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Atheists go to hell even if they are good!?

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Yes I know.

I didn't twist your comparison in the slightest. You're going to have to explain how I did.

You admitted that God deliberately puts evil in the world. I have nothing to add to that.

So what you have is a scenario where G-d absolutely WILL do evil, (why I furnished this Scripture both times) and you shake your fist at Him for it. Just like Revelation Prophesies.
Would you have me worship a God that would cause evil?

What?

Do you think I am on the verge of conversion, or something?

And by the way, if it was true that God imposed eternal torture on all those who were not of his own - you're absolutely right that I would side with Satan and take the punishment. I would rather that than be in the company of the deity that organised the system itself.
 
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So we receive a reprieve so long as we do absolutely nothing, ever. How loving of God.

Yeah, all of my pet peeves have just 'evaporated'.

I do understand your concern! That sin stuff is a real bee-yatch. That's the point of the first story in the Bible - don't you agree?
 
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vicarious redemption

You're still using that term, which still tells me you don't understand Christianity to be able to reject it. I do think it's a good thing you haven't been presented with it yet, vis:


There is some truth mixed in here that you object to because of grossly misrepresenting G-d's Nature. Or maybe to say misunderstanding His Nature would be better? There is also massive untruth in there, such as false conclusions you draw about others, and based on thinking you can make decisions for them about how they think, rather than listening to what they say.

You need to sort out those extremes before you could ever hear the Gospel.
 
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I could try and explain the meaning of free will once again, since you're still not getting it, but I honestly don't have the time. I could provide a list of basic philosophy and critical thinking books that could really further your education if you'd like. It may help with any miscommunication you have on these forums, and knowing a little bit about critical thinking really is a boon in everyday life. I wish critical thinking classes were mandatory in schools. I think we'd produce fewer people who believe odd things.
 
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I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to Zaac.

What I said was entirely consistent in a response to Zaac. I wish you would stop responding to posts I make to other people and attribute them as if they are supposed to be a conventional criticism of mainstream Christianity or an observation on you. They are neither. It was a response to Zaac's unyielding fanaticism.
 
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I didn't twist your comparison in the slightest. You're going to have to explain how I did.

It was not my comparison that you twisted, but something else.

Would you have me worship a God that would cause evil?

He alone is worthy.

I would side with Satan and take the punishment. I would rather that than be in the company of the deity that organised the system itself.

And as long as you insist upon it, you will never know Him in any other way. These are dire words you just uttered, and they will really come back to haunt you unless you find a way to repent.
 
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razeontherock said:
It was not my comparison that you twisted, but something else.
Wat

He alone is worthy.
How masochistic of you.

And as long as you insist upon it, you will never know Him in any other way. These are dire words you just uttered, and they will really come back to haunt you unless you find a way to repent.
I'll utter them again to anyone who tells me that I must show nothing but adulation to a God that would otherwise order my eternal torture. I would say it to anyone in a humanistic context who told me to bow down to an authoritarian political regime. I'll say it to all forms of totalitarianism, fascism and tyranny.

I won't whitewash and forget what you think he orders just for reasons of self-interest.
 
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Glad to see just how open you are about it at last.

What do you mean at last? Was the question asked before and I failed to answer it?


Your avatar says that you are a humanist, not an atheist. And I said in accordance with God's word, all atheists are liars. I hope that clears it up for you.

If you as a humanist reject Jesus Christ, then like the atheist, you will spend eternity in the lake of fire. And if that comes across as vitriolic to you, I can't help that you feel that way about the truth.

I will re-assert the reality: I do not 'willfully' reject what God says. I don't believe that 'God' has ever said anything. I am an atheist. I don't believe in God.

And I will reassert the TRUTH. You have been given God's truth. You CHOOSE to reject It as the truth. You will, as of your current rejection, spend an eternity in the Lake of Fire because of YOU CHOOSING to do so.


They reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior so why would you think the response is going to differ?

So you say. I have been given and been told what you believe. What you believe happens to be incompatible with morality and reality and so I cannot literally consider it to be true.

And we can go back and forth with what you believe based upon your "reality". The Creator of your reality has given the truth and if a person rejects Him in lieu of his reality, that person is still CHOOSING to spend an eternity in the Lake of Fire.


Yes because of your indignation of accepting the truth you CHOOSE to spend an eternity in the Lake of Fire where your indignation ain't gonna mean any more in the face of God's truth than it currently does.

I have been told by you where you think that God says I will go. I find the viewpoint contemptible and morally unjustifiable.

YOU ain't God so what you find contemptible and morally unjust doesn't mean anything when dealing with the One Who created you and gave you the ability to think. Your feelings don't supersede what God says.

I don't believe that a 'lake of fire' exists. I am no more 'choosing' to go to the lake of fire as understood in Christianity than I am choosing to enter hellfire as decreed under Islam.

You don't have to. Muslims don't believe that Jesus is God. By rejecting His truth, you're both in the same boat CHOOSING to row right into the Lake of Fire. It doesn't go away just because you don't believe it exists.

You also misrepresent the very nature of belief by insinuating that conviction can be chosen.

Again, I don't insinuate, imply or contend things that I can say.


Then you haven't sought the truth. Because those seeking the truth will find it.

This is again another smear. Another attack on my character by insisting that my sincerity is a front. I repeat again that I don't believe that God's word is true. I do not believe that there is even such a thing as 'God's word'.

Then again, you are CHOOSING to spend an eternity in the Lake of Fire.

It is difficult to constrain one's own anger when confronted with such unashamed amorality. By insisting that anything is moral on the basis of God's word then you necessarily reduce to nothing more than obedience.

YEP.


Nice worldview. My Biblical worldview holds that we are here to serve God and others. GOD is paramount, not man. So all of your humanism is wasted on the ones who follow Christ .


No problems here. If it is against God, it is immoral from a Biblical perspective. For the ones who follow Christ, He is the center around which everything revolves.

If you really, truly believe that this is true then you could have no objection to anything God could ever say.

i may not understand it all, but there are certainly no objections.

If hypothetically, God was to decree murder as valid - you could have no mechanism to disapprove.

I don't deal in hypotheticals. God says what He says about murder.

If God was to state that rape was wholly acceptable - you would have no reasoning in your library to dispute that. The terms 'justice' and 'compassion', just like morality can have no meaning in your dichtonomy.

Same response as above.

And this is objective?

You're looking for human logic because you think humanity is the basis of everything as do most humanists.

I deal in God's truth.

This is a morality of understanding, of objective parameters? It creates an applicable converse to the opposite of Dostoevsky's famous quote in the Brother's Karamazov. I'll say: with God, all things are possible.

No response for this type stuff. It's irrelevant to a discussion on God. Get deep with someone else. I deal with the simple stuff of salvation. You either accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior or you're going to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire.

A man chooses, a slave obeys. Thank you for reminding me of the importance of that.

And this clearly displays the difference between a humanistic worldview and God's view.

I did, and you answered only belatedly.

Sure.


But I don't believe in God - and therefore the claim that eternal torture and thought-crime are mandated by God are completely meaningless to me.

Then you will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire.

Concerning what you derive your morality from, I suppose that motivation means precious little to you. Just how 'justice' and 'compassion' mean absolutely nothing to you.

They mean what God says they mean. And what God says they mean and what you say they mean aren't aligned.
 
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You are still referring to "vicarious redemption," as though it were a C term which it is not. This really does show a misunderstanding on your part somewhere, such that the comparison you're making btw religions cannot be valid. Where that misunderstanding might be i cannot pinpoint, yet. We sure have uncovered quite a few so far though! Like the concept that a world full of danger said to be created by G-d -- that same G-d would do evil. This should be self evident, but it struck you as news.
 
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Except Christianity espouses none of that. (Yes, I do know the corrupt RC did advance self-interest, proclaiming it as godly. No doubt about that, but they weren't even remotely Christian in doing so. It was nothing more than a war machine, most assuredly referred to as the harlot of Babylon in Revelation)
 
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The following may be an example of unyielding fanaticism from the other side:

 
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"I would rather that than be in the company of the deity that organised the system itself."

In Skavau's defense, I submit he does not realize what he just said there, knowing nothing about who's company he just signed up for. THAT is the worst part of hell, that satan is confined there, with his minions. (With no rescue in sight being a given, of course) People truly were not designed to endure that.
 
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So you keep saying. Your repetition of this 'fact' does not make it any less of an immoral thing to say.

You don't get to decide what is moral and immoral. God alone gets to set that bar and in accordance with His bar, you reject Him, you will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire.


This does not make any sense. If someone makes an unreasonable demand or imposes a disproportionate punishment then they are not right to do it.

You're not God. And I thus give you the words of God:

2 “Who is this that questions my wisdom
with such ignorant words?
3 Brace yourself like a man,
because I have some questions for you,
and you must answer them.

4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell me, if you know so much.
5 Who determined its dimensions
and stretched out the surveying line?
6 What supports its foundations,
and who laid its cornerstone
7 as the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

8 “Who kept the sea inside its boundaries
as it burst from the womb,
9 and as I clothed it with clouds
and wrapped it in thick darkness?
10 For I locked it behind barred gates,
limiting its shores.
11 I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come.
Here your proud waves must stop!’

12 “Have you ever commanded the morning to appear
and caused the dawn to rise in the east?
13 Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth,
to bring an end to the night’s wickedness?
14 As the light approaches,
the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal;
it is robed in brilliant colors.
15 The light disturbs the wicked
and stops the arm that is raised in violence.

16 “Have you explored the springs from which the seas come?
Have you explored their depths?
17 Do you know where the gates of death are located?
Have you seen the gates of utter gloom?
18 Do you realize the extent of the earth?
Tell me about it if you know!



Job 38:2-18

Now when you can ascend to His throne and create all things, you come back and let me know and then I might listen to your measure of what is moral or immoral.
 
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Zaac said:
What do you mean at last? Was the question asked before and I failed to answer it?
No, but you were seemingly reluctantly to come out and openly say what you thought.

Your avatar says that you are a humanist, not an atheist. And I said in accordance with God's word, all atheists are liars. I hope that clears it up for you.
Zaac, this is really simple stuff. I am both a humanist and and an atheist and therefore not lying.

If you as a humanist reject Jesus Christ, then like the atheist, you will spend eternity in the lake of fire. And if that comes across as vitriolic to you, I can't help that you feel that way about the truth.
It doesn't come across as vitriolic. It comes across as nightmarish.

And I will reassert the TRUTH. You have been given God's truth. You CHOOSE to reject It as the truth. You will, as of your current rejection, spend an eternity in the Lake of Fire because of YOU CHOOSING to do so.
I will again re-assert reality: I have been given only literature and claims based on that literature. I don't believe that said literature is actually 'God's truth' and my rejection is based on my understanding which is necessarily not motivated by choice.

They reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior so why would you think the response is going to differ?
But they do worship what they view to be the current understanding of God. They do believe that they are going to heaven. How can you peddle the utterly ridiculous claim that they are choosing hell when their entire belief system is there so they can enter heaven?

And we can go back and forth with what you believe based upon your "reality". The Creator of your reality has given the truth and if a person rejects Him in lieu of his reality, that person is still CHOOSING to spend an eternity in the Lake of Fire.
I will again re-iterate what is actually true: I don't believe that a 'creator' exists and I don't believe that there is a 'lake of fire'.

Yes because of your indignation of accepting the truth you CHOOSE to spend an eternity in the Lake of Fire where your indignation ain't gonna mean any more in the face of God's truth than it currently does.
First of all, whether or not my opposition to atrocity has any real world implications does nothing to dampen the validity behind it in the slightest. Secondly, I repeat again: I do not believe that the 'lake of fire' actually exists and thus cannot be choosing to go to it.

YOU ain't God so what you find contemptible and morally unjust doesn't mean anything when dealing with the One Who created you and gave you the ability to think. Your feelings don't supersede what God says.
I know this is what you believe. I know that your morality is merely a front for your unquestioning perpetual obedience.

You don't have to. Muslims don't believe that Jesus is God. By rejecting His truth, you're both in the same boat CHOOSING to row right into the Lake of Fire. It doesn't go away just because you don't believe it exists.
Do you know anything about Islam at all? Muslims believe that the reward for their devotion is Jannah. It is the height of ignorance to believe that they are choosing to go to hell.

Again, I don't insinuate, imply or contend things that I can say.
You haven't said that belief is choice, but you necessarily have implied it and you are wrong when you do so.

Then you haven't sought the truth. Because those seeking the truth will find it.
Except the demographics have never ever suggested this at all.

Then again, you are CHOOSING to spend an eternity in the Lake of Fire.
Except that is logically impossible. I can't choose to go somewhere that I don't believe exists. Do you know anything about logic whatsoever?

Nice worldview. My Biblical worldview holds that we are here to serve God and others. GOD is paramount, not man. So all of your humanism is wasted on the ones who follow Christ .
No, you will find that it is your worldview. Your worldview makes excuses and apologies for evil done to man at all times so long as it has God's brand.

No problems here. If it is against God, it is immoral from a Biblical perspective. For the ones who follow Christ, He is the center around which everything revolves.
There are then. You've just conceded it. You are the epitomy of evil.

I don't deal in hypotheticals. God says what He says about murder.
Whether or not you deal with them or not is not the point. If God was to decree that murder was right, you would have to accept it, and you have to accept it with glee and righteousness.

You're looking for human logic because you think humanity is the basis of everything as do most humanists.
I think humanity is the basis of civilization. Humanism is an ethical ideology, not a worldview on reality.

No response for this type stuff. It's irrelevant to a discussion on God. Get deep with someone else. I deal with the simple stuff of salvation. You either accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior or you're going to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire.
I suppose I was mistaken to believe that you could even hold an elementary understanding of the absolute evil that your world-view proposes. You would kill your own parents and your own kids if you felt that God told you to. They would literally mean nothing to you if God told you they didn't. This is true regardless of hypothetical examples or not.

And this clearly displays the difference between a humanistic worldview and God's view.
Proud of your shackles, I see.
 
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My opposition is symbolic, you know. It is a truly good thing that there's no reason whatsoever to think that any of this stuff is actually true.
 
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I'm completely familiar with the traditional arguments against a benevolent God concerning natural evil. If you believe that God is willing to do evil (as you do) then I have no quarrel with you. You concede the point.
 
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My opposition is symbolic, you know. It is a truly good thing that there's no reason whatsoever to think that any of this stuff is actually true.

I do realize it is merely symbolic to you. And I don't pretend to know how G-d may view that. Consistent with what I said before about (the non-existent) someone who's only sin was thought, if you actually take no action based on this train of thought, it might prove to be just an important stage of growth. I do urge you to outgrow this stage though! There are at least some points in your logic that are not sound. Even if I can't furnish you with a superior replacement for your flaws, please do examine the weaknesses I pinpoint. I realize it is an uncomfortable position; for me, too.
 
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We know you love arguing with us. BTW I don't hate being right. You guys validate that all the time.

2. Tergle you don't join atheist sites because you'd be torn apart, especially when one considers the fact that all you do is accuse atheists of things they don't do.

Like live to argue with Christians (theists)?

3. Atheists don't think you can be "saved" by Darwin.

Their arguments are immersed in evolutionary support. There's even Darwin celebration days now.

4. The atheists on those forums don't hate Christians or Christianity.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .

They just don't believe that Christianity is true. You tell them that Christianity is real, they'll say "prove it". Prove it means using scientific evidence.

Prove scientifically how life stays in a corporeal body? How a memory stays in living organ matter. Why anyone cares about a stranger in far off lands?

But hey, you've never been on the atheist forums, so you of course you wouldn't know that.

There's enough experience in the college milieu for enough canned reponse to know them thoroughly. And again, you guys here are as typical as it gets. Plus the books they write are regurgited comebacks again and again.

I wish you'd go there, and just ask them about their viewpoints so you could educate yourself.

Egotists are rarely fascinating for more than a moment. And even more rare as entertainment or enlightenment.
 
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