RE: Judgement day defense strageity.
October 26, 2014 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2014 at 4:14 pm by Chad32.)
Drich Wrote:(October 26, 2014 at 3:19 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Depending how how things are set up, we may just sit down and have a long talk about what god is really like, and why the book of tales obviously didn't do what he supposedly wanted to do. If you can spend twenty years of your life, going to church, hanging out with christians, and learning from the bible, and still not find god...something is off.
If he wants to list off my wrongdoings, I'll do my best to defend them. If he starts talking about things I thought about, but didn't do, I'll explain there's a world of difference between thoughts and actions.
If he's just going to say "I don't know you. Be gone." I'll just say "Neither did I know you. Goodbye."
It kind of depends on how it goes. Will it be like checking off a list? Will it be a one on one personal chat? Will it be like a courtroom with a prosecutor and me possibly acting as my own defense? Or something else entirely?
I can offer my two cents if you like based on what I experience and what the bible says.. I was just curious, but if you want a dialog here I can respond.
I'm sure. I could get an answer from each denomination of the three Abrahamic religions out there. The problem is that it's second hand knowledge at best. The bible, torah, and quran is second hand knowledge at best.
Feel free to give your thoughts on what I said, and we can have a back and forth. I believe you would say the reason I didn't find god in twenty years is because I didn't a/s/k properly. However the bible says ask and ye shall be answered. Seek and ye shall find. Knock, and the door will be answered. There are parts of the bible where it says that god would be happy to show you he's there if you want it, despite other parts of the bible saying he doesn't like being tested. He's fickle, I guess. I am aware that whatever someone believes, if they concentrate on it long and hard enough, they will genuinely believe it. Whether it's actually true or not.
I reject the idea that thoughts equal actions out of hand. I can give justifications for most of the things I've done. I will admit that some things I did have no excuse. That would be the case for everyone. I would probably eventually mention how I grew up in a country where the leader is meant to be held accountable to the people, so Yahweh's idea of one guy sitting above all others, without any checks and balances, really doesn't make sense. I'm from America. Not North Korea.
If he doesn't care to talk, and just says that I didn't know him so I should leave, I'd tell him that relationships need to go both ways. I did my half by mingling with the christian crowd. He had twenty years of opportunities. I know his idea of time might be different from ours, but I don't have a thousand years to wait around.
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