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My God only sounds like a monster to you because you don't understand justice. This isn't FSTDT, and flame wars are not going to be tolerated. Just keep that in mind there buddy.
 
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I don't expect to be found innocent. I don't have a problem with the idea of God judging me for my sins.

Well you had better. You are going to be found guilty, and you are going to go to hell. That's not exactly something you should just be blowing off.
 
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You know God exist. You only suppress that reality, in order to continue in your sin. That is a great sin you commit. Willfully Blind.
 
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The world is a scary place. It is not just a thought, it's a reality. It being impossible to unsave yourself, I would have to doubt you were ever really a Christian.
 
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Neither you, nor any other Christian, has ever shown me any evidence at all that the non-Christian religion I currently belong to is not a brand new Revelation from God. Why, then, would I want to give it up?

Because your god doesn't exist.
It's easy enough for you to say that, but can you show me evidence that God agrees with you instead of with the teachings of my non-Christian religion?

You must follow what the Bible says. You must repent and turn to Jesus Christ as your substitute for sin. If you don't do that, you are not saved.
The Bible says a lot of things besides that.

What is your position on loving one another? Do you feel that teaching forbids racism?

What is your position on putting the sword up into the sheath? Do you think that means Jesus forbade Christians to initiate wars?
 
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BigChrisFilm said:
What are you going to do about your sin problem? You are guilty, how will you be found innocent?
You assume your conclusion in the premise. You assume that everyone has a sin problem.

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Doesn't matter. Just because you don't believe in God, doesn't make you any less guilty.
Do not expect the above to mean anything less that utter rubbish to Non-Christians. If you disbelieve in God, then proclamations that you are in sin is wholly meaningless.

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The fact you do wrong, know it, and continue to do it anyway should tell you how evil our hearts are.
This assumes that this particular person does wrong and continues to do so.

Consider this.

If Person X was to go up to you and say "Well, how will you answer to Thor after you die?" "What are you going to do?"

What would you say? How would you react? You do not believe in the existence of Thor and therefore answering to Thor under your world view is simply not going to happen - therefore the question is meaningless and the only real answer can be that you do not think it is going to even happen.

This is precisely the case with Atheists and sin. Atheists do not accept the foundations of your entire argument (that sin exists and it ought to be repented for to God). Your argument therefore is entirely meaningless to Atheists and one rather large begging the question fallacy.

Unless of course, you are asking what Atheists would do hypothetically if they met God and Christian understanding is correct regarding such a deity?

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But are you sorry you did what you did, or because you got caught? That will be up to him, and he already told us what will happen to you on judgment day.
But as expressed above, this is meaningless to Atheists.

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He will be GREATLY offended if you tell him you didn't even believe in him at all.
God would already know that you did not believe in him. God would have always known. It should come as no surprise to an omniscient deity that Person X who he allowed to exist did not believe in him.

Moreover, what about sincerity under God's judgment? Suppose a sincere and well meaning Atheist is to be judged by God. Does that Atheist deserve hell purely for reasoning incorrectly on a metaphysical position?

BigChrisFilm said:
Your post makes no sense. Hell can be eternal, and God be omniscent, omniptent, and omnibenevolent all at the same time.
Only if 'good' is reduced to an arbitrary term defined by God's own decisions.

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A God that does not punish the guilty is no just. He is not good. It doesn't matter if you agree with God on eternal punishment. Who is right, you or God? I know who I got my money on.
If God does not exist, then I am infinitely more right than God. Under my world view, I am infinitely more correct over God.

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Creation proves there was a creator.
The creation of a particular object certainly provides tantalising evidence that there indeed was a designer. However, whether by 'creation' here - you are referring to the entire universe, there is no reason to suppose that it is a creation much less a creation of a specific being.

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Because your god doesn't exist. You must follow what the Bible says. You must repent and turn to Jesus Christ as your substitute for sin. If you don't do that, you are not saved.
You must follow what the Qu'ran says. You must recite the Shahada and become a Muslin. If you don't do that, you will be destined for the hellfire.

Now how convincing was that, precisely?

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Well you had better. You are going to be found guilty, and you are going to go to hell. That's not exactly something you should just be blowing off.
Arrogance comes when you put yourself in the position of judgment of what you consider the ultimate being. If God exists, you certainly do not speak for him and I would imagine he is embarrassed to have you attempting to be his spokesperson.

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You know God exist. You only suppress that reality, in order to continue in your sin. That is a great sin you commit. Willfully Blind.
Your arrogance speaks wonders again. You do not know the intentions of anyone. Get a grip and observe reality. Sincere Atheists exist.
 
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You know God exist. You only suppress that reality, in order to continue in your sin. That is a great sin you commit. Willfully Blind.
Ha great man. Very christian of you. What ever you gotta do to perpetuate your belief system. I was raised Christian, and cling on to many of the values I was taught. That does not mean that I'm willfuly ignorant. I am perfectly aware that my subjective views of morality are just that.

Now you. You must demonize others in order to make your belief system seem worthy, and to make you feel justified in making unfounded assertions based on ancient superstitions. Care to answer any of my questions in the previous post?
 
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BigChrisfilm said:
Nope, still can't have it.
So, poppet, are you going against the Word of the Bible?
Luke 6:30 said:
Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

Maybe a little Luke 6:37 for ya, too.

BigChrisfilm said:
You know it's wrong to lie, steal, blaspheme, murder, commit adultery. You have the same moral code, you just don't follow it.

"An it harm none, do what thou will"

Lying harms dependent upon the situation. I've lied to comfort. I've lied to preserve.

Stealing? Pshh. We can come up with scenarios all day long on that where the law forbids it but the spirit demands it.

Blaspheme? You might have me there. I know a funny joke about Pinnochio and Jesus.

Murder? Haven't done that yet.

Commit adultery? Ahh, if everyone's consenting, is it adultery?
 
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The world is a scary place. It is not just a thought, it's a reality.
Of course the world can be a scary place. However, there is not only evil in this world. Anyone who thinks there is only evil is just as blind as someone who chooses to always ignore the evil. It is not black and white, both good and evil exist within this world - that is not just a thought, it is reality.

It being impossible to unsave yourself, I would have to doubt you were ever really a Christian.
Ohhhhh, right right, of course. How silly of me. I'd forgotten that only those who were not "true Christians" ever leave Christianity.
Your arguments become more and more illogical as we go along..
 
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Because your god doesn't exist. You must follow what the Bible says.

You should try to back up what you say with proof (hint, the Bible only counts as proof once you have proven the Bible as true..), otherwise, why should any of us believe you? You give us no reason to.

That, and your attitude here really turns people away even more.. do you consider that? Do you think about the best way to approach a non-Christian? Do you realize that we do not believe in the Bible as you do (or yet again, we'd be Christian) so these arguments don't have a whole lot of weight? That accusing us of all sorts of things, just maybe, is not the best way to go?
 
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Your post makes no sense. Hell can be eternal, and God be omniscent, omniptent, and omnibenevolent all at the same time.

Absolutely not. Either he wouldn't be omniscent, because he wouldn't know who was going, or he wouldn't be omnipotent, because he didn't just stop people from going there. Either way, that makes him the antithesis of omnibenevolent - read evil - for condemning his children to eternal torture.

It's just not something I'm buying, sorry.
 
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All you have to do is read the Bible to find out that God agrees. Although I do not like the choice of words, because everything I say is straight from the Bible. I don't speak on my own authority.
 
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You can not be raised Christian. Christianity is not a race of people. The fact that you know God exist, and yet willfilly reject him is being willfully blind. You are wrong, I do not demonize others. I read the Bible, and it says you are the children of Satan.
 
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