(May 22, 2012 at 4:39 pm)gringoperry Wrote: Alter, I don't have the time to properly research your questions, so for the sake of what I want to ask I'll concede that they you are correct, at this point. With that being the case; are you saying that there is no hell, except for the separation from God kind? If I could bring Godschild in on this; GC, would you agree with that?ALTER2EGO -to- GRINGO PERRY:
You don't have time to properly research my questions and so you will "concede" that I'm correct! Then I guess religious truth is not that important to you. Based on what you wrote above, you are setting yourself up to get conned into believing every false religious teaching that's presented to you.
I suggest you read my opening post carefully, and than answer the 8-question quiz that's at the end of it. The questions are based entirely on the scriptures in the OP. The quiz is intended to help people look for the answer in the Bible—as opposed to someone else telling them what to believe. So take the quiz, and then we will move to the next step. If you don't have time to do it now, just do it another day when you can find the time.
A WORD TO THE WISE: The worse thing you can do is let other people tell you what to believe—while you don't make the effort to search out the scriptures yourself. Without doing your own Bible reading and research, you are setting yourself up to get fooled by every trickster who comes along with his/her brand of religious philosophy. You need to draw your own logical conclusions based upon what's in the Bible.
The reason why there are over 33,000 denominations in Christendom—teaching people all types of falsehoods that are found nowhere in the Judeo-Christian Bible—is because people like to be spoon fed. They are intellectually lazy. They don't want to use their God-given logic and read and understand for themselves.
There's nothing wrong with asking someone to help you out by directing you to the scriptures that will answer your questions (assuming the person understands the Bible), but it's your responsibility to read those scriptures, pay attention to the context (the surrounding words, verses, and chapters) so that you get the correct understanding, and then reflect on what you've read to see if it makes sense. Take a lesson from the ancient Beroeans of whom the Bible says (and keep your eyes on the bolded text within the quotation):
"Now the latter were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so." (Acts 17:11)
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