On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:19 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> 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)?
Well no one can hold on to a soul forever, at all times there is a
chance you will escape their grip and find yourself elsewhere.
Also, the concept of a super intelligent entity torturing someone may
be almost contradictory, for they may realize the identity of all
minds, and therefore they would be torturing themselves.
Self contradictions aside, all religions are true with some relative
probability. That is to say, in this world, some fractions of the
explanations for it's existence is because a Christian god created it,
in another fraction it is because brahma (a Hindu god) is dreaming it,
and so on.
Jason
Brent
"Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute
and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory
biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of
light and leading by contrast"
--- Mark Twain
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