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| Dual Wielder Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Earth Age: 19 Posts: 551
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What upsets me is that people believe in a religion that states that being different is wrong and should be punished. That's wrong, but you can't see it. | |
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| | #32 | |
| The World Rests On Me Join Date: May 2007 Location: What, what?! In the butt! Age: 22 Posts: 5,411
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His judgments of destruction have never been without warning. The Bible shows how God pleaded with people over and over and over and over again before taking action against them. | |
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| | #33 |
| :X Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In my castle, plotting your demise Age: 18 Posts: 6,699
Rep Power: 13 ![]() ![]() Level: 21 EXP: | I still believe there shouldn't be any force or nudge in the right direction. Let people have their own choices. Don't push them in any direction. |
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| | #34 |
| The World Rests On Me Join Date: May 2007 Location: What, what?! In the butt! Age: 22 Posts: 5,411
Rep Power: 8 ![]() Level: 32 EXP: | And right now that's what he is allowing to happen. God is allowing people to have their own choices, do what they want, still he gives them the options - its up to them to take it or not. He's not forcing anything. |
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| | #35 |
| :X Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In my castle, plotting your demise Age: 18 Posts: 6,699
Rep Power: 13 ![]() ![]() Level: 21 EXP: | He might not but his followers are. Do this or go to Hell. The idea of Hell is a driving force for a lot of Christians. The only example I can think of right now is homosexuality. The most common poster is Fags Go To Hell. With His messages, this shouldn't be happening. There is no love or respect in these hateful messages. |
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| | #36 |
| Dual Wielder Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: TENACITY: A PLANET I MADE, it's far from here, it grows every 300 years! Age: 17 Posts: 580
Rep Power: 3 ![]() Level: EXP: | I honestly believe in Hell, Jesus used short stories, parables, to tell a story of a rich man and a poor man who died on the same day. The rich man went to a place of torment, so says Jesus in Matthew somewhere (I don't have my Bible with me right now to give verse and chapter) but also from what I've learned through pastors, is that hell was spoken off but not heavily, it spoke of it more so when the wicked will be thrown into the fiery pit. And also about the last days when Satan will be cast into the lake of fire. When I first think of Hell, I think of a place of no water, light or rest, I think of Hell as the place of pain, demons and torture. |
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| | #37 | |
| I'll Hit You Harder Than Meth | Quote:
it makes it sounds like he can still control us...which is scary 0.o | |
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| | #38 | |
| The World Rests On Me Join Date: May 2007 Location: What, what?! In the butt! Age: 22 Posts: 5,411
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Most Christian religions teach Hell as fact. From what I have learned Hell fire is not in the Bible but stems from paganism. | |
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| | #39 |
| :X Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In my castle, plotting your demise Age: 18 Posts: 6,699
Rep Power: 13 ![]() ![]() Level: 21 EXP: | Trick question.If you ask someone about Hell, they will refer to the Bible. Even if the Bible doesn't cover it in detail, the Bible holds all the answers apparently. I think the basic idea of Hell is in there but just has been expanded over time. |
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| | #40 |
| Dual Wielder Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Earth Age: 19 Posts: 551
Rep Power: 2 ![]() Level: EXP: | Mmm I'll ask something seriously, and I expect a serious answer. What if you are good hearted but you don't believe in God? |
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| | #41 | |
| The World Rests On Me Join Date: May 2007 Location: What, what?! In the butt! Age: 22 Posts: 5,411
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Sheol - Hebrew and Hades - Greek both meant the common burial place or grave of mankind. Gehenna was an actual place outside the city used for burning refuse. In the Bible it is also used as a symbol of complete destruction - just like a fire consumes and destroys. | |
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| | #42 | |
| Sidekick | Quote:
Anyways,I don't believe in hell since it didn't surface in Christianity until sometime around the 14th century. As for other religions, I don't know. But I don't really believe in heaven either. If anything, life is your heaven or hell. It can be paradise or a place of torment. It is what you make it. | |
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| | #43 | |
| Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: The Kingdom of Prussia Age: 26 Posts: 109
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It is a mythological place designed to teach people that somehow in some way the wicked will be punished for their wrong doings. A way to say what goes around comes around. | |
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| | #44 |
| The World Rests On Me Join Date: May 2007 Location: What, what?! In the butt! Age: 22 Posts: 5,411
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| | #45 |
| Keyblade Wielder Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: <('-')> Posts: 522
Rep Power: 4 ![]() Level: EXP: | Free will is impossible if everything was created by an omnipotent, all-knowing deity. As I have said, if God created everything, he would know immediately how the future would play out, he would have created every factor to everything. |
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