Life after death?

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Google. Is. Your. Friend.

Did you seriously just tell me to find proof for your own claim?
By the way, I have telekinesis. It's true. Just Google it.

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Elijah was clearly stated to have gone to heaven, although you will likely try to squirm out of this by stating that heaven in this instance just means sky. There's also a strong case that Enoch went to heaven even though the word heaven isn't specifically used.

And you will likely try to squirm out of this one by stating an unsupported fact.
You know that something's wrong when the Christian is the one asking for evidence.

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Sorry people...I think we need to take a step back and recognize that you are talking about a BOOK.

Point taken. But at this point, we're not talking about belief. We're simply arguing over what words were written in a book, and I'm sorry if it's dragging on for much longer than is comfortable.
Maybe when people start bringing evidence to the table, we can talk about something more substantive.

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I always enjoy a good debate and have never been one to leave the table. Just inserting a point that took me twenty years to figure out. I have had to resort myself to the fact that, in certain people, faith will always trump reason no matter how absurd. From my earliest memory it has never really made sense to me. I will continue my quest to figure out just how and why our wiring is so different on such a fundamental, primitive level. I am sure it is buried somewhere deep in our neurochemistry. Nature or Nurture??? I hope to find the answer someday but I am not going to place my bets.
This raises another question for you, Purple&Burgundy. Does your theology require you to believe that 'God' -not Jesus- is an entity in its own right, apart from people? If one believed that Jesus' God was only within each person, would that get one evicted from the theist tent?

Love the portmanteau.
I think we can agree that I would be a total ass to claim that some people aren't doing Christianity right because they don't agree with me on every point. I leave that task to the Spanish Inquisition.
I don't think that God is incapable of existing outside human beings as much as our morals are

BUT

The existence of a God is pointless outside human beings as much as morals are. Unlike Bill O'Reilly, I don't think God preoccupies himself with making the tides go in and out. Some would phrase it as "God loves us more than everything else." I'd say that the expression of God's loving nature (bear with me here, I'm sorry if this sounds like a Catechism) is something that only human beings are capable of channeling. Put very simply, God really wants to share himself with us.