(February 11, 2012 at 5:44 am)brotherlylove Wrote: If you believe that you're a lousy tactician. An unseen enemy is far more dangerous than an underestimated enemy. You wouldn't be building any defenses if you didn't know you had any reason to build them in the first place.
Ofcourse you would. That's just plain common sense. But then, you fundies don't have a lot of that.
(February 11, 2012 at 5:44 am)brotherlylove Wrote: According to the bible, faith without works is dead. The bible commands us to do good works at every point. A Christian entering the Kingdom would have more than enough good works to justify his entry, if that were true.
Like I said, truth with lies. That's how Satan succeeds. Not all things the bible tells you are good works are actually good works. Like th ebible tells you that going and preaching the message of god is a "good work", its not. That's a ploy by Satan to make you waste your time.
(February 11, 2012 at 5:44 am)brotherlylove Wrote: It has nothing to do with God needing to be acknowledged, it has to do with sin. God is a just judge and isn't going to fail to punish sin. Those who refuse to repent of sin and turn from their ways, who reject their own pardon, are on their own. He sent His only Son, His heart, to save His creatures from their sins, and if they want to spit on that they shouldn't expect any further mercies.
Mission Fucking Accomplished. This is exactly what Satan wanted you to think. God is just, then he wouldn't just give you a pardon in form of his "son". Why should he have to bear the responsibilities for your sins.
Forgivness must be earned - Satan realized that and set about to deceive us all about how it could be earned. He came up with this wonderful story about how JC died for our sins and the pardon is simply out there - we just need to "accept it". Its brilliant. It plays at our greatest weakness - getting something for free. That's the bait and Satan's got you - hook, line and sinker. I mean come on, do you seriously believe that someone is going to give you "eternal happiness" just in exchange of believing in something? That's the greatest con job in the history.
If there is a sin, it is the most heinous and corrupt of all mortal sins and the root of all others - the abdication of your mind and accepting something on faith.
(February 11, 2012 at 5:44 am)brotherlylove Wrote: God created out of the abundance of His love, not because He needed anything. God is a triune being; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. He wasn't lonely; He has perfect love on His own. God created us to adopt us into His family as sons and daughters, and to perfect in the image of His Son.
In the world to come we will know God as He knows us now. We will see Him as He really is, face to face. He is creating the perfect reality, one that will last forever, and this is the proving ground. This is where creatures can freely choose to be a part of it or not. There is nothing in this world which isn't perishing. You came into this world empty and you are going to leave it the same way. To choose this world and its short term pleasures over eternal life with God is not thinking very clearly.
Oh, you poor deluded child. That is how Satan wants you to think. God wouldn't ask someone he loved to prove themselves to him. Can you imagine your mother saying to you "Pass this test or we are gonna kick you out"? Well, maybe you could.
Besides, why would god love us all? What have we done to deserve it? We are his creation, his little experiment, trying to come up with the perfect little thing. Something that is smart, rational and doesn't take any shit. Anyone someone comes close to that, they're let into heaven. The others are simply destroyed. Cease to exist. That's what's gonna happen to you fundies, you know? We atheists will go to heaven, while you guys will simply cease to be - how's that for irony.
