Recent content by doubtingmerle

Wait, what? All who believe in Jesus are always respectful and obedient? And all who don't believe will have no respect and will refuse to live in basic human dignity? I disagree. There are many good atheists out there. And there are many within Christianity who have committed crimes. There...

You seem to be saying that Christians do not have free will. For if a Christian truly was free to choose, then, by definition, he would be free to choose to disobey.

Uh, no, my example was not one of pedophiles becoming Christian preachers. It is a simple fact that hundreds have preached from the pulpit for years, and have turned to sexual crimes. They were every bit as much of a believer as you are. But they broke a commandment. What is your evidence that...

Hundreds of clergy have been convicted of sexual crimes. Are you saying none of those people believed in Jesus? https://brucegerencser.net/2023/08/stop-with-the-few-bad-apples-rationalization-when-excusing-clergy-misconduct-2/

Ah, so it's not true that, "He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life?" (John 5:24)

yes.

Oh, I see, so Everlasting 33 wasn't giving me the straight scoop: "belief will be manifested in our obedience to His Word." So, apparently belief sometimes is not manifested in obedience to his word? In that case, is believing in Jesus sufficient to go to heaven, or isn't it? Does one need more?

Then why is it that so many Christians disagree with Jesus that you need to keep the commandments to go to heaven?

What about all the clergy that have turned to crime? If all Christians manifest "obedience to His Word," how do you explain this? See Stop with the “Few Bad Apples” Rationalization When Excusing Clergy Misconduct .

Which puts the Apostle Paul in a bad light, for he taught Jesus as a sacrifice. If Paul's writings of Jesus were just about a made up sacrifice to appease the gentiles, one wanders what else the Bible writers just made up. Perhaps, but the earliest writers didn't seem to think so. Paul had...

Does believing in him as Lord mean doing everything he tells you to do? If so, then you get to heaven by doing everything he tell you to. That contrasts with those who say all you need to do is believe.

Any parent knows that it will not make it easier for a person to forgive somebody if the offender first kills your son. But somehow we are supposed to believe that God has that trait that he does not forgive any other offenses unless somebody first kills his son.

I asked ChatboxGPT, "Do you recommend we use you, ChatGPT, to provide reliable content that we can cut and paste into an online debate, even if we don't understand what you are saying?" It replied: As an AI language model, my purpose is to provide helpful and informative responses to your...

I am well aware that the chatbox programmers are working to make them better. And I am amazed at what chatboxes can already do. But in the end, they are only computer programs searching the web and piecing together responses based on rules given to them by programmers. The chatboxes do not...

Yes, you can get free access to a chatbox engine at ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue , for instance . Once you are set up, you just type an English request, and it generates a response using information from the Internet. For instance, when I told it to "Write a poem about how...