An elixir of immortality

@fmf said
What sorts of conditions or assurances would be necessary or sufficient to make it worthwhile to consume an elixir of immortality?

Sorry I missed this thread at the outset. I read a few posts on the first page and there may be a few comments I'd like to make.

First of all, would consuming the elixir be a onetime dose, or would there be a regimen?

And if you changed your mind and wanted to die, and cut your head off, would your head and body still live on?

I could see myself walking around carrying my head under my arm.

@fmf said
Christians, for example, have no specific ideas about what their anticipated everlasting life is going to be like,.

That is patently absurd.

There are loads of things we as Christians, that read the Bible, know about what "everlasting life is going to be like".

Specific things.

@josephw said
That is patently absurd.

There are loads of things we as Christians, that read the Bible, know about what "everlasting life is going to be like".

Specific things.

Well what is stopping you from saying what they are ... ignorance ?

@pb1022 said
Not saying Christians should look forward to death,.

Christians are not looking forward to death. Death has no hold on born again Christians.

For the believer death is merely the putting off of the flesh, and the portal to eternal life.

@fmf said
Maintaining or improving the conditions of society would be something that could keep one busy.

Some are busy improving while others are busy wrecking theirs and the lives of others.

Judgement day is coming for all according to the scriptures.

@fmf said
Well, the world has been steadily becoming a better place for a bigger proportion of humanity for over 50 years. I imagine this would continue.

Reminds of the verse in Romans 2:4
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Don't be mislead by the "steadily becoming a better place" except to view it as an opportunity to acknowledge the goodness of God.

The Day of Christ is coming. Sooner than you think.

@josephw said
Some are busy improving while others are busy wrecking theirs and the lives of others.

Judgement day is coming for all according to the scriptures.

The Christian teaching on judgment day is a joke. Oh ... we dont have to account for sin. All our sins are forgiven.

And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?(Romans 2:3 KJV)

@fmf said
Indonesia's birth rate has gone from 44.5 per 1,000 population in 1960 to 17.3 in 2020. People still cling to the apocalyptic predictions of the 60s and 70s as if, subsequently, no governments in the developing world acted upon them.

Declining birth rates are a problem for many nations. The future effect on economies will be a disaster. The truth of that is attested to by experts.

Look it up.

@rajk999 said
The Christian teaching on judgment day is a joke. Oh ... we dont have to account for sin. All our sins are forgiven.

And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?(Romans 2:3 KJV)

You're not making any sense again Rajk.

What do Christians have to fear?

Christians won't stand at the great white throne of God and give an account for sin.

That your Bible doesn't inform you of that speaks volumes about your understanding of scripture.

@rajk999 said
Well what is stopping you from saying what they are ... ignorance ?

Ignorance is what's stopping you.

I know what the Bible says.

Why do you even read the Bible? After all it was written by Christians, and we all know how much you hate Christians.

@josephw said
You're not making any sense again Rajk.

What do Christians have to fear?

Christians won't stand at the great white throne of God and give an account for sin.

That your Bible doesn't inform you of that speaks volumes about your understanding of scripture.

I make perfect sense, Righteous Christians have nothing to fear, they get eternal life. Unrighteousness ones will not inherit the Kingdom of God and Paul said that several times and Christians who defile themselves will be destroyed. But I know how you people like to twist the bible in your favour.

In fact Peter said that the unrighteous Christian will be worse off than the unbeliever [who does not know the way of righteousness.]

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. (2 Peter 2:20-21 KJV)

@josephw said
Ignorance is what's stopping you.

I know what the Bible says.

Why do you even read the Bible? After all it was written by Christians, and we all know how much you hate Christians.

I dont hate Christians just like Jesus did not hate them. I feel the same way about all religions. Just like Jesus Christ, I hate sin and evil and promote good works and righteousness. You promote sin and evil and discourage good works and righteousness.

@rajk999 said
You promote sin and evil and discourage good works and righteousness.

Only a corn flake would say that.

It's no wonder the blacks where you live hate East Indians, assuming they all talk like you do.

Now go commit an egregious sin and do a dastardly deed. 🙄

@josephw said
The Day of Christ is coming. Sooner than you think.

I am sure you are earnesr about this but I see it as tainting a lot of the other assertions you are making.

@josephw said
It's no wonder the blacks where you live hate East Indians, assuming they all talk like you do.

So you think the black people you are referring to are justified in hating Rajk999 because of his race, if that is what they do? Or do you condemn hatred and racism?