Answering an Atheist (2 points I want help with)

[Pallas_Athene]

By-passed due to needless repetition. Murdering an innocent is not an available solution in my ethical system. Not to save 2, 100 or the nation.

All one can hope is that you will never be in the position to let a zillion people to die due to your inaction. Now how can you reconcile it with the command that you should “love” others, even your enemies is something that I cannot understand. After all “love” might require you to make a sacrifice. In your belief system the greatest sacrifice would be to risk your eternal salvation. A mere physical death is irrelevant for believers. But you would not make that sacrifice, even if you strongly believe that a few, honest words of repentance would get you “off the hook”.

Pallas - restating firmly held positions on both sides of this debate is rather fruitless.

Indeed it is. Thanks for your contribution. As usual, I learned something new from it.

 

[frangiuliano115]

So clearly, you’re a person who knows everything. But I do have one question to ask you:

Is there life after death?

Didn’t you know Josie, there is no afterlife.

That’s the whole problem.

Some atheists read the bible so they could properly debate but it’s too bad none of it sinks in. Well, actually, sometimes it does and they convert.

Take the book of Ecclesiastes, for example. I’m thinking of chapter 2 titled “The Futility of Pleasure and Possessions”.

The author is trying to show that through his own experience, the best one could do is to honor and serve God. Why? Because he has come to realize that all else is futile. This is difficult to understand when all you’re trying to do is just have a good time and not think about God because it might be a hindrance to your lifestyle.

Or, you have big problems and so you assume God cannot exist, and sometimes this even brings one to stop believing in a God that could cause evil (pain and suffering).

So we use our own mental capacities to figure out life. But how woefully lacking!
Everything is relative, everything depends on how life is understood by TODAY’S standards - those standards are shifting all the time. New and modern problems arise that didn’t exist 100 years ago. It’s sad to think that some feel we could handle this using our own wisdom, when we see all around us such strife due to people being unable to come up with proper solutions.

And, you know what’s sad in the end? That those who mean well, like some posters here, do not even acknowledge their maker. Do they really think we are here by chance? That the universe came about by chance?

And if you don’t acknowledge your maker, how could you possibly go to be with Him in the afterlife?

Oh. That’s right - there is no afterlife.

So, yes. You bring up a critical question that would require answering. Does the energy die? Did the resurrection really happen? Who are those people in Luke 16:19? And who is this man Jesus? Was He God, or was He crazy?

Fran