RE: Personal revelation vs. free will
August 23, 2012 at 1:11 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2012 at 1:12 pm by Drich.)
(August 23, 2012 at 11:21 am)Stimbo Wrote: I'm shocked - isn't your pet religion the One True Faith™? Regardless, if your beliefs turn out to be wrong, you are in exactly the same boat as we godless heathens who do not even share your beliefs. Unless you ascribe to Pascal's Wager, what will your own pet religion ultimately bring you that our lack of one will not?
I'm not even going to get into the argument about Allah and the god of the xtian bible being the same character. That's a cudgel someone else can take up in another thread.
What do you mean by: "the One True Faith™?"
(August 23, 2012 at 12:18 pm)jonb Wrote: When I got to the age of manhood, I told my father that some of his ideas were wrong, and he was proud of a son that could think for himself. My son is reaching that age, he thinks for himself, has a view point of his own tells me I'm a c$%£, and and I am full of pride that I have brought up a sentient being, to being able to use his mind, and one day I think he may surpass where I am.
Now, it does not matter to me how powerful a being is, if it cannot follow that code it should be broken. Anything that demands me or any sentient being to sublimate itself and worship that thing is intolerable. It is pure luck for me there is no such thing.
How is what you have done for your son any different than what God has done for us through Christ on the cross?
