• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!
  • Welcome to our archives. No new posts are allowed here.

Christians

I'm going to give you a pass on that one, because I think your not an unintelligent person, you've just never fully utilized your mind....................

At the end of the day, it's all a matter of which premises a person happens to accept.

Either there is a God, or there isn't one. Either the Christian God is the true God, or he is not.

If I'm wrong, I'll cease to exist the minute my neurons stop firing and the dead meat that remains will rot in the ground forever more. If I'm not, I might stand a halfway decent chance of getting to meet my creator firsthand.

I don't see any particular reason why I shouldn't take my chances with religion. Most of the values it teaches are little more than codified common sense and human decency anyway.
 
Last edited:
hey Bonzai .. it seems we frequent the same seedy threads ... How many times have you been born?

I think "birth" is like "death"----------We get one of each................lol.....................
 
At the end of the day, it's all a matter of which premises a person happens to accept.

Either there is a God, or there isn't one. Either the Christian God is the true God or he is not.

If I'm wrong, I'll cease to exist the minute my neurons stop firing and the dead meat that remains will rot in the ground forever more. If I'm not, I might stand a halfway decent chance of getting to meet my creator firsthand.

I don't see any particular reason why I shouldn't take my chances with religion. Most of the values it teaches are pretty much simple common sense anyway.

I think everything that has ever lived has eventually had to meet it's maker. The idea that whatever made me is something dreadful is preposterous..............................
 
According to virtually all Christian theology. Souls cannot die. They are immortal. They continue to live on after the physical body has passed.

Those who reject God live on in a state where they are cut off from his grace or influence. They are also obviously prevented in some fashion from interacting with living people and the material world in general.

This state of existence is what we generally refer to as "hell." The specific mechanics surrounding just how exactly any of this plays out are essentially unknowable.

There are plenty of Christian theologies in which the soul is NOT immortal, the scriptures are clear, the soul can be destroyed, the soul can die.
 
You can't wait? think about that ... I'm in no hurry although mine are in the same condition ...

According to Gath...greatest thing since sliced bread. But I did sit up all night long trying to get my soul to fess up that it's there. As of yet...not a peep. Leaves one to wonder.
 
WD 40 might help

Well, I would, but just saw the news that fish oil, which is what WD 40 is...might not be good for us humans after all. My grandma use to make me take a bunch when I was a kid. That might be a clue about a lot of things.

Now for the soul part...man, that's a tough one. As I was telling Window Dressing...I can't get mine to fess up that it's in there. Wonder where I'd have to put that long plastic spray tip to give the old soul a blast?
 
According to Gath...greatest thing since sliced bread. But I did sit up all night long trying to get my soul to fess up that it's there. As of yet...not a peep. Leaves one to wonder.

I hear you ...
 
At the end of the day, it's all a matter of which premises a person happens to accept.

Either there is a God, or there isn't one. Either the Christian God is the true God, or he is not.

If I'm wrong, I'll cease to exist the minute my neurons stop firing and the dead meat that remains will rot in the ground forever more. If I'm not, I might stand a halfway decent chance of getting to meet my creator firsthand.

I don't see any particular reason why I shouldn't take my chances with religion. Most of the values it teaches are little more than codified common sense and human decency anyway.

No, it's not that simple or binary. Whatever you think about God, isn't true, if God is transcendent, and frankly if he isn't, then why worry about a nontranscendent God. The notion that you can comprehend God in a few brief simplistic truth statements leads to all kind of intellectual mischief, which is the main calling of evangelicalism as near as I can tell.

Thinking right thoughts about God is not only impossible, but irrelevant. The only thing that counts (for a Christian) is faith expressing itself through love. Gal. 5:6.
 
Back
Top Bottom