Originally posted by FMFPeople suppress the truth all the time, especially when it makes them feel uncomfortable.
People can't consciously choose to believe something that they simply do not find to be believable, as you well know (having heard personal testimony from people who are in that position). So this pronouncement is preposterous. It's like a kind of story point that a fiction writer hasn't properly thought through.
I am a non-believer. I am simply unable to som ...[text shortened]... d say on this forum about supernatural beings and the paranormal. Do you believe I am "demonic"?
I see you haven't taken Dive on for his belief that non-believers will just cease to exist. Does that mean you are fine with his version?
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkIf you are going to defend your version of god for torturing billions of people by burning them for eternity you should connect with sonship who is far better than you are at constructing an elaborate framework of the most incredible distortions of basic morality.
God doesn't send anyone to Hell. We send ourselves there. God has done everything He possibly can to keep us out of Hell and still leave us as people with free will and not just robots. That's the way He made us--after His image, after His likeness, with the power to say “yes” or the power to say “no,” the power to reject our own Creator, and of course t ...[text shortened]... ed warnings that if we turn away from God in this life, we will be alienated from God eternally.
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkDid the Bible anywhere describe the torment as being everlasting or the soul as being eternal? No it does not. Therefore you need to answer your questions and resolve your dilemma without violating or adding to the clear statements of the Bible.
Why then is the fire described as everlasting and what is the purpose of the worm that doesn't die?
17 Oct 16
Originally posted by divegeesterOr I could just make up stuff like you did and pretend that certain verses in the Bible don't exist.
If you are going to defend your version of god for torturing billions of people by burning them for eternity you should connect with sonship who is far better than you are at constructing an elaborate framework of the most incredible distortions of basic morality.
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkOr you could exercise some moral judgment and realise that what you have been told about eternal suffering in bible is incredulous, totally nonsensical and morally incoherent.
Or I could just make up stuff like you did and pretend that certain verses in the Bible don't exist.
PS I can see from your avatar that you are running out of trolling ideas.
Originally posted by divegeesterEekS! That sounds pretty judgemental
A while ago I told you that I thought you were a trollist duchebag. If you want me to engage with you now I'm afraid you are going to need to up your game. 🙂
Where do you reckon these duchebags go when they die?
Originally posted by divegeesterI am curious whether your moral framework contains a God that decides the fate of the damned. If God were to decide to torture unbelievers for eternity, would you see yourself as having the right to tell him that he is doing something immoral?
If you are going to defend your version of god for torturing billions of people by burning them for eternity you should connect with sonship who is far better than you are at constructing an elaborate framework of the most incredible distortions of basic morality.
Which of these statements do you disagree with and why?
https://bible.org/article/what-bible-says-about-hell
17 Oct 16
Originally posted by Rajk999Revelation 14:11
Did the Bible anywhere describe the torment as being everlasting or the soul as being eternal? No it does not. Therefore you need to answer your questions and resolve your dilemma without violating or adding to the clear statements of the Bible.
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Originally posted by Rajk999I see your back to preaching to itching ears again.
Did the Bible anywhere describe the torment as being everlasting or the soul as being eternal? No it does not. Therefore you need to answer your questions and resolve your dilemma without violating or adding to the clear statements of the Bible.
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkI'm not interested in chasing your links, I'm barely interested in you.
I am curious whether your moral framework contains a God that decides the fate of the damned. If God were to decide to torture unbelievers for eternity, would you see yourself as having the right to tell him that he is doing something immoral?
Which of these statements do you disagree with and why?
https://bible.org/article/what-bible-says-about-hell
Originally posted by KellyJayIs that the best you have? Pitiful nonsense doctrine you believe in.
Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Nothing there about eternal torment, plus it refers to a specific group of people.
Originally posted by Rajk999"...torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night..."
Is that the best you have? Pitiful nonsense doctrine you believe in.
Nothing there about eternal torment, plus it refers to a specific group of people.
Let us see how someone could think eternal torment would be expressed, how about
saying it would go on for ever and ever, and to top it off we know they are experiencing
it since we also see they have no rest day or not it does not say they go away and
they are gone. It refers to people as well, so I'm assuming you think only a select few
are to experience this torment that goes on for ever and ever?
Originally posted by Rajk999Am I to believe you will not address scripture once again because it doesn't fit your point
Is that the best you have? Pitiful nonsense doctrine you believe in.
Nothing there about eternal torment, plus it refers to a specific group of people.
of view on what is valid or not? What is your reasoning this time?
Originally posted by Rajk999Revelation 20:
Is that the best you have? Pitiful nonsense doctrine you believe in.
Nothing there about eternal torment, plus it refers to a specific group of people.
10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Here we see it isn't just people heading toward this lake, and no scripture I'm aware of
suggests that the torment of the lake will end at the destruction of those thrown into it.