What is the purpose behind an eternal hell?

[Archaeopteryx]

Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing. Is that not what you are doing? Having confidence or trust in a thing?

That's one usage of the word. However, we are talking about faith in the religious sense.

 

[JonFromMinnesota]

You have never seen a rainbow?

I have. It's caused by reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets that results in a spectrum. There never was a world wide flood. This is falsified by all geologic evidence. It's a myth.

Why can man now eat meat?

Because it's a food source. Our ancestors even learned how to cook it. Stone tools for butchering meat appear about 2.5 million years ago. Why is this question relevant?

You fear a worldwide flood?

Why would I fear a world wide flood? Why is this question relevant. Could you try to construct a coherent argument? This is just nonsense.

 

[Oncedeceived]

That's one usage of the word. However, we are talking about faith in the religious sense.

That is what it is in the religious sense.

 

[Archaeopteryx]

That is what it is in the religious sense.

Not based on what we see practiced by religionists.

 

[vinsight4u]

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[vinsight4u]

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[bhsmte]

You need the holy God as the example and to set the standards/
law and punishment. He gives you breath/life/soul..spirit...body.


1 Thessalonians 5:23

No you dont.

 

[vinsight4u]

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[vinsight4u]

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[bhsmte]

The OT shows that nations were seen as in iniquity at times.
This then brought punishment. So when a person dies in
iniquity it should bring punishment in the future to them.

The OT is the claim, not the evidence.

 

[Oncedeceived]

Not based on what we see practiced by religionists.

Really, what do you see?

 

[Archaeopteryx]

Really, what do you see?

People who are wildly overconfident in the absolute veracity of their religion's supernatural claims.

 

[Oncedeceived]

People who are wildly overconfident in the absolute veracity of their religion's supernatural claims.

Knowing God produces absolute veracity.

 

[Archaeopteryx]

Knowing God produces absolute veracity.

That's the problem: you haven't shown that you possess any knowledge of the divine, much less knowledge that is absolutely true.

 

[Oncedeceived]

That's the problem: you haven't shown that you possess any knowledge of the divine, much less knowledge that is absolutely true.

How would you "see" this?

 

[Archaeopteryx]

How would you "see" this?

I see your claims and how you try to support them.

 

[Oncedeceived]

I see your claims and how you try to support them.

What has that have to do with faith?

 

[vinsight4u]

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[Archaeopteryx]

What has that have to do with faith?

As I said before...

 

[Oncedeceived]

As I said before...

That is what it is in the religious sense.

Not based on what we see practiced by religionists.

Really, what do you see?

People who are wildly overconfident in the absolute veracity of their religion's supernatural claims.

Knowing God produces absolute veracity.

That's the problem: you haven't shown that you possess any knowledge of the divine, much less knowledge that is absolutely true.

As you can see, we were talking about the word faith and I defined it, you said it wasn't what was practiced by religionists (a strange word) and I asked what you did see. You then change the discussion from faith to demonstrating knowledge of the Divine and absolute truth. Now my point was about faith as a theist views it and how you would see it.