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Offline Shuckins

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« Reply #45 on: June 07, 2005, 09:25:46 AM »
All that I have seen of the things of this world causes me to trust God for the things that I have not seen.

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« Reply #46 on: June 07, 2005, 09:34:33 AM »
Lasz,  did you know that there isn't a single reference to a literal, burning hell in the entire Old Testament.  That is solely a feature of the New Testament.

Which raises the question, "Where did the idea of a burning Hell come from?"

I've come to believe that it was the invention of ambitious, early church leaders who used it to frighten superstitious secular and religious opponents into submission.  I've come to believe that because the concept of a loving God casting his children into a lake of fire to torment them eternally is diametrically opposed to the very things that Christ taught.

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« Reply #47 on: June 07, 2005, 05:03:59 PM »
Hmmm read the stuff contained within the  address sent.

Don't see how the author got reincarnation out of those scriptures.  Thinking the versus actually refer to a spiritual rebirth and don't have anything to do with an actual reincarnation rebirth.

Care to share your view re this with me as I don't  seem to understand?

Gonna do the search now.
It's been said we have three brains, one cobbled on top of the next. The stem is first, the reptilian brain; then the mammalian cerebellum; finally the over developed cerebral cortex.  They don't work together in awfully good harmony - hence ax murders, mobs, and socialism.

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« Reply #48 on: June 08, 2005, 08:52:22 AM »
shuckins... I don't really care about a burning hell one way or the other... reading about it or it's origins does not interest me.

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