22 Sep 05
No my dear you got it all wrong. God created you and me so that we may have a relationship with Him not that we may suffer in hell. Its actually supposed to be a father-son or father daughter relationship. If anyone denies God, the 1st thing to happen is an unfulfilled life. God is the originator of life and has all reasons why we are here. If we dont ask Him why He did it, we will miss our purpose and destiny.So as we believe in Him, He will love us thoroughly and give us much happiness now and even in the life to come. So just come to Him and He will accept you no matter what you have done and you can actually do it today and now. God bless
23 Sep 05
Originally posted by howardgeeWhat a load of absolute rubbish, you seem to know so little about religion its quite amusing.
If a person went around claiming that a giant cockroach created the universe and demanding that we all repent to the giant cockroach or else burn for all eternity in hell, then we would doubt his sanity.
Why should it be any different when people make the same claim, substituting a human being for the cockroach?
27 Sep 05
Originally posted by Bosse de NageFound it.
Title & author please...
The author is Poul Anderson. The story is called "The Problem of Pain". It originally appeared in a magazine(?) called Fantasy and Science Fiction in February 1973, but I read it in part 1 of a collection of stories called The Earth Book of Stormgate.
The point I originally mentioned from it in this thread is actually only a very small part of the story, but the overall theme of the story - an alien race having a radically different concept of God - is definitely relevant to our topic. Certainly an interesting read.