RE: What the hell is "hell"? why do humans go to hell ?
January 20, 2013 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2013 at 10:10 pm by Cyberman.)
Well, it was you who opened on a broad note, channeling "many religious people (if not even all)". I offered the official xtian perspective.
As for the 144,000 figure, I don't much care for it either. I chose the word elite (which is its own plural, by the way) by way of commentary on the traditional term "saved". Both words in this context act to distinguish a select chosen few from the common majority.
Also, don't be misled by my borrowing from my favourite quotable heathen, Colonel Ingersoll. It was simply an illustration, not really worth the trouble of a Google search. Feel free to educate yourself about the man though, if you wish.
Finally, I might start quoting points, that is if you quit relying on strawmen like this:
I count at least five egregious errors in those two sentences alone.
As for the 144,000 figure, I don't much care for it either. I chose the word elite (which is its own plural, by the way) by way of commentary on the traditional term "saved". Both words in this context act to distinguish a select chosen few from the common majority.
Also, don't be misled by my borrowing from my favourite quotable heathen, Colonel Ingersoll. It was simply an illustration, not really worth the trouble of a Google search. Feel free to educate yourself about the man though, if you wish.
Finally, I might start quoting points, that is if you quit relying on strawmen like this:
(January 20, 2013 at 9:34 pm)AtlasS Wrote: One of the biggest argues of atheist against islam, is odds. The world was created by an odd action caused a big bang, then everything else, including human existence was an odd, evolution of a primary creature.
I count at least five egregious errors in those two sentences alone.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
