RPS

One who is gracious gives what is needed rather than what is deserved. I readily concede that while grace is something I need, I don't deserve it.

You never asked (because you just know what I believe without asking), but I have tended to be a universalist. Yet enough people here have convinced me that even if they knew that God existed, they would refuse to honor Him that I have reconsidered. I now tend to think that God will allow people to go to Hell if they insist on going there.

Is this the IIDB bait-and-switch? Have someone ask a seemingly polite question about what Christians believe, to foster dialogue perhaps, and then rush in to proclaim the answerer a low-life scum? Very polite. I'm sure it's especially good marketing.

I don't have to feign anything. If people reject God either here or in the hereafter, that's tragic.

I try to avoid poorly posed questions which assume an erroneous predicate. How long have you been beating your wife?

If God exists our pitiful god-constructs will matter not a bit.

Weak-kneed atheism predictably makes that claim ad nauseum. It's far easier to destroy than to create after all.

Your number is way too low. People are much more creative than all that.

Parts of it do. The First Amendment puts no limit on my freedom of speech but I still can't falsely yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. Imagine that. Wooden literalism is mind-numbingly easy, but not very productive.

steamer

Nor do you have it. You only imagine that you have it. Yet you love an imaginary being that you imagine will cause suffering for all others. What you love says something real about you even if the thing you love is only imaginary.

So you changed your idea of god out of spite? Nice reasoning skills. Still imaginary entities are easily changed when they don't suit us.

You said you loved the biblical tormentor god. Then you claim you don't deserve grace and ought to go to hell. You must be a low life scum bag. Even your imaginary god agrees with me.

No it isn't I'd reject every other fairy tale or imaginary thing you claim is real as well. Your imagination is not your friend if it turns you into a thing that could love the biblical eternal tormentor.

You merely try to avoid queestions that you have no answer for. Can you really lose all empathy for you fellow man so easily in favor of your pathetic imagined relationship with your invisible magic buddy? Is it really so difficult for you to see yourself for exactly what your pretended relationship has made you? I can understand why this would be, I can empathise with how it must make you feel.

If god exists he may take offence to the awful things you've said about him. I rather doubt you have anything to worry about from an actual god and nothing at all to worry about with the god you imagine.

Again tough shit and too bad. I make no assertions at all about the existence of god beyond the fact that he is imaginary.

Do you merely imagine away what you dislike? Why don't you imagine away the entire god and replace it with something that doesn't make you into a self confessed lowly scumbag that deserves eternal torment and doesn't deserve grace?

RPS

Is your life so boring that the best you can do is keep repeating the same nonsense over and over? It's pitiful, really.

Nope. Try again.

It doesn't matter what I actually say; you keep repeating this falsehood. Pitiful.

And mere assertion is all it is. Your idea of argument is repetition of the bald assertion, louder each time. Pitiful.

steamer

The Christian god can be imagined by anyone at all. You are the only one making any assertions that the Christian god is something more than an imagined being. I'm asserting nothing more than what we already agree on. God is imaginary and what you imagine god is is only something you imagine. While I have made no assertion past that which we already agree, it is you and only you that continues to repeat completely unsupported assertions that your invisible magic buddy actually exists someplace outside of yor imagination.