Originally posted by @suzianne<<Jesus was crystal clear. If you want eternal life then keep the commandments. Jesus said absolutely nothing about believing in His death or any similar nonsense. Evil people will gravitate to whatever doctrine they think gets them off the hook and relieves them of the requirement of living righteously and doing good works.>>
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever [b]believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." -- John 3:16, KJV[/b]
FMF: So you believe you are forgiven your "sins" - a kind of undeserved gift - because the Romans executed a Jewish rabbi?I asked you if you were appropriating the Christian terminology: "grace" and if, when you use it, does it mean the same as it does when Christians use it? And you answered "Yes".
Originally posted by @karoly-aczel
Forgiven for my sins? What do you mean? I never claimed such a thing, I know that I have lived righteously and diligently to free myself from karma.
FMF: So you've ditched all the pseudy hogwash about reincarnation that you were wittering on about when Dasa used to post?Do you believe you are going to "heaven" after you die or do you believe you are going to be reincarnated?
Originally posted by @karoly-aczel
Hogwash? Ditched? My good yet misguided sir, I stand behind all my posts. I really dont understand what you are trying to assert here.
FMF: You believe you are you are going to "heaven"?You used to claim you were going to be reincarnated like Dasa used to claim. Have you dropped all that stuff and replaced it with the claim you are going to "heaven" instead?
Originally posted by @karoly-aczel
I know I am.
Originally posted by @karoly-aczelSo you do not believe in "karma" after all.
This is my life last incarnation. Thank the Lord.
And you do know that "Pascal's Wager" is useless on the face of it, right?
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Originally posted by @karoly-aczelDo you actually think that you have reached the goal of Buddhism-like religions in that you have attained perfect enlightenment and can manifest no higher?
After all that I've said and resdponded to ?
I am thinking that if karma is really "a thing", then no, this isn't your last trip through the 'transmogrifier'**. (And 'the Lord' doesn't really do re-incarnation anyways.)
(**Apologies to Bill Watterson.)