(June 18, 2018 at 4:40 am)robvalue Wrote: The only reason he gets away with this shit is that there's a specific forum rule allowing threats from religious scripture. I'm not in favour of that, to be honest. Just quoting it is one thing, but otherwise openly threatening people (even when it's on behalf of your imaginary friend) is messed up.
I suppose it's because we find these threats about as scary as a three year old waving a Darth Vader toy at us. But it's extremely hypocritical how they'd cry blue murder if we started threatening them back.
"I'm not threatening you, I'm just telling you that it's a fact that a sniper will shoot you in the head if you don't wire me 50 grand."
Your perception of a threat has no validity to it at all. Let's examine this a little more closely. Threat- a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
This definition shows that I would have to be the one who could punish you by placing you in hell and that is not possible because I can't be the ultimate Judge which God is. The major reason I can't be your judge is because your actions are against God not me. I would also need to have the desire to see you in hell and I do not, if I did I wouldn't be here trying to warn others of an impending doom, a doom for those who reject the Son of God. I would leave you to your devises and worry not what happens to your eternal soul. So by the above definition I'm not threatening, you are just wanting to complain because you are unsure I'm correct in what I state is the outcome for those who reject Jesus and His work for mankind. As stated I have no authority to threaten, judge and punish, but I do have a responsibility as a Christian to warn people of this impending doom. It is then your own decision that will result in where you will spend eternity. I rarely am the first to bring up the eternal punishment, it is usually some atheist trying to show off and it then results in a response from me.
The above bold by me, stated by you is a threat, it holds all the truth of a threat and I see it that way, but I'm not interested in any action being taken against you, unless someone does take a pot shot at me. Now all the atheist cry babies can come out and defend his statement, I expect it from many on this site because I have seen the pettiness of some here.
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.