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Date Posted: 21:16:56 08/12/00 Sat
Author: Eris23
Subject: Re: and the quote of the day comes from bible thumping James...
In reply to: steve 's message, "and the quote of the day comes from bible thumping James..." on 21:07:04 08/12/00 Sat

Here here, steve :)

> In the atempts to stimulate though, I have been
> engading in Debate about Hell on Jame's 'cool message
> board' how some have fallen on their face...get aload
> of this remark from James...
>
> "Once again you've adeptly missed the point. Good
> deeds do not mean you will go to heaven. They are
> filth to God unless they are done out of love for HIM.
> Not love for man. It would not matter how many
> people's lives he saved. I mean he was a good man by
> OUR standars, but not according to God's. Nobody is
> good according to God's standard and we are all worthy
> of Hell. All of us. All of us. All of us. But Jesus
> was not worthy of Hell. He deserved to go to heaven.
> He deserved to live forever, because he was sinless.
> But instead he died and took our sin upon Him. those
> who believe that and accept that and live that are
> forgiven. Those who do not are not. It doesn't matter
> how good we are"
>
> -James Courtney
>
> Filth...you heard it right, christianity is now
> promoting that humanitarian deeds are filth...
>
> ...this screams out to me across the web like a fog
> horn in the night as Danger to all who oppose us...
>
> ...This is not love that he speaks of, it is
> jealousy...
>
> ...this christian conception of God is so similar to a
> jealous dictator...
>
> ...and the people so loved adolph hitler for
> delivering them from the depression, they turned there
> heads as he ushured millions of jews to their death...
>
> ...and the people so loved their christian idols, they
> where deaf to the words that their conception of God
> is damning good people who work for their love of
> others to change the world and brighten the bleak
> suffering of other people...for nothing...they have no
> dreams of some golden reward besides healing
> others...totally selfless, and more in the image of
> Jesus then anything I could imagine...
>
> ...yet if they don't surrender their will, if they
> where raised cuturally different, they are Damned to
> eternal perdition? This is not love, this is
> jealousy...
>
> ...it might as well say, that God is so jealous of
> those who would correct the decaying fruits of his
> creation and ease suffering, that he so damned them
> for not accepting a shitty situation...
>
> ...the fear instilled by christianity limits us my
> friends...
>
> ...I am not saying turn away from your God, what I am
> saying though is, cease to fear hell...cease to be
> controled by a bunch of people who will extort you and
> say they speak for God...cease to fear limits...
>
> ...end the hold of the control freaks, and lets build
> heaven as we where intended to...

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Re: and the quote of the day comes from bible thumping James... -- steve, 21:47:02 08/12/00 Sat