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My first allegience is to my state. You have to remember that, up until the turn of the century, people identified themselves as citizens of their state first. The United states is not one parent entity divided up into fifty pieces (or fifty-seven pieces, for you Obama fans). The United...

That still makes you an annihilationist.

So then, you admit that you have no standard by which to declare it evil, but you declare it evil, anyway? How will you know if it's consistent if you don't have a standard by which to judge it? We will have the free will in Heaven to do whatever is within our nature to do.

Who's definition? Biblically speaking, the definition of murder is man taking God's perogative to take innocent life upon himself. How can God murder, when all life belongs to Him? He ordered Himself to kill people? Hearsay. Show me actual proof or stop attempting to argue atheists...

Are you talking about Heaven or Paradise? Biblically speaking, they're two different places. How does this make either one "imperfect", how did you come to that conclusion, and what objective and authoritative standard are you using to define perfection?

So then, you're an annihilationist and a Universalist to some degree. Based on what?

By what objective and authoritative standard do you judge something to be "evil"?

Well, he certainly couldn't be any worse than Emperor Obama, but every time he opens his mouth, he just makes it harder and harder for me to take him seriously. It's not his ideas. It's him. He's constantly losing his temper at some reporter or screaming about something or other. Now...

Although many preachers have used this illustration, there isn’t any evidence to support it. Still, because it seems like a reasonable explanation for the origin of the Hinnom Valley as “hell,” commentators and preachers have accepted it. It’s possible that the verdict may still be out on this...

So, are you a Universalist?

Hey, AoL. You sure know how to bring up an awful lot of topics in a very short post. First of all, let me reassure you that this is not the unpardonable sin. If you had commited the unpardonable sin, God would have turned you over to your sin and you wouldn't care whether or not you've...

<staff edit> And, for the record, I'm a Libertarian (don't trust the GOP as far as I can throw them), would love to see us return to our historic Christian roots and do away with all of the evil perpetrated by liberals.

I do. How does being in jail make his argument false? Paul was in jail. Should we disregard his epistles?

I'm just the opposite: I believe that an intelligent designer is the most logical explanation, while the idea that single celled organisms magically appeared on a planet that didn't exist and then turned into man is about the silliest thing I've ever heard. Like P.J. O'Rourke says, "Remember...

I'm a little confused about what you mean by "doing church".

You're certainly welcome to your opinion, but I disagree.

That's odd, because the same Bible you say you've read and are presumably basing your post on spells it out quite clearly. God's purpose in making His covenant with Israel was to make Israel a light unto the nations and call the surrounding pagan nations to repent. It was, in effect, God's...

No.

But do you know what it was? Then how would God's plan have been fulfiled?

Do you know why God made the covenant with Abraham and what God's plan for Israel among the surrounding pagan nations was?