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jar
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Message 92 of 163 (586456)
10-13-2010 12:13 PM
Reply to: Message 91 by dyluck
10-13-2010 12:09 PM


Re: Life After Death
dyluck writes:
I believe implicitly that only God can open a heart like yours or mine for this crazy and rather scandalous, God sacrificing himself in place of us notion, to make sense to the point that it consumes your very outlook on life!
As a Christian that has never made any sense and just makes the god being marketed look stupid.

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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jar
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Posts: 34026
From: Texas!!
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Message 99 of 163 (586478)
10-13-2010 1:30 PM
Reply to: Message 97 by dyluck
10-13-2010 1:19 PM


Re: Life After Death
dyluck writes:
So, if you made something. A painting for instance. you dont' have the right to either display it for everyone to see or to hide it in your basement or to tear it appart?
wonder why you would expect God to have any less rights then you let alone more concidering he is indeed the Creator.
dyluck writes:
Honestly, if there is a God, creator of the universe. How can anyone stand against Him?
We may well fail, but if it is the God you market we are charged to at least try to stand against it.
dyluck writes:
Tell me then my friend. How do you manage what is right and wrong for a God? If he exists, what are you going to do to stand against him? I picture a nat banging its head against a wall a mile thick and a mile long. I'm not meaning you being the nat by the way Just painting a picture if you will.
The very same way Abraham did. We were given the great gift of the knowledge of good and evil and are expected to use it, even in challenging and correcting God.
But none of that has anything to do with the topic. The question is about Existence after Death, and there, no one really even has a clue.

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jar
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Message 107 of 163 (586490)
10-13-2010 2:30 PM
Reply to: Message 102 by ringo
10-13-2010 2:22 PM


Re: Life After Death
Ringo writes:
That's Pascal's Wager. I'm not a gambler.
More like the classic misrepresentation of Pascal's Wager.
What Pascal said is that we should live our lives as though we were going to be judged. It is simply an admonition that each of us should try to behave well and was not talking about the afterlife but our current life.

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jar
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Message 133 of 163 (586536)
10-13-2010 6:38 PM
Reply to: Message 125 by dyluck
10-13-2010 5:39 PM


Re: Life After Death
Do you believe hitler was indeed a true christian?
Absolutely as have been many horrific people.
Matt 7:21-23 " 21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' 23 And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'"
Don't worry, just as in Matthew 25 he is saying that the Goats will be his followers.
If there is a Heaven I am quite sure there will be far more atheists, agnostics, Buddhist, Taoists, Animists, Satanists, Jews, Hindus and Muslims there than Christians.

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jar
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Posts: 34026
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Message 140 of 163 (586774)
10-14-2010 5:44 PM
Reply to: Message 138 by dyluck
10-14-2010 5:33 PM


Re: Life After Death
Guess you weren't reading the same bible as me...
Just because a person says they are a Christian doesn't mean they are one.
I can say I'm an engineer but at the end of the day, by my actions, you can see I am not an engineer.
But if you are a member of an Engineering Society and recognized as an engineer, you are one. You may well be a poor and incompetent engineer, but you are still an engineer.
If you are a member of the Lions Club or a Moose or a Shriner then that is what you are.
If someone is a member of a chapter of Club Christian, then they are a Christian.
And yes, in Matthew 25 the Goats are pretty obviously Jesus' followers, what today we call Christians.
Edited by jar, : lost an a in there somewho
Edited by jar, : and a hyspostrophy

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