On 9/19/2012 4:34 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 6:54:25 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote:
On 9/19/2012 3:12 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 5:20:00 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote:
On 9/19/2012 2:11 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 5:27:13 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote:
Hi Richard Ruquist
Obeying the commandments will not get you into heaven,
only believing in Christ's sacrifice for us will do that.
What kind of a sacrifice is that? "I'm going to do you the biggest
favor you
can imagine, but if you don't believe in it, then my favor is worthless
and
makes anything good that you have ever done in your life a complete
waste of
time".
If I were Satan, I would write the Bible exactly as it is, full of
horrific
promises and threats that can be interpreted in many ways. It's pretty
much
like dropping candy colored hand grenades onto a school playground. The
grenades would say "if anyone tries to take this away from you, then
they
deserve whatever happens to them".
But I'm curious; as a member of the EVERYTHING-list, don't you believe
that
there's a world where the Bible is essentially accurate (modulo direct
contradictions)?
I don't know about accurate, but there are certainly phenomenological
states where
the Bible can seem powerfully important, i.e. super-significant - for good
or evil.
But those are phenomenological states in this world, and apparently you
think the
qualifier "seem" means "false" in this world. I'm asking about all those
infinitely
many other worlds?
The phenomenological states and the sense that they make of each other are the only
worlds that there are. Seeming is not false, rather truth is nothing but mutually
overlapping seeming among more and more worlds.
Seeming to whom?...more and more Craigs?
In this case, there seems to me to be much more overlapping seeming outside of the Bible
than inside of it.
So is this a purely personal seeming to you? Polls show it's a minority
seeming in the U.S.
Brent
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