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There is a difference between salvation, and the rewards of Heaven
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RE: There is a difference between salvation, and the rewards of Heaven
(July 27, 2017 at 5:40 pm)Thena323 Wrote:
(July 27, 2017 at 1:22 pm)Drich Wrote: So to keep obsessive compulsive church leaders for giving power to his actual words like one would a chant or incantation.

Wuuuuut? Shut the front door! GTFO!

Bible-based assertion or your own personal deduction?
deduction. because church leaders (both jewish and christian) try and assign power to the literal words of Christ/the bible. Jesus frowned upon this practice with the pharisees. Mix that with the fact that the bible never makes the claim of infaliblity, much less to be a book of incantations, the direction of God is clear.

Quote: I'm familiar with the folklore stating that the knowledge and speaking of a being's true name gives one vast and terrible power over said individual;
Jerkoff

Quote: That's some old-school hocus-pocus magic right there. Pre-dates Christianity, for certain. Is that where you got this notion from?
no.

Quote:Anyhow, if you believe this to be case, then what's up with your god, Drich? Why would an omnipotent being be so concerned with folks jacking his POWER, that he would deliberately see to his own Word being muddled and convoluted in an effort to prevent random MF's off of the street from wielding it?
I'm saying the oppsite. God is not worried about such nonsense. He simply does not want us following down the path of spiritual leaders who look to empower themselves with such nonsense... Not that this type of thing is completely without merrit. there are demons who entertain themselves with such people, and the weaker are consumed by them. God is just trying to keep the retards of the faith from playing in the tiger enclosure if you know what I mean.

Quote:Do you actually even believe him to be omnipotent?
yes

Quote: I don't see how your Biblical God character's actions can be interpreted as such. Been around the block the longest? Sure. Knows a lot, can do a lot; much, much more than anyone else. Sure, sure. 
But, not everything. And not anything.

What's your take on that?
why not?

Again alpha and omega means His want/will comes first. meaning if course a allows a million people to heaven but 250,000 die as a result, but course b allows 100K to come to heaven but 1,000,000 are lost forever even though they all live to be 100, then why would God chose course b?

It's all a matter of perspective. to you this life is king, to God eternity is where it is at. His choices echo and populate eternity while ours center around this vapor of a life and trying to get a couple more milliseconds out of it.
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RE: There is a difference between salvation, and the rewards of Heaven - by Drich - July 28, 2017 at 10:03 am

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