Christian answering questions.

[rexbeccarox]

Meh. In my view, chancier would be living life according to dogma put down by uninformed, ignorant men thousands of years ago, and cherry-picked by uninformed, barbaric, and controlling men hundreds of years after that.

If the god of creation chooses to damn most of the atheists on this board, it's his loss. For the most part, we are a decent, empathetic, charitable, hard-working group of people. If we're not whom he wants in his kingdom, I'll pass on being included.

 Really you would pass on a life that is going to be so good it's not describable in any way man could understand. It seems to me the people who claim to be intelligent and want to learn would want to spend an eternity learning about the eternal God, eternal as in his being is so vast we can't ever learn everything about God. You would trade this opportunity to spend an eternity suffering in hell, no chance of learning anything new ever, I'm not saying hell is a fire and brimstone place, it's a place of regret and hate beyond belief.

Let me ask you this have you ever studied the Bible to find out what it truly holds and what it tells us about the eternal God of creation?

GC

How do you not understand this, GC?

I. Do. Not. Believe. In. Your. God.

It is not an act; it is not willful. The belief simply isn't there.

How do you not understand that people who have any common sense can't will themselves to think your god is real just because you say so?? Just because you- some faceless internet character who comes from Indoctrination Central (which I know, because I'm from there too, which, for the eight-hundred-and-fortieth time, tells you how much I've studied the Bible); who spends every ounce of his time here either preaching or threatening- say so?

To me, and to most here, there is nothing to learn except badly-written, ancient fables, and a modicum of historical facts. I, for one, am not going to waste my relatively short existence on something lower in probability than winning a world-wide lottery...

... and to be honest, GC, if he exists, your god sends some pretty crappy ambassadors our way. How'd you get stuck with witnessing to the scum of the Earth?