Are there any other agnostics on CC?

tanonev
Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:12:40 +0000

–Anyway, I don’t believe that someone would be sentenced to hell simply because they weren’t Christian and didn’t “accept Jesus”
that’s hard to dispute, but the idea is that the afterlife you get is the afterlife you envision…those who believe there is no God get an afterlife where there really is no God, and those who believe that thought can outweigh faith get an afterlife where you can think, but you can’t have faith
(I know, it sounds a lot like the contrapasso of the Inferno)

so let me get this straight, icarus…you are willing to find your own theology, but you just go with the masses in science?

let’s think about what we call science for a while…
how many times are meteorologists correct?
how many times has evolution been revised?
how long ago was it that chemistry was really alchemy?
and yet we call all those things “science”
yet the Bible, which has not been (significantly) revised in nearly 2000 years, AND which has many incidents/prophecies that check out with history, is not “science” but “coincidence”
it’s a double standard…people are willing to forgive errors in evolution, but not in creation, simply because evolution is a tribute to human thought, while creation is an acknowledgement of human limits

believing in creationism is a big shot to the human ego…

–If Mother Teresa had not been Christian, it is simply unfathomable that she would not be in heaven right now.
The fact of the matter is, she was a Christian, and nothing in this world will change that.
It’s important not to dwell too much on “what if’s” because they didn’t, so they are not worth troubling over…you can’t change the past, ever…not with “science”, anyway

You (plural) say that my saying that God would or would not do something is stepping out of line; well, what about your saying that God can or cannot do something?

Buddhism, while a good lifestyle, has some issues as well…remember, the whole point of Buddhism is to cease to exist, and we do that by removing all emotion, including brotherly love…since everything is transient, there is no need to help others…Buddhism basically started as a means of justifying why some people are rich and some people are poor by assigning them past lives…