It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
holding a grudge for all eternity because we didn't do something that he says we were supposed to.
Or the same being seeing that someone has lived a good life and tried to help people whenever they can, and still think that that person needs to be burned for eternity.
And it is ignorant to assume that all people, simply by being born, are deserving of hell. What about children? Babies die all the time. They have not sinned, they can't even speak, let alone use "gods" name in vain or murder or covet. Guess what? The bible says they go to hell.
Even if they have had a baptism, they still haven't accepted jesus into their hearts.
I simply can not get behind a being that would condemn my sweet, innocent 6 week old son to being burned for eternity, were he to die tomorrow.
I know, for a fact and even according to your bible he has not sinned.
In Psalm 51:5, David wrote, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.” David recognized that even at conception, he was a sinner.
Originally posted by Bombeni
The fact is, satan does exist. He was jealous of God, didn't want to worship Him. He was cast from Heaven and given dominion over the earth. God created us with free will, just as satan had free will to defect, we have the same free will.
Ok, name ONE sin my son has committed ... ill be waiting.
Also, even if they do not need to be have a baptism (which by the way , i thought it was funny how you said catholics like they aren't christian...lol!), they still can not think in their cute little heads "I accept Christ," the main requirement to get into heaven, so they still burn according to the bible.
Of this we are certain: God is loving, holy, merciful, just, and gracious. Whatever He does is always right and good.
That link even says that nowhere in the bible does it state an age at which a child has to make a decision about jesus. The bible says accept jesus, or burn. Show me where it doesn't.
Originally posted by fraterormus
Originally posted by Bombeni
The fact is, satan does exist. He was jealous of God, didn't want to worship Him. He was cast from Heaven and given dominion over the earth. God created us with free will, just as satan had free will to defect, we have the same free will.
Thanks for the video. Satanists are pretty whack too, IMHO...but the Satanist in the video was pretty cute even though her Twilight-esque makeup would make any self-respecting Goth cringe in horror. Kids these days, I swear!
I have a serious question though...
If the God Christians believe in created the Heaven and the Earth and all things within them...then did he not create Satan? (Or are Christians inferring that their God is not the Creator of All Things?)
If the Christian God is Omnipotent and Omniscient, then did he not know what Iblis/Lucifer/Abaddon/Apollyon/Beelzebub/Belial/Leviathan/Satan would do and not only allowed it but encouraged it? (Or are Christians inferring that their God is neither Omnipotent nor Omniscient?)
If Lucifer was one of the Seraphim or Arch-Angels of God then he was subservient to God as they were not granted Free Will as humans were (which is why the Hosts of Heaven supposedly had contempt for the Sons of Man according to the Bible). So would that not make either Lucifer an extension of God's Will or at least make God complicit (and share in the guilt) in what Lucifer does?
Not to mention that if a God would hold Man accountable for falling for the temptation of his own creation, serving his own Will, would that not be tantamount to entrapment?
When proselytizing to one who does not have belief or faith in the Christian God, how can one use the argument of a Hell or Satan to encourage them to have a belief and faith in the Christian God when the belief in Hell and Satan both require a Christian belief to begin with? If a person doesn't believe that the Christian God created the Heaven and the Earth then there is no belief that a Hell or Satan exist either!
"He who has ears, let him hear!"
Originally posted by fraterormus
"How convenient for you. It sounds like your religion is a haven for criminals then."
[edit on 27-8-2009 by fraterormus]
Originally posted by open_eyeballs
reply to post by Hazelnut
Fear + guilt = love
do you honestly believe that?
That has to be the worst definition of love I have ever seen...
Originally posted by Bombeni
I believe God is more merciful than we can even begin to comprehend.
[edit on 27-8-2009 by Bombeni]