17 Dec 12
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYour comment appears to me anyway,
[b]Let's say there is no Christ...
If so, then in whom or what would you (and your family) place your confidence and trust?[/b]
that you don't seem to think that there
is an alternative to your christ.
Are you really that narrow minded?
Have you nothing else more positive to offer
than religious mumbo jumbo?
17 Dec 12
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyImpermanence. my feer. We 'll all die.
Scary prospect. Totally understandable that anyone walking about without any firm
confidence in their eternal address sure as heck doesn't want to be reminded of it.
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So what?
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17 Dec 12
Originally posted by black beetleHey, you old man, how are things going for you and your family with all the troubles in the news? By the way, your email address stopped working a few months ago. For awhile, I figured maybe you died and went to the Sicilian Variations Chess Club up there in the third skies. Then I thought, Nah, guy's much too higly rated to be allowed in there. Hmm, I thought again... maybe as an instructor or mentor for patzers like me. Let's have a nice game of chess early in the new year. (gb)
Impermanence. my feer. We 'll all die.
So what?
😵
It's been some time; I hope you and yours are good😵
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17 Dec 12
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI would tend to trust people whose behavior does not depend on whether there is a Christ, because I think those people would have a stronger reason to do what is right.
[b]Let's say there is no Christ...
If so, then in whom or what would you (and your family) place your confidence and trust?[/b]
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17 Dec 12
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI told you who I would tend to trust. You didn't like my answer.
So far the post by RBHill is the only one that replies to the OP specifically, rather than going around
the big barn to posit nothing of value. Beetle's "impermanence" strikes me as the most honest of all.
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17 Dec 12
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Originally posted by JS357In Grampy Bobby's "in whom or what would you (and your family) place your confidence and trust?" question, the "confidence and trust" he mentions apparently relates to telling himself he will have eternal life. So we can translate the OP as "If there were no Christ, what other figure promising eternal life would you believe instead?" It's a very specific question, it seems.
I told you who I would tend to trust. You didn't like my answer.
18 Dec 12
Originally posted by JS357JS (you, too, Wolfgang59), drive a specific automobile in which you place your confidence; you dine upon your wife's cooking whose cooking you trust; you work for an organization or group in whose market reason for being, mission statement or cause you believe in. Nothing tentative. No weasel words like 'tend' to trust or other vague verbal gestures. OP raises the explicit question, "... if there is no Christ in whom or what would you (and your family) place your confidence and trust? (gb)
I told you who I would tend to trust. You didn't like my answer.
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