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Originally Posted by akc814ilv
You didnt really respond to the point I was making but that is ok.
If I am condemning myself then so be it. Im very confident that I am right though and so I am happy that im not allowing myself to live a life where im letting some invisible supreme being dictate my every move.
Oh well, only advice I would give you, since you are a religious person is to pay a BIT more attention to the part where it talks about not judging others. Besides that you clearly are a very decent and good person.
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I wasn't intentionally ignoring your point. I understand you don't think, as many others don't think, that a belief in a Divinity is required for moral behavior. A moral life is certainly possible without God. A life which mirrors that of Jesus Christ doesn't require belief in any God. ~
True.
This STILL...is a life led separated from God, because the only way a person can be with God is to believe in Him.
This is the Faith of a Christian...certainly as I interpret it...and I'm admittedly not a Biblical scholar at all.
The BLUF (bottom line up front) of the situation is..that Atheists CHOOSE to reject God.
God is NOT rejecting them.
God still LOVES them and wants a relationship with them. God gave His Son for us..to enable humanity to experience God. His Son was Crucified by Humanity. Humanity rejected Jesus just as many parts of our World reject Jesus now.
There will be a COST for this and the hour of our Death. God will Judge us on this.
I realize the Atheist thinks this is all a bunch of "hocus pocus" non-sense and I expect to hear those refrains.
I'm not some back-woods person.
I'm college educated and I consider myself fairly "Worldly" in my outlook.
I've had the privilege of visiting close to 40 other Nations on this Planet...about 43 of the 50 States here in the U.S.
I am not embarrased to say, I believe that Jesus not only existed, he was also God's Son and Jesus died on the Cross for humanity's sins so that God may have a relationship with Us, his Creations.