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Old 09-30-2009, 09:18 AM   #371
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What other parts of the bible are you personally allowed to disobey?
I'm not permitted to disobey any parts of the bible. I'm no one special. I said, I don't think God will send me to Hell for stealing $5 from someone. Afterall, he is a God of forgiveness, right? If he would send me to Hell for eternity, then he is going against his Word, and he did not sent Christ to save me from my sinful ways.
Do you think he's going to forgive you for completely ignoring the 4th commandment for your entire mortal life?
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You are pretty much in a no win situation whether you believe in Him or not.
If he existed, you would deserve to spend eternity with him.
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I'm not permitted to disobey any parts of the bible. I'm no one special. I said, I don't think God will send me to Hell for stealing $5 from someone. Afterall, he is a God of forgiveness, right? If he would send me to Hell for eternity, then he is going against his Word, and he did not sent Christ to save me from my sinful ways.
Do you think he's going to forgive you for completely ignoring the 4th commandment for your entire mortal life?
I don't know. That's up to him. If he knows what is truly in my heart, then yes, I believe he will forgive. We are only human, we make mistakes, we live troubled lives.. He understands all of this quite clearly.
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You are pretty much in a no win situation whether you believe in Him or not.
If he existed, you would deserve to spend eternity with him.
I think spening an eternity with the creator of human life and universe will be an awesome experience. It will be something that will never get old. Everyday I will be refreshed in the name of God. The Human brain cannot understand the concept of there being no death, no wars, no diseases, no more natural disasters, no evil, and no wrong..
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Right and wrong differ from good and evil.
'Right' and 'wrong' can be morally neutral when used in an amoral context. For example, I can get an answer on a test right, or I can get it wrong. There is no moral judgement involved.

But when used in a moral context, 'right' is a synonym for 'good', and 'wrong' is a synonym for 'evil'.
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If he existed, you would deserve to spend eternity with him.
I think spening an eternity with the creator of human life and universe will be an awesome experience. It will be something that will never get old. Everyday I will be refreshed in the name of God. The Human brain cannot understand the concept of there being no death, no wars, no diseases, no more natural disasters, no evil, and no wrong..
Do you really want to always be in the presence of a being who commands rape victims to marry their rapist?
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'Right' and 'wrong' can be morally neutral when used in an amoral context. For example, I can get an answer on a test right, or I can get it wrong. There is no moral judgement involved.
If it was an easy question that you missed by a simple mistake, then yes, your Professor could pass judgement on you.

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But when used in a moral context, 'right' is a synonym for 'good', and 'wrong' is a synonym for 'evil'.
How so? How could that be possible if Good & Evil didn't exist yet? You are putting the carriage in front of the horse..
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:rolling: Yeah, I say the God you imagine is fiction; therefore you think your imaginary God is going to send me off to eternal torture (not something we do to our worst of criminals). What a cool master of Auschwitz. Quite the fairy tale, right up there with a Steven King tale.
Stephen King would have a way cooler ending - Revelations is a pretty ate up LSD trip. The only thing worse than that is reading the Left Behind series.
True, I did do a disservice to Steven King. I should have found a B horror author to compare to, but as I don't read much horror I picked a name I knew. Yeah, what do you expect of retread's (Left Behind)...
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Do you think he's going to forgive you for completely ignoring the 4th commandment for your entire mortal life?
I don't know. That's up to him. If he knows what is truly in my heart, then yes, I believe he will forgive. We are only human, we make mistakes, we live troubled lives.. He understands all of this quite clearly.
If there is a God that grants an afterlife to 'his' children, then this God would realize that many people simply cannot believe based on hearsay evidence in ancient human writings. Any God that would punish very fallible humans for dying with the wrong set of beliefs is not a God that I could ever worship.
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I think spening an eternity with the creator of human life and universe will be an awesome experience. It will be something that will never get old. Everyday I will be refreshed in the name of God. The Human brain cannot understand the concept of there being no death, no wars, no diseases, no more natural disasters, no evil, and no wrong..
Do you really want to always be in the presence of a being who commands rape victims to marry their rapist?
Yes. :notworthy:
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