What is the most important human capacity?

Originally posted by @fmf
What is the most important capacity or attribute that humans possess?
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Toss-up between forgiveness and drawing a line. Devil on one shoulder and angel on the other, both whispering (or yelling!). We choose which way to tilt the ears, and that is our strength.

Originally posted by @fmf
What is the most important capacity or attribute that humans possess?

Hope.

So, thus far we have memory, faith, love, prediction, ambition, compassion, reason, forgiveness, drawing a line, to be like God, fallibility and hope.

Originally posted by @fmf
So, thus far we have memory, faith, love, prediction, ambition, compassion, reason, forgiveness, drawing a line, to be like God, fallibility and hope.

Perhaps we should add 'curiosity?'

It is man/woman's curiosity about the world around them that fuels their ambition/drive and search for truth.

Originally posted by @fmf
So, thus far we have memory, faith, love, prediction, ambition, compassion, reason, forgiveness, drawing a line, to be like God, fallibility and hope.

But other than...memory, faith, love, prediction, ambition, compassion, reason, forgiveness, drawing a line, to be like God, fallibility and hope...what have the Romans ever done for us?

Originally posted by @rajk999
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous,
Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah. (Proverbs 17:15 ASV)

Galatians 3:6
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Originally posted by @fmf
So, thus far we have memory, faith, love, prediction, ambition, compassion, reason, forgiveness, drawing a line, to be like God, fallibility and hope.

You asked, "What is the most important capacity or attribute that humans possess?"

What is the answer to the question? So far we have opinions.

Originally posted by @secondson
Galatians 3:6
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Go burn your church bible.
The real bible says

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
(Galatians 3:6 ASV)

Originally posted by @fmf
What is the most important capacity or attribute that humans possess?

There are lots of contenders that are unquestionably essential, but ~ because it makes all the other attributes and capacities work, and because it is the foundation for our identity and individuality, I'll vote for...

Memory

What attribute or capacity is your favourite contender?

[One selection only, please.]

The ability to root out truth.Unfortunately it is underutilzed and therefore rarely refined.

Most seek only that which "feels good" or to avoid that which "feels bad". As an example, this is what keeps Christians from "seeing" the truth about many of their beliefs. As such, they remain in the darkness.

Originally posted by @rajk999
Go burn your church bible.
The real bible says

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
(Galatians 3:6 ASV)

Wow. Telling someone to burn a Bible?

Your hate’s out of control, amigo.

Originally posted by @thinkofone
The ability to root out truth.Unfortunately it is underutilzed and therefore rarely refined.

Most seek only that which "feels good" or to avoid that which "feels bad". As an example, this is what keeps Christians from "seeing" the truth about many of their beliefs. As such, they remain in the darkness.

Another case of psychological projection from you.

Originally posted by @rajk999
Go burn your church bible.
The real bible says

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
(Galatians 3:6 ASV)

So I wrote 3:6 instead of 6:3.

I'm glad you caught that. Look at the verse you quoted, and while you're at it read the whole passage. The meaning of it throws your doctrine of works on its head.

Hopefully someday you'll understand what salvation actually means, but you won't until you are baptized into Christ by the Holy Ghost.

Salvation is received by faith and not by works.

Galatians 3:5-12
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

Originally posted by @thinkofone
The ability to root out truth.

Root out: to find and remove (something or someone) Mariam-Webster

Yours and the jark's specialty is rooting out truth.

Originally posted by @secondson
Root out: to find and remove (something or someone) Mariam-Webster

Yours and the jark's specialty is rooting out truth.

Doesn't the Merriam Webster dictionary define "to root out" as 'to find (something or someone) after searching for a long time"? Don't you think that's what ThinkOfOne is using it to mean?

Originally posted by @fmf
Doesn't the Merriam Webster dictionary define "to root out" as 'to find (something or someone) after searching for a long time"? Don't you think that's what ThinkOfOne is using it to mean?

Of course it is.

SecondSon is a prime example of an individual for whom "it is underutilzed and therefore rarely refined".Instead of rooting out truth regarding "root out", SecondSon chose to leave half of it in darkness in an attempt to deceive. It's no surprise given that Christianity is, at least in part, built on half-truths.