Ah, the old tactic of threatening them with hell (in a passive aggressive way of course) in a vain attempt to convert a non-believer.
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Well, I guess the answer to that question is because they are fools rejecting the only means to help them avoid hell.
Nothing... that's the whole point. God has made it so that ANYONE can know Him.... even YOU Frenchy. (I like that name)
I thought you were a Christian
Well, I guess the answer to that question is because they are fools rejecting the only means to help them avoid hell.
No, that never occurred to me.
I can't understand how children can be so insufferably obnoxious as to so cruelly murder them. Nor can I understand why anyone would boil someone in oil or throw them to the lions and then sit around and watch while they are being savagely attacked.
It's obvious that you can justify this. Maybe you could tell me how you could think this is justified, NP, regardless of who it is.
I believe in Jesus and what He says and yes, that's the best I've got. It doesn't get any better.
What do you wish that I should take your attitude and side and pass that along? I'm afraid I would end up as empty and sad as "some" people in this forum and I certaily wouldn't WANT to pass that along.
No, I'd rather take Jesus at His word.
And I wish you well with it -- but do try to understand that it accomplishes absolutely squat when dealing with people who actually study physical and life sciences.
Which one?Are you claiming to know who the anonymous author of the one of the Gospels is?
I believe in Allah and what He says and yes, that's the best I've got. It doesn't get any better.I believe in Jesus and what He says and yes, that's the best I've got. It doesn't get any better.
What do you wish that I should take your attitude and side and pass that along? I'm afraid I would end up as empty and sad as "some" people in this forum and I certaily wouldn't WANT to pass that along.
No, I'd rather take Jesus at His word.
Which one?
- Matthew / Levi
- John Mark
- Dr. Luke
- John Boanerges
I take it this includes the over 1.5 million Christians in prison in the US.
Please read this:
According to the (BJS) Bureau of Justice Statistics 7,225,800 people at year end 2009 were either in jail or prison or were on probation, about 3.1% of adults in the U.S. resident population.2,292,133 were incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails at year end 2009.
Given that 80% of people in the US profess to being Christians that would tell us that 1,650,000 million Christians are in Prison, let's say that half of those who say they are Christians are not really Christians, that still leaves at least 800,000 HEALTHY & HAPPY God fearing Christians behind bars.
I honestly wish I had a dream world I could pop into whenever the need arose, I envy you.
I believe in Allah and what He says and yes, that's the best I've got. It doesn't get any better.
What do you wish that I should take your attitude and side and pass that along? I'm afraid I would end up as empty and sad as "some" people in this forum and I certainly wouldn't WANT to pass that along.
No, I'd rather take Muhammad (peace be upon him) at His word.
And I wish you well with it -- but do try to understand that it accomplishes absolutely squat when dealing with people who actually study physical and life sciences.
Well, that's good for those people but what about you, NP?
Whatever gives you the warm fuzzies -- gotta work better than the truth.
Which is why Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. You should convert sometime.Nothing works better than THE truth, NP.
Can fudie rhetoric (of any religion) really be original? It's all equally unintelligent.So original, Crazy (eyes roll). At least I answered honestly.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!! Give us a break with your "figuring" the facts. Let's say those 2,292,000 all came out of the 20%. Or let's say we add 1% Christians and split that in half for not real christians. You can figure it however you want. You know the old addage "figures don't lie but liars figure." Not saying you are lying but you don't have enough info to make those assumptions.
Which one?
- Matthew / Levi
- John Mark
- Dr. Luke
- John Boanerges
Well, that's good for those people but what about you, NP?
Nothing works better than THE truth, NP.
It's pretty obvious that you only believe what you want to believe.Whoa, whoa, whoa!! Give us a break with your "figuring" the facts. Let's say those 2,292,000 all came out of the 20%. Or let's say we add 1% Christians and split that in half for not real christians. You can figure it however you want. You know the old addage "figures don't lie but liars figure." Not saying you are lying but you don't have enough info to make those assumptions.
Everyone searches for how the universe works. Thus can be done without believing that all phenomena has a future purely naturalistic cause (which is myth).No. No no no no no. Stop. Do not ever equate my (and sciences) search for how the universe works with your need to believe the mythology you were raised on.
It's not that you have to want it but we have a situation here where the mind follows on an incline towards matter. Mind is substance (like any other) and through such it follows basic laws of attraction, repulsion, affinity. The material mind in a material world needs as much effort to bond with matter as a wheel at the top of a steep incline needs someone to tell it where to go. Will is not required, only the weakening of will, the weakening of the block, to which one becomes a slave to momentum and gravity. It's almost instinctual (2 Peter: 10-22).There is nothing I 'want' to believe. Perhaps I 'want' to believe in some sort of all-loving deity that grants wishes (prayer), and has a paradise prepared for me after this life, but I don't believe in wishful thinking.
"Reality" is already naturalism, "search for truth" dictated by such (see methodological naturalism). By the by "reason" doesnt follow the idea that chance and necessity can take bacteria to men.My search for truth and reality is evidence, reason and logic based.
That one day everything will be shown to have a purely naturalistic causeYou can't name a single thing I believe that isn't supported by evidence, reason and logic.
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