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</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by BrassMonkees:
Just some of my thoughts on these subjects. take them as you will
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Originally posted by BrassMonkees:
It is almost impossible, in today's technilogically advanced world, to have never heard the name of Jesus Christ.
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I'll take that as one of the most moronic things I've heard yet. Thanks for that. I'm sure all of the "infidels" over in the middle east who can't even get food are just rushing to their iMacs and laptops to read about the word of god right now.
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</font>[/quote]Well you followed up his "moronic" statement by one that was probably of straight ludacrisy (sp?). All of the "infidels" as you refer to have heard of Jesus Christ. I will bet my ass that they have some sort of faith in some religion one way or another. It is nearly impossible to live anywhere in the world and never hear about Jesus Christ. The keyword is nearly, there are a few very slim to none instances where people haven't.
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As for only 10% of the world ever having a chance after 33AD, well no. Before Jesus Christ, you had to make sacrifices to help cancel out your sins(atonement). But through His death on the cross, Jesus voided the need for sacrifices and now we can ask for forgiveness instead of killing animals.
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Are you forgetting the fact that the people of the ancient world, the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, never worshipped a Christian god? Yeah, they may have made sacrifices, but they sure as fuck were'nt directed toward whatever god you're talking about. What would the Christian god say? "Oh, well, they don't believe in my existence, but they are slaughtering animals for other gods, I'm sure they mean well, they can come to heaven."
P.S. Stop thinking inside your tiny box; you're not making any progress.[/qb]</font>[/quote]You simply stated a whole lot of idiocricy right there. Do you even know those other religions well enough to judge what they do and don't believe in? 99% of religions on earth main goal is to someday be in Heaven. They worship other gods who talk to the one and only god. Catholics don't "worship" the virgin mary however they pray to her because as they say "who knows god better than his own mother?". Those "other" religions still believe in god, they just have other means of trying to reach him.
oh yeah and titan:
P.S. Why don't you listen to brass seeing as he has more exposure to this than anyone else on the board and he himself is a Christian Ministry's major. Maybe he might be a little partial to christianity but challenging his knowledge of it is probably the wrong thing to do. Why don't you get out of your "tiny box" (the one where everything you say and do in your world is right) and realize that there are things out of your control that just may be true.
[ September 18, 2003, 03:24 PM: Message edited by: BigDongedHoe ]