[Volina]

"You are really convinced that you've got all the answers. You've really got yourself tricked into believing that you're 100% right. Well, let me tell you just one thing. Do you consider yourself to be compassionate of other humans? If you're right, as you say you are, and you believe that, then how can you sleep at night? When you speak with me, you are speaking with someone who you believe is walking directly into eternal damnation, into an endless onslaught of horrendous pain which your 'loving' god created, yet you stand by and do nothing.

If you believed one bit that thousands every day were falling into an eternal and unchangeable fate, you should be running the streets mad with rage at their blindness. That's equivalent to standing on a street corner and watching every person that passes you walk blindly directly into the path of a bus and die, yet you stand idly by and do nothing. You're just twiddling your thumbs, happy in the knowledge that one day that 'walk' signal will shine your way across the road.

Think about it. Imagine the horrors Hell must have in store if the Bible is true. You're just going to allow that to happen and not care about saving anyone but yourself? If you're right then you're an uncaring, unemotional and purely selfish (expletive) that has no right to talk about subjects such as love and caring."

This is an excerpt from an e-mail sent to Evangelist Ray Comfort of Living Waters

http://www.repentamerica.com/letterfromateist.html


Something to think about. I thought I shuld share with those standing in the Lord.

[Krys]

>"You are really convinced that you've got all the answers.
>You've really got yourself tricked into believing that you're
>100% right. Well, let me tell you just one thing. Do you
>consider yourself to be compassionate of other humans? If
>you're right, as you say you are, and you believe that, then
>how can you sleep at night? When you speak with me, you are
>speaking with someone who you believe is walking directly into
>eternal damnation, into an endless onslaught of horrendous
>pain which your 'loving' god created, yet you stand by and do
>nothing.
>
>If you believed one bit that thousands every day were falling
>into an eternal and unchangeable fate, you should be running
>the streets mad with rage at their blindness. That's
>equivalent to standing on a street corner and watching every
>person that passes you walk blindly directly into the path of
>a bus and die, yet you stand idly by and do nothing. You're
>just twiddling your thumbs, happy in the knowledge that one
>day that 'walk' signal will shine your way across the road.
>
>Think about it. Imagine the horrors Hell must have in store if
>the Bible is true. You're just going to allow that to happen
>and not care about saving anyone but yourself? If you're right
>then you're an uncaring, unemotional and purely selfish
>(expletive) that has no right to talk about subjects such as
>love and caring."
>
This, to me, contradicts what non-Christians expect of Christians. Most people expect Christians to keep their faith to themselves.


Where you happen to be in the journey is of no consequence, only what you do there.

[reggie_woic]

What more can we Christians do about it? you can't force someone into something he doesn't want to be involved in...the knowledge is there for everyone to look at---the bible is the best selling book ever!

[chotadipo]

Harry Potter also sells, do we have to believe in wizards and hobbits?

[Volina]

That is why I say , there will no excuse for not getting home where we belong. There will be gnashing of teeth indeed. Let me get a blatant description of that day.


When the voice of God turns the captivity of His people, there is a terrible awakening of those who have lost all in the great conflict of life. While probation continued they were blinded by Satan's deceptions, and they justified their course of sin. The rich prided themselves upon their superiority to those who were less favored; but they had obtained their riches by violation of the law of God. They had neglected to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to deal justly, and to love mercy. They had sought to exalt themselves and to obtain the homage of their fellow creatures. Now they are stripped of all that made them great and are left destitute and defenseless. They look with terror upon the destruction of the idols which they preferred before their Maker. They have sold their souls for earthly riches and enjoyments, and have not sought to become rich toward God. The result is, their lives are a failure; their pleasures are now turned to gall, their treasures to corruption. The gain of a lifetime is swept away in a moment. The rich bemoan the destruction of their grand houses, the scattering of their gold and silver. But their lamentations are silenced by the fear that they themselves are to perish with their idols.

The wicked are filled with regret, not because of their sinful neglect of God and their fellow men, but because God has conquered. They lament that the result is what it is; but they do not repent of their wickedness. They would leave no means untried to conquer if they could.

The world see the very class whom they have mocked and derided, and desired to exterminate, pass unharmed through pestilence, tempest, and earthquake. He who is to the transgressors of His law a devouring fire, is to His people a safe pavilion.

The minister who has sacrificed truth to gain the favor of men now discerns the character and influence of his teachings. It is apparent that the omniscient eye was following him as he stood in the desk, as he walked the streets, as he mingled with men in the various scenes of life. Every

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emotion of the soul, every line written, every word uttered, every act that led men to rest in a refuge of falsehood, has been scattering seed; and now, in the wretched, lost souls around him, he beholds the harvest.

Saith the Lord: "They have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace." "With lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life." Jeremiah 8:11; Ezekiel 13:22.

"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! . . . Behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings." "Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for your days for slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; . . . and the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape." Jeremiah 23:1, 2; 25:34, 35, margin.

Ministers and people see that they have not sustained the right relation to God. They see that they have rebelled against the Author of all just and righteous law. The setting aside of the divine precepts gave rise to thousands of springs of evil, discord, hatred, iniquity, until the earth became one vast field of strife, one sink of corruption. This is the view that now appears to those who rejected truth and chose to cherish error. No language can express the longing which the disobedient and disloyal feel for that which they have lost forever--eternal life. Men whom the world has worshiped for their talents and eloquence now see these things in their true light. They realize what they have forfeited by transgression, and they fall at the feet of those whose fidelity they have despised and derided, and confess that God has loved them.

More here: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/gc/gc41.html

[Death]

That is not a letter from an atheist. That is a letter that some fundamentalist wrote and put up to push his fundamentalist agenda. How many times must I say, that if you want the atheist point of view, visit an atheist forum....not some preachers home page. Just as when I want the christians point of view, I don't visit www.infidels.org.

[Volina]

Just like Dearth as always, but anyhow, I am touched by this letter.

[reggie_woic]

>Harry Potter also sells, do we have to believe in wizards and
>hobbits?

hmmm....well they're labeled 'fiction'...so..you figure that out.

I was talking about the knowledge...its almost everywhere...billions of bibles have been sold...no one can argue that christians aren't passing around the word for everyone to know.

p.s harry potter and the deathly hallows (bk 7) is to be released on July 21st...i've already set aside 62 galeons for it.

[Muhubiri]

For God so loved the world, That He gave His only begotten Son, that whomsoever believes in Him, should not perish but have eternal life.


Have a blessed day!

[youngben]

I am beautifully and wonderfully made.

I am made in Gods Image, not physical image but his image et al, I have been given free will and through his miracle I can pro create and bring forth life.

I am responsible for all I do ultimately. I need to relate to the world I live in and to understand the life thereafter. I believe I am here for a purpose.

The biggest lie i ever believed was there was a hell in after life. My hell is here.

If God wanted me to just sing praises and preach 24/7. He would have made me an angel. I am here for greater good, to protect and propagate his life miracle. Any thing I do should manifest him in me. I do not have to tell you anything. All I have to do is attract you with my actions and peace. Faith without action is dead.

Peace brothers and Sisters