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Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by mbartelsm
I do let them, like i care what others think... especially someone spouting off religious babble...
Originally posted by mbartelsm
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by mbartelsm
I do let them, like i care what others think... especially someone spouting off religious babble...
you let them, but at the same time you mock their beliefs as if they offended or threaten you in some way.
I don't think there ARE 2 seperate dimensions called heaven and hell. Hell is obviously not a physical place, or we would go there BEFORE death to burn eternally. If I'm just a soul I'm not afraid of firey pits, souls feel no pain, they have no nerve endings (or anything physical, for that matter). Bring on the popcorn !
Not to say there isn't an afterlife. But in short, 'sinning' won't send you to 'hell'. That being said, I also think that if you were an evil person in life, that the afterlife WILL NOT be a good place to you. I can't really explain what I mean by this atm, 10 hours of work and counting wears out the brain... But there is a difference between being a sinner and being evil. Show me one man who swears to have never sinned, and ill show you a liar.
Originally posted by mbartelsm
reply to post by Akragon
You are completely free to express your opinions, but you should do it in a respectful way, you are just offending people by posting things like that
Originally posted by Gibbled
reply to post by mbartelsm
If god is physical, technically that makes him an ET, not a 'God', and that leads into a few other theories... If 'God' is an ET, then heaven and hell are nothing more than planets out there somewhere.
Originally posted by Akragon
Originally posted by mbartelsm
reply to post by Akragon
You are completely free to express your opinions, but you should do it in a respectful way, you are just offending people by posting things like that
It happens *shrug*
things like what btw?
I mean, if a person who is better than many, if not most, of us just doesn't believe, is he or she going to hell?
Hmm, that's an interesting theory. Never heard of it before. Do you know if it's ever been verified ? I think the idea of heaven/hell being real/physical places would turn the religion into an oxymoron.
If gods dwelling is physical, it stands to reason that he is too. If god is physical, technically that makes him an ET, not a 'God', and that leads into a few other theories... If 'God' is an ET, then heaven and hell are nothing more than planets out there somewhere. Which would make the whole discussion moot anyway haha.
Originally posted by sezsue
reply to post by mbartelsm
Just ask God to show you what he wants you to know, he will.
Good luck on your journey.
PS Most christians don't believe this information I have given you.
"Redemption" is so utterly simple. God made redemption simple because we were all born into sin, we had no say-so in the condition we were born into. Salvation is as simple as asking to be forgiven via Christ's sacrifice. All one has to do is ask. How much more simple can that get???