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Brick, there's no need for your participation in this thread. Most of us are already aware of your belief that the Christian God is a just and...
Analogy numero deux: I have two daughters, a son and 300 million dollars. I, like any other loving father, desire for all three of my children to...
An analogy for the above argument: A group of one-hundred children from the sixth grade of the local elementary school run a 100-yard race on a...
Coelacanth Could you provide an example of how someone can "create" a universe? No, I cannot because I make no claim to be a God, and, presumably...
Battleship: And again, this relates to nothing that I've written. My purpose is not to discuss the requirements deemed sufficient by God or by...
If a belief in the existence of the Christian God is necessary to go to heaven then the children of fundamentalist Christians who live in Dallas...
I wish you would explain your interpretations of scripture in a little more detail for those of us unversed in the arcane language of the Bible....
I like your interpretation because it means that a belief in the existence of the Christian God is totally unnecessary to go to heaven. This is...
Oh, you mean this? I don't see how this scripture is relevant at all unless you somehow interpret it to mean that one need not believe in the...
The burden of proof is not on me to show that the children of fundamentalist Christians who live in Dallas are extremely unlikely to come to the...
If by "noticeable" you mean as noticeably different as the differences between those 200 people and 200 other people who were born in another...
I can think of things that I prayed for when I was younger, too. Things that I, too, fervently asked for, and didn't get. Things like giving my...
That's the best you got?
Coelacanth: If you choose to posit a lack of intelligence as the reason that you did not understand my paragraph that you quoted, that is your...
Coelacanth, you made this statement to another poster: I see no one assuming any such thing. The only assumption that is being made as near as I...
Don't be sad for the monk. Personally, rather than to be forced to watch Bob Tilton for thirty minutes a day, I'd rather burn in hell for...
tropheus: You say "there is a way for them." Do you have any ideas about how this "way" might manifest itself? Since Paul wrote well before...
If God provides each of us with an equal opportunity to know and to experience his reality then why do so many people in Dallas compared to those...
Anytime the first sentence in a "Chris Simms/ Major Applewhite Comparison" post begins with the sentence "Let me preface this post by saying that...