[ATLian]

>Atleast your statement confirms your misinformed ideas about
>salvation.

TM,

I think you are the one with a misinformed idea about what "free" means. To get salvation, you have to satisfy very many demands from god, as in act in a certain way, pray in a certain way, etc. Its hard to do this, thats why its called the "long narrow and rocky road". Once you fulfil all of gods requirements, then you get salvation. How can you still call that free when you are required to do so many things to get it?

[chotadipo]

As much as religion plays an important part in our lives, the promise of life after death is really debatable. For arguments sake, a contributor pointed to the 'where' you will spend that after life as opposed to the life itself as the determining factor. Now this where is described in various forms and in various places in most holy books as either spending time in heaven with God and his angels singing praises or in hell with Satan burning in brimestone...c'mon either way doesn't wow me, especially now that I know I have a confirmed worst singing voice and my parents said I had the worst cry when I was young. I could get booted from either place.

Another thing, methinks we are assuming too much. Just because we shape the world to suit our reasoning does not in any way guarantee that we have will while all other things cannot figure how they exist. A common argument I subscribe to is, if an alien came to earth and sees us as say plants, then what? Trees whisper everyday, do we care? The Alien may just hear earth noises and goes about his life completely oblivious of what we think of him.

I belive man is capable of doing good wihtout being hostage to the after-life theory. The notion that you must embrace the bible to be able to come out of your 'savagness' is nonesensical to me.

[TeamManager]

ATLian,

You are still not understanding the difference between Christianity and religion.

I am starting to see the 'kind of god' you don't believe in ...... crazy thing is that you are confusing him with God.

[safina]

Devine Command Theory would make you not make use of your brains.They always want you to believe in whatever they say and you have no right whatsoever to question them.They told us that the earth was flat but we found out it wasn't.Told us that Joshua son of Nun prayed until the sun that had STOPPED started moving,but we just found out that the sun does not even move.They came out with the Noah's Ark theory,now that we know the amount of water in the atmosphere and on land.put it all together,you will never come close to filling the whole world,come on now,there are millions of species out there,could they all fit in that Ark.the list is endless ama aje Atlian?
DELYTFUL(sp) I got more in store for you.

[TeamManager]

@Safina,

Can I recomned a book ....and I promise that all the guys interviewed are Phd fellows.

>Devine Command Theory would make you not make
>use of your brains.

[safina]

Go ahead brother i would be happy to read it.I hope it won't be folks who are already christians.