(April 7, 2013 at 1:31 am)Mr_Dew7 Wrote: Ass kissing? Great choice of words...
This response of yours explains a lot about you. You are obviously very delicate and offended by harsh yet truthful language.
You want things to sound nice. This is a very common characteristic among Christians.
Quote:Let me ask you, have you personally read the descriptions of heaven in the Bible?
I've read the whole thing, and I've done expositional studies on all of the important books of the bible.
And, had you read my post, you would have seen that I reference several verses in the Bible describing heaven.
Quote:Heaven, a place with zero pain, and everything we could ever dream of sounds better than spending eternity in a lake. Of. Fire. ? Eternal torment and horrible pain?
We could debate what the Bible describes hell as being until the end of time (LOL), but I think the focus here is and should be on what heaven is described as being in the Bible.
The Bible describes a place of eternal and mindless praise and worship. Even worse, it's a place where racial prevences are observed, as well as a class system.
But none of that should concern you more than the fact that heaven is described as a place where you will no longer be you. I've read the Bible from cover to cover, thoroughly researching everything that seemed worthy of research, and I found nothing indicating any level of individual importance in heaven. Well, unless you consider the preferential treatment of race and gender to be some form of individual acknowledgement.
Quote:Why would I do that? That is nothing like heaven, and why would I sing praise to anyone pretending to be God?
You'd conduct the experiment to see if the proposed conditions heaven actually appeal to you.
But, since you refuse to accept the Bible's description of heaven, you may want to consider an alternative to the experiment. I suggest that, sense you are intent on simply making this shit up as you go along, you create your own religion equipped with greater flexibility and a much more appealing payoff for those who meet the standards of your reigion.
And, please, don't think this is beyond your station or anything like that. All of the gods were created by men, and those gods number in the thousands.
Who says you can't invent one better than the last guy(s)?