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Death allows reset, rejuvenation, and learning; life exists so souls can make mistakes, imagine possibilities, and grow.
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Death allows reset, rejuvenation, and learning; life exists so souls can make mistakes, imagine possibilities, and grow.
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A loving teacher measures success by whether students and teacher are growing; an unloving teacher measures success by grades, evaluations, parents, money, or status.
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The capacity for judgment allows humans to learn from pain, reflect, avoid mistakes, and grow as persons.
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If human self-reflection and growth could continue forever through the tree of life, humans would become as powerful as God.
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Jiang argues God is fallible: Yahweh is an inexperienced poet-god and new father whose mistakes allow both God and humans to grow.
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Faith and love of God require arguing with God, because only argument allows a fallible God to learn and grow.
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"So the world that we live in is a world in which we can make mistakes, in which we can learn, we can grow,..."
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"possible because only by making mistakes can you actually grow as a soul okay alright so this is Leona the vineyard of passion and..."
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"the dual nature we are both body and soul we can make mistakes we can ear and in this process we develop we develop..."
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"inside you what the teacher who doesn't love you only cares about pleasing parents okay second difference is this if you loves you are..."
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"if you're a teacher who does not love then you're always asking how much money am i making that's how you measure your success..."
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"So God's afraid will become like God. Therefore to protect the tree of life he has to banish us from the Garden. Okay? Yeah?..."
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"...for you. To engage in a process of reflection and self -growth. Okay? So God's afraid that if we continue to grow we will..."
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"It's something we can all understand. What's also really powerful about the story is God is fallible. God is has made a terrible mistake...."
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"I will protect you okay? And this is again God showing remorse and regret for what he's done. Because God knows in his heart..."
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"...saying, do you not think that the technology will cause more growth? Technology requires energy. One of my little shorthands, labor without energy is..."
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"...as possible. And this is what led to this massive population growth. But with more population, what was happening was that these wars were..."
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"...sign of their preservation and prosperity? Their number and their population growth? That's the sign you're looking for. Other things being equal. The unquestionably..."
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