If Not Hell then what?

[pocaracas]

The guy is dead... can' talk to him.

Actually you can.

You claim that it works.
It works in your mind, to your eye, to you.
It is indistinguishable from you convinced yourself that it works.
It is indistinguishable from being brainwashed.
It is indistinguishable from it's all in your head.
It is indistinguishable from someone made it up and you fell for it.

Because my life is a testament to who well A/S/K works.

Your life is a testament to how some people are just lucky, sometimes.

God took an illiterate, taught him how to read and comperhend the written word where 12 years of grammer school failed.

Not so illiterate, then.... 12 years of learning... -.-'
I mastered the art of reading after 2 or 3 years.
Not saying I'm better, just saying you're not making that good of a case for yourself... lying much?
(I always assume everyone can perform mental operations as well as I can)

From there He opened his mind and heart to precepts and understanding that span the bible and on into being able to answer all of his own question about God, life and our purpose here. That developed into help others with their own questions, which rolled into an on line ministry for 5 years of answering christian questions, and a year and 1/2 of defending the faith from all takers ranging from doctors and lawyers to an oxford professor, to doo-mases who just hate because God has not granted them their wishes. To having a paper researched for publication on an orgins account that encorprates genesis and evolution seemlessly.

So you dedicated your life to reading the bible over and over and over and memorized it's various translations and told others about it... congratz for wasting your time.

Not to mention what He has done in my marriage life, and the sucess I have been given in my company. (which is poised to be bought out, and I am to take a job as an exectuive/engneer, shortly after the project i am currently working on goes to market later this year.)

Luck at work, crap marriage that you decided to endure...

I know there is a God.

No you don't. You think you know, because you believe.
Different thing...
It's all in your mind, remember?

Not because of my sucesses, but because of how deep and complete my failures have been. I am constantly reminded of my short commings and how quickly everything I have can be lost. why? Because none of what I have is because I earned or deserved any of it. It was literally given to me, and I am just a steward of God's gifts nothing more. No God= No gifts. No gifts= Drich dead a long long time ago.

yeah... you're a crap human being that got a break and attributed it to some higher power, because you couldn't come up with any other reason for it... how about... luck!?
Are you aware of what "luck" means?

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I think you give far too much credit. I don't afford the statements he's so fond of making any credibility whatsoever. You assume he's managed to convince himself, I don't think that this is so.

Based on what?

Based on the singular idea that your world view (there is no God) HAS to be correct?

What if your wrong? What if God will not give you anything because you are too proud to ask for it?

What if I'm too proud to ask for anything and I get it anyway?
Does that mean that asking has no bearing on the outcome?, or that I did ask but wasn't aware of it? or that god doesn't care about asking? or that there is no god giving stuff to people and some people get lucky sometimes?
Considering the amount of people asking and getting nothing and those not asking and getting something, I'd say there is no correlation between asking and getting. So, it seems more obvious that your god (that gives stuff to people who ask for it) is not a real entity.