RE: A rational explanation for hell?
July 27, 2011 at 1:26 am
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2011 at 1:51 am by Godscreated.)
(July 26, 2011 at 9:35 am)Epimethean Wrote: Hope =/= knowing, GC.
Epi, christian hope is knowing, you might think it's wishful thinking, for christians it's truth, the truth of the eternal God.
(July 26, 2011 at 9:58 am)Rhythm Wrote: GC, looking forward to your death eh? Now I don't feel like such a shitty person.
You realize that you're very vividly describing your social groups divine privilege as opposed to the "others", whose "afterlives" will be inferior by comparison. Your social group is better and more moral by definition, in both life and death, due to an exclusionary principle known as faith. It's pretty uncomfortable when you sit down and think about it.
"Exclusionary" it's there for the taking, all you need to do is get a ticket and get on board.
(July 26, 2011 at 1:39 pm)Rhythm Wrote: People who have their tongues cut out can't tell you about the experience either, does that make it mysterious? When you turn your TV to a channel it doesn't receive, do you wonder what episode of "I Love Lucy" is playing under the static, or do you say "hmn, nothing on this channel"?
So you really believe a man without a tongue can not communicate, curious, curious says Andy. You are comparing a TV, it's reception and a show to death, curious, curious says Andy.
Rhythm Wrote:There is nothing about you, in part, that survives as a whole after death. What mystery do you find in that? Death is obviously a mystery to you, but it is not a mystery to "us" as a species. We understand why we die, how we die, and what happens to the various bits and pieces after we're dead.
My, my make an assertion with no proof, why you sound like those crazy christians. You mean to say that the entire human race has accepted your version of what death is like, you must have forgotten to interview a Buddhist or a Hindi.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.