The Role of the Unrepentant Skeptic

Originally posted by apathist
I try to imagine from your god's point of view. I created you, am unhappy with you now, but will forgive you if you first torture my son to death and then worship and obey me.

Nothing unhealthy about that!

You have not even looked at from God's point of view. He created a universe that can
support life, He keeps it running in such a way it sustains us with food, air, and all the
things we require, He forms us in our mother's wombs, His greatest commands for us are
to love Him and each other. We do neither of those two, we are unthankful for what we
got, we condemn Him at every turn. Our race murders, lies, cheats on each other, abuses
each other, puffs itself up over others instead of caring for their needs, we slander, cause
fights and arguments, lust for what isn't ours, we are proud, boastful, and the list goes
on and on.

In spite of all of that God is trying to reach us to show us His Kingdom, pay for our sins so
we can be righteously forgiven. I am amazed that we were not condemned without any
effort to save us, but He loves us and went out of His way to save as many as turn to Him,
not by being good enough since none of us could do that, but through faith. Faith not
works so none of us could be proud about ourselves over another. Once saved, we
get God's Spirit we then walk with Him following Him, learning about Him, doing the works
He has for us to do.

Those that reject such a great salvation that was bought with such cost, will remain as
they are.

Originally posted by KellyJay
You have not even looked at from God's point of view. He created a universe that can
support life, He keeps it running in such a way it sustains us with food, air, and all the
things we require, He forms us in our mother's wombs, His greatest commands for us are
to love Him and each other. We do neither of those two, we are unthankful for what we
got, w ...[text shortened]... ose that reject such a great salvation that was bought with such cost, will remain as
they are.

That's all very well, but if this god really wants to offer salvation to sceptics, it's gonna have to come up with a better way than the bible to get the message across. Any fool can write rules and fables and then say god told them to do it.

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Once again:
"Actually what I said was that accepting the supernatural is not a rational choice. It's not the same thing as saying 'everyone that believes in God is irrational' and I think you know it. "

And I think that you also know that the above is not the same thing as saying "rational people make irrational choices".

Once again:
"You've been ...[text shortened]... en what I say and twisted it into something else.

Are you incapable of making an honest post?

So do you mean to say that 'accepting the supernatural is an irrational choice' made by rational or irrational people?

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Of course you would rather listen to the sound of your own voice, that much is clear 😉.

Originally posted by dj2becker
Of course you would rather listen to the sound of your own voice, that much is clear 😉.

Sorry, who's voice are you using today?

You have so many accounts I lose track.

Originally posted by FMF
Like I said, regarding superstition, it's my analysis and my point of view and I explained how I arrived at it.

Of course you have never made a choice about Christianity, you just realized you were a Christian and 30 years later you realized that you weren't. 🙄

Sorry but no one is buying that.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Sorry, who's voice are you using today?

You have so many accounts I lose track.

So Starrman after all these years you still live in London?

Fetchmyjunk is not longer in use. I figured out how to reset the password on my old account.

Originally posted by dj2becker
So Starrman after all these years you still live in London?

That sounds a bit creepy.

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Why would he think that?

Odd and creepy.

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Were you sleeping during the hyperbole class? 😉

Originally posted by dj2becker
So Starrman after all these years you still live in London?

Fetchmyjunk is not longer in use. I figured out how to reset the password on my old account.

Sorry, to use your own words:

'No one is buying that.'