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"Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. -Matthew 10:32

These were the words Jesus Christ spoke all those years ago. The just penalty for your sins has already been paid. All that is asked of you is that you believe it and acknowledge it to others. Not so much to ask, is it? If you won't do even that, you're setting yourself up to lose.

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@mchill said
"Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. -Matthew 10:32

These were the words Jesus Christ spoke all those years ago. The just penalty for your sins has already been paid. All that is asked of you is that you believe it and acknowledge it to others. Not so much to ask, is it? If you won't do even that, you're setting yourself up to lose.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. (Matthew 25:34-36 KJV)

These were the words Jesus Christ spoke all those years ago. The just penalty for your sins has already been paid. All that is asked of you is that you is to help others. Not so much to ask, is it? If you won't do even that, you're setting yourself up to lose.

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@mchill said
"Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. -Matthew 10:32

These were the words Jesus Christ spoke all those years ago. The just penalty for your sins has already been paid. All that is asked of you is that you believe it and acknowledge it to others. Not so much to ask, is it? If you won't do even that, you're setting yourself up to lose.
Following Vishnu isn't much to ask is it?

If you won't do even that, you're setting yourself up to lose.

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I understand your point of view. It can be difficult make sense of it all - -

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@mchill said
All that is asked of you is that you believe it and acknowledge it to others. Not so much to ask, is it? If you won't do even that, you're setting yourself up to lose.
The notion that one can somehow simply choose or decide to believe in something supernatural that one does not find credible rings false, psychologically speaking, as does the notion that it is somehow an issue of free will.

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Anything of substance to say concerning the content of mchill's post?

Or are you just here to make snide remarks?

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@fmf said
The notion that one can somehow simply choose or decide to believe in something supernatural that one does not find credible rings false, psychologically speaking, as does the notion that it is somehow an issue of free will.
"Rings false" to you because you can't imagine your need of a savior.

Everything's alright with you and the world because this is, after all, just part of the evolutionary process, and when you die you'll cease to exist.

That is what you've chosen to believe isn't it? I mean, "psychologically speaking", it's more credible than believing in "something supernatural" even though you've never been dead and don't really know what, if anything, comes after.

They very notion that you can know you can have eternal life must seem absolutely preposterous to you.

The thing that seems most preposterous to me is how you can post that line of reasoning in this forum for over 15 years and still not really believe it. You should be convinced by now!

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No one needs to fool you, you're doing a great job of it yourself.

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Nice stab at trying to put me on the defensive, but you'll have to dig deeper.

Besides that your snide remark is grammatically incongruous.

Try again.

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@josephw said
"Rings false" to you because you can't imagine your need of a savior.

Everything's alright with you and the world because this is, after all, just part of the evolutionary process, and when you die you'll cease to exist.

That is what you've chosen to believe isn't it? I mean, "psychologically speaking", it's more credible than believing in "something supernatural" even ...[text shortened]... ing in this forum for over 15 years and still not really believe it. You should be convinced by now!
Whoosh

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@josephw said
That is what you've chosen to believe isn't it? I mean, "psychologically speaking", it's more credible than believing in "something supernatural" even though you've never been dead and don't really know what, if anything, comes after.
People who believe in supernatural causality can no more decide to NOT believe in it than people who DON'T believe in it can decide they DO. Psychologically speaking, that is not how faith works.

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@josephw said
The very notion that you can know you can have eternal life must seem absolutely preposterous to you.
To a Christian believer with strong faith, the notion that people cannot know they can have eternal life probably seems preposterous. Such a Christian believer, given this belief, cannot just decide they don't believe in eternal life.