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Quote by: dthmstr254 youasked me a question about a reward that has "already been given." I have never heard or seen this doctrine before. you might want to ask someone who knows, and not ask me to expound on a quote I gave you.

Well make sure when you're quoting something to prove a point, you know what it's talking about.

Quote by: dthmstr254 no, only theistic religions (of which there are 2) are exclusive.

Then what do you mean by exclusive???

Quote by: dthmstr254 God was never going to have Abraham kill his son. otherwise, why put a ram in the bush? he destroyed Sodom of Gomorrah because He could not find even ten that were good (check his long conversation with Abraham), but he spared Lot's family-the wife that looked back. He commanded Israel to take the land promised to them long back and in the process a group of people whose descendants sook to destroy them were partially wiped out. twould have been better if they had been. there would be no argument over the Iraq war..

You don't know that. Just because at the last minute he decided not to. And actually, in my European history class, that was one of the sections of the Bible that was edited by the popes frequently in the middle ages. I'm sure God ordered his death and they knew it looked bad.

So God makes people, he knows they will be bad because he gives us free will...then he kills them...that makes sense. So many "bad" people. Yeah that's realistic. What a fairy tale. And the whole wife that looked back part, yeah that totally sounds like it was stolen from Greek mythology, or else that would be a really asshole move. The group of people didn't want their land taken away, no shit they were going to fight for it, even if the people who are taking your land crying out, "God wills it." Kind of like how you probably wouldn't leave your home if a Muslim man ran up and said, "leave now, Allah wills it."

Quote by: dthmstr254 not really, check your Bible. if they worship the cross, they aren't Christians according to it. it is an instrument..

Worship="The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object."

I rest my case.

Quote by: dthmstr254 correction there. we were saved not by silver or gold or material things, but by Jesus Christ. He is Lord. idols are dead twigs. my God is a living God. and because He lives, I can face tomorrow. because He lives, all fear is gone. Because I know He holds the future, my life is worht the living just because He lives.

Yeah, you're not afraid of anything, I mean you could like take on the world, couldn't you? And if he was dead, would you know it? Maybe you'd get a twitch in your eye or something, you know, some how your soul would sense it, though we have no idea where or how or why...haha, what a joke.

If money doesn't matter to you, then why don't you go broke and forsake money itself? Why aren't you outside begging like Jesus did?