(June 14, 2018 at 3:22 am)Mathilda Wrote:(June 14, 2018 at 3:03 am)Godscreated Wrote: Listen closely because I do not think I will say this again, I'm not threatening anyone, I'm stating what the Bible says
Yeah that doesn't describe the gleeful tone you christians like to use when telling people how sorry they'll be when they find out that they are wrong.
don't be so ridiculous, those of us here have never expressed joy in anyone going to hell. Besides a tone in printed word is no tone at all.
Mathilda Wrote:Sure, continue believing that you're just telling us what your magic book says. After all, you're the one that has to live with yourself. But the rest of us are very familiar with the emotional blackmail.
You're the one getting emotional and because why, because we express what we know? I have no problem living with telling people about hell, it's the most horrible place anyone could be and I believe it would be dishonest to not warn people. If you were standing on the beach and those with you did not know what a tsunami was and you saw the water rushing away from the shore line would you just leave without warning them. Is their ignorance of a tsunami and what it will do a reason to leave them standing there to find out on their own. Wouldn't it be better to save the few who might listen than let all suffer the ravages of the tsunami.
Mathilda Wrote:Because if we don't accept your magic book as anything other than a claim without evidence, then why should we listen when it says that we'll go to Hell?
The simplest explanation is that you are indulging in schadenfreude.
Just because you do not accept what the Bible says doesn't mean it's not true. You are not required to listen, just as the people on the beach are not required to listen to you warn them about an impending doom. Most of them would believe you crazier than a loonytoon, until disaster strikes, then it's to late. So believe what you want, but you can not say you were not warned.
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.