(August 6, 2013 at 8:03 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote:(August 6, 2013 at 7:01 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Does accepting the love of Jesus cost you anything at all? No. It doesn't and it never has.
UMMMM? NOT accepting the 'free gift' of the gospel would, according to christian myth, cost me an eternity in hell, which seems like a hefty price to me. It goes something like this.....
'Accept my free gift or burn in hell forever!"
Two children are playing on the playground. The first child says to the other, 'eat this candy I want to give you for free'. The second child says, 'what if I don't want the candy', to which the first child replies, 'If you don't accept my free candy I'll shove you in a dark hole forever'. That's not a gift. That's a threat.
I am now ready for you to make a special pleading for your (god), since it's the only 'argument' theists have, and an unfounded one to boot.
You really need to stop... You're (god) is killing me..
Maybe you should look at it like the scriptures actually teaches. A person's eternal destination is hell, one does not have to choose it, one needs only to go through life and never consider God. Yet God says I have a free gift that will save you from an eternal life you can not escape from without the gift.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
