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>>560728697
how's it feel to know deep down the abyss waits after you die because there really is nothing after death?

>>560728697
What's your opinionon same-sex marriage?

>>560729251

Any question that starts with "How does it feel" is something I rarely take very seriously. I wonder why it happens so often. Can you not ask a real question instead of a loaded one?

There's very little I know "deep down". As to nothingness, you could argue it's far better than the possibility of Hell.

>>560729420

My opinion on it isn't related to my religion; this may surprise you. From a religious perspective, I'm not against it, but from a political perspective, I am. I know it's usually the opposite.

>>560729467
>can you not ask me a question about how it feels its too hard to answer

How do I know that I found my wife and does God have anything to do with it?

>>560728697

Hello there

My cock went down and got back up on a third day, does this mean that im holy ?

>>560728697
Do you literally believe everything the Bible says? Or do you consider it open to interpretation, and largely metaphorical?

>>560729821

I answered you. What I won't do is take your loaded question and let you decide my answer for myself. I can't answer how something feels if I don't actually match your assumption.

>>560729889

Are you willing to spend the rest of your life with her? Even if you're not sure, that should be good enough to know. To some degree, God has everything to do with everything, but don't spend too much time wondering, you won't know for sure.

typical Christian logic
>hurr durr afterlife
>tips fedora

>>560730087
Well if a girl gave you her virginity should you marry her?

>>560728697
Do you understand an atheists point of view? Or do you think they're unreasonable?

how do you reconcile what the bible says happened in the days of jesus with what history says happened in the days of jesus?
on that note, why do you feel that the bible is the word of god when since its inception, it has been used as nothing but a political tool

>>560728697
Do humans have free will?
if so, that means that my mom chose to fuck my dad and have me of her own free will. But then wouldn't that mean that god did not cause me to be born, which means that I was not brought into this world for any purpose, and the same goes for everyone.

your face when you will never go to >heaven

If you have no central nervous system how can you feel pain in Hell? Also, since you are a immaterial soul, how can you be bound in hell? Also, why would you want to go to Heaven? You spend ETERNITY there! You don't die, you don't live, your dead. At some point I would go mad, in Hell at least I would have the goal of escaping it. Heaven, your existence is henceforth purposeless. You can't die in hell, no punishment can possibly effect you unless you decide it can effect you. Either way, you end up in an endless abyss of oblivion, forced to live unendingly awake for...forever.

When someone actually thinks about it and looks at it, both heaven and hell sucks. Why would anyone want to be stuck in either of those places?

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>>560730442
>mfw I made it

>>560730080

Like any other text, you can't cherry-pick the context out of it. You can't read Leviticus the same way you'd read a Pauline epistle. Literalism is a very recent movement and never was the standard in the past.

This can be proven by using the Bible itself: there are four gospels, each has different "final words" for Christ. If the people who compiled the Bible thought it was the literal word of God with no mistake possible, they wouldn't have incorporated four gospels with mutually exclusive elements. They did it because they knew what those texts were: human testimonies written by humans. God didn't want to write the text Himself for reasons we can all guess too easily. Paul further warns about the textual obsession that many have, which is supported by literal reading, which is frankly plain silly. Sometimes it's literal, sometimes it's not. Same with Shakespeare or a cooking recipe. It isn't that hard to perceive a metaphor and something literal. To make this easier, though, we need context.

If you want more on this, we should narrow it down to one book of the Bible rather than the whole.

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>>560728697
I like Jesus but I don't really like Christians in general. And I don't believe in God. Will I go to hell ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUU6jTqB6k

>>560730141

The Vatican's many golden items cost the Church nothing as it's their historical heritage, which they cannot sell. They got it from centuries ago and as with many historical items, you can't just sell them. The Church isn't as rich as most imagine.

>being this new
God mutated 3 days ago

>>560728697
how did the people writing the bible know what god wanted them to write and who wrote it

>>560730204

I immensely dislike Creationism.

>print
>vernacular translations of the Bible
>belief that anyone can just read and understand
>birth of Protestantism
>emphasis on the text, without context, without scholars' help
>literalism, Fundamentalism
>Creationism

>>560730664
yes, they are richer

There is nothingness after death. Prove me wrong, op

>>560728697
Agnostic here....you're better than atheists.

What's you thoughts on evolution? If yes. How does that fit with the bible. If no then you can't use any medication again because it directly contradicts the bible

>>560730273

Whether her vagina has been poked or not shouldn't be your priority in marrying her.

>>560730278

I do understand their point of view as it has been my own for many years. This helps me not being mad at their anger. It was once mine.

>>560730915
What made you christian?

>>560730297
>how do you reconcile what the bible says happened in the days of jesus with what history says happened in the days of jesus?

Given that what we have historically speaking doesn't confirm anything either way, apart from that Christ existed, it's not hard to reconcile at all. If you're thinking of specific things, go ahead.

>on that note, why do you feel that the bible is the word of god when since its inception, it has been used as nothing but a political tool

I don't relate those two things. You can use a good thing to ill ends. As to literalism, I've explained it above: it's recent, it's false, and the ancients were never into it because they could read.

>>560731084
ok well for starters the enslavement and exodus of the jews from egypt. we know for a fact none of this ever happened.
then noah's flood, which we know never happend.
all the way through jesus's miracles and resurrection. none of which ever happened either.

>>560730330
>Do humans have free will?
>if so, that means that my mom chose to fuck my dad and have me of her own free will. But then wouldn't that mean that god did not cause me to be born, which means that I was not brought into this world for any purpose, and the same goes for everyone.

God partakes of everything we do through His immanence. He is both everything and exists beyond it as well. One very important thing for us to be free is for God to give us room, and thus free will. My view may not be held by many but I honestly think God, through His omnipotence and omniscience, chose not to know everything and chose not to intervene when He could, so we could be free and face our own consequences.

Simply because random things will happen because humans can choose doesn't mean God can't have planned ahead anyway. Think of it like an MMO game, you don't know who will play, but you can prepare missions and roles. You simply choose your roles. Some will choose to be evil-doers and others will try to help and be positive. Whichever road you choose has a destination and it's up to you.

>>560730560
stupidest thing I've read all day
>and I read fox news for the articles

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>>560730368

Even bread sounds crazy explained this way.

>>560730429

There's nothing mysterious about the fact that you're not there in Africa to help that kid.

>>560728697
Was Christianity professed by your family or you chose that on your own?

Is there any commandment or law you're not agreeing with?

Have you ever read Koran, Tora etc?

>>560731462
except for the fact that that whole process can also be explained in a way that actually makes perfect sense whereas the christianity sounds ridiculous no matter how it's explained

>>560730560
Then it is not the word of God, is what you are essentially saying.

>>560730471

This has been debunked a number of times. You should know that this is in fact a troll targetting atheists, but only people versed in the Bible recognise it as such. You're welcome.

>If you have no central nervous system how can you feel pain in Hell?

Who's to say what we have in the beyond? But even without that, there may be pains you can't even imagine as a human.

As to eternity, it may include reincarnation and other sorts of breaks. If we imagine eternity as humans, we're bound to conclude madness from it, but that wouldn't be Heaven if it was such a torture. Many Christians I know share that fear. They actually try not to think of Heaven too much because the idea frightens them.

How much does Richard Dawkins rustle your jimmies?

>>560731856
>sitting around some throne singing all day errday
whats not to love amirite

theres the most fundamental question of all...why christianity? why not judaism or islam or hinduism or buddhism or anything else?
any objective, rational observation will tell you there is literally nothing unique about christianity

>>560730601
>I like Jesus but I don't really like Christians in general.

I can't blame you, Ghandi. I'll sooner talk to atheists than many Christians. My friends used to make fun of me with that song. It's funny as fuck but yeah... I still have a hard time telling myself I'm supposed to be on their side. It's still a silly cool song though, but even I can't take it without irony.

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Good show op, nothing like idiots trying to pump their egos up with weak displays of "logic"

>>560730619

Old Testament. Christians follow Christ, Who abolished a lot of it.

>>560730634

Because Christians are very numerous on this earth. I keep hearing about Miley Cyrus and countless other people I'd rather not hear about.

It wouldn't be me, though. Virtually nobody around me knows I'm Christian. They don't even think I am since I'm privy to their jokes on my faith.

>>560730774

I see science as an ally to humans and not at all mutually exclusive with religion. Each simply has to know its place. Treat science as science and religion as religion and nothing goes wrong. Treat one as the other and it won't work.

>>560729467
can you tell me what hell and heaven are like?

serious question, I promise this is leading up to something. form your phrases carefully.

>>560732263
nothing like idiots calling other people idiots

god doesn't exist; you're wasting your time

>>560730869

I would need to know what you accept as proof. I suspect whatever I bring up won't matter.

>>560730870

Thank you. Not to offend anyone, but I personally think agnosticism is the default position for anyone who is critical. I'm an agnostic Christian because I don't actually know that there is a God and can't quite understand how anyone can imagine they know, one way or the other.

>>560732525
>being this new
God mutated 3 days ago

>>560730876

Pascal's wager was mostly a boutade, not a serious argument, and it was done in the context of Christianity or nothing, since Pascal lived in a world where everyone was Christian. There were no atheists. He was simply imaging someone who denied the only faith people had back then.

>>560732567
That's retarded.
The Bible all but screams that God's motivation is partially to test humans, which means never confirming his existance except for to prophets. Otherwise every faithless fairweather Christian would get the ultimate reward.
I'm not even Christian and I know that.

>>560732554
>cant understand how anyone can know one way or the other


its pretty simple
this dude >>560732634
gets it. its all a matter of history, youll see the story was made up

>>560732687
um ok, that's all fine and dandy but the fact of the matter is that people still use that argument today and they ARE serious, which is the whole point i'm getting across
am i wrong?

>>560732634
Listen, there's no god and Christianity is a dumb belief system.

But that doesnt change the fact that image has huge amounts of false information in it.

>>560728697
Why does your religion tell people not to have sex before marriage? Do you agree or disagree with this notion and why?

>>560730913

I'm not sure if you're serious. My thoughts on evolution? It's biology.

>if yes

If yes to what? Whether I think evolution is real? Of course it's real.

The Bible isn't a biology textbook so there's nothing to make it fit with. The creation myth is a myth: a story that explains how we got to live in this world. Genesis describes our world as a half sphere surrounded by water above and below (the sky is blue, so obviously it's water) and Jews had water coming up from the ground on occasions, so they assumed that immense ocean above was present below as well. That should be enough to make any thinking man that you shouldn't take the Bible literally when it's about the natural world and that it was written by fallible humans. To reject everything because of errors of this kind would be shallow, though. It would be as if you kidnapped a tribesman from his tribe, made him visit a city and a nuclear plant, and be surprised that what he told his people afterwards had no scientific precision.

>>560730870
why does everyone hate us so much? I understand that a lot of atheists are angry 12 year olds, but we aren't all faggots... I don't want to destroy religion i just think it's claims of truth are incorrect, otherwise i understand its purpose which is preserving cultural knowledge and practices and psychology. and yet somehow no one seems to care about agnostics. it's not like we're all that different... i could call myself agnostic if i wanted to, since i can't prove god doesn't exist, but really it's just more practical to say "i don't believe in god" i.e. atheist. There seriously is no way to disprove the existence of bigfoot or the loch ness monster or ufo sightings in any way more conclusive than you can disprove god (go ahead, try it). I mean you don't have to be an atheist but the least you could do is not be such a dick as to put us below christians...

>>560728697
What personally made you have faith in the Christian God and practice as opposed to the many other religious Gods and practices?

>>560728697
Hello Christian, I'm Mike.

>>560732898
Excellent arguments I am convinced

>>560730927
>>560731000

Do you actually want me to respond to your images or not? Serious question.

>>560731052

The difference is that in one case, God was there and prevented the murder.

Why are you so dumb that you want to use a non-existing creature as a reason for everything you can't explain?

>>560733006
Because you're hypocrites and there's too many autistic atheists who think they're smarter than everyone else.
Pro Tip: If you say there is no God without proof, then you are making a claim based on faith.

>>560733126
>The difference is that in one case, God was there and prevented the murder.
lolwut

>>560731061

90% reading, 10% some specific Christian people.

And that still, small voice inside.

>>560731294

>ok well for starters the enslavement and exodus of the jews from egypt. we know for a fact none of this ever happened.

We know it for a fact? I need to do some research on this then, if it's legal at all. Denying the Enslavement.

Floods happened, but talking historically about Genesis is a little crazy in my opinion. I thought you were talking about the New Testament (which is what my religion is based on).

I'm not aware of anything from history either supporting or denying Jesus' miracles and resurrection in a definite manner.

>>560731441

You can call it stupid but you can't say why. It's not stupid at all. Perhaps you didn't understand and need a simplified version. Ask away.

>>560731585

My family never talked of God. Most they did was scorn organised religions. I grew up Godless.

There's no commandment I don't agree with, if you mean the ten.

I've read the Quran, the Torah, some books on Buddhism, the Mormon sacred texts, etc.

>>560733259
Also, upon rereading what you said
You consider it dickish to put you below Christians, which implies Christians are bad despite your apologist rhetoric.

>>560731738

That's not true. Christianity can be explained in ways that make sense, although you have to be ready for things that aren't of this world, which will always give you the opportunity to say, "That's insane." Many things which are completely true sound insane to those who don't know, whether it's ducks' sex lives or the Big Bang theory. Try telling a child about either and they'll be confused, as is normal.

When the BB theory first appeared, most of the scientific community scorned it as being "too religious", but now that all scientists accept it, nobody even think of that anymore.

>>560733259
the burden of proof is on christians, not atheists

have you ever feel atraction to a friend's gf?

bcouse if you do that you go to the hell.

>god is good, believe in me or i will burn your ass in the hell

>>560731797

The Old Testament has texts which claim to be the word of God, others don't. The New Testament never does. Most Churches will say that the texts are "inspired", which can mean anything.

That said, I don't have a problem with the idea that the Bible isn't the direct and infallible word of God. Complexity doesn't scare me.

>>560733845
how convenient.
Too bad it's not true.

>>560733186

OP answer this kthx

>>560733026
You see, you read it too literal.

For example:
> Violence cleanses evil
Nah, it says:
> Blows and wounds scrub away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.
It has to do with self discipline, self harm to cleanse your own soul, not hurting others. Your soul, your problem.

> Enslave your neighbors who worship other gods.
It is not what Levitcus 25:44:46 says. Not even close. It's just bad paraphrasing.

Also, slaves back in Jesus-times and before was not slaves as we see it today.
Jobs and work ethics are quite new.
If you wanted to survive you had to work. Either you owned your own piece of land, growing shit and eating it, or you found someone that could take care of those needs for you.

Sure you didn't get paid in money, but you did get a roof and food, thus you survived.

So many things wrong just with the first two, I can't be arsed going over the rest of them, they are probably just as wrong and misquoted.

>>560731909

A whole lot, but not for the reasons you may think. He annoys me when he thinks he has a great argument against faith when in reality it's nothing and anyone with basic knowledge of theology and apologetics can offer a good counter argument. That rustles my jimmies. Dawkins about God is like my plumber about evolution. It's not his field, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

He's much better at explaining evolution and I greatly enjoyed his "evolution of the eye" demonstration.

His books about God are nothing more than pop atheism to me and have very little substance in my opinion. Being against Creationism is something I support, though, I just wish he wouldn't assume Christians should be Creationists, because they should not.

>>560731552
Rekt

>>560733957
the problem with the bible is that it teaches people to be subservient and to a degree, rely on god instead of themselves.

I do not have a problem with this inherently, but the problem is that they feel obliged to push it on others. Its not their fault, its how they were brought up. but does this make it any better for the person on the recieving end? not really.


I'll take the left path. thanks.

>>560732032
>any objective, rational observation will tell you there is literally nothing unique about christianity

Incorrect. Christianity is the only religion of all of these where God Himself becomes one of us, lives as one of us, and dies as one of us, in order to save us. I found that nowhere else. Buddhism has no such God and Islam has the Old Testament God dictating words to a single man.

I could go on and on about why I chose Christianity over everything else. You just assume every religion is on the same level because you're convinced there is no God.

>>560733841
well no shit a child would be confused by that stuff, that's a terrible comparison
you're basically saying the reason stuff in the bible doesn't make sense to us is because we aren't smart enough to understand it
you're saying people can rise from the dead, and we're all just too stupid to realize it, just like a child is too stupid to understand the big bang theory
i'm out, it's not even worth the effort at this point, you can't even make a sound argument

>>560732263

Thank you.

>>560732418
>can you tell me what hell and heaven are like?

From my own, I can't. Swedenborg wrote a whole book about both, from his alleged communication with angels for 13 years; they supposedly took him to both places. It's a fascinating read but who knows what it's worth.

Basically, he sees heaven and hell as natural places for which you shape yourself through this life. Hellish people wouldn't feel well in heaven because it requires you to do things like help others and be helped in return, whereas hell will require you to do what you liked doing on earth, and having it done to you, that's the catch.

I just realise I misread your final sentence. I thought you were telling me this wasn't going to be a trap. My bad.

I'll revert to my original answer: no, I can't tell you.

>>560734001
really?
then guess what, the flying spaghetti monster is real too
don't believe me? then you have to prove it doesn't exist, otherwise it does

>>560732634

This is wrong. Even Christ Himself wasn't born on the 25h December and how could Horus be born on a day that didn't even exist back then?

Virtually none of these were born of virgins apart from Christ. Just read wikipedia about any of these.

The Horus/Christ stuff comes from a phony historian that no other historians have even heard about. It's Zeitgeist.tier.

>>560734724
>recycles the fsm argument
>expects to be taken seriously
Annnd this is why no one likes atheists.

>>560732723

The Bible says that God wrote His laws in us. So saying that morality doesn't come from God but from us is meaningless.

You must be really angry about religion if you have this many images about it.

What strikes me is that, as with many atheists, you're not interested in anybody's answer about your images. You just want them out, assuming it'll convince others that religion is bad.

Don't be so insecure.

>>560732828

>Horus born in December

You do realise that "December" is a Roman concept that Egyptians had no knowledge of? It doesn't make any sense at all. You can verify all of these and realise that 90% of it is bunk. You've discredited yourself big time. You don't know any history at all.

>>560734724
Your logic is full of flaws. Go back to school you underaged faggot.

>inb4 durr stupid christian

Im atheist/ agnostic

>>560734853
>gets proven wrong
>changes the subject
nice ad hominem btw

>>560731856
How has this been debunked? Legitimately curious.

>>560732828

So Horus is born of a virgin mother? Then why did Horus' mother fuck herself with a dick? How's that virginal?

"The mother of Horus was believed to be the goddess Isis. Her husband, the god Osiris, was killed by his enemy Seth, the god of the desert, and later dismembered. Isis managed to retrieve all of Osiris’s body parts except for his phallus, which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by catfish. (I’m not making this up). Isis used her goddess powers to temporarily resurrect Osiris and fashion a golden phallus. She was then impregnated, and Horus was conceived. However this story may be classified, it is not a virgin birth."

You guys are gullible. It only takes a few clicks to read on Egyptian myth and check for yourselves, but you didn't do that for any of these deities. Read this and get educated:

http://www.jonsorensen.net/2012/10/25/horus-manure-debunking-the-jesushorus-connection/

>>560735191
you didn't prove anything.
There's a huge difference between a joke (fsm), a fable (tooth fairy) and a religion. the problem with the fsm is it's an illogical argument.

>>560732895

People will argue in stupid ways. I can't do anything about it, just point out that Pascal did not. He just put things into perspective for a Frenchman living in the 17th century.

>>560734963
if god wrote his laws in us, then why does he give a shit what religion we choose? since we already know everything that we are supposed to know by instinct, why does he care if we actually worship him? there is no reason except for personal gratification, which a perfect and timeless being shouldn't even care about. There are lots of people who really don't believe in god, or even if they do are stillnon-christian and live perfectly moral lives.

>>560734963
to be honest OP.

christianity does the same thing, and its not just limited to solidary web forums.

like the westbro baptist church. showing up at gay rallies and the like. fair game from my perspective.


if god wrote his laws in us, then in theory we do not need a god to function, and yet will set our own morals independent of god.

If this is true, then should we be acting in what the bible considers a sinful nature, then this is also acceptable as this is present within us too.

If our sinful nature is as a result of sinning against god, then in theory all those atheists who have established their own system of morals have overcome original sin independently of god, and therefore there is no need for him to exist to repent.

However logically this does not make sense as the bible tells us we require the holy spirit in order to be free from sin and to accept salvation of christ.

Therefore those who live a moral life themselves have essentially overcome original sin (provided it exists in the first place) without god.

It is not meaningless, however I respect your point of view. Please do point out the logical fallacies with mine.

>>560732898
>Listen, there's no god and Christianity is a dumb belief system.

Not even Christians are naive enough to assume that telling me "There is a God and Christianity is an amazing belief system" would convince me.

The system is far from dumb, when you know it. When you rely on a version for 5-year-olds, yes, that's stupid.

>>560734963
If he wrote the law in us, then why did he get so pissed when Steve ate the apple? Should't God have been pissed at himself for writing bad code and not bug testing before release?

If they did not know about right or wrong before the apple, then they are not to blame, right?
That's the story isn't it, they learnt about modesty, morality and sin by eating the apple, before that they had not sense of those things.
So really, it's like getting mad at your dinner table for not being able to do calculus.
Then punishing all dinner tables for the rest of time for one dinner tables bad maths.

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>>560735635
>steve ate the apple
>steve

many keks. thanks anon

>>560735498
in what essence is pascal's wager stupid?

It is a logical argument for why to put your faith in "faith" as opposed to doing the contrary.

for a logical person presented with the situation of whether god exists or not, he will definately choose to believe.

To believe is logical. What is illogical is the thought process leading to it. It implies that inherently this one religion is true while the others are false. Then given this, why does he choose this one over all the others if they all have a similar chance of being correct?
He will most likely at this point, choose the one that offers punishment for disobedience.

This narrows it down to the abrahamic religions and a couple of others. At this point the only logical thing to do is to choose based on his current circumstances (as if they all offered the possibility of hell, then they are essentially same within the parameters of the wager).
He/she will most likely be forced at this point to pick. to increase his chances of picking right, psychology dictates group think, and he will choose the one that is most prevalent.

In this day and age, this is christianity, so choosing to believe is logically acceptable.

Then there is the argument, that is this still "faith"?

>>560732937

I don't recall Christ saying anything about that nor do I assume that the traditions of Hebrews several millennia ago should be used by us, which we don't since we aren't polygamous anymore. If we were supposed to do as Moses did, then we'd have many wives on top of marrying them before we sex them up.

I personally think this focus on no sex before marriage is trivial and doesn't fit with our societies. What it really means is that you shouldn't fuck with someone you don't have a relationship because it has many risks, not the least of which are STD's. It can also leave you feeling very empty. That said, sins of the flesh are very minor sins.

In other words, it doesn't matter that much in Christianity.

>>560733032

Reading about all of them.

>>560735989
I meant Adam, sorry. Don't know why I wrote Steve, I guess my whole argument went down the drains.

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>>560735635
You're talking of one of the most metaphorical part of the Bible. I think a lot of Christians have different interpretations on this. I don't know the position of the Catholic church but a friend of mine seemed to believe that God let Adam and Eve define themselves what was good and wrong, and from that point they simply couldn't live in Eden. Just giving you a viewpoint.

>>560733186
>Why are you so dumb that you want to use a non-existing creature as a reason for everything you can't explain?

What is a thing I can't explain that I use God for when I don't even claim to explain God Himself?

I don't do that. I can't explain the Big Big for instance, I can't say what caused it, like any scientist today, but that doesn't mean I automatically assume "God did it", even though if there's a single thing that God might have done, that'd be the BB. I don't do any God of the gaps stuff.

>>560733845

Burden of proof applies when you're arguing a case based on evidence and resorting to the scientific method. Serious Christians don't do that simply because we don't have any such evidence to offer. That's not how it works. My faith isn't a scientific theory that you can falsify. I'm very aware of that and don't claim anything else.

>>560736147
>Minor sins.
Didn't you say it was bad to pick and choose which laws and sins are more important than others.
I grew up in a Christian household, but I only can consider religion as something which can be used to guide people to live a better, more selfless life. Even so, only within a minimum capacity. Anyone that devotes their life to their religion I often find to be narrow minded and bigoted.

>>560734352
>rely on god instead of themselves.

To most Christians, this is the same thing.

>they feel obliged to push it on others.

I'm European, so I've never, ever, had a Christian try to preach to me, and I work around Christians a lot. It's probably a cultural difference, but here, if you're Christian, you're in the minority and people will either mock you on the side or look at you like you're a freak, so people don't share their faith, and more generally, people here won't talk of politics, sex, or religion unless it's made clear that this is what someone wants to discuss.

You could argue that I'm preaching right now, by answering the questions of people who want to ask me things. I do hope to offer something new to some people.

>>560728697
How does it feel to support a mass murdering/genocide association ? Can you sleep at night ?

>Fuck christianity, Deism is far better

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>>560728697
ok
sorry for english
1) why are you protestant/catolic and no ortodox?
2) why sex without marriage is sin and marriage without love not?

>>560736570
Also, don't know if you've answered this already above, but what led you to be a Christian? Did you grow up in a Christian household? What would it take for you to not be a Christian?
Why not other religions?

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Seriously 4chan? You are arguing with an idiot who hasn't answered ANYTHING. And gives vague answers to come across as intelligent.

Remember, you believe that all humans came from two humans, who were made by a giant man in the sky. And those two humans and their children had sex with their mother and the daughters with their father so they could expand humanity. After that your pitiful god flooded the earth and they had to expand themselves again by the means of mass incest.

Fuck you, fuck your thread. Keep believing in fairy tales.

>>560737068
Not defending OP but many of the more intelligent Christians believe that god made adam and eve and later made other people, but it doesn't note each other person he made in the bible...

>>560734632
>you're basically saying the reason stuff in the bible doesn't make sense to us is because we aren't smart enough to understand it

No, simply because you aren't knowledgeable about it enough.

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>>560737046
Read the thread.
Seriously, it's interesting

>>560734724

The truly amazing thing about atheists, beyond bananas, is that you actually think the spaghetti monster is on par with Christ in terms of evidence and cultural relevance and philosophy, theology, and etc. I believe in God, but I have a hard time believing in such willful ignorance.

>>560737409
prove it wrong then

>>560735342

I posted a link. Just google "Horus/Christ debunked" and you'll find countless explanations on how bunk this is.

>if god wrote his laws in us, then why does he give a shit what religion we choose?

He cares what we do and why we do it, not so much what we call ourselves. God doesn't call Himself a Catholic, for instance.

>>560737409

>Ignorance

Hurr durr, YOU're believing in something false.
Zeus seems to be as real as your god.
Reading a book claiming misogyny, homophobia, racism and violence is not knowledge, I can assure you.

>>560737283
Well, I believe we're all the products of incest, so we are both on equal grounds as far as the credibility of our claims are concerned, aren't we?

>>560735585
>christianity does the same thing, and its not just limited to solidary web forums.

I'll deal with you as a person on your own and in return, you'll deal with me on my own. I won't attack you based on what others do and expect the same from you.

The "Westbro", heh, Baptist Church is a marginal sect amongst marginal Christians who, according to me, have strayed, as I think of Protestants as Christians in error. I certainly don't side with them on many things.

>if god wrote his laws in us, then in theory we do not need a god to function, and yet will set our own morals independent of god.

Yes and no. You don't need to be religious to be good, but that doesn't mean you don't need God. Technically, without God (as defined in religion), nothing would be alive, no physical law would function, etc. You don't need to know how a car works to drive one. Same idea. Morals are dependent on God since that's where we get to know what's right and what's wrong (this isn't an argument, by the way, that's just the definition from a religious point of view, I'm not trying to convince anyone or use this to prove God, just clarifying definitions).

>Therefore those who live a moral life themselves have essentially overcome original sin (provided it exists in the first place) without god.

Christianity holds that the very good in them comes from God, so it's never without Him, by definition.

>It is not meaningless, however I respect your point of view. Please do point out the logical fallacies with mine.

No logical fallacies so far, just a misunderstanding of terms.

>>560735635

Adam and Eve is a myth with many layers, one of which is simply growing up. Don't read it literally, since not even Hebrews read it literally.

>>560736121
>in what essence is pascal's wager stupid?

Because if you choose to believe in God solely because you have more chances that way than not, then God knows why you claim to believe, and you end up in Hell anyway, as mercenary love isn't love and doesn't count.

Secondly, it makes a joke of the faith by making it mercenary love at any rate. It isn't worth anything. I love Pascal, you should know, but that wager is nothing more than a slight boutade as Pascal intended it.

>>560736737

>Didn't you say it was bad to pick and choose which laws and sins are more important than others.

I did. Sexual sins were always regarded as lower than others. I'm not making anything up or cherry-picking. The greatest sin has always been Pride and the acts that come from it. Dante's lust sinners are in the first circle of Hell, not the last at all. Pride is always worse than Lust in every Christian story you can find.

Humans have used Christianity to fend off their fear of sexuality, but Christianity itself isn't based on sex. Even Paul says to get married if you're so horny that you can't go without sex. The matter was much lighter centuries ago than it is today.

>>560736907
>How does it feel

See the first question of this thread. Rephrase your question in an adult fashion if you actually want an answer from me.

>>560736915

I don't know enough about Orthodox Christianity to know, but it's the only other Church I consider legit, although Quakers are probably those who brought me closer to God when I was not.

Sex with love without marriage is marriage to me; marriage without love isn't marriage.

Marriage is the ritual we use to officialise a union that already exists. It is that union that is sacred, not the formalities of it, which are just that.

God isn't retarded and knows bullshit when He sees it. I have faith in that.

>>560738435
Hmm. Alright, i understand your reasoning.
Another question, what do you think about how so many people interpret god's "word" and messages differently. Moreover, how people depend on prayer and take away such vastly different meanings from what they say god tells them. Doesn't that just open up the gateway to spew whatever self-serving bullshit they want. I just can't trust the human psyche enough to believe people are talking to god and that god tells them something...
This also ties in with how god told people what to write, and what to include in the writing and canonising of books to be included in the bible.

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>>560737046

I grew up atheist. Introduction to Protestantism antagonised me, made me choose to read the Bible on my own at age 12. Made it through the first five books of the OT and I was a raging atheist by then.

From 12 to 18 I was a furious atheist and then reading changed my mind. Dostoyevsky, Pascal, many other authors and actual people in my life made me reconsider.

Reading about Quakers made me interested in Christianity. I went on reading and the Catechism of the Catholic Church showed such an intellectual display of the faith that I chose to be Catholic.

CS Lewis' books are the best introduction to Christianity I could ever recommend. Mere Christianity is something people should read before even trying to read the Bible, because the good book isn't user-friendly.

>>560737068
>Seriously 4chan? You are arguing with an idiot who hasn't answered ANYTHING. And gives vague answers to come across as intelligent.

That's so ridiculously unfair. Just read the thread.

>Remember, you believe that all humans came from two humans,

I don't, as evidence by the fact that my sacred book clearly talks of other humans in Genesis: Cain meets his wife from another tribe, and she doesn't come from Adam nor Eve. Besides, only atheists and Fundamentalists read Genesis literally.

>Fuck you, fuck your thread. Keep believing in fairy tales.

You're a very insecure person. And you're right to be: you know that an actual conversation with me would destabilise you and your comfort position. I won't force you, though. Don't read the thread if you want to remain secure in your beliefs.

>>560737534

I can offer you thousands of books in favour of Christianity, ranging from history to philosophy, to theology. How many books can you give me that would help make the case of the Spaghetti Monster?

>>560737710
>Reading a book claiming misogyny, homophobia, racism and violence is not knowledge, I can assure you.

Are there actually people beyond 15 who think this is a legimate argument? Do you not know the difference between the Old and the New Testament or do you think "old" and "new" have no meaning whatsoever?

Your opinion of Christianity isn't knowledge, that's for sure.

Atheist's have spent our free will on developing a world without God that has led to democracies without justice, economies without balance, entertainment without restraint, and pleasures without moderation. This generation is climaxing into a dysfunctional era with mass shootings, violence, governments turning on their own people and suppressing them, an emotionally ruptured generation that is incapable of committing to a relationship or functioning in a society.

>>560738816

If you pray and God literally answers you with words, I'd immediately see a psychiatrist.

I'd also be skeptical of people who claim they are in direct communication with God.

However, I do believe, from direct experience, that some people have gifts not unlike those given to early Christians, who can cure ills with their hands and such. The people who do this do it for free, and even say that should they ask for money, the gift would leave them. I've seen their results on my people I know personally and have a rather open-minded opinion about them. They won't flat-out tell you they're Christian, but they do explain that it has to do with God.

Atheists let themselves be dazzled by the false glamor of honors and human greatness while others are equally blinded by self-love, not realizing that they are falling into lukewarmness and immense evil. It is this contempt for others which is the fundamental cause of your great downfall. Religion does not have to fight Atheism. Atheism is auto destructing as we speak with gigantic egos eventually clashing.

The vast majority of religious texts are sourced from the ancient Egyptian mystery cult, maybe even older civilisations, and the stories have been told and retold for thousands of years. They have also been told selectively by people who wish to rule the world.
The stories are all figurative, meant to serve as guidelines, to teach us how to get along and live with some semblance of peace. Taking direct meaning from a religious book is madness, and using it to justify killing of any form, killing anyone, no matter how different they are, is also madness.
My Atheist upbringing has taught me rationality and I now look on religion as a collection of historic text to be CONSIDERED only, never followed to the letter.

The god, who judges you when you die, is yourself. You are faced with all the deeds of your life, good and bad, and with divine reason, you judge yourself. Essentially, you then decide which lessons you must learn in the next life, and you will be born into the time or scenario which best suits that lesson. If you are rich and take your wealth for granted, you will decide that, next life, you will be poor.
Time does not exist outside of life, so you can choose when to live with no limits.
The ultimate goal is preperation, we are here to learn about interaction.
This is what I believe, also that all individuals come from the same one source, and they are the same individual at different stages of development.
Life was designed to be hard, and you will be your own judge of how you live it.

>>560739583
ohh op, you are so funny

If the old testament is all metaphors, why does anyone assume the new testament is at all related to reality? Why does Jesus have to have been able to perform miracles, or even have existed? Why can't the message be separated from the "person" of jesus?

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Why should i believe in a powerless jew who got nailed to cross by humans. Why not in mighty Odin who gave prosperity to Vikings so many times?

>>560739685
That ancient Egyptian mystery cult had been debunked by Archaeologists. It appears to me that few have ever actually met a scientist or worked in a scientific field. Many atheists I know haven't the slightest understanding of the scientific process and have an occupation that has nothing to do with science, but arrogantly speak of it as if they're experts. I think these are the sort of people you're getting your knowledge from.

>>560739941

I wasn't being funny. What would constitute a joke for an atheist is nothing but facts to me.

>>560740287
thats even more funnier

>>560728697
Why do you believe in your god? He only exists to humans because in the past we needed sometype of leadership controlling us, so we worshiped rocks, animals, people. etc. What makes your god any different from them? Also what makes your god so different then everylast God or holy things?

>>560740287
one last question. if god is unchanging (i'm assuming you believe that) and loving and all that, why is the god of the old testament so different from the god of the new testament.

>>560739969
>If the old testament is all metaphors

Just no.

>why does anyone assume the new testament is at all related to reality?

I will attempt to demonstrate. Compare a story that explains how the universe came about as explained by humans several millennia ago, humans who literally thought they were living inside a half bubble surrounded by endless water, and letters written by specific people about specific groups of other people in a specific part of the planet.

Do you see how different these texts are? It's like comparing Tolkien's Silmarilion with the collected letters of Hemingway. You just can't read them the same way.

The message can't be separated from Jesus because He literally is the message. You can do good without thinking of God, but doing good is directly of God. These are things we see as separate but aren't, regardless of what we think.

>>560740514
Because of the Jews. They didn't believe any of the bullshit of Jesus. So he changed the book of myths. The Myth changed myths

>>560740195

Because earthly deeds don't mean much when you've created the universe. There's also no historical evidence for Odin being an actual person, while history knows there was a man named Jesus who got nailed, even if that's about as far as we know, history-wise.

>>560739969
Not all of the old testament is metaphors. Some of the things in there are cultural ideology mixed in with worship of God. Christ came to correct a lot of things and separate culture from religion and beliefs. Just like today we have politics mixed in with religion and beliefs. Very dangerous.

Proverbs 26

Honor is no more associated with fools than snow with summer or rain with harvest.


You shouldn't do things just to receive honor and praise and gratification to make you feel good about you're self.

>>560740772
There is no historical evidence for Christ. Also, Christ was taken from Egyptian myths about Horus. They're so similiar that it hurts. YHWH is patethic compared to other gods and you know it.

>>560740360

If it was that funny, you'd be smiling or chuckling, but you're not.

>>560740448

While most humans believed in gods, their gods were simply personifications of natural phenomena, like thunder, lightning, water, fire, wind, etc. "My" God isn't a personfication of any given phenomena, but the source of them all. Pele died as a deity the moment we knew how volcanoes worked. You will never find any such explanation that would kill God because "my" God can't be reduced to any given phenomenon.

>>560740954
That ancient Egyptian mystery cult had been debunked by Archaeologists. It appears to me that few have ever actually met a scientist or worked in a scientific field. Many atheists I know haven't the slightest understanding of the scientific process and have an occupation that has nothing to do with science, but arrogantly speak of it as if they're experts. I think these are the sort of people you're getting your knowledge from.

You sound desperately pathetic.

A random ape in a random universe. Makes sense.

>>560740514

Either God can actually change and "grew up" since the OT, which is what Mormons believe, or the OT is more secondary than many people believe, which is my case.

Christ could have been born in India and the OT would be Hindu in nature and it wouldn't change much to the New Testament. I take the OT with a pinch of salt and include context.

I assume Jews thought God hated them when other people treated them badly and liked them when they were lucky in wars and such. It's more of a defence mechanism than anything. Do I believe God actually talked to prophets and everything in the OT? I suspend my judgement on that. My faith is based on the New Testament. I read the OT for context and wisdom, as it does have very significant texts, some which go directly against mainstream Christianity, like Ecclesiastes, and I always find it interesting that atheists don't resort to that book more often to attack Christians, as it's literally a fedora-tipping book within the Bible, although it's beautifully written.

>>560728697
Why is your name Christian

No one is more hopelessly enslaved than an atheist who falsely believe they are free.

>>560740954
>There is no historical evidence for Christ

There is. No historian would argue that.

The Horus/Christ lie was debunked countless times. You just need to read about it. They're not similar at all and 90% of the alleged similarities are made up.

Read on if you're honest:

http://www.jonsorensen.net/2012/10/25/horus-manure-debunking-the-jesushorus-connection/

>>560741451

Because I follow Christ.

>>560741153
>>560741595
http://www.meetup.com/inquiries/messages/boards/thread/4212622?thread=4212622

Try again.

>>560741595
>The Horus/Christ lie was debunked countless times.

What about the Mithras/Christ lie?

>>560741093
So since your god isn't the god of one persona, that makes him more real than the rest? Your religion will die. It is mythology, more and more people are realizing this everyday. People are realizing that he isn't real. He doesn't control of anything. and if he can never give people evidence of who or what is powers is, then why will people continue to follow?

One more thing about the Horus/Christ stuff: who actually believes that early Christians had access to Egyptian's culture?

Most of this stuff wasn't recovered until the 19th century but you guys somehow believe that Paul and the Apostles travelled to Egypt, excavated Egyptian documents and analysed the walls while simultaneously translating Egyptian and hieroglyphics?

I think highly of early Christians but that's far beyond any serious expectations.

>>560740217
It's difficult for anyone to know with any accuracy what happened that long ago, all language is open to intepretation, we will take whatever we want to take from it, so I try to study as wide a variety of sources as possible, including going to museums and studying the hyroglyohs myself etc. Though I'm no archeologist. The only source I can truly trust is my own intuition, how I feel about something. So I'm presenting my opinion of it, it's not like I remember it happening in a previous life, which would be nice lol.

The impression I get is that modern religions, which claim originality, are in fact based on the stories of previous religions.

The problem I have is the differentiation between spirituality and organised religion. It becomes about belonging to a group more than taking lessons about life. Westborough baptist church for example, certifiable. Islamic fundamentalism, forcefully spreading Islam into places it's not invited, Judaism assuming superiority of morals, "we earned this land of Israel because we were persecuted"
A sepeeation of religion from spirituality.
I'm dissilusioned, and Atheism gives me nothing either, only a lack of meaning or purpose.
I follow the path of last resistance, while trying never to be lazy or indifferent

>>560742073
More like jews shifted egyptian religion to theirs to make it easier for people to understand.

You really think people were so dumb as some "scientist" assume?

>>560741787

Same deal. Every time you see "born on the 25th of December", you know it's bullshit because the very month "december" was a Roman invention, so any deity associated with this date, when it predates Romans, you know it's bunk.

Moreover, if that were true, it'd still be bunk as Christ was not born in December or in the 25th and for a long time, Christians celebrated His birth in April, with the coming of Spring.

So whichever way you take it, it makes no sense. It's just that you guys don't check sources yourselves and rely on what you're told.

All you had to do was read wikipedia on either Horus and Mithra to see if it adds up or not. It's really not hard.

>>560742073
I don't think that's a solid argument. I don't know exactly what we are talking about here but a lot of traditions can survive orally for centuries. Anyway I don't see the problem : the way the myth was constructed doesn't change if the message is true or not

>>560742343
The link i gave you wasn't about birth date.

>>560741787
The dozens of stories throughout history that are parallels with christ

>>560742024

If my religion is dying, how do you explain that it's not dead yet? If it was to die, it would have died long ago. Even when you make it illegal and kill Christians, it survives.

You also forget converts. Many people convert, as I did. I expect more people to return to Christ in the future because of the sort of society we're preparing for ourselves.

>>560741738
That's a random person on the internet called "godlessgirl702". If that's your source no wonder you're confused. No archaeologist would ever accept what you just demonstrated as evidence. That's just a random person typing the same thing you have typed. You actually kind of sound like an idiot.

>>560742203

Are you now arguing that Jews made up a conspiracy theory involving the cancellation of their own religion?

This is getting crazier and crazier.

>>560742421

The point is Jews had no access to Egypt back then and no way to know jackshit about Horus and the rest. This is tinfoil hat conspiracy theories and nothing else.

But mainly, virtually all the "similarities" are bunk.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100125145808AAWfPYF

Anyone serious about research knew by the 1920's that the parallel theories were bunk.

Enjoy getting enlightened.

>>560742616
The Amun priesthood renamed Tutenkamun and installed him as a puppet, maybe there is truth to it. Forgive me if my spelling is wrong

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>>560742616
No, they made new religion based on the old one. Just like every other religion.

You must be truly dumb to believe in any god since there were so many. Saying "im the only and true god" doesn't make him better than the others. There is no evidence for any of his miracles. He stopped showing up after we invented recorders(epik meme). He's not real.

>>560742758

Besides, you'll find some similarities between everything and anything, but that doesn't mean much. I take shits every now and then, so did Christ, that doesn't make me Christ.

>>560742565
Search it on your own then. It's gonna be the same as the user wrote up.

>>560742915
Cont.
His original name was tutenkhaten, son of akenaten, the priesthood renamed him, destroyed his fathers city and used his artwork for column filling in later cities, wiped from history

>>560742178
What did Jesus say that clearly distinguishes him from all other and with certainty and a firm language?

"If you have seen me, you have seen the father."

"I have come to serve, not to be served."

"No one can go to the father except through me."
There is not other prophet or so called other Messiahs throughout history that have claimed God was their father. Only Jesus is the way. Anything else will cause much confusion. As is evident in the world today.

>>560742920

There's a lot to argue about that image, to be honest. For instance, it doesn't differentiate revealed religions from the others. That alone makes it pretty useless to the God-seeking person.

Besides, the evidence to prove anything about the roots of Judaism are pretty slim.

Another thing, numbers. Some religions here have billions of followers, while others have literally zero, yet they're represented in vastly different ways.

This may look like an argument to atheists, but anyone with some knowledge of the matter won't be impressed.

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>>560743323
Here's another epik meme.

Please explain this one. How can anyone worship such a dumb creature?

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>>560742758
I really think the jews knew about Egypt in some way. It's not because we don't have written traces that it didn't exist. People travelled a lot and cultures melted. Also, oral transmission favorised that kind of evolution of the myths. But I agree that there are some complotist theory about that too.

>>560742920

Also this, if I put scientific theories in a tree, and placed the Creationist bullshit after Newton's theories, it wouldn't make Creationist more credible. Same thing with this image.

I could do it and be all like "Hey, why is YOUR interpretation of science the right one and not these guys'?"

You'd know why because you know why Creationism is crap. I have similar knowledge about Mormonism and why it's crap compared to Catholicism, for instance.

>>560743016
Um yeah.. search it on your own then. Sounds like you don't know anything. Atheist say Christians believe anything but it's the Atheist who end up in that problem.

The entire: "Christianity is plagiarized from pagan religions" myth was debunked by the 1920s. First of all you need to get a copy of Lee Strobel's book: The case For the Real Jesus. In which he clearly shows you, through experts, why each of the points you talk about Horace Mithra are not parallels to Christianity.


https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100125145808AAWfPYF

>>560743312
Following only one prophet will lead you down a path of blindness, closed to other information, blindly dismissing other evidence.
We should all study every religion, and chose a path for ourselves. If that path is one of destruction, eg. The crusades in gods name, then your fellow man will judge you and, hopefully, remove you from the gene pool

>>560742514
It exist because it is a comforting lie. You better worship Christ or you will burn awfully in hell.
But if you love and worship him and god, the church will love you.
The reason it didn't die long ago is because the masses of people are stupid. People in 1950 worshiped Christ because they're parent forced him or they will die in hell,people in 1960 same story, 70's same story, now same story. But every generation less and less people.

>>560743624
Who said am an atheist? Atheism is the same bs as religion.

>>560743423

Surely.

God became one of us for reasons not explicit in nature though explicit in intent: salvation. It's anyone's guess how this stuff works but there are many theories. One of them is that God became one of us so that we could become one with Him. To be able to judge us, God needed to know what it's like to be a human being and not know all that God knows, hence being another "person", His own son. Jesus didn't know all that God knew, because He was fully human, though fully God too, in nature.

"original sin" is a debated concept. You could argue that merely being apart from God condemns you to sin. Thus, Christ brings us back to God.

>>560743449
>I really think the jews knew about Egypt in some way. It's not because we don't have written traces that it didn't exist.

Sure, but that's an argument from silence and you could argue anything that way.

The fact remains that it wasn't possible for these Jews to either know Egyptian language or have access to Egyptian myths to the degree that European archeologists had, much later on. Besides, if it was a conspiracy, why go to the trouble of imitating myths nobody knew about? Just make shit up already.

>>560743767
And where is the god you speak off?

Why do i need to pray and apologise for my sins, since Christ already did that?

>>560743423
He never created anyone with any sin. Humans were the one who made the choice to sin. No one put a gun to your head and made you come here to engage in this discussion. You made that choice you're self.

God gave you life and choice. You control where your life goes through the choices you make.

>>560743682

>one prophet

I follow no prophet. Christ wasn't a prophet, He was God. I follow God. No other religion has that. I'll listen to the source, not the middle-men.

>>560743687
>It exist because it is a comforting lie.

What's comforting about the idea that you will be judge at the end of your life and that you may spend eternity in hell for it?

The idea that it's a comforting lie is itself a fallacy. How is it not more comforting to think you can literally live and do whatever you want without any consequences that will last forever?

I could equally argue that atheism is a comforting lie for people who want to avoid responsibility and trying to do good in favour of being selfish.

The belief that I align myself with, no doubt ridiculous to most of you, is that ancient aliens placed primitive mankind on this planet, maybe altered existing life to evolve exponentially. They thought primitive people need primitive explanations, maybe there was a need for us to discover the real truths on our own, so they give us spiel about magic and gods and angels.
Now we are no linger primitive, but we stick to our primitive beliefs, and denounce things that might lead to real truth

If the universe is predetermined by God, and he is omniscient, why did he willingly choose to condemn a large portion of the human race to eternal torment?

>>560743932

Where is God? Everywhere and beyond. Not sure what your question was really about.

>Why do i need to pray and apologise for my sins, since Christ already did that?

Praying isn't about apologising for your sins. Christ can't apologise for you, although the word is ill-chosen. Only you can accept God, by choice.

You're not forced to do anything. Hell isn't a punishment, it's just the natural destination of a certain path, like Heaven. Your choice, not God's.

>>560743682
Religion is kind of like insurance. You don't have the right insurance, you're not covered. There is only one God. I am the lord your God. There are no other God's before him.

Going off into other religions will cause a lot of confusion because you will have questions that will remain unanswered.

God is the truth. All truth comes from him. If humans misinterpret that truth and twist it into a lie, that's not his fault.

>>560744006
He was a man on earth talking to other men, whether he was a god or not, he led people, thought them religion, that qualifies as a prophet imo.

Captcha: lunetic methods

>>560744274

I don't exclude the possibility that the OT God was actually an alien. There's a lot to support that theory in the OT.

>>560744494
Taught *

>>560744387
>Going off into other religions will cause a lot of confusion because you will have questions that will remain unanswered.

I personally went to other religions and all it did was confirm my faith in Christ. If anything, it strengthened my faith beyond doubt. I can literally not believe any other religion at this point. It's like comparing chess, monopoly, with swimming as olympic sports. They have their merits, but you know the real deal.

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>>560728697
God is either non-existent or an asshole. I'd rather believe in no god than one that sends people that disagree with him to hell. Especially saying as there's so many things to disagree with god about.

>>560744331
Again, it's choice. People make end up in hell because of the choices they make. Those choices affect other peoples lives. If you make the wrong choices without correcting it, how can you deserve to be rewarded.

>>560744494

Prophets would not have claimed to forgive sins, as Christ did. Doing this, and many other things, clearly established Him as more than a mere prophet.

>>560744714
>God is either non-existent or an asshole

Go to /pol/ and read the sticky: "black and white fallacy", restricting a situation to only two possibilities where in reality there are more.

Don't do that.

>>560744387
Each individual is his or her own god, and govern themselves, we don't submit to god, we make our own god, so individuality prevails and chaos is inevitable.
Trying to make other people follow your god is a fruitless effort, and will only result in foolish people in a large group. This paradigm is only good for oppressing people

>>560744883 cont
This chaos can only stop when all people understand that truth, and live accordingly, without impressing their own will on other people

>>560744796
If God is indeed omniscient as you claim, then he created people with the knowledge that they would choose to not believe in him, or in another deity. He willingly condemned these people. How do you explain that?

>>560745140

God, by making us free, chose not to know what we would decide. God made room for us to exist, same deal with omnipotence, He chose not to intervenen as a general rule so we could truly be free and responsible for our actions.

Thus, God didn't condemn anyone but let everyone free to choose their paths with the corresponding end. God doesn't reward anyone with heaven or punish with hell, it's just where you make yourself fit to go.

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>>560744883
If you believe that you are a God unto you're self, then you have already been deceived and through that deception you deceive others. Which clearly demonstrates my point that humans have a choice. When you end up before God, you will painfully realize that the choices you made did not make you a God.

>>560745439

About the putative failing of atheism, Solzhenitsyn declared:

Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."[45]

>>560745297
I think you should check with your holy book, because it's pretty explicit about God knowing everything that's going to happen from beginning to end.

So yes, he created people with the knowledge that they would "condemn themselves." Therefore he willingly forsook those people from the start.

He knew a person born in India to Hindu parents would choose to believe in Hindu, and regardless of how good that person might be in life, they would suffer eternal torment because he gave them "free will."

Basically, god gave these people just enough rope to hang themselves with. That's your idea of a benevolent deity.

What I like to believe : " I'm not qualified to say whether or not God exists. I kind of doubt He does. Nevertheless, "I'm always saying that the Supreme Fascist has this transfinite Book that contains the best proofs of all mathematical theorems, proofs that are elegant and perfect...You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in the Book. " Paul Erd?s

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>>560728697
>being this new
God mutated 3 days ago

>>560745140
He didn't condemn anyone. How do you know he did not try to save them? People make their own path in life. If they end up in hell it's because that was the natural consequences of their actions through the choices they have made.

God pleads with people to turn their life around. People choose not to. If he didn't create those people because he knew they were going to hell, that sounds like a dictator. Only creating perfection where nothing can possibly go wrong.

God did create perfection but human beings destroyed that perfection. You're blaming God for everything people do.

>>560731552
are you in africa?

>>560745887
>I think you should check with your holy book, because it's pretty explicit about God knowing everything that's going to happen from beginning to end.

In my world, it is fine not to be a dogmatic idiot who takes everything literally. I do disagree with certain opinions and interpretations. If I hadn't been this way, I'd have remained a sheepish atheist my whole life. Thank God.

I explained my view, you disregard it as "But that's not what my literal reading of the book says and since yours isn't the lowest common denominator, you're wrong."

Have it your way but don't call me when it's time to swallow.

>>560746076
Kali gets my dick rock hard.

>>560745510
When I come before god, I will see my own face, the one source from which all people come, and I will judge myself. Our greatest critic is invariably ourselves, I will judge myself more harshly than another, and learn harder lessons as a result.
The goal is not to become a god, the goal is to live a godly life so as to earn the favour of god (myself) and move on from this existence to another level, move from nursery to middle school.
We were all created in the same moment, when the universe came into existence, and we willingly come down into this life to have experience and drama, for some purpose we will only understand when we go back to the origin.
We are all divine, and we must know it. If you submit to something higher, you may live well, but you will not live for your own purpose, your whole life will be consumed by appeasing this greater other.

>>560746163
>>560746107
Are you implying that God could be unable to save people that he supposedly cares about?

Your version of God is internally inconsistent with your own beliefs. You're coming up with apologetic workarounds because the actual logic of your religion is flawed, because it was conceived by flawed men.

>>560745887
Are you stupid? No body goes to hell because of being in a different religion. They go to hell because of the choices that they make which affects other peoples lives negatively without correcting that choice. They don't say sorry to that person that they hurt and the sins build up over time.

>>560746119

Yes, on a mission. I'm coming back to my country in September to resume work. That's right: I'm spending my holidays feeding the hungry and clothing the naked.

>>560746446
Show me a passage anywhere in the Bible where it says you can be redeemed as a member of another religion. Can you also be redeemed if you're secular?

The greatest goal a man can have is the good and honest betterment of all mankind, and all life in the universe, the spreading of life throughout the universe, to display high intelligence, resourcefullness and honest, good intentions. That is the reason we are here, we are not insignificant, we each created and shaped the universe and we continue to do so as we live, if we fail as a species, then so be it, it is our own fault for not having the wisdom to join in one great goal

>>560746212
Kali the Autistic Wrestler? you have a very weird fetish there m8. hope Mutated Jesus save you from Eternal Damnation

>>560746425
>Are you implying that God could be unable to save people that he supposedly cares about?

That's exactly what I'm suggesting. It doesn't prevent care, however. God makes Himself unable to intervene in a test you have to pass on your own.

Teachers are always silent during tests.

Good job, OP.

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>>560746647

This book says you can. That's the official Catholic Church's position on it. And yes, they know Christianity better than you because it is their job to study it. These people have numerous and all have Ph.D's in related matters: history, languages, theology, etc.

>>560746978

Nice! Thank you.

jebus was a dirty jew

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Let OP waste his time worshiping something that doesn't exist, who gives a shit. By believing in christianity, you are accepting information from the bible based on faith, why would I give a shit what you think? I'd rather ask someone else questions who doesn't believe in a 2000 year old book, because they would have 10x more credibility than you just off of that reason alone. Please just die out already, it would be more beneficial for you anyways since heaven would be a better place than Earth according to the God theory.

>>560746827
>Teachers are always silent during tests.

I think I almost threw up.

Okay, so can you back up this theory that God's knowledge and power is limited, and that's the only reason he doesn't save those who would otherwise be condemned by their own actions, or have you just pulled this out of your ass completely just right now?

>>560746978
you actually archived this? why?

>>560746425
He doesn't interfere with your free will. If he did you would be shouting dictator. Now you're shouting made up religion God. You're trying to dig a hole for religious people to fall in so you can trap them. A choice is a choice. No body is making you type these things. You're doing it because you made that choice.

You can't seem to understand what a choice is and what are the consequences. You're still blaming God for the choices people make.

My beliefs are not flawed. They are grounded on truth that comes from God. You're beliefs come from other people.

You're not looking for the truth.

>>560747269
Why not?

>>560747175
>By believing in christianity, you are accepting information from the bible based on faith,

No, you can be critical and read hundreds of critical books around the Bible.

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>>560747250

Do teachers give you the answers during your tests? Didn't think so. Here's a book for you.

>>560747269

>smells like totalitarianism
>contrary opinions must be eliminated

The solution to all our religious differences is for eveyone to go with individual spirituality, and never try to convince anyone that they are wrong. All of mankind's problems were created by man, and only man can solve these problems. The key is to accept unconditionally, the beliefs of others, never to try and change them. Let people change of their own free will. When we impress our will on others, we decide for them, and that leads to a weak individual, afraid of deciding on his own, fearing the wrath of the all powerful other. Man is only answerable to man, bad men will be punished, good men will be revered and thanked, this is the law of the world. Large scale religion, or atheism is the cancer that is killing freedom.