(August 28, 2016 at 6:59 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(August 28, 2016 at 6:55 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Yup.Funnily enough, Jesus said the same thing.
And I'm one of those crazy people who cares a hell of a lot more about how people act than what they believe. I know plenty of theists who are amazing people.
What a second here...
Didn't Jesus invent eternal punishment for finite thought crimes?
Oh yeah, John 3:16, John 14:6, Romans 10:9, John 3:3.
He sure seems to care quite a bit about what people believe, and not how they act.
It seems pretty spelled out in Ephesians 2:8-9.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
