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So why does God allow humans to keep on populating this earth, for thousands of years? Does he want more people to be born so hell can have many more residents?

Good points. And what does it say of people who "choose" heaven? Are they wiser? Smarter? More virtuous? Is there a certain something about a saved person, some innate quality that the unsaved don't have? The arrogance of saying that one "chose God."

I never understood this argument, that since none of Jesus' other recorded parables names aren't given then this one can't be a parable. So what? If the parable is a real event, then there are problems. How does a spirit have a tongue, how does it feel flame? How does it speak without...

Elizabeth Warren believes it is beside the point that she lied last weekend when she said Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson “murdered” 18-year-old Michael Brown. The Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate was pressed this week to respond to critics who have called her out for...

LOL! As if these particular "nationals" don't have a history of troubling invective towards Israel. Once again WaPo thinks it's readers are stupid.

Interesting way of looking at moral culpability......:oldthumbsup:

Bible Gateway passage: Revelation 22:5 - New International Version

Here's a few quotes: Jonathan Edwards “The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.” The sight of hell torments will exalt the happiness of the saints forever. . .Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his...

And yet most evangelicals believe babies, young children and the mentally challenged get a free pass into heaven. Do those exercise their "free will?" How important is "free will" if there are whole classes of people who are exempted?

Day and night. Doesn't Revelations also say that there will be no more night?

Do you believe, as many have in the past, that part of the joy of heaven will be seeing the torments of the damned?

'Tragedy Averted': Texas Grandma Praised For Stopping Alleged Planned Mass Shooting Good work, granny!

We do know that the Cherokee had a large number of black slaves.

Did he mention the Philadelphia police killings?

So what's the time limit? 2000? 2005? 2016? Yes, I see Colin Ferguson is in there, but you can put Emmanuel Sampson or Kori Ali Muhammad. Or Fredrick Demond Scott.

All about the Narrative.

Not necessarily. After Omar Mateen shot up a nightclub, the media went all out to tell us that Islam had nothing to do with it, even though Mateen had pledged allegiance to ISIS. White person commits a mass shooting: blame white people. Muslim commits a mass shooting: blame white people...

But what about babies, young children and the mentally retarded? They get a "free pass" without having to exercise their free will.

How important is free will to God? For His creatures to choose to accept His salvation, since there is an entire class of humans who are said to go to heaven without the exercise of "free will."

That doesn't address the context in which I framed my question.