No need to avoid sinning, all is forgiven?

[Thor]

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Went to church and participated in the silly rituals. Not once did I receive anything that could be construed as a reply.

Did you ever ask why?

Once I figured out that "God" is imaginary, I knew why.

Gossip is a way to 'elevate' yourself above your brother. The Reason God hates it is because none of us are in a position to evelivate ourselves over anyone else.

Then why isn't one of the Commandments "Thou shalt not gossip"?

To Covet is to Want or Burn with desire for something intended for Yourself. Wanting food is not coveting, wanting to eat steak everynight like you brother does is. Wanting a house for your family is not coveting, wanting a better house than your neghbor is..

So you can't want anything better than what you already have! If my car is broken down piece of junk, I can't have a desire for a better car because .... heavens to Betsy!... that would be "coveting"! Whoever thought up this "coveting" nonsense was a real dope.

Were you going through the motions of Chriistianity for twenty years or did you activly seek God for 20 years?

I was a seeker. I looked to this deity for answers and never received one. I think 20 years is enough time to conclude I was talking to the sky.

There is a difference between going to a club where avaiable women are, and going to a clud and talking to them. Just showing up to the club does not mean your entitled to whatever you want.

Where did I say I think I should have gotten "whatever I want"? And your analogy is a poor one. A proper analogy would be that I'm told to go to a club where there are available women, but I can't see them. I'm told to speak into an intercom and the women will hear me. I can ask them whatever I want and if one of them is interested in me, she'll answer back. I go to the club every Friday night for 10 years and speak into the intercom, but no one ever answers back. I finally conclude there aren't really any women on the other end of the intercom.

Again "humanity" does not erase sin.

I see... so Gandhi's immense contributions to human rights means nothing because he once got angry... or he gossiped.... or he doesn't believe your deity is real...

It is a sin problem we have not a good deeds problem.

And your deity's idea of what constitutes "sin" is pretty screwed up.

Good deeds mean nothing in of themselves.

So there's no point in doing good deeds. Might as well be an obnoxious, unpleasant prick who keeps the ball when kids accidentally knock it into your yard. As long as you accept Jesus, your ticket is punched! WOO HOO!

Heaven is not about what you have done, it about what God has done for you.

Well, he's never done a damned thing for me.

If you or Gandi do not accept what God has done for you then know you have elected to be seperated from God for eternity.

Just as well. I'd rather not spend eternity stroking the ego of a self absorbed jerk.

Whether Gandi is in Hell or not is not for me to decide. I can only tell you is that if he knew what was required of him and turned his back on God then he does not qualify for heaven despited all of the dirty rags/works he did.

Utter stupidity.

You are confusing crime with sin. not all slights against your soceity are indeed sin. but otherwise yes. For All sin are equally sever.

Gossiping is just as severe as raping and murdering a child. If that's the case, your god is retarded.

(appearently for 20 or so years, the fact you haven't heard God should be an indicator that something is wrong with how you spent that 20 years)

What's wrong with how I spent that 20 years is that I wasted hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours worshiping a deity that doesn't exist.

God has shown you a sin and placed it on your heart and yet you are not willing to let it go. So you fester you personal luke warm version of christianity until you can say, "If I in all of my righteous work for the last how many years have not seen or heard from God, then their is no God to be seen or heard from." all the while ignoring or flat out denying the nagging sin that tugs on your heart..

Sorry to disappoint you, but no "sin" is tugging on my heart. My conclusion that your deity is non-existent is based on evidence, while your belief that this deity is based on.... ?