I think I'm going to reply to the person I was talking to in the first place, as he's been neglected from a response in place of replies to your idiocies.
It sounds like you have had a hard life, too. Esquilax did, too. He's never had god to lean on, and yet he's the best man in this world you could possibly find. He's overcome his past without all those hardships you've endured--and he didn't even know god existed.
I'm very happy you found the self-discovery needed to identify that life requires certain amounts of maturity out of us in order to prosper and thrive. You could've done that without god too, by the way. Imagine you without god now. The world won't end, I can tell you that. And you'll still be the same person you were before your enlightenment. You wouldn't just revert to being a POS because you have decidedly decided not to act like a child now, right? You already know that your marriage depends upon your maturity. You've figured out that the life you lead in the past was not good for you. These self-recognition's are not bound to religion, they're bound to you and your self consciousness. The fact that there are actual life-truths in the bible does not make it any more a word of god than it would make holy a psychology book, or the Qua ran, or the daily horoscope whose information is based upon time-tested observations.
Mr Dew Wrote:You know, it sounds like you've had it pretty rough. That is alot for one person to have to endure. I haven't had to deal with the pain and anguish of physical disease and chemotherapy. For me growing up, it was sort of like a bad b movie, if you know what I mean. The first thing was violence. The constant violence and anger that I was subjected to as a young child made lasting impressions, and that generational sin turned me into a very angry individaul. Then, I found out what porn was! Bleh! And then my parents told me why they rolled up their dollar bills so tightly... Shortly after I learned how to roll a joint. That night I couldn't sleep for hours because my body wouldn't stop vibrating! When I was 12, my parents thought it was a good idea to let me have some R&R whiskey! 7 shots to a my tiny body was hell. But beer wasn't so bad... I learned that stealing isn't that hard, if you know how to act. When I was 15, I would try to go out into the farms where I lived to see if I could find shrooms under cow dung! One time I was so desperate to quench my cleptomanic thirst that I stole a mini-cooler full of pepsi out of an astro van! Silly I know. So when I met my wife, I was living at a flop house with 10 other teenagers. We all lived on ramen noodles, suffice it to say no one was over weight. When I met her, I was living there, with a meth lab in the garage, addicted to pain relievers, alcohol, and marijuana. Oh and lets not forget duster! I survived just to get high. Not kidding. We did nothing but hurt others and hurt ourselves. I was a worthless P.O.S. Good for nothing but stealing and hurting. I was 17 years old. My favorite thing to listen to was Twizted, ICP, Tech N9NE, KMK, ABK, and all of that bullshit. I had two best friends, one was a psychopath, the other was a passive, I was inbetween in my thinking, actions, and outbursts of anger. I met my wife 2 years after I went out on my own. We fell in love the moment we met, and have been in love since. Not that there weren't huge gaping chasms filled with crap since we married in 2008 when we were still 17. I feel horrible for the things I have done to her, and she feels that way for the things she has done to me. We were both physically and verbally abusive to one another, and to any who had a problem. Again I say, I was a P.O.S. But since last april, when I found God, or maybe He found me, my life has completely changed. God said I couldn't be a child anymore, or I would lose everything, which was the next logical step in the chain of events that I was following at the time. I can't describe how happy I am now, and how happy my wife is as well. We've been married nearly 5 years, and this last year has been the best of all of them. God fulfilled His promises to me and mine, and has since then shown me more than I need to see to believe in Him. My grandmother, for one, with no medical hope and no other option at the time, was miraculously cured of Hep. C after our entire family prayed for a couple of weeks. No liver transplantation required, it simply disappeared. In any case, I am sorry to hear that you had to go through all of those things. But I can say this for certain, nothing, absolutely nothing in my life changed until I completely and totally gave my life to Jesus Christ and began to live by His word.
It sounds like you have had a hard life, too. Esquilax did, too. He's never had god to lean on, and yet he's the best man in this world you could possibly find. He's overcome his past without all those hardships you've endured--and he didn't even know god existed.
I'm very happy you found the self-discovery needed to identify that life requires certain amounts of maturity out of us in order to prosper and thrive. You could've done that without god too, by the way. Imagine you without god now. The world won't end, I can tell you that. And you'll still be the same person you were before your enlightenment. You wouldn't just revert to being a POS because you have decidedly decided not to act like a child now, right? You already know that your marriage depends upon your maturity. You've figured out that the life you lead in the past was not good for you. These self-recognition's are not bound to religion, they're bound to you and your self consciousness. The fact that there are actual life-truths in the bible does not make it any more a word of god than it would make holy a psychology book, or the Qua ran, or the daily horoscope whose information is based upon time-tested observations.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
Quote:Some people deserve hell.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.