Hi meekerdb 1) That statement about Hell is hyperbole, an overstatement to get a point across. Jesus also said "Nobody who does not hate his mother and father can follow me."
2) I would reply to Epicurus that if he thinks life ios bad as it is, he has no idea how much worse it would be without God's grace. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/20/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-20, 02:01:14 Subject: Re: the "nothing but" fallacy. On 9/19/2012 10:50 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:09 AM, meekerdb wrote: >> On 9/19/2012 5:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> Also, the concept of a super intelligent entity torturing someone may be >> almost contradictory, for they may realize the identity of all minds, and >> therefore they would be torturing themselves. >> >> >> That would be an inconsistency of values, but not a logical contradiction. > The thing about religion is that we shouldn't believe it because it's > FALSE, not because it's BAD. Something could be BAD but TRUE. I find > it odd that both religious and anti-religious people often miss this > point and talk about the good or bad effects (respectively) of > religious belief. Well of course that is because almost all religions claim that their revelation defines what is good and bad, independent of mere human opinion. So if one shows that the revelation's definition of good or bad is preposterous (like an all loving God who tortures people for not worshipping Him) then at least that much of the theology is false. Brent "Either God wants to abolish evil and cannot; or he can, but does not want to; or he cannot, and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If he neither can, nor wants to, he is both powerless and wicked. But if God can abolish evil, and wants to, then how comes evil in the world?'" --- Epicurus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
