Quote:Being a Christian is not about giving up your freedoms or memories, it's about Conforming to a higher ideal.

That's a load of shit. Just ask Herr Von Popenfuhrer or any of the nut jobs who began the protestant reformation.

You're always trying to polish a turd and turn it into a centerpiece for the dining room table, Tacky.

Being an xtian is about conforming to the uncommon denominator and expecting no-one to find the math problem.

I always thought christianity was about tricking suckers into giving up their money..

(October 11, 2011 at 9:52 pm)aleialoura Wrote: I always thought christianity was about tricking suckers into giving up their money..

an honest and fair mistake ... that's ALL religions of the world.

"Is there freewill in heaven?"

..are you allowed to ignore the commands of god down there?

(October 10, 2011 at 11:37 pm)Godschild Wrote: The Greeks like all other cultures have taken from the OT not the other way around.

Wait, you're talking about Ancient Greeks? hock:

He doesn't know what he's talking about.



( As usual.)

Since when has that stopped xtians from making shit up?

In regard to free will and heaven in the original post, I have come to know God as a good and faithful God, full of love and mercy. The bible says God is faithful and just, he is love. He is willing to forgive mistakes, there is nothing we will be capable of doing that can ultimately ofend God enough to send us to hell. Many of us have already had a life style of enough offence down here. By that I mean you, have questioned God, but it is forgivable. God can bring your mind around to know the truth of his faithfulness, justice and love. All things that you are unaware of. As for 99% of people going to hell I don't buy that for a minute. The whole of scripture says that God is merciful, not willing that people should perish, does not delight in the death of anyone. Sure it does not mean no one will go to hell, the bible definitely makes it clear there is a hell reserved for the truely wicked. I think there is but one isloated verse in the bible that says "few are they who find it" and every one jumps on it and says few people will go to heaven, and ignore all the other positive parts of Gods character. As for the verse saying "few are they who will find it", the word find is the same root word used for huristic search, meaning to reason out something. In the context of the whole passage Jesus was talking about false teachers not reasoning out the truth. Jesus could well have been saying few people are actually reasoning correctly, not as is commonly stated perishing. I hope that makes sense, few people are reasoning correctly as opposed to few people are finding heaven. Because the word is not to find heaven, rather it is a reasoning process.

Saying "God is love" just takes away from the beauty of genuine love between people... or at least that is the way I see it.