QUOTE(devilesk @ Aug 18 2005, 05:13 PM)
Most of my posts are serious and non-sarcastic, it's only when I'm in a mean mood and I'm intolerant of stupidity that I use sarcasm

Thank you for clearing it up for me though.
One other question, you said the things that get you into heaven, what if you don't do those things, do you get sent to Hell then?
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Yep. You see, Christianity was this pivot in Judiasm where it changed from "focus on the actions" to "focus on the heart". God sent his son/form Jesus, changing the religion of "i OWN you so OBEY ME OR DIE"
as many atheists love to put it to the personal fellowship with God.
This "focus on the heart" pivot also solves the Hitler problem for multiple reasons.
1) By "focusing on the heart", good actions WILL follow. By changing a state of mind, a change in actions occurs. That's just common logic.
2) Suppose Hitler somehow
did have a "revelation" and saw the horror he had done and repented. Does that mean he goes to heaven? Sure, why not? God is that freaking merciful. God doesn't hate the image of himself; he hates the sin. Without this word "sin", there's no difference between Hitler and Mother Teresa.
2b) I noticed that some may think I have been beaten by the Hitler argument, yes?
QUOTE(possible argument)
"If God is so merciful, then let's just carry him around like fire insurance. Let's just kill and rape, and then present the Christian badge and go to heaven!"
Although it
could be sound logic, I doubt they don't know what "love" is.
Think of a love relationship. If you say a guy who says she "loves" a girl, but then does everything she hates on purpose, would you honestly believe he loves her? This is the same relationship with man and God. If you really "loved" God, then you would obviously do what God likes. If you don't, then you wouldn't. That wasn't hard to follow was it?

Let's revise the first conclusion now, shall we?
*old*1) The way to get to heaven is to believe that God sent his son/form Jesus to save us from our sins.
*NEW*2) God sent his son/form Jesus
out of love to save us from our sins
and to create a personal relationship with us. No, I did not radically change the first conclusion into the second. I am merely adding on the "unobserved strings" you could say. Not hidden strings, unobserved strings
to passers by.------------
I will now make the statement that is very important to the Hitler case. If one can disprove this, you have possibly defeated the intricate web of Christianity.
2b)
God and man has ALWAYS been about the "focus on the heart", never the "focus on the actions". This is quite the large statement. I just said that the Jews were wrong for thousands of years! Why would someone like me make such a blunder as to say something so large? Because it is observed in the Bible as true.
If you've read the Old Testament, you'll realize that the Jews WERE messing up on this area. Unfortunately, the OT is probably where I lack the most in immediate "biblical knowledge". Therefore, you'll need to read the stories and figure out for yourself and see if what I say is true. You guys get Sunday mornings off right?
Well, I'll give you leads before i just say, "you figure it out" for this section:
QUOTE
To obey is better than sacrifice.
Say this phrase to some adult Bible scholars and ask about it. Ask things like, "What's the context of this phrase?" "Why did he tell Saul that?"
In the Bible, read these books:
Jonah (Town of Hitlers)
Job (God ain't fair)
Malachi (The Pharisees sprang from this book)
If you can't get through Job, don't worry; i couldn't either
Anyways, the reason I brought that up is because if it has always been about your "heart", then the Hitler case would never exist.

QUOTE(devilesk)
How is he lashing out at Kirby, and how was he not comprehending it? In fact to "basically" say something and condense it into something people who are not as smart can understand actually takes a lot of comprehension skills.
Yes, you're right in saying that it takes a lot of comprehension skills to compress it into something understandable. But, this is one of those rare moments when I fully agree with indecisiveman.
Here, i'll show you an example: I will now sum up what i've "basically said" from the dashed lines and down.
I don't know the answer, so i'm hope you're stupid enough to accept Christ.Now, think deeply; does that ACTUALLY portray what I've said?