(August 2, 2015 at 12:12 pm)Lek Wrote: Threads like this strengthen my conclusion that I'll never be an atheist.
Doesn't surprise me. It's a gross thing to contemplate. In fact, before this thread my thought was Jesus was not for three days and then he was again. But now the idea has been raised, I suppose that if it's a true story god must have let the devil have at. And presumably he'd have done his worst knowing full well his time was limited.
If you really do believe in heaven and hell and the death and resurrection, it's worth contemplating. It certainly ups the sacrifice stakes. It's more of an act of love and sacrifice if he went to hell for reals rather than just winking out for bit isn't it?
But frankly it ups my Christian god doesn't exist stakes. You see even three days of the worst torment imaginable is more than any human deserves for tormenting others during life. So the just, let alone loving, god of the NT simply can't exist.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
