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RE: Question to theists
June 16, 2018 at 1:29 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2018 at 1:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
"God" is;nt interested in your character, because it's shit. You;re irredeemable.
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RE: Question to theists
June 16, 2018 at 2:42 am
(June 16, 2018 at 1:29 am)Khemikal Wrote: "God" is;nt interested in your character, because it's shit. You;re irredeemable.
I've already been redeemed. It's no surprise you have it all wrong again because you have never had it right.
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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.
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RE: Question to theists
June 16, 2018 at 5:17 am
(June 15, 2018 at 4:19 pm)Drich Wrote: This is 'good' and anyone who blindly accepts that our pop culture is better and can not object to anything we do now as not being 'good' would be in the same position in 1930's germany. because they too were caught up in the 'morality' the culture provided to the point they even separated from the church and hitler became their religious leader, or rather the minister of religion did who answered to hitler.
Actually Nazis where in excellent relationship with Christians and Hitler himself was a christian
Nazis also signed Reichskonkordat with the Church where Hitler granted the right of Catholics to practice their faith as well as the freedom to express it publicly without retribution. Catholics were "protected in their establishments and their activity." Religious orders were exempted from paying taxes on stipends they received from the church. The right to operate Catholic schools was reaffirmed. Government workers were forbidden from criticizing the church. Plus every German had to give 10% of their pay to the Church.
If you read Article 16 of the Reichskonkordat required German bishops and cardinals to swear an oath of loyalty to the Third Reich.
Also Nazis did not invent antisemitism but exploited traditional and very old Christian hate toward Jews like Heinrich Himmler, who was in charge of carrying out the Holocaust, used the myth of blood libel, or the ritual murder of Christian children by Jews, to incite anger among eastern European Catholics against Jews.
Not just that but Christians and Vatican stayed loyal to the Nazis even after WW2 when Vatican issued fake passports for Nazi criminals, like Mengele, so they can escape to Latin America
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/m...-documents
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Question to theists
June 16, 2018 at 5:37 am
(June 16, 2018 at 1:01 am)Godscreated Wrote: (June 15, 2018 at 8:41 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: But he did make them knowing ahead of time they would sin. For all practical purposes, those two scenarios are exactly the same.
Not at all, a football coach knows ahead of time that his team is going to lose certain games, yet he asks his team to play the game. The coach cares about the character of his players and God loved us so much He had to create us. The only way that man would have never sinned was for God not to have created us.
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A football coach doesn’t send his players to an eternity of torture for losing the game.
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RE: Question to theists
June 16, 2018 at 7:55 am
(June 16, 2018 at 5:37 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: (June 16, 2018 at 1:01 am)Godscreated Wrote: Not at all, a football coach knows ahead of time that his team is going to lose certain games, yet he asks his team to play the game. The coach cares about the character of his players and God loved us so much He had to create us. The only way that man would have never sinned was for God not to have created us.
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A football coach doesn’t send his players to an eternity of torture for losing the game.
By definition there's gotta be a some sort of threat, because otherwise players won't play "God's football".
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RE: Question to theists
June 16, 2018 at 7:58 am
What's the point of winning if you never lose? (re:heaven and eternal bliss)
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RE: Question to theists
June 16, 2018 at 8:19 am
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(June 16, 2018 at 7:58 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: What's the point of winning if you never lose? (re:heaven and eternal bliss)
Our poster boy, Lucifer, couldn't handle being with God anymore. I feel like I take this Magical Lore too serious.
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RE: Question to theists
June 18, 2018 at 1:40 am
(June 16, 2018 at 5:37 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: (June 16, 2018 at 1:01 am)Godscreated Wrote: Not at all, a football coach knows ahead of time that his team is going to lose certain games, yet he asks his team to play the game. The coach cares about the character of his players and God loved us so much He had to create us. The only way that man would have never sinned was for God not to have created us.
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A football coach doesn’t send his players to an eternity of torture for losing the game.
First of all he can't so we could just throw your argument out the door, he will work them harder the next week for the mistakes they made. Secondly people send themselves to hell, God made a place for those who decide to reject His Son. All have sinned and fallen short of the will of God, trust in Christ will relieve us of those sins, to do the contrary results in bearing the sin till judgment and then .... well you know.
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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.
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RE: Question to theists
June 18, 2018 at 1:56 am
Don't you ever get tired of blaming the victim, GC?
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RE: Question to theists
June 18, 2018 at 3:32 am
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2018 at 3:34 am by Ravenshire.)
(June 18, 2018 at 1:56 am)Astreja Wrote: Don't you ever get tired of blaming the victim, GC?
Too much self righteousness.
(June 18, 2018 at 1:40 am)Godscreated Wrote: God made a place for those who decide to reject His Son.
GC
I don't know which is worse. That your gawd allegedly created an eternal torture chamber or that your morality sees no problem with it.
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