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Soren, I think you are confusing: There is no evidence of god. And: There is evidence of no god. It is nonsense to demand evidence of no evidence, and I don't think anyone is claiming the latter. Nope. Not even remotely confused. Anyone who makes an affirmative statement of some kind needs to expla...

Thanks for all the lengthy responses...I find them all interesting. This one is controversial for many...but I say emphatically HELL NO :!: There are so many christians in my class so I'm sure I'll get backlash. I have to say that everyone has rewritten the bible, Koran,....how can anyone claim it ...

Sorry: I'm very poor at detecting the sexual orientation of droids.

Soren wrote: ...Prove me wrong. This won't get you very far. One of my twin daughters was teasing the other about her belief in Father Christmas; I told them that he is a spirit that enters all the daddies in the world. Prove me wrong. Easily. False analogy. Weak logic. Reductio ad Absurdum , an ob...

Don't thank him to quickly. However well intended, his reply is an irrelevant one. The question is not whether or not religion is about faith, but whether your belief that no one has "sacred scripture" is a faith belief. It appears now that it is. You don't know at all...you've chosen to b...

Astutely observed, thedoc, and concisely put. The strong claim (i.e. that no religion has a genuinely "sacred scripture" from God) is R2's claim. Thus he takes on himself a burden to show the proof for his assertion. As for the others, he gives us no reason to think he knows whether or not...

I guess what I'm trying to say is that no one can "ask" god if he wrote any of them therefore the answer is no. What is your evidence to support this statement? It can't be simply the fact that you personally don't know God...no one would bother to contest that, but it wouldn't tell again...

Kind of irrelevant, R2. I'm not sure how the failures of the Mormons are supposed to be damning to every other belief system...unless you somehow know they're secretly all Mormons, in some sense. And Mormons aren't committed to the Koran, nor Muslims to Torah. So it seems to me you've got apples and...

"He who has loved many women
Has loved none..."

Discuss.

Qman: A fair and an honest reply. I wish you well, and will say only a couple of things in conclusion to our conversation. As for Purgatory, I understand the rationalizations that have led to the existence of the concept as a fixture in Catholic theology. If acceptance before God is premised on the ...

Qman: Your so-called "early concept" is not purgatory, but "prayers for the dead," according to your website. It seems rather to confirm my earlier statement, and the certified Catholic sources I pointed you to earlier, say -- that Purgatory itself first appears as a Catholic tea...

That a concept predates the Bible is a non-sequitur for the idea that that makes it true. Many silly things predate sensible ones. Gnosticism also predates the Bible, as does sacrificing your sons to Molech in the fire. You missed the key point: my point was that Purgatory is not *in the Bible.* (Th...

Qman: If you mean the parable of the wedding feast, there isn't even a hint in that one that anyone removed from the feast *ever* gets in. As for the angels and the walls of Heaven, as you say, I can't even recognize any Bible passage to which you might be referring. Your second question: where do &...

Good people going to heaven is good
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Answer: Define "good."

Qman wrote:

Please review this web link, with some information concerning heaven, purgatory, and hell.

http://www.medjugorje.com/medjugorje/he ... -hell.html



Here, below, is everything the Bible has to say about Purgatory...










(That's right: absolutely nothing.)