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Originally posted by divegeesterCreated things have a beginning, but no end.
There is no such thing as an "eternal" lake of fire. Created things have a beginning and an end and therefore cannot be eternal.
Originally posted by galveston75Point taken. When I said non-Christian what I had in mind were non-religionist theists. Only religionists seem to have stuff like "an eternal lake of fire" going on. I stand corrected, as does my question, which may now perhaps be answered?
You are wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI say philosophy is the love of unanswerable questions, and theology is rife with them. Once a philosophical question shows signs of being answerable, adjustments are made to keep it unanswerable, and if that fails, all philosophical interest in it is lost. It then gets turned over to historians, anthropologists, geologists, biologists, etc.
[b]Satan's Priority One
Satan's Priority One is to pervert God's love in the minds of men and women. He does so to perpetuate the age old question, 'How can God be so unfair as to condemn and sentence anyone to an eternal lake of fire?' Some say that Scripture reveals the answer to this otherwise unanswerable question. What say you?
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThis is what I believe....
[b]Satan's Priority One
Satan's Priority One is to pervert God's love in the minds of men and women. He does so to perpetuate the age old question, 'How can God be so unfair as to condemn and sentence anyone to an eternal lake of fire?' Some say that Scripture reveals the answer to this otherwise unanswerable question. What say you?
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Originally posted by JS357Unanswerable Questions (Questions from the World of Science and Philosophy):
I say philosophy is the love of unanswerable questions, and theology is rife with them. Once a philosophical question shows signs of being answerable, adjustments are made to keep it unanswerable, and if that fails, all philosophical interest in it is lost. It then gets turned over to historians, anthropologists, geologists, biologists, etc.
Evidence: ...[text shortened]... um in general, and such specifics as the geocentric model of the universe. We don't debate it here.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI'm far away from being the brightest one on these forums but your idiotic questions are easily answerable.
[b]Unanswerable Questions (Questions from the World of Science and Philosophy):
1. What came first - the chicken, or the egg?
2. If you keep on travelling east, when will you reach the east? And what will lie east of you then?
(east is replaceable with west / north / south)
3. What was there before the 'big bang'?
4. Where were you ...[text shortened]... ng the Unanswerable, Making Sense
of the Nonsensical, and Solving the Unsolvable)
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