could ever be is a servant of the One High God, letting Him be in control, letting His Power be used through me, still creating and exercising power, but not my own power, and not for my own reasons. This, to me, is the ultimate of human existance, since every need is filled and I lack nothing. God just wants to dwell with us, to be our personal friend, and to have us give Him the praise and love that He deserves. This is why I love Jesus and why I love computers. I am a Christian. And I am a hacker.