RE: Theism is literally childish
November 16, 2017 at 3:24 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2017 at 3:30 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 15, 2017 at 8:43 am)alpha male Wrote:(November 14, 2017 at 12:01 pm)Mathilda Wrote: I am not saying that religious indoctrination explicitly states that the consequences of your actions are irrelevant, but it achieves this by trivialising the importance of your real-world life with the idea of an eternity of happiness and agony. And it is taught that this judgment is only carried out by your god.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that the Bible teaches that we get - or miss out on - eternal rewards based on our actions in this life.
The Bible doesn't 'teach' anything. And to believe that such rewards exist after death based on a book written by goatherders over 2000 years ago just because you can't cope with the idea that there isn't a super caretaker to take care of your fate, is indeed utterly childish.
(November 15, 2017 at 9:47 am)alpha male Wrote:(November 15, 2017 at 9:26 am)Brian37 Wrote: That is not a choice when it is under threat. Hell is a threat, which is not a choice of mutual consent.
I'm talking about the saved, for whom hell is no longer a threat.
You wish it was real. You're desperate for it to be real. It's not fucking real because that's retarded.
(November 15, 2017 at 12:17 pm)alpha male Wrote: Point is that, even if one believes in OSAS, there are still eternal rewards to motivate good behavior in this life.
You wish. There aren't any eternal rewards that's utterly absurd.
(November 15, 2017 at 4:15 pm)LastPoet Wrote:(November 15, 2017 at 2:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Goodness is God, the fact you deny it, just shows you wish to use the name of goodness, and use his light, to suit your ego.
Dunno who has a bigger ego, the unbeliever or the one that pretends to know what the creator of all things is.
Are you sure you don't know who has the bigger ego?
(November 15, 2017 at 10:05 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(November 15, 2017 at 12:17 pm)alpha male Wrote: You don't understand the rules.So you're all good with genocide. What a horrible position.
Salvation - yes, can be taken on the death bed.
Rewards - nope, too late on the death bed. Person can still be saved as "one escaping through the flames," as Paul puts it. See 1 Cor 3.
Point is that, even if one believes in OSAS, there are still eternal rewards to motivate good behavior in this life.
Well it's no surprise that the New Testament is pro-Hitler. Adolf Hitler was, after all, a Christian.