Dominant Force in West Today According to Dennis Prager is Fear of Left

what are we being saved from?Edited by DrJones*, : No reason given.

Our own unenlightened animal brain. Humans represented the one animal that moved on into life, unlike any other animal. Evidently the Creator took interest in this species...though critics accuse the species itself of anthropomorphizing God. By nature alone, we will either destroy ourselves or become an evil hybrid ready to defeat others. Manifest destiny continued. The Creator of all seen and unseen intervened. We have an opportunity to establish a universal relationship, but not on our own brutish and cunning terms.

speak for yourself. H. sapiens is pretty enlightened, name another species that has voluntarily left the planet. some support for this assertion would be swell.

OK Dr.Jones, if you honestly think that humans can make it, get past our competitive destructive phase amongst ourselves and venture out like Star Trek, I hope you are right...even if it makes me wrong

OK, so then your alternative is to submit ourselves to the will of some authoritarian who tells us that he and he alone can interpret what Jebus wants us to do.Gee, try to figure it out or else submit mindlessly to some clueless authoritarian nut. Hmmm! Tough one, that! What to do? What to do?Edited by dwise1, : will of

More correctly what His Daddy is gonna do to them, which really ends up being what they do to themselves by refusing Him and what the inevitable consequences are.

Heres the thing though. Nobody has to submit to any authoritarian. That's the bad spirit that infiltrated organized religion like it infiltrates or attempts to infiltrate everything human. If Jesus existed and if He brought the Holy Spirit by his subsequent necessary crucifixion and absence, the only authority that we are encouraged to listen to is that Spirit. No human should be anything apart from a teacher/encourager...never should we surrender our autonomy to any guru, prophet, or self-proclaimed authority. All we are encouraged to do is fellowship with like-minded believers and celebrate our communion with the Holy Spirit. Trust me its better than communion with alcohol!

Hell.Many religions have a Hell or other form of punishment in the afterlife. Only Christianity has a Savior from it.

Yup, that's the classic Snake-Oil product so much of Christianity markets. But of course there is zero evidence that it works even if it does make the sucker that bought it feel good while the dope lasts.It is pitiful and disgusting.

I have never had a belief in hell and I seem to be doing quite fine.
Many religions do not have a hell or other form of punishment in the afterlife. Therefore they have no need of a savior from it.
See what I did there.So the premise of your religion is. There was a dude that created all including a heaven and hell, then he sent his "son" down to one part of his creation in order to save people from going to the really bad place he created and he that is sending people to.
He sounds kind of incompetent and/or weak to me. Or maybe just a tad confused?

God created everything good. But He alsomade it possible for free creatures to disobey Him. First the angels and then human beings disobeyed Him. And there are natural consequences of that, consequences in this life and in the life to come since human beings are immortal. Hell is a natural consequence of the violation of the perfect good Moral Law. The Moral Law can't change. If it is violated the violator must be punished. There are various ways this is recognized in other religions than Christianity, such as the concept of Karma in estern religions. those religions also recognize a Hell. Different religions have different versions of punishment in the afterlife but

That is simply not evidence Faith.And the only possible connection to the topic is just more evidence of your total disconnection from reality.

So your god dude isn't omnipotent or omniscient?