[Grauzone]

Originally posted by Urendi Maleldil:
If God wants to destroy us, that's his perogative. He made us after all. And it won't be because he's evil. It will be because he's righteous, we are most definitely not.

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Death is the only way out of our predicament. You can either die yourself, or accept the death of Jesus and let him give you a new life. Both choices Last a very long time. And both are permanent.

I understand your position. Here is an other point of view:
there is no GOD. religions are life philosophies, helps people to live ther life with less fear of death and other unpleasentnesses of ther life.

on this basis we can compare religions in the life they induce. from this position bible is an philosophy book and we can discuss it as such. this book describes tho very different philosophies: old one (before JC), new one (introduced by JC). i like only one of them (the second) as life philosophy, but old testament is more exciting as story. Also we can consider GOD as an actor in this story.

But religion is private issue of every human (or alien ). And it is not my intension to harm feelings of other people. I'm not dogmatic and accept that GOD may exist. Or many other Gods, i do not discriminate other religions. I have no proof of their existence or nonexistence.