BAM. Two hard hitters in a row!
I'm totally digging Myke Merrill, and I'm going to side with him on a lot of this episode. Will probably listen to this one 3-4 times.
I think his classification of Evil was the best I've heard yet. Totally fits the framework if there were a Satan/Lucifer whose army of fallen angels' goal is to entice men away from good.
No need for "Evil" to be a Thing, except for in it's ability to characterize the lack of Good, or the result thereof.
Digging in..
I've made this point before on the forum:
If God exists, and created our 14B y/o universe, and intended to leave no bread crumb trail, why on Earth would we expect to find bread crumbs? Why would we expect a being of that magnitude to make those type of mistakes?
If, still we insist that a Universe Creator makes mistakes that can be caught by humans, what say we make it to a Type II or Type III civilization and then regroup to take a stab at finding them?
I've also made this point before on the forum:
Many people like Bernardo Kastrup and also many of the NDE'ers want to take the indescribable liberty of applying the word "consciousness" to the afterlife (let alone eternity or God).. as if we have any thing remotely qualifying as evidence(bread crumbs, actual) that would lead us to assume that the two realms(our Realm and the Eternal Realm) are even relatable by words!!... Let alone being relatable by physics!!
I assume that our Realm is far less relatable to Heaven than it is to the existentiality of Super Mario within the 8-bit computer.
Alex, why are you asking Christians to provide bread crumbs?
Conversely, You understand that unless there's a miracle in our near future, future history books are going to say Jan 6 2021 was a terrorist plot by white supremacists?
That was 8 months ago. And you're constantly trying to debate historical veracity on the Bible (a compilation of spiritual stories, drug trips, and poems) from 2000 years ago. That's almost 4,000 Jan 6's ago!
I'd like to argue that if Jesus was the son of God, historical debate would be the last place you would confirm it.