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Why would an omnipotent God need to create a hell? Because people answer No to the question: Do you want to spend eternity with God? That IS an answer. Yes it is. But you see the need for hell is created by the omnipotent God by not creating desire to spend eternity with God. Problems solved by the...

SteveSchlichter wrote:
Pretend God exists. Pretend the Christian God exists. Assuming those two things then would you want to spend eternity with him? Worshipping him. Praising him. Thanking him for creating you? How does that sound to you?

I pretend to have answered.

"To speak for" and to speak about are not the same thing. The former implies authority and particularly the right to invent on behalf of - like someone saying that Christians should believe that Jesus will come back to earth in the year 2016. The latter implies nothing more than a recogni...

When the President says something like that, he's not interested in its truth value as much as its political value. At the same time, nobody can really deny that he is at least partially right; ISIL doesn't "speak for a religion," and I'm not sure that any single person or organization to...

SteveSchlichter wrote:God would not have to be unable to change attitudes but unwilling to override decisions and whatever torture exists in hell is self-inflicted.

~Steve

But why unwilling to change the attitudes caused?

Has Obama read the Mohammed legend? http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/obama-uses-jihad-beheading-american-journalist-proselytize-islam.html/ “ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” —President Obama — The White House (@...

Does it occur to anyone that all these solar images might actually be later developments within Christianity and do little to explain Christian origins themselves?? There is a possibility they might be so. If they are, they give rise to some intriguing assumptions which must follow. 1. There is one...

Perhaps I should add that the arguments I have seen for Jesus being invented as a solar allegory are logically flawed and cannot compete with published scholarly interpretations of the same evidence. Being invented implies created with intention to serve a purpose. If viewed from the perspective of...

I think the comments there about sea battles may be important. Has anyone connected the Vikings to the Arab successes? ? Were there important technological innovations? I understand the Vikings were using mass production in ship building. The Vikings connection to period of Byzantine resurgence, fr...

Okay, I'm just going to ask it. What happens when we die? Is there a Heaven/Hell? My background is: Catholic to (born again) Christian and now I am am finding the real Jesus to be more gnostic. I am still somewhat new to this, and (to me) I feel an answer in some simple form (for now) is of great i...