(April 27, 2014 at 4:53 pm)Stephanie Wrote:(April 27, 2014 at 4:48 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Thanks Steph. I'm not sure what kind of hell you personally believe in, but I sometimes wonder why the only other option we're given is sometimes described as unending burning torture. I also sometimes wonder if Mary and Jesus actually had free will, since they were sinless. Or if people have free will in Heaven, since that's also a place without sin. Those are the kinds of questions that come to mind when people bring up free will when trying to explain why people sin.
Christianity doesn't seem to be as clear cut as the believers want people like me to believe it is. I guess that's just my disconnection with Jesus talking.
It is the only other option because if you deny God the only thing remaining is pure evil. hell. Mary was not sinless, she was a human being like the rest of us. As for Jesus, he was litterally God. If God has free will is a whole other debate. And we will have free will in heaven, a true believer would not sin there.
It is clear cut, you simply need to open your heart to it.
Ok. I had heard that Mary was made sinless so she could be a proper vessel for Jesus' birth. Also I wasn't sure if you thought Jesus was literally Yahweh in the flesh or not.
If it's possible to have free will without sin, why not get rid of sin? What do we have to lose from being sinless? Obviously it isn't free will.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html