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originally posted by: satsanga
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
God didn't particularly care for the Amalekites.
originally posted by: jheated5
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
I don't buy into the new agey stuff either, I know a lot of people do and my opinion is not popular among them. Fact of the matter is, we are no different than an animal just more highly evolved/intelligent, there is nothing to disprove this fact as far as I know.
We are ourselves, there is no collective. Sure people work together and so do animals but at the same time there are leaders and people who need to be lead and others do it to benefit themselves.
What is the main goal in all animals? dominance/power.... How are people any different, you and a lot of other people trick themselves into thinking they're special and somehow they're morally above their animal instinct, this is not the case.
originally posted by: Auricom
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
No, I do not "create the entire universe" in my mind. I create portions of it, much like a 3D painting of a scene. A stage to act out on. Beyond that, there is nothing as this is all our minds can create. Believe it or not, we're limited in what we're able to do.
originally posted by: satsanga
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
Not quite all. Some burn in Hell for eternity.
originally posted by: jheated5
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
You're accusing people of making assumptions when you are making the biggest assumption of all. Divinity. What is your definition of it? How are you so sure it exists at all? What is more factual, we're animals or we're something created from divinity???
You're shooting yourself in the foot, you say truth doesn't change but illusion does. As far as we know we are animals, that is the truth! You're truth could very well be just an illusion.
I don't doubt that there could be things that exist of spiritual nature, for this discussion I'm relying on proven facts, when divinity/spirituality/the supernatural are proven as much I will completely concede.
originally posted by: satsanga
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
No. Scripture is very clear. Hell is forever.
originally posted by: satsanga
a reply to: jheated5
What scriptural evidence do you have to back that statement up? What scriptural evidence suggests that Hell is not for eternity?
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
No thing or body lasts forever, all is ever changing other than the unmanifest supreame counsiousness. I could dig up some scripture from some religion or sage, however why bother doing so if you wish to believe something as silly as hell would be eternal?
Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed ~ Proverbs 13:13
"All men are liars." ~ Psalm 116:11
Andrew Wilson raised the issue of the “inerrancy” of Scripture recently, and questioned whether the term itself was a helpful one. Some people complained in the comments that it wasn’t even a term that the Bible uses of itself. It left me wondering if there was a better word we could use and John 10:35 came to mind, where Jesus says that the “Scriptures cannot be broken”. That would certainly be a cool name for a doctrine: “the unbreakability of Scripture”, but what did Jesus mean by it?
If you had asked me to speculate what Jesus meant by “Scripture cannot be broken”, my initial guess would be that Jesus is using the language of promises: Scripture can be thought of as a promise from God that cannot be broken. But that just goes to show how a translation of the Bible can cause you to read meanings into the text that are not present in the original language, since none of the commentators I consulted consider this a viable option (although apparently Jungkuntz argued that it meant the passage from Psalms that Jesus had just quoted must be fulfilled).
So Scripture is unbreakable, or “indestructible” even. Not in a physical sense – plenty of Bibles have been successfully destroyed by fire. But in the sense that Jesus uses in Matt 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” The doctrine of the unbreakability of Scripture means that God’s words never lose their truth, relevance or power. We never move beyond Scripture, and we never argue with Scripture. Or as J C Ryle explains it:
“Wherever the Scripture speaks plainly on any subject, there can be no more question about it. The case is settled and decided. Every jot and tittle of Scripture is true, and must be received as conclusive.”
The Unbreakability of Scripture