notme2000,
I understand that your not attacking my beliefs, it was the "faith makes you ignorant" statement that upset me.
And I notice there was no reply to my dictator remark. I'm not stating this as the truth. Simply an interesting thought... You understand my premise right? What if Satan DID take over heaven, and has been passing himself of as God ever since. This explains all the atrocities atrributed to religion... And I still don't see why satan is so bad for offering a bite from the tree of knowledge... What is so wrong with knowledge? Learning for yourself? God offerend blissful ignorance, Satan offered the truth...
I must of skipped over that part, replying to two people at the same time is difficult ya know?
I always say that you should learn the truth for yourself, but what your saying is that God is a power hungry dictator that wants to throw every man, woman, and child into a firey hell for all eternity. I think that this is wrong. And yes it is a possibility and the thought has crossed my mind that maybe God is Satan and Satan is God. So I understand that more then you know.
God created hell and put Satan in it... And he's the one who put ALL it's inhabitants there
Yes, for being evil.
How do you know? The bible? In your words "Don't believe everything you read"
Yeah dont believe everything you read. But what you read is the truth sometimes. Its like this with the bible; it's 2,000 years old. If Im going to read that book I need to realise that it was made in a time that is completely different from ours. Its from an old world, not the current one. It also has been translated again and again, misread, and Im sure that the bible might be missing a few pages/chapters. Thats why you have to figure out the truth for yourself.
I don't believe any of it... But the same should apply to you, you are trusting Satan is bad from a book inspired by God, his professed enemy...
Maybe Im wrong on this part. GOd does not hate, God only loves. He doesnt hate satan, read your bible (I know even thought your a atheist that you have one somewhere). He still loves satan, its just somethng that we cant understand and shouldnt understand. Whatever it is between them Im sure that they have figured it out by now, that would explain why I havent seen Satan/God walking around in Eden lately.
What's wrong with chaos? If our universe is chaotic then that means it's up to you to make your life bearable. Up to the challenge?
Actually the universe is not chaotic. If Im correct Ive heard scientist after scientist say "There is a method to the madness." With science everything is suppose to make sense. Some science is just beyond us, the theory of everything.
Notme2000, you have good ideas, just read your bible some more to understand it so that you can come back here and debate me to where you piss me off because I might be wrong.
-CounslerCoffee