(July 6, 2015 at 12:36 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: This is such bullshit. Nothing I have done in my life warrants eternal torture. Period. That you're so okay with it speaks volumes about your own character. The whole setup is one of extortion. "Well, you can either have a relationship with me, or suffer for eternity. It's your choice." Except, it's not really a fair choice, is it? It's a wholly despicable system, with god as the tyrant at the top. Fuck him.
Quote:You think the consequences of a lifetime of not being interested in a relationship with God should have some corrective finite punishment. God apparently feels that was enough.
God acted very directly in the days of the ancient Jews. Then through the prophets. Then through the events of the NT. For the past 2000 years, Christians have been able to live with a personal relationship with God. Notice the progression of interations? For many reasons, we are in the best of those periods of God's interation with us. God apparently considers his previous revelations and the evidence of the now-possible relationship (changed lives of Christians) to be sufficient evidence to his existence.
Blah blah blah. Lots of words saying nothing of value. "I believe that god is right before considering the evidence, and in the face of such evidence I simply point to its mysterious ways as a way to wave away the contradictions." Your version of apologetics is really quite hilarious since it merely only reinforces all of the stereotypes with your regurgitation of tired fallacies and talking points.
Your dislike of the system is noted. Of course calling a doctrine or other beliefs "tired fallacies and talking points" is hardly good argumentation.
