For my Christians Friends
- Thread starter nyxtrader
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So why even waste your time arguing about it ? It is a losing battle because a theist believes he will live forever so he is giving up very little compared to an athiest who believes nothing happens after death.
I know! Their story is pretty whacked, all right.
Check this - what's going to happen is that one day the sky is going to open up, and a bunch of goats with 31 eyes are going to drop down out of this big gash in the universe. And then the earth is going to open up and there's going to be this huge lake of fire. And if you're living in Sub-Saharan Africa, just a regular Kalahari going about your business, and you didn't admit that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Risen Saviour (also known as THE RIZ), then what's going to happen is that you're going to be thrown into this big lake of fire and you're going to burn forever. It doesn't matter if you've never heard of Jesus Christ or Christianity. That's why the Evangelicals are going around telling everyone to convert before it's too late.
And then, if you accepted Jesus Christ as your Personal Saviour, what's going to happen is you're going to rise, rise, rise up and be with the guy who created you, in Heaven. In Heaven you will live forever and you will have 96 virgins to service you at all times. The virgins will also be people who accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior, since they're in heaven.
At least I think that's how it goes. Something like that, anyhow.
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Seriously, one wonders whether these myths were created by people who had discovered some particularly hallucinogenic strain of mushroom.
I have no agenda here, you are free to choose what you want. A intelligent creator gave you a brain to be able to make that choice. Or maybe one did evolve from an amoeba as I have met both some theist and atheist whose brain have a lot in common with one. I actually value hearing other's opinions on this never ending age old debate.
Sometimes you have to follow your instinct and have faith you picked the right one. Similar to picking the right scientific theory.
Nothing at all like picking a scientific theory, because once you've followed your instinct and formulated a theory, you then go about testing it. Rigorously. You often try to disprove it. That's the essence of the method. Faith is not enough. You can have all the faith in the world that your theory is correct, but if you don't test it, no one will care and it will be useless in the real world. You have to have evidence that your theory is correct.
In your case, you pick your theory (and an outlandish one at that)... then you sit back and have a smoke. You sit back and have a smoke because it's impossible to test your theory. It is not disprovable. Theists say 'I followed my instinct, I picked a theory... and that's it. That's good enough for me. I have faith that it's right'.
Thank God airplane designers don't follow the same procedure, eh?
Thank You. Thread Closed.
Niether vhen nor I personally knew Albert Einstein and his interpretations of his words are no more valid then mine.
As a fan of the Einstein and his writings I see totally different contexts then vhen's arguments.
As far as your proclamations on my health, your wrong AGAIN ... I got very ill before I found God, living the miserable empty life that you now enjoy. It wasn't till I found God that everything turned around for me and I do mean EVERYTHING....
Before God I had Women, Money and even a little fame, I had the ultimate secular life, the one that most men only dream of. I owned strip joints, lived in Las Vegas, drove every car you could imagine, screwed starlets like they were giving it away and had some pretty famous friends.
Now I have GOD and Jesus Christ and HE makes my old life look like a circus of foolish emptiness.
I am soooooo much happier now and have my health, a thriving trading career a fantastic woman and family.
I am blessed beyond my wildest dreams with Love, Peace and Happiness.
Can you top that ?
I like that!