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What is your Favorite Religious Contradiction?

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What is your Favorite Religious Contradiction?
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RE: What is your Favorite Religious Contradiction?
June 3, 2011 at 4:28 pm (This post was last modified: June 3, 2011 at 9:00 pm by Cinjin.)
(June 3, 2011 at 5:17 am)tackattack Wrote:


I read the attached article. It requires several assumptions and I'm sure even in christian circles, many would interpolate the scriptures how they see fit to discount this take on the eternal fires of hell. This is an inconsequential point I'm making though because I'd rather not spend time debating the validity of a controversial doctrine for a religion that I don't even believe in. My only point regarding the OP was that many christians (apparently not you) believe that according to their bible, god created hell for Satan, his minions, and non-believers, and that Hell is a place of eternal suffering. Although you clearly do not agree with my conclusion regarding the eternality of burning in hell - I think you would have to agree that I'm right about the beliefs of many christians correct?

In my youth I attended several spiritual revivals in various churches. Often 2 to 4 evenings in length. The traveling evangelist (who always seemed to be white-haired and very charismatic) used the "Hell-Fire" sermon to get his "message of love" out to the non-believers and "wayward" christians. By the time he was through, everyone in the room was terrified and coming up to the front of the chapel/sanctuary. I specifically remember one preacher using this analogy to describe eternity in Hell: If one seagull picked up one grain of sand on the west coast of California, flew to the east coast of Florida and deposited that grain on the beach ... and than proceeded to do that for EVERY grain of sand that was on the entire west coast ... that would be like ONE SECOND in hell by the time the bird was finished.

You see Tack, no matter what evidence you offer or how valid your argument even may be - your own people have set the standard, the bible is too subject to interpretation, and the majority of christians believe eternal life goes both ways.

Thus my answer to the OP stands:
God is Love ... God is going to burn you forever.




(on a side note: This is the first time I've seen a christian on this forum write these words, "I don't know the answer personally ..." I truly appreciate this sentiment and have used it often. In fact, that alone is often all the rest of us are looking for. Kudos)
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RE: What is your Favorite Religious Contradiction? - by Cinjin - June 3, 2011 at 4:28 pm

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