Nonbelievers to Hell!

[Penumbra]

I believe in the Almighty...as Creator.

Stands to reason....there is intelligent life.
Someone had to be first....in thought...in feeling.

He's been around for a long time.
Some say an eternity before us....and forever beyond us.

So you don't have faith in the Buddha? If not, your lack of faith might be showing.

Your worldview and his seem to be very different.

 

[Thief]

So you don't have faith in the Buddha? If not, your lack of faith might be showing.

Your worldview and his seem to be very different.

So Buddha is the Almighty?

 

[Penumbra]

So Buddha is the Almighty?

The Buddha rejected the concept of a creator deity. Deities in Buddhism are considered imperfect beings, and a Buddha is above them.

The details are irrelevant. My point is that faith in religion is not a positive thing. Any person who has faith in a specific given religion lacks faith in religions that directly contradict the religion they have specific faith in. Faith is simply not a good sorter of that which is true, and that which is false.

 

[Thief]

The Buddha rejected the concept of a creator deity. Deities in Buddhism are considered imperfect beings, and a Buddha is above them.

The details are irrelevant. My point is that faith in religion is not a positive thing. Any person who has faith in a specific given religion lacks faith in religions that directly contradict the religion they have specific faith in. Faith is simply not a good sorter of that which is true, and that which is false.

I don't follow a particular 'faith'. (rogue theologian)

No such thing as an Almighty?

 

[Penumbra]

I don't follow a particular 'faith'. (rogue theologian)

Yet from your posts you seem to have some pretty specific beliefs. The existence of an almighty, for instance, seems to be one of them.

No such thing as an Almighty?

Nope. Buddhism generally lacks such a concept.

 

[Thief]

Yet from your posts you seem to have some pretty specific beliefs. The existence of an almighty, for instance, seems to be one of them.


Nope. Buddhism generally lacks such a concept.

In all forms of life, there will be one...greater than all the others.

Life in the hereafter will likely continue in the same manner.

 

[Penumbra]

In all forms of life, there will be one...greater than all the others.

Life in the hereafter will likely continue in the same manner.

So basically you disagree with the Buddha. You lack faith in him.

By which process do you put faith in a given concept or person?

 

[Kriya Yogi]

Why does everyone think that Buddha didn't believe in God?

 

[Helio]

I was talking to my very Christian Aunt, and I told her that I follow Asatru. Now she knows me very well and really feels that I am a genuinely kind and loving person. I asked her, based on her beliefs, that even though I am not a Christian, would I go to heaven when I died, if it existed. She said no, I would go to hell for eternity. Me, a kind and loving person, would go to Hell and burn for eternity, all because I didn't accept Jesus as my saviour. That's outrageous to me....

....but ''HELL is GOD or SPIRIT'', you cant burn there..., and besides... people are allready burning in ''HELL'' because a ''SPIRIT'' is a form of flame or energetic ''FIRE'', and that is also what theyre made of, i mean people.:yes:

 

[Vigdisdotter]

Your lack of faith is showing.

And once again you avoid the points made.

By the way, I'm a theist. So spare me your sanctimonious pronouncements.

 

[Thief]

So basically you disagree with the Buddha. You lack faith in him.

By which process do you put faith in a given concept or person?

Have you tried standing still...looking up....and say to yourself...
There is no God?
With all the earth and what it contains, and all the heavens above you...
And there is no God?

And it remains....
Someone had to be first... in thought and in feeling.

 

[PolyHedral]

No. There does not have to be a first, except in the very strictest sense. (But that would require a precise definition of "conciousness", which you will not be able to provide without invoking something else) After all, there is no first "large" number.

 

[LuisDantas]

And it remains....
Someone had to be first... in thought and in feeling.

Not so. We are predisposed to assume that things must have a creator, but that is just a mental inclination, not a fact of existence.

 

[Thief]

No...really.

In regression...moving back in the progress of all things.....

Someone had to be first....and alone.....singular.

 

[Meow Mix]

No...really.

In regression...moving back in the progress of all things.....

Someone had to be first....and alone.....singular.

Can you support this "reasoning?"

 

[Kriya Yogi]

I agree all nature and beings had to come from a source. Everything in existance shows this creative and intelligent trend.

 

[AxisMundi]

Scripture agrees moral are developed outside because we all have an inborn conscience. [Romans 2 vs14,15; 1Tim 4v2]

How one's conscience is trained could determine whether a bored teen ends up blowing up and killing people. A hardened conscience can become calloused to the point of not having feeling.

How would atheism stop a bored teen or terrorist?

Feel free to list Atheist terrorists or "bored teens" deviod of a recognized mental condition who goes on a killing spree.

Every terrorist or "bored teen" I've heard of are ethier Christian, Muslim, or Hindu.

 

[AxisMundi]

I agree all nature and beings had to come from a source. Everything in existance shows this creative and intelligent trend.

No, it doesn't.

 

[Kriya Yogi]

No, it doesn't.

Name something that doesn't.

 

[AxisMundi]

Name something that doesn't.

Everything.