(February 23, 2011 at 1:09 pm)Watson Wrote: What I am saying boils down to this; God is the one who bestows salvation upon a person, and once a person recognizes this they have come into their own salvation by choice. Aside from reiterating this over and over, I've already spoken my views on this forum many a time. So your asking me to tell you then is silly.God doesn't just go around bestowing salvation will-nilly. You have EARN it. If you didn't, then god would be handing it out to people randomly. Regardless of whether you think someone always has salvation they just need to find it, there are conditions that need to filled. Again, you have to earn it.
BTW, is it really someone's choice to be saved when they're told that if they aren't they will spend eternity burning in hell? We have a legal term for that called extortion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
