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CleveTown™ wrote: well ok, i get what your saying. No one wants to listen to a guy constantly rant about the Bible per se. But I don't. Maybe once or twice a month I'll have a big production, but it's not an every day thing.

And I'm saddened that you read the Bible with such a closed mind. Perhaps you read it with preconceived notions? It's fiction. Not real. That would dampen your experience.

You don't NEED the Bible to be saved. You need to believe in Jesus and accept what Him dying on the cross means for you, though.
I read the Bible in my teenage years...as a believer. My parents both believe in God. My Father died believing in God. I made my own mind up over the years. The stories/scriptures/timeline/dogma........is just too unbelievable to me. There is no closed mind here. I give everything a fair shake, but I can't place my faith in that book. It simply doesn't make sense and the only thing that would possibly lead me back to it is the FEAR that I'll be punished if I don't.

FEAR is no reason to believe in an all-loving deity.
Ok. You can't believe in a Book. What about a Creator? Surely you are intelligent enough to know that there was some sort of Intelligent Design behind everything we see....I mean right? You have to. What person wouldn't?
Intelligent Design is neither intelligent, nor design. It is a fantasy theory without empirical evidence.
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I read the Bible in my teenage years...as a believer. My parents both believe in God. My Father died believing in God. I made my own mind up over the years. The stories/scriptures/timeline/dogma........is just too unbelievable to me. There is no closed mind here. I give everything a fair shake, but I can't place my faith in that book. It simply doesn't make sense and the only thing that would possibly lead me back to it is the FEAR that I'll be punished if I don't.

FEAR is no reason to believe in an all-loving deity.
Ok. You can't believe in a Book. What about a Creator? Surely you are intelligent enough to know that there was some sort of Intelligent Design behind everything we see....I mean right? You have to. What person wouldn't?
Intelligent Design is neither intelligent, nor design. It is a fantasy theory without empirical evidence.
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CleveTown™ wrote:
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CleveTown™ wrote: Ok. You can't believe in a Book. What about a Creator? Surely you are intelligent enough to know that there was some sort of Intelligent Design behind everything we see....I mean right? You have to. What person wouldn't?
Intelligent Design is neither intelligent, nor design. It is a fantasy theory without empirical evidence.
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I still can't grasp the concept of where God came from.
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CleveTown™ wrote:
Robceltsfan wrote:
CleveTown™ wrote: well ok, i get what your saying. No one wants to listen to a guy constantly rant about the Bible per se. But I don't. Maybe once or twice a month I'll have a big production, but it's not an every day thing.

And I'm saddened that you read the Bible with such a closed mind. Perhaps you read it with preconceived notions? It's fiction. Not real. That would dampen your experience.

You don't NEED the Bible to be saved. You need to believe in Jesus and accept what Him dying on the cross means for you, though.
I read the Bible in my teenage years...as a believer. My parents both believe in God. My Father died believing in God. I made my own mind up over the years. The stories/scriptures/timeline/dogma........is just too unbelievable to me. There is no closed mind here. I give everything a fair shake, but I can't place my faith in that book. It simply doesn't make sense and the only thing that would possibly lead me back to it is the FEAR that I'll be punished if I don't.

FEAR is no reason to believe in an all-loving deity.
Ok. You can't believe in a Book. What about a Creator? Surely you are intelligent enough to know that there was some sort of Intelligent Design behind everything we see....I mean right? You have to. What person wouldn't?
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Macrotus wrote:I still can't grasp the concept of where God came from.
Haven't you read the special pleading argument from Clevetown yet?
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Macrotus wrote:I still can't grasp the concept of where God came from.
nobody can. it is beyond the human brain to understand. We will fins out when we go to heaven, Im sure He will tell us. That's IF you get to heaven.
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Madnessssss wrote:Clevetown, how about you open your mind and consider the points the atheists/agnostics in this thread have made? God gave you the ability to use reason and logic. If you use it, you'll discover there is no God. Your ability to use reason and logic is actually an evolutionary trait that humans used to survive and eventually dominate this planet.
when you can show me something appearing out of thin air, that was not created yet was made, i'll consider it. Until then, why don't you AGREE with the science that you love to use in your arguments against God and see that SCIENCE tells you you nothing can be created from nothing.
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CleveTown™ wrote:
Madnessssss wrote:Clevetown, how about you open your mind and consider the points the atheists/agnostics in this thread have made? God gave you the ability to use reason and logic. If you use it, you'll discover there is no God. Your ability to use reason and logic is actually an evolutionary trait that humans used to survive and eventually dominate this planet.
when you can show me something appearing out of thin air, that was not created yet was made, i'll consider it. Until then, why don't you AGREE with the science that you love to use in your arguments against God and see that SCIENCE tells you you nothing can be created from nothing.
As has already been shown to you, again and again, the quantum mathematics demonstrate that something from nothing is quite possible.

I suggest you look into a 19th century book titled "Flatland"
It imagines a two dimensional world coming to grips with third dimension phenomenon.
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CleveTown™ wrote: neither, actually. You never gave a credible or realistic reason why you think there isn't a God.
you have it backwards.

the onus is on you to prove the existence of your god. one shred of evidence would be enough.
Not that the evidence is not there, because it is, but the Bible requires that you have faith in Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross if you have ever chance of getting to heaven and seeing his face.

That's it! It's a free gift! And yet many still refuse it. They would rather live the way they want and Die in their own sin. Well I have a good news in Jesus Christ. And that's that he died in your place if only you would believe.
yeah.... well if proof ever surfaces then we can talk. until then, you are a willing participant in a mass delusion.
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yeah.... well if proof ever surfaces then we can talk. until then, you are a willing participant in a mass delusion.
No, on the contrary, YOU are the one who is under a strong delusion. And you will pay for with your SOUL.
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yeah.... well if proof ever surfaces then we can talk. until then, you are a willing participant in a mass delusion.
No, on the contrary, YOU are the one who is under a strong delusion. And you will pay for with your SOUL.
a soul? what the fuck is that?

it sounds like more made up bullshit.
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town bidness wrote:
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yeah.... well if proof ever surfaces then we can talk. until then, you are a willing participant in a mass delusion.
No, on the contrary, YOU are the one who is under a strong delusion. And you will pay for with your SOUL.
a soul? what the fuck is that?

it sounds like more made up bullshit.
when you die your body decomposes. But your soul, the real YOU, leaves your body. It is mentioned all throughout the Holy Bible. Every Word in the Holy Bible is TRUE. Can you tell me one lie? I can tell you tons of prophesies that have came true, but even that isn't enough to persuade you that the Bible is pure truth. So sad how deluded you are.
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CleveTown™ wrote:
town bidness wrote:
CleveTown™ wrote: No, on the contrary, YOU are the one who is under a strong delusion. And you will pay for with your SOUL.
a soul? what the fuck is that?

it sounds like more made up bullshit.
when you die your body decomposes. But your soul, the real YOU, leaves your body. It is mentioned all throughout the Holy Bible. Every Word in the Holy Bible is TRUE. Can you tell me one lie? I can tell you tons of prophesies that have came true, but even that isn't enough to persuade you that the Bible is pure truth. So sad how deluded you are.
Prophecies.....pfffft...
youre a sucker, plain and simple.
why don't you leave these nice people alone...your way isn't the right way, it's just the right way for you.
are you telling me that only Christians get into heaven?
don't be a moron. And if God is so great he wouldn't descriminate,
what kind of garbage is that...
God is so good and holy but if you don't bowed own to him and suck on his balls you will burn in helll...
fuckmthat, that's not the kind of organization I would want to be a part of..and I don't care about the bible, it's only a book..stop basing your life on it...
plus Hell would be far more fun, cooler people, sex, drugs...etc...
who the fuck wants to spend eternity in a G rated existence....
G is for God and G is for gay...
you are gay


Stop trying to preach this shit, it's played out..your message didn't work..you aren't a valid extention of God's word,...
your just a wannabe Christian who thinks drugs drinking and sexing are sins, they arent. They are simple victimless acti9ns...relax hoss
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