HOW THE BIBLE CAN CHANGED PEOPLE LIFE ?

[goodlife]

Some people soon realized that if I was to please God, I would need to make some changes in my lifestyle. For example, I learned from the Bible in says at 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10: “Don’t you realize that this is not the way to live? Unjust people who don’t care about God will not be joining in his kingdom. Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, don’t qualify as citizens in God’s kingdom.”

[joko]

so the best reason you can give to believe in god (or at least pretend to) is merely to 'hedge your bets'?

basically - 'you may as well believe, as what what you go to lose?'...

that has to be THE worst reason, and excuse, for believing in god that i have ever heard!

it completely devalues all the words in the bible and all the things you so vehemently profess to believe - because you dont actually believe any of it - you are just saying you do because you dont want to get it wrong!

EVERYTHING you have claimed this far has been a lie then Goodlife... it has all just been false claims because you are too scared not to believe.

your endless copying and pasting and desperate attempts to 'turn' people have just been a smokescreen ... hoping that if god does exist and is watching, you are pulling the wool over his eyes and he will believe you are doing his work.

it also shows you doubt just as much as we do, but you feel safer sticking with the believer camp.

haha...oh dear goodlife... that last bit rather backfired a bit on you, didnt think it through properly did you?

you are a fraud - and if there is a god - he will know you are a fake.

[chakka35]

joko is right, goodlife. You're well and truly sussed. I suggest you now retire from this place of your undoing and take up beermat collecting.

[jomifl]

Modeller. I like your quote
" You may as well believe in God because its better than the alternative. "

The flaw in the reasoning of course is that we don't know what the alternative is. If the alternative is no god then I think I'll go for that.:-)

[beso]

jackthehat //With *no* apologies to the original author:
<<By such intimidation and mental bullying, masses of people are herded into the religionists’ camp. //

Well we don't know the original author except it would have come from a Jehovah's Witness publication.

The passage is too coherent for goodlife to have written it.

Goddlife's original prose is easy to spot because it rarely includes a complete and accurate sentence.

[beso]

BTW goodlife, we are still waiting for you to enlighten us on this thread which you seem to have overlooked.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Religion-and-Spirituality/Question1189985.html

[wildwood]

Dear goodlife. I admire you because of your tenacity to reject the obvious and decided to believe in your God.

I must however point out that according to your good book, a murdering criminal only has to confess to his Nibs and he will still pass the pearly gates, so why not fill your life with debauchery and repent just before your time to depart arrives?

[birdie1971]

Goodlife - “... If you believe that the existence of God is impossible to prove and have come to conclusion that he does not exist....consider this...”

You then go on to essentially state Pascal's Wager:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

You reproduce it here as if you're revealing some brilliant argument that cannot be countered and that no one else on AB has ever come across. Your ignorance is startling – Pascal's Wager is one of the most refuted arguments for the existence of god that has ever been produced.

At its hub is essentially a stupid and impotent god. From the above link:
“... it is absurd to think that God, being just and omniscient, would not be able to see through this deceptive strategy on the part of the 'believer', thus nullifying the benefits of the wager..”.

Perhaps if you took your head out of your Bible once in a while and attempted to emulate the AB atheists (and atheists in the wider world) by daring to educate yourself about the things that you *don't* believe in, maybe you wouldn't make yourself look so foolish and ignorant by posting an internationally renowned fallacious argument in support of your curiously and demonstrably vacant god.

I wait with baited breath for the inevitable 'cut-n-paste' response...

[Mamyalynne]

For some it works and that is all that matters.

[beso]

No it isn't all that matters. If the religous kept their bullsh1t to themselves that would be fine.

However they demand that public policy be dicated by their unsubstantiated faith and promote their sick philosophy to the vulnerable.

It will be fine only when the religious quietly go about their worship in private and stay out of public policy debate.

[goodlife]

Having read all comments.

All can say is you have all missed the point.

The comment was referring to you who do not believe !!

I have my belief 100%, I do not need to hedge my bets.

I am not a liar,a fraudster,or a gambler, unlike a lot of you!

You have nothing but criticsm to offer.

So I close my case.

[boxtops]

We've not missed the point - your 100% belief in your own faith gives you no tolerance to consider that other people also have a point of view.

Goodbye.

[naomi24]

Goodlife, //I am not a liar,a fraudster,or a gambler, unlike a lot of you!

You have nothing but criticsm to offer.//

So according to you we are liars, fraudsters, and gamblers – and we have nothing but criticism to offer?

Sort your head out Goodlife and understand that other people are adults and are perfectly capable of making their own choices. They don’t need you to tell them how to live.

[boxtops]

... and I am neither liar, fraudster nor gambler. I object to that.

[naomi24]

Boxy, don't take it to heart. It's confirmation that his Christian love for his fellow man is overflowing!

[vulcan]

Ah, the old "you have all missed the point" ploy.

[NOX]

I was a liar, a gambler and a fraudster but that was back in my youth when I was still a devout Catholic- I'm none of those things now, so how does that work exactly?

[Batexia]

So was I, but I am not a devout Catholic and don't intend to be one.
However, I believe, not because I want to hedge my bets, but because I choose to. Having studied a lot of different religions I find that there has to be some reason as to why we are here.

[emmie]

the only good use i can see, is to balance the table that is missing part of it's leg.

[emmie]

so how does that relate to Catholic priests who abused their flock.

[naomi24]

Batexia, //Having studied a lot of different religions I find that there has to be some reason as to why we are here.//

Perhaps there is a reason, but it doesn't follow that any religion knows the answer. They just think they do - all of them.