RE: A rational explanation for hell?
July 31, 2011 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2011 at 4:44 pm by C Rod.)
(July 29, 2011 at 1:43 am)Rhythm Wrote: By the by CRod, since my interesting thoughts are why you're here, here's something right from the presses:I can not show you the God you want to know, i can only tell you what has been testified about him. This is real, the testimony, but it is whether you are given the truth or not. We reason with it because we are human. You have choice, what difference does it make if God knows what your gonna do; if out of your heart you do not care for him than why are you angry. If you do not want him and he gives you not him is that good because your getting what your want or do you want him? Should he be this "thing" you wish to know or justify yourself with or should you wish to justify him? Word Salad?or flawed understanding?
You say god, I say show me, you make an argument about free will. It's this ridiculous house of cards scenario. It's infuriating (intellectually speaking). "Show me" is legitimate, it is an honest response. Why bring in another assumption that you've made, an assumption in which the existence of god is still the premise, and a further complication, the christian concept of free will, is added? Show that these things are actually real before you leverage them against an objection.
(July 31, 2011 at 4:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I am explaining to you that every observation we have made about life and death leads us to the conlusion that there is no "experience of death". The thing which you call the "self" or mistakenly refer to as the "soul" that has "experiences" is a product of a biological machine. When that biological machine cease to function, you will be unable to experience anything. You will not have use of any of your senses (because they depend on the functions of this machine), and you are no longer producing thought (another function of this machine). You are not "nothing" materially, you have simply ceased functioning, what is so hard to understand about this?
Positing all manner of psychopomps to fill the backdrop on an eternal morality play, then casually load it on the back of our fear of death is absurd. It isn't what we don't know about death that makes an afterlife possible, it is what we do know about death that makes it impossible.
Is what you say true, incontrovertible? i just cant accept that because all you did was draw a conclusion but have not experienced it. But what is the moment of death, like that is the mystery, is it or do you know what it is like?
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