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@FMF

Good one? Did I say something wrong?

You rarely say someting like that to me.
I mean rare like lips on a chicken.

For what it is worth to you, I and another Christian I know of considerabe experience have decided to get together and re-examine as if from ground zero, the entire concept of the lake of fire.

I told him about the debates here. And we have jointly decided to like "re-boot" with a clean slate the whole matter, coming to it with the re-examining attitude fair to naysayers such as Divegeester.

He is not a particpant in the forum here.
Pray for this. (That's right. Can it hurt to?)

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9) Maybe you should ask yourself which is worse for your mental health: Believing in hell or being a resident there?

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10. If, as you claim, humans were not been created in the image of God, how come we so obviously were?

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@sonship said
Did Jesus take our need to be saved seriously?
Or was it a frivolous matter to Him?
Well according to your interpretation of NT outcomes, he either didn’t take “our need to be saved” seriously, or he was just utter failure at it as he only saves an alleged “few” but personally oversees the burning alive of billions in a place especially designed by him in advance and for that very purpose.

Thanks for asking that great question.

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@sonship said
Can anyone demonstrate through careful textural criticism of the NT documents that all words spoken by Jesus concerning hell were actually concocted after New Testament was written and inserted by malevolent scribes artificially?
You love your hell and eternal suffering and your version of Jesus loves it too!

Good luck with the evangelism by the way.

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@sonship said
If eternal separation from God is a possibility should God leave the warning
ambigious, benigh, neutral, non-chalant, casual, possibly preferrable?

Or should He make it totally unambiguous that in no conceivble sense should such a fate be considered a good thing ?
Great question, seriously.
Here’s a thread about it which you mostly avoided.

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Can you give a positive reason why you believe what you do?

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11. How do you square the historical fact that Jesus rose from the dead - and so conquered death - with the fact you don't believe it?

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@kellyjay said
Can you give a positive reason why you believe what you do?
As well as the article in my OP about hell and mental health…

Have you also not been reading FMF’s replies to you on this topic for the last few years?

Apparently not!

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12. You say you don't believe that Christian believers are transformed by their faith and by the Holy Spirit, but why would God lie to everyone about this?

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@fmf said
3. How can someone have morals if they don't believe in a divine lawgiver?
There are certain standards that seem written into the heart/mind call it what you will. Certain things that are prohibited, an anathema to people irrespective of religious conviction. As though some concept of morals/law is already seated within.

A good example is Kiddie Fiddling (pedophilia) which is still a great tabu (but those good people on the UK are trying to fix that one ..... again unfortunately)

There is a law within.

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@divegeester said
As well as the article in my OP about hell and mental health…

Have you also not been reading FMF’s replies to you on this topic for the last few years?

Apparently not!
I read a lot of what FMF says to me; sometimes I agree, sometimes I do not. Nothing about that has anything to do with what I asked you, but there you go. I'll read it.

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@medullah said
Certain things that are prohibited, an anathema to people irrespective of religious conviction.
13. How can you see that certain things are prohibited, and anathema to people, and then say you don't believe in a divine lawgiver?

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Who am I, where did I come from, where am I going?

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14. Given the Genesis account of the creation of the universe, why in God's name are you still an atheist?

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