(October 23, 2015 at 4:24 am)heatiosrs Wrote:(October 23, 2015 at 4:17 am)abaris Wrote: What? I have been a deist long after I left church and before becoming atheist. I haven't even met one fellow deist believing in heaven as the bible describes it. They didn't even believe in heaven. Only in some kind of afterlife. Most of the times it's rebirth, which is a common belief with pagan religions all over the world.Yes obviously they aren't going to tell you "I believe in heaven as the bible describes it, but I don't believe in the bible", yet most of their descriptions of an afterlife are parallel or similar to that of the bible, when in reality based on their own belief, we would have no clue what an afterlife would be like let alone nothing to give indication in the first place. I also said a majority hold the belief of an afterlife, not of heavens as described in the bible, my wording may have confused you, but that's what I meant.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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