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I take total responsibility for anything and everything that I, personally have done. I will not take responsibility for the supposed sins of an ancient man who never existed (Adam). I don't see why I, or anybody else gets blamed for being human when it wasn't our idea to make us fallible creatures.
Oh please, enlighten me!
Yep. Tragic but that's life.
No, I'm quite certain it will happen having dealt with loss myself, I know just how that whole story goes.
I don't technically disagree. I just believe that will be an eternity of non-existence.
So I meet him after I die? Sounds like a scam... After I die, there will be no me to experience such an event. I don't spend too much time worrying about what's going to happen to me when I no longer live. That seems like a pointless waste of the precious little time I really do have.
An ancient Roman method of torture and execution.
I know of stories that talk about it but, no I don't certainly know it to be true. And the people who do believe it never seem to be able to prove it in any meaningful way. They just tell me to have faith in their stories.
IF you were deceived how can it be said that you are dishonest. A dishonest person knows the truth but withholds it. A deceived person thinks he is right when he clearly isn't because he has been lied to.
Do I? Where are they, by my liver? In my head? Maybe in yours? And why would someone else have to deal with them?
Christ? The man who was executed 20 centuries ago? I doubt there's much he could do about much of anything.
God (if He exists) already chose when He created the universe. I don't think I can change His plan.
Awesome! More enlightenment.
Right.
I'm not so sure about that. I probably definitely will die but we can't deny that technology has greatly improved life spans by nearly double their natural limits. In many ways we've improved on God's design and currently there are scientists trying to find out how to extend life spans indefinitely. Just think... 200 years ago people would have called you crazy for saying man could fly, and look at us now.
A rather inefficient and violent way to change His own rules, don't you think?
Then why give me one in the first place? Why make beings with the capacity to judge and then tell them to stuff it when they turn their judgments toward Him? What's He got to hide from little ol' me?
None of this makes any sense to me.
Sounds like a real nice guy.
Not all the teenagers are antisocial like you, I am too busy studying and researching not only for my final exam in high school but also for college, and working with my dad feeding and caring the animals in our farm and mowing for winter. You don't have to study all of them in particular because some of them are just parts of a group so if you study the group you get them. What I see here is totally the opposite, did you study all of those religions? You know nothing about Eastern Orthodoxy, about the saints, about the writings, about the church creeds or the dogmas, and we are a religion followed by 300 million people almost, what to say about the Sant Mat movement of the Bhakti.
I see. So when you said,
That was a lie. You did not study every religion on earth. I'm sure you know what the bible says about lying.
Well you see... I look at religions as a group. A group of belief systems that require you to accept the premise without any verifiable evidence to support it. They all make impossible claims and require you to accept these claims before any actual truth can be revealed. Because Christianity falls into this category, I dismiss it like I would any other religion making impossible claims.
So if I, a nonbeliever, choose Heaven, God must respect my choice? Cool.
Free will? What nonsense. It's the same kind of "free will" that the mafia respects: "Nice soul you got there. Would be a shame if it were to burn forever..."
"Anti-social" is an invent for teenagers who are lost in this life and live in a chaotic environment with no order, certainly here in Romania we do it the old way, I know no anti-social, we all work, we all study and I hang out with my friends almost daily, I find time for everything, and the liars are you, not me, because I say things about my life and you say they are false, how would you know that better than me? You don't.
I know no such things, living to me is relating to other persons, living to me is caring about what other people say, think or suffer, that is love for my neighbour. There is no "me" without "you", I can't live without others, and I certainly know no people around me who aren't like I am, not in my country, where the sense of family and neighbourhood is so developed and crusted into the unity of our people.
Based on what you've stated, one could simply choose Heaven. According to you, God must respect that choice. Since I presume no one would willingly choose Hell, Hell must be totally inhabited.
Good for you bud. I have a strong sense of family and friends. But I'm at heart a solitary creature.
