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To: Gophack
Because that is the choice you have: eternal life, or eternal death.

It's that eternal life that doesn't make sense, no matter how hard you might wish it true.

"Eternal life" is a fantastic selling point in religions; but ... sex sells, too, and religions haven't impressed me with all their contradictions and wild-eyed fanatics.

Nevertheless, assuming there is eternal life, I've had some thoughts about what God might ask people when they get to Heaven's gare.

I think it will have something to do with how well you have used your God-given mind to think about things like ethics, and how well you've avoided religions in getting there.

37 posted on 08/30/2002 4:01:27 PM PDT by thinktwice
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To: thinktwice
It's that eternal life that doesn't make sense, no matter how hard you might wish it true.

You obviously don't believe in God, or that He gave us His Word in the holy scriptures. I will pray for you. God bless.

38 posted on 08/30/2002 4:03:30 PM PDT by Gophack
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To: thinktwice
It's that eternal life that doesn't make sense, no matter how hard you might wish it true.

Let's say it's true. Then it certainly makes sense to many that God would want only those innately good people to acheive it. Let's say it's false, and just a construct made up by people to get people to be good. Then it would make sense as well. Either way, it makes sense.

71 posted on 08/31/2002 10:43:06 PM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: thinktwice
I think it will have something to do with how well you have used your God-given mind to think about things like ethics, and how well you've avoided religions in getting there.

But God might say: Hey, thinktwice, why spend so much time thinking about good and bad, when I've already sent you a perfect example of a perfect man? You could have used your time on earth to promote goodness and fight badness. Instead, you wasted all your time on a silly effort to distill notions of goodness and badness from thin air.

72 posted on 08/31/2002 10:46:35 PM PDT by yendu bwam
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