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  1. Ghost of a Rider

    if all religions ceased to exist...

    The answer to the question is probably that if all religions were proven to be false, there would be some disarray at first due to confusion and lack of direction on the part of those who are convinced that faith is necessary for moral behavior. But over time, as it became gradually more widely...
  2. Ghost of a Rider

    Can God be reasoned with?

    Okay, let's keep this one in mind and move on to the following remarks... In other words, the person (atheist) is just being stubborn. You're contradicting yourself again. On the one hand you say you don't believe atheists are just being stubborn and on the other, you say "most likely a...
  3. Ghost of a Rider

    Can God be reasoned with?

    To begin with, you're contradicting yourself. You just told me in your last post that "...believing that a god exits doesn't get me to heaven." So does believing in God get you to heaven or not? Secondly, I'm not talking about sin redemption or what it takes to get to heaven, I'm talking about...
  4. Ghost of a Rider

    Can God be reasoned with?

    I didn't suggest that believing in God is unreasonable. My point is, you told robo that being reasonable won't get him into heaven. This suggests to me that you don't think reason and logic will sway God yet I'm sure you would say you used reason and logic to arrive at your beliefs. Am I wrong...
  5. Ghost of a Rider

    Can God be reasoned with?

    Would you not say that you were being as reasonable as possible when you concluded that God exists? You don't know that.
  6. Ghost of a Rider

    A picture for Atheists - What is your impression of it's message?

    Not because you say so.
  7. Ghost of a Rider

    A picture for Atheists - What is your impression of it's message?

    No. To begin with, the analogy of atheists as babies in a womb is inapt. Whoever created this cartoon cleverly used an image of two babies in a womb because everybody, including atheists, knows that there is in fact life after birth and a "Mom" on the other side. Ergo, by using this image, the...
  8. Ghost of a Rider

    can someone please explain to me the difference

    That's quite a dodge you're doing there. Are you tired yet? Now, is the basic premise of my argument true or not true that if you ban gay marriage, the Christian has the right to marry the person he loves but the gay person does not?
  9. Ghost of a Rider

    can someone please explain to me the difference

    Not quite. Let me quote my own post from page two with a few minor word changes to give you an idea how rights are being denied: "...if gay marriage is allowed then the hetero Christian has the right to marry a person of the opposite sex and the choice not to marry a person of the same sex...
  10. Ghost of a Rider

    can someone please explain to me the difference

    To begin with, where marriage is concerned, don't heterosexual Christians have the right to do whatever they want? Secondly, homosexuals are not asking to "do whatever they want", they're only asking to be allowed to marry people of the same sex.
  11. Ghost of a Rider

    can someone please explain to me the difference

    Think about this: what if your religion stipulated that you are to marry a person of the same sex just as some Christians say that Christianity stipulates that you are to marry a person of the opposite sex? Would this not mean then that in this case, the Christians are saying: "I can practice my...
  12. Ghost of a Rider

    Why not be selfish?

    There are many factors involved as to why we are moral but I would venture to say that those who are utterly ruthless in the pursuit of power and wealth or backstab co-workers don't do so just because they think they can get away with it. There is always an underlying motive. Having said that...
  13. Ghost of a Rider

    Why can't I go to heaven?

    Who wrote? And did they actually say they were not willing to relinquish free will after hearing that Heaven restricted free will to righteousness, or did they only say they were not willing to relinquish free will? I can't help but think you're embellishing somewhat. That doesn't answer the...
  14. Ghost of a Rider

    Why can't I go to heaven?

    I'm not the one limiting God, you are. As I said, I was always told that there was nothing God couldn't do and for the sake of the discussion, I proceed on that assumption. But you're the one saying he's limited in that he can't save his creation any way he wants. I never said anything was out...
  15. Ghost of a Rider

    Why can't I go to heaven?

    I thought God was omnipotent and that there was nothing he couldn't do. By saying he couldn't save his creation without condemning it first with strict laws we have no hope of abiding by, you're saying there's at least one thing he can't do. Omnipotence is omnipotence. If he's omnipotent then...
  16. Ghost of a Rider

    Why can't I go to heaven?

    Watch your step. This is a moral judgment of peoples' character without any justification whatsoever. On what grounds do you make this sort of accusation? You said that when you accepted Jesus as Lord, you had no choices. Now you're telling me that when I accepted Jesus as Lord, I had the...
  17. Ghost of a Rider

    Why can't I go to heaven?

    Funny, I always thought that the idea behind the ten commandments was to deter us from committing immoral acts.
  18. Ghost of a Rider

    Why can't I go to heaven?

    The ten commandments are not laws to condemn humanity, they are laws to be obeyed. It sounds like you're saying that the only purpose of the ten commandments is to remind us that we can never abide by the ten commandments - "You can never obey these rules and if you don't, you are condemned."...
  19. Ghost of a Rider

    Why can't I go to heaven?

    If breaking one commandment makes you just as guilty as breaking all of them then what's the point of having ten separate commandments?
  20. Ghost of a Rider

    Why can't I go to heaven?

    So explain to me how not believing in God makes me guilty of murder.
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