RE: Better terminology for "Father and Son" ?
August 22, 2017 at 10:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2017 at 10:27 pm by Godscreated.)
(August 19, 2017 at 8:27 pm)Astreja Wrote:(August 19, 2017 at 1:46 am)Godscreated Wrote: I thank God your opinion doesn't count for who is saved. I'm most certainly glad I do not have to live with those thoughts. I know there is God and that much of my family will be with me in heaven. We all will experience the physical death some day but the spirit of man that God created will live on without ceasing. You may never be in heaven and I personally consider that a loss.
It isn't an opinion so much as a recognition of how the human mind actually works. If your "soul" can't keep you self-aware in low-frequency deep sleep, not even to dream, what makes you think you'll have awareness when your brain is dead and producing no waveforms at all?
I believe that the soul is imaginary. I believe that death is the end of the line. I believe that life after death is only possible when the body has disintegrated and its molecules return to the ecosystem, to be recycled into some other organic form. It is precisely the finite nature of our lives that makes them precious to me. I do not consider them a dress rehearsal for an eternal life -- I see them as the life, something to be used wisely and as fully as possible. I am simply not interested in being "me" forever when I can be many different things instead.
Your atoms could very well become peat of something else, you want know it you want even know if they stay the dirt into which they will disappear,never to be anything but dirt. On the other hand I'll be resurrected with a new body for my eternal spirit to reside in eternally. Also you assume and might I say wrongly that the brain and spirit are the same thing.
GC
(August 21, 2017 at 8:14 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:(August 19, 2017 at 1:46 am)Godscreated Wrote: God did create hell and it's not torture when you choose to subject yourself to hell, you have a choice, no one need to be in hell.
GC
That has to be one of the most desperate, inane answers I have ever seen.
Exactly when did truth become inane. Statement stands.
GC
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.