RE: Help me not fear heaven/hell
March 28, 2019 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2019 at 7:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Heads you win tails everyone else loses, I guess. : shrugs :
You contradicted yourself from breath to breath, while dropping a series of non-sequiturs. This is what makes the christian notion of sin garbage. If there were gods, and there was sin, and there were free will..it would still be garbage.
It's also why no person should spend much time being afraid of sin and hell.
I don;t expect to convince you of some point contrary to your beliefs, but I would at least like to help you convey them better, and who knows, maybe even understand them better (and accept them) for what they are rather than what you wish they were - but there's only so far you can go with that. In the end, you'll be able to more accurately convey a flawed and petty notion that you nevertheless deeply hold to be true - and that's okay.
This spirals down into non religious shit too, like the ridiculous idea that choice and free will are equivalent. If you're just the kind of person who would choose a because of your nature, you still chose a..you just didn't do it freely. Robots make routine selections between options.
You contradicted yourself from breath to breath, while dropping a series of non-sequiturs. This is what makes the christian notion of sin garbage. If there were gods, and there was sin, and there were free will..it would still be garbage.
It's also why no person should spend much time being afraid of sin and hell.
I don;t expect to convince you of some point contrary to your beliefs, but I would at least like to help you convey them better, and who knows, maybe even understand them better (and accept them) for what they are rather than what you wish they were - but there's only so far you can go with that. In the end, you'll be able to more accurately convey a flawed and petty notion that you nevertheless deeply hold to be true - and that's okay.
This spirals down into non religious shit too, like the ridiculous idea that choice and free will are equivalent. If you're just the kind of person who would choose a because of your nature, you still chose a..you just didn't do it freely. Robots make routine selections between options.
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