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Old 11-08-2008, 09:15 PM
 
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So you are saying that the things SuSu listed reflected the morals of the society at the time they happened?
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Old 11-08-2008, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Montrose, CA
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Praise the Lord!!!!!!!!
Which one? There are after all, thousands upon thousands of them.
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Old 11-08-2008, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Eastern time zone
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No, it's not. When someone dies, that's it. No afterlife, nothing. This life is it for me, and I'm loving every minute of it.

Ha! I love ya, Sushi, but speak for yourself-- I intend to come back.
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Old 11-08-2008, 09:45 PM
 
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Which one? There are after all, thousands upon thousands of them.
Jesus Christ, my only Lord and Savior.
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Old 11-08-2008, 10:32 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Heaven is not a literal place you go to do things. It is a spiritual place you become to be things.
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Old 11-10-2008, 08:35 PM
 
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I haven't read all the posts, but the only thing I can say is that heaven will be a place that our brain capacity can't even comprehend. No, not even Einstein. It will be such a place that there would be no such thing as boredom.

Our brain capacity will come up with all kinds of answers to tell us this or that, but I'm sure we will all find out when our time comes.

I know atheists believe that when our time comes we are done with. But I don't buy that.

I had a good buddy who was an atheist. His grandparents were Jews. He believed that if God really existed, then the holocaust wouldn't have happened. While I understand his viewpoint, I see too many evidences of a supreme being.

Example – how did this thing called the atmosphere above earth come about? This thing protects the Earth from the Sun’s radiation. How about all those meteorites that are flying all over the universe? How is it that it doesn’t hit the Earth and destroy it?

How about the rotation of Earth and movement of Earth around the sun? If it was off by a second, it would doom Earth. These are just a few of the millions of examples that explain that there must be something superior to make all this happen.

I don’t buy the theory that this is all an accident.

For anyone that can explain these miracles and say that there is no one single supreme being – please educate me.
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Old 11-10-2008, 08:43 PM
 
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I haven't read all the posts, but the only thing I can say is that heaven will be a place that our brain capacity can't even comprehend. No, not even Einstein. It will be such a place that there would be no such thing as boredom.

Our brain capacity will come up with all kinds of answers to tell us this or that, but I'm sure we will all find out when our time comes.

I know atheists believe that when our time comes we are done with. But I don't buy that.

I had a good buddy who was an atheist. His grandparents were Jews. He believed that if God really existed, then the holocaust wouldn't have happened. While I understand his viewpoint, I see too many evidences of a supreme being.

Example – how did this thing called the atmosphere above earth come about? This thing protects the Earth from the Sun’s radiation. How about all those meteorites that are flying all over the universe? How is it that it doesn’t hit the Earth and destroy it?

How about the rotation of Earth and movement of Earth around the sun? If it was off by a second, it would doom Earth. These are just a few of the millions of examples that explain that there must be something superior to make all this happen.

I don’t buy the theory that this is all an accident.

For anyone that can explain these miracles – please educate me.
The Universe is larger than we can imagine. There are hundreds of billions of stars. (Most likely inifinitely more.) Many of these stars have planets. This we have verified through science. What we will discover in the future is that there may be planets or moons that are hospitable for life. Even Mars is strongly considered to have sustained the possibility of some life.

Now imagine hundreds of billions of stars, and some of those with planets and moons. Of those planets or moons, there could be some like ours. Do you see how many millions/billions of possibilities there are?

This is science at work. It's understandable that humans would invent gods to explain what they could not scientifically explain at the time. We've moved beyond that time now, and the information is there for those interested.
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Old 11-10-2008, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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I haven't read all the posts, but the only thing I can say is that heaven will be a place that our brain capacity can't even comprehend. No, not even Einstein. It will be such a place that there would be no such thing as boredom.

Our brain capacity will come up with all kinds of answers to tell us this or that, but I'm sure we will all find out when our time comes.

I know atheists believe that when our time comes we are done with. But I don't buy that.

I had a good buddy who was an atheist. His grandparents were Jews. He believed that if God really existed, then the holocaust wouldn't have happened. While I understand his viewpoint, I see too many evidences of a supreme being.

Example – how did this thing called the atmosphere above earth come about? This thing protects the Earth from the Sun’s radiation. How about all those meteorites that are flying all over the universe? How is it that it doesn’t hit the Earth and destroy it?

How about the rotation of Earth and movement of Earth around the sun? If it was off by a second, it would doom Earth. These are just a few of the millions of examples that explain that there must be something superior to make all this happen.

I don’t buy the theory that this is all an accident.
You can find all of your answeres by reading books other then bible. Have you tried it yet? May be you can come back here and tell us what you read and what your thoughts are. May be after that, we can debate on the same level of understanding.

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For anyone that can explain these miracles and say that there is no one single supreme being – please educate me.
I think you need to educate yourself. Did you educate yourself about the bible? I'm sure you did, now, just for some variety, educate yourself on other subjects.
Have fun!
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Old 11-10-2008, 09:11 PM
 
Location: God's Country
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1 Corinthians 2:9 "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him".

This world is not all there is, the best is yet to come.
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Old 11-10-2008, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC (in my mind)
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Heaven is for those who love God. So sinners who hate God or don't even believe in him, well they wouldn't feel comfortable there anyway. I don't know what I'll do in heaven - but it will be the best of this world x a million. And all the characteristics of our nature that are wrong - will be eradicated. Heaven will be joy, light, peace - just amazing!
Everybody here mocking God and Heaven now won't be doing so on judgment day.

The story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) explains it perfectly. In heaven, we will worship our King for eternity because He truly is worthy of our worship.
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