On 9/19/2012 3:12 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 5:20:00 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote:
On 9/19/2012 2:11 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 5:27:13 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote:
Hi Richard Ruquist
Obeying the commandments will not get you into heaven,
only believing in Christ's sacrifice for us will do that.
What kind of a sacrifice is that? "I'm going to do you the biggest favor
you can
imagine, but if you don't believe in it, then my favor is worthless and
makes
anything good that you have ever done in your life a complete waste of
time".
If I were Satan, I would write the Bible exactly as it is, full of horrific
promises and threats that can be interpreted in many ways. It's pretty much
like
dropping candy colored hand grenades onto a school playground. The grenades
would
say "if anyone tries to take this away from you, then they deserve whatever
happens
to them".
But I'm curious; as a member of the EVERYTHING-list, don't you believe that
there's
a world where the Bible is essentially accurate (modulo direct
contradictions)?
I don't know about accurate, but there are certainly phenomenological states where the
Bible can seem powerfully important, i.e. super-significant - for good or evil.
But those are phenomenological states in this world, and apparently you think the
qualifier "seem" means "false" in this world. I'm asking about all those infinitely many
other worlds?
Brent
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