RobertN Wrote:GrayBeard Wrote:Bourgeois_Rage Wrote:GrayBeard Wrote:What is going to happen to your soul when you die?
I don't know, and neither does anyone else, for certain. We also have no idea if a "soul" even exists. And if a soul does exist, what it is exactly.
I am certain!
Cool! Can you describe to me where in the body it is? I want to check mine. As of right now, I am going to Hell based on your tolerant God. I would like to see your nearperfect/perfect soul so I can compare the 2. Maybe get a transplant wouldn't be out of the question?
You are not going to hell based on "our" tolerant God. If you go to hell, you went there by your own personal choice. Right now there is an open invitation to heaven for everyone who wants to go. The good news is because of the events we just celebrated (i.e. Easter, death on the cross) even people like me, who aren't anywhere close to perfect, can get there. It is tough for me to understand how you can say that God wants you to go to hell, when He has made it so easy to escape it. Is asking you to believe in Him really that much to ask? If you choose not to, can you really blame Him or say He is intolerant?
If I send you an invitation to a party and tell you that I will give you a million bucks if you come and then I give you directions to the party and tell you what time the party starts and then you don't show up because you decided to watch T.V. instead, is it my fault you didn't get the million? Am I intolerant because I didn't come to your house, knock on the door, pull you out of the house and drag you to the party to get your million? Be reasonable.
To continue the party analogy, maybe a lot of people would tell you that I wasn't really giving away a million dollars to every party attendee, just like a lot of people say God doesn't exist. If you thought there was a chance that it was true, wouldn't you go? If you look at it from a risk/reward standpoint, what would you have to lose? One evening? With the potential reward of a million bucks? Seems like a good bet to me, especially considering the amount of remorse I would feel, if I found out after the party that it was all true and I had missed out.
I will get down off the soapbox now. I know many people here have already decided which way they will go on this issue. However, it does seem like kind of a cop out to blame someone else for a decision you make.
If anyone here has not made that decision and would like to discuss this further offline or would like more information feel free to PM me.