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You can not and will not find God by looking for worldly evidence, God, in general, does not work that way (though there are some exceptions). But whatever way God reaches a person, that person will have all the ‘evidence’ they could need. God choses the way to reach his children.
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If it’s not “worldly” evidence, it’s not evidence at all.
[QUOTE=kanicbird]
You were born of this world, you learned the way of this world, and you have gotten good in the ways of this world. Unfortunately this world blinds us to the spirit.
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Or there is no spirit.
[QUOTE=kanicbird]
The demonic/satanic kingdom has a vested interest in oppressing people to keep them away from God and His Spirit.
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Good for them, assuming they existed.
[QUOTE=kanicbird]
They do this in a way that produces exactly the untruths you are stating here. Denial of God, corruption of the goodness of God, denial of the word of God, denial of spiritual forces including the ones that are oppressing them, a sense of self righteousness. Such a person thinks they are acting on their own, but in reality is just a pawn of Satan. This is just one way the demonic/satanic kingdom works, there are other ways including working through some people who profess to be Christians, but are not, and they are responsible for turning others away from the true Christ.
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Yes, I’m a tooool of Satan, I am ! < head spins >
[QUOTE=mswas]
Christianity was an attempt to synthesize tribes into a universal cosmology so that different tribes could establish cohesion and organize in larger groups. The Roman Empire was not fettered by moral quandaries regarding the rights of the subjugated peoples, which Christians at least pondered.
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First, empires, including the Roman, managed that unification just fine without Christanity. Second, Christianity is about divisiveness and death, not unification; it is about seperating the world into the saved and unsaved, then converting or killing the unsaved. It didn’t spread to unify, it spread like a virus or the Borg, to convert minds into copies of itself, or kill those it couldn’t. It was about the destruction of cultures and free thought, not “unification”, save the “unified under one whip” variety of unification.
And the only moral questions the typical Christian pondered towards the conquered was how to more efficiently convert or destroy or exploit them.
[QUOTE=Omegaman]
You see what Der Trihs says to me and you see how I respond to him. With love.
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With arrogance, condescension, and smarmyness, not love. You strike me as the sort of person who’s too wrapped up in his egomania and religion to love anyone. Nor do I want to be “loved” by some total stranger; it’s creepy and stalkerish.
[QUOTE=Shawn1767]
Okay, apparently my question was lost in the traffic, but again, supposing we do “go” someplace after we die (after all isn’t that what the OP is about?) for all eternity, what do you suppose happens? For eternity? What do you “do” for an infinite amount of time?
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Assuming a human mind ( and this applies to real world immortality as well ), we’d probably start forgetting our previous experiences eventually, and be able to do them all over again and enjoy it. Assuming a “perfected” or transformed mind, we could go on for quite a while, changing ourselves/being changed to find new experiences; in the end, we’d likely get bored. I suspect that such beings might either turn to something infinite, like pure mathematics, to keep them occupied, or alter themselves so that something that has become boring ceases to be boring once they’ve not done it for a century or two. That would keep them from going nuts with boredom without putting them in an infinite loop of doing their favorite thing endlessly because they never bore of it.