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Every AI is trained on a set of data. The AI is will be as good as its data set. The AI will also reflect the biases of the person who defined the data set it was trained on.

Fire consumes its fuel, and the fire goes out when there's no more fuel. If the fire is everlasting, that implies that the source of fuel is unending.

I agree that there's likely some issues that will arise when people share (what they perceive to be) revelation they've received from God. Notwithstanding those issues, if there is no revelation from God, then what are we even doing here? There needs to be a place for that in Christianity. I...

Well that's mostly about authority. God has it. People recognize His authority and obey. He empowers those people, and they become his delegates. He rules and reigns through those people. They become his hands and feet in the world. Is that a fair description of what you're thinking about...

"By the aid of the Holy Spirit" boils down to "God told me so." Yes? Like this: Ezekiel 37: 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophesy and say...

Sure. Now define "spiritually discerned" for us in common English. My comment about Paul being "more like me" is a joke. St Steven, Lambano , and myself often make fun of ourselves for our own hubris. That's what's going on here. Now you're privy to the joke. Regular physical death is a...

I don't think He did. I went and looked at Luke 16, at the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man, and I didn't find the word soul used there at all. Perhaps you can point out to me what you're thinking of?

I guess it depends how you understand it, or what you're referring to. If you mean an alternate dimension, you could say that. If you mean some sort of space where all our thoughts come together (thinking of Jung's collective unconscious here), you could call it a mindscape, or maybe astral...

I have a confession - I don't like the word spiritual. Everybody in church uses it, but the people don't seem to hold any consensus on what it actually means. It could mean allegorical, or not-physical, or even belonging-to-another-dimension. That last one seems more science fiction than...

Most references in the Bible to a metaphorical death come back to the idea that the House of Israel (the northern half of the country) died. They were "killed" by the Assyrians as God's judgment for their apostasy. (Eze 37, et al) Within that framework, "dead" refers to someone who is cut off...

As I see it, Biblically, coitus is the confirmation of a marriage covenant. But, the culture of the day doesn't see it that way. IDK how one reconciles the two.

In King David's day, the coronation of a king included a ceremony in which each new king was adopted by God. David's own coronation in Psalms 2 includes it: Psalms 2:6 I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this day...

Possibly, but the answer to that isn't important. A major purpose for many of the 1st-century writings was to pass along the older words of the prophets. This phenomenon is so prevalent amongst the early church fathers that scholars have a name for it - the "golden apples in leaves of silver."...

Yea, the logic checks out. The verse says one baptism. Steven knows of two, though. So, either there's something wrong with our understanding of the verse, or... the two baptisms he knows about are actually just the same one, viewed from different angles, perhaps. Well then what do we do...

Paradise is another name for the Garden of Eden, including especially the Tree of Life. In Revelation 22 (the last chapter in the Bible), it is part of the New Jerusalem that comes down to the earth. Now, is it literal?

What it means in the Bible depends on context. There isn't a single definition that can fit every verse. The most common meaning is just "a person," as in this verse: Gen 17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his...

Paul defines "soul" in his letters similarly to the Greek philosophers before him - Plato, Aristotle, etc. David and Moses and Ezekiel don't use that definition. When they say "soul" they usually just mean "person" or "self." We shouldn't take Paul's use of the word and read it backwards into...

Eh... "soul" is an overloaded word. Not every book of the Bible means the same thing when it uses this word. E.g. the Psalms use 'soul' as a synonym for 'person.' Other books use it as a synonym for 'spirit.' Paul uses it as an antonym for 'spirit.' Danggit Paul, why you gotta be so...

If there's only ONE baptism, then the two baptisms you know of... must be the same thing.

History - which starts in the 7th century BC - doesn't record the formation of planet earth. That's all scientific hypothoses. But yes, I do agree that the 'waters' of Genesis 1 are mythological. The leading idea in the story is chaos vs. order, rather than any telling of history. There was...