You didn't answer my questions.

All you did was vent.

Do you really think a God who can resurrect you deserves to be compared to men with the adjective "genocidal"?

I think the difference in human and God's abilities should tell you not to make false equivocations like that.

Wait, which eternity are you talking about here, the "forever" eternity or the "temporary" eternity?

... and this doesn't sound like Christian Universalism doctrine to me, are you switching again?

My post is directed to the OP.

Once again someone needs to be reminded that this a public internet forum, if you dont want other people participating use a PM or email.

Nah. This is easier. I don't have the time to address every tangent.

You dont need religion to know you should be kind to people and not be a dick. Parents do just fine at teaching this and there is no doubt if parents are real or not =P

Then why are 99% of your posts irrelevant tangents?

I know this is a completely different tangent - but in 2 days I go in for a below knee amputation. Maybe if you and I pray hard enough I will wake up from the operation with a completely new leg? Unlikely I know but how about we give it a shot - "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you" . I'll keep you posted on the result!

I'm sorry to hear that. I am going to pray for you.

Thanks - but lets pray specifically for a new leg.

I know I may be a little result orientated - but i remember someone talking about the miracle of Calanda in 1641 & John 14:14 "If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.".
As a betting man Im also open to bets for the next 12 hours (being a gambling forum) and will offer good odds (im betting no new leg) just ask for the good odds and you shall recieve.
I'll post the results here in this thread in about 50-60 hours.

Well count me out then. I'm not into internet con games. I actually know someone who recently lost a relative partly from a leg amputation.

I agreed to pray for you out of a sincere concern.

But if it's a game or a test. You're on your own. I won't be following your posts on this.

WHy is it internet con game? or a test? I am being sincere.

Sorry about your friend. Can I ask what happened?

Offering odds? It doesn't sound like you're suffering at all.

It sounds like you're engaging in a prank.

It sounds like you dont believe me?

Would you like me to post photos? - warning the amputations I have had so far are very gruesome.( one foot & 3 finger tips)

No, you don't have to post pics. Pics are so one dimensional. We already know you have a fighting spirit just from what you've posted and God most likely put your fighting spirit there.

I already prayed for you both specifically and generally and whether or not you queer the outcome with your unbelief doesn't really matter.

Regardless of outcome God will always love you absolutely and completely or else there's no reason to believe in God.

May your pain be minimal and your recovery fast, Melbourne.

Thanks Hack & Splendour

ICWYDT

Sigh. Sorry I couldn't let this go. Every time GIA refutes your "facts" with logic, your head explodes and you post some random tangent.

She does the same with everyone and has been told quite often to smarten up.
She will not.
I think that she is other than a believer and is here to discredit believers.

She must have some negative agenda or she would not try so hard to give her religion a black eye.

FMPOV, I do not mind. She does my work for me.

Regards
DL

LOL...I understand. It's terribly frustrating when someone prefers to think for himself and refuses to be atheized.

I'm terribly hardheaded but then I think most people on here don't even understand that the significance of religion is so much greater for the individual than they even realize.

Society is just a byproduct of individuals.

God's much smarter than people. He knows the way to produce the best society is to produce the best people because people are the building blocks of society.

lol! nice catch

Yet he used genocide on the society he created.
Yep. He is smarter all right.
No morals but quite bright.

Regards
DL

Hell has been mentioned for many thousands of years before the Christian church (or Jewish religion for that matter).

I've come to believe that we are bound by our virtues and merits, and those attributes are the winds that lead us into any of the six realms (our Earth being one, the animal realm one of the other few most of us can perceive with our sensory perceptions).

The direct effects of our actions on our future can be seen in real-world examples everyday... what excludes that same law from being valid in other realms (assuming a non-zero chance there is a hell)?


Almost every religion (some more valid than others) mention hell as one of our possible destinations... the how and why we possibly arrive there seem much more unclear. I do think that to completely discount so many great minds over the years who have believed there is a hell, is quite conceited... even if one is an atheist.

Guess we'll find out how it all works (or doesn't) when our time comes.

If you do not believe, it is already too late. So I am told by Christians.

BTW, if those great minds believed in hell, then they ignored what the Jews, the authors of the O T said.
There is no hell.

Regards
DL