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Originally Posted by newsbone  Even when you leave the book with someone you trust, you would still need to do it yourself? You sound a very poor manager. What do you understand by the word delegation? |
This is assuming I'm still alive when I'm giving this guidance, so if I left a book, presumably they could ask me if it was my book, and I could answer without ambiguity.
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Originally Posted by newsbone Yes you do! Yes you do! |
I'm glad you can read my mind. You need more practice, though, as I had no clue what you were talking about.
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Originally Posted by newsbone We don’t have options, in this life that we live God has only provided us with two choices; it is either him or hell. Our feelings and what we do with them notwithstanding; just like trees we have limited options, just like the cows/pigs on your dinner table complaints will not change the reality. Hiding our heads in the sand in the name of atheism, new age or any other belief will not spare you. |
We get back to the crux of the issue. No one
knows that those are our only two options. You can believe so, I can believe you are wrong. Either way, if there is a god, he hasn't done a very good job of emphasizing that these are indeed our only two options. presumably for such an important decision, he would do more than leave a book that may or may not contain the truth.
I expect to hear a voice booming something like:
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Originally Posted by God Hey BTW, it's my way or the highway, so choose wisely! |
No such voice has introduced itself to me yet, though, so I assume it's up to me to choose what I want to do, and there's no one who's going to punish me after death for accidentally making the wrong choice.
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Originally Posted by newsbone What you want to be true can be a lie but at least it is yours! |
What if your truth is a lie? Hmm.
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Originally Posted by newsbone The age of ignorance is over because you know the truth, and by it ye shall be judged! |
What makes you think I know the truth? I mean, you told me your beliefs, but in no way does that mean I think they are the truth, or should be hel dresponsible for judging whether or not they are true, especially to such a degree I can be judged by it and end up in one of two places eternally.
They're just beliefs, and I don't hold them myself. They don't impress me anymore than if a Muslim were telling me his beliefs, too. In fact I'd think him quite crazy if he thought I could tell if they were true or not after just a few minutes of talking about them.
Indeed, I'd think anyone quite crazy if they thought I could determine something to be true or not that no one will actually know until after death. It's called circumstancial evidence, and we don't have much of it. The evidence I have seen does not support your world view, but you are free to hold it, of course.