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Originally Posted by pianoperformer  There's a serious scaling issue with this, though.
If I step on a nail, I don't live with unbearable pain in my foot forever. If i touch a flame, I don't feel the pain from that flame forever. They have temporary responses, that are used for me to learn not to do those things again. It's not a one shot and your done sort of thing.. |
Interesting viewpoint; do you teach your experience your kids (about pain) or you let them find out for themselves? After the temporary responses that are used to you and having learnt not to do them, is it not obvious that you warn your kids against undergoing the same experience? Where then is the problem when God who knows how it is in Hell, trying to warn his children Christians on the same?
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Originally Posted by pianoperformer However, with what you are discussing, if I happen not to choose the correct religion out of the probably millions that are out there, I go to hell. Not only for a moment, not so I can see I made a wrong choice and change my mind, but forever, with no chance of getting out of it. So it's a guessing game with a cruel outcome. It's like an extreme version of Russian Roulette, with five bullets loaded instead of one, and we don't even get the choice whether or not we want to play.
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How many scientific origins of the world were there, more than three (if my teacher was right), how did the scientists finally agree on the Big bang as the most probable one? There are many religions out there yes; but which one of these do you believe has what you need as an individual? And are you ready to defend what you believe in? A Russian roulette? Yes! That is the limitation within which your decisions lie. You are like a table which wants to be a bed or a chair which has decided to be a car (without the assistance of the carpenter), your choices just like theirs are limited to the purpose they where made for. The trees are not complaining, they continue with life within their limitations, so does that cow/pig you are going to have for supper. Always complaining but powerless do anything about the Russian roulette they are playing.
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Originally Posted by pianoperformer For at least 1500 years, there was a whole side of the world no one knew about, and no one was able to preach to. How did they have any chance of all of getting to heaven?
No offense to your beliefs, of course, but that kind of comparison you were making is fallacious. |
Inside every human being therein created the capacity for good, even to the most savage of a man there lies godliness. History has evidence of people who did good while totally ignorant of the word of God, people who questioned the injustice and worked for the good of mankind, in their ignorance they worshipped the truth. But those of us who know the truth, by that the truth we you shall be judged.