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lynnc35

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To those that don't believe or choose to not care, are you in the least afraid of where your soul goes when it leaves the flesh?

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2012, 05:43:22 am »
I'm an atheist and I'm not afraid, I know that my body will rot in the ground when I die.

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2012, 06:08:36 am »
To those that don't believe or choose to not care, are you in the least afraid of where your soul goes when it leaves the flesh?

Now if I were scared I would choose to believe in the same imaginary stuff you do, wouldn't I?

Your question is flawed on so many counts...you are equating "belief" with "proof of existence", which is pretty funny because "belief" implies the subject is not proven in reality.

Secondly, you are confusing one's personality with this magical concept of a soul.  Personality is a proven byproduct of the brain; a "soul" is an unproven invention of religion.
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2012, 03:38:23 pm »
Everyone goes to heaven. Don't you watch "Long Island Medium" on TLC?

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2012, 06:31:39 pm »
It is sad to see the responses I get to this question, but the road is narrow and I pray that something comes into your life that reveals Christ to you. I have seen things that secure my belief, so anything an athiest could ever say couldn't move me, but I pray for the ones that our run by satan, because doubt is his number one tool, to place it in your head so you do not see the truth.

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2012, 06:50:19 pm »
no i'm not.  There doesn't HAVE to be a place we go.  We could just be gone.

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2012, 06:50:37 pm »
Anywhere is better than here, especially after you watch the evening news.   :BangHead: :angry7: :BangHead: :angry7:

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2012, 11:59:44 am »
So the devil was forced to run hell by God? As punishment. No one wants to be in hell, including the devil. Because hell is awful. Even for the guy who runs it, the devil.

If it were so bad, wouldn't the devil just put out some of the fires? Maybe put in an air conditioning system.
OR.... Are you telling me that God gave Satan the power to make me vote for Barrack Obama but NOT the power to provide himself reasonable living conditions? Please clarify.

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2012, 01:40:15 pm »
HELL NO!!!!! I will go in a furnace and turn into ashes when I die-where are you goin'??? :thumbsup:
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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2012, 03:39:17 pm »
I do believe in God, but I'm not afraid of where I'll go.  I think our souls are infinite and moving closer to God and even though we're all progressing at different rates, we'll all get there eventually....

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2012, 02:43:32 am »
... the road is narrow and I pray...

Well, your religious perspective does narrow your mind ...

... that something comes into your life that reveals Christ to you. I have seen things that secure my belief...

No doubt you are inaccurately attributing an effect to a false cause, (unless you can provide evidence which directly attributes such effects to a specific deital cause?)

... so anything an athiest could ever say couldn't move me ...

Proudly blind and not open to reason?

but I pray for the ones that our run by satan, because doubt is his number one tool, to place it in your head so you do not see the truth.

It's 'are', not "our" and didn't your mythology claim that lies were that archangel's main tool, (maybe they meant jhvh's main tool was lies).
One can lead a horse to water however, if one holds the horse's head under, that horse will drown.

             

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2012, 05:25:50 am »
As I have always been told: "I would rather die a believer and find out that He doesn't exist, than to be a NON-Believer and find out he DOES"

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2012, 05:57:57 am »
As I have always been told: "I would rather die a believer and find out that He doesn't exist, than to be a NON-Believer and find out he DOES"

There's that "gambler's fallacy", (in an abbreviated form of Pascal's Wager). "Since there have been many religions throughout history, and therefore many conceptions of God (or gods), some assert that all of them need to be factored into the wager, in an argument known as the argument from inconsistent revelations. This, its proponents argue, would lead to a high probability of believing in "the wrong god", which, they claim, eliminates the mathematical advantage Pascal claimed with his Wager."

No one had to tell me that it is better to not waste life believing superstitious nonsense than to face it head on.
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One can lead a horse to water however, if one holds the horse's head under, that horse will drown.

             

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2012, 05:03:11 am »
I believe in GOD but im not sure where we will go.....what im trying to understand is why spirits are still here on earth? u hear about these ghost hunters that see and hear these spirits that have died many years ago....The question is y are they still here? Are they lost? do they know they are even dead?

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Re: If you don't believe in God, Are you afraid of where you may go?
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2012, 06:31:36 pm »
It is sad to see the responses I get to this question, but the road is narrow and I pray that something comes into your life that reveals Christ to you.

The road IS narrow and sadly, many that think they will be in Heaven are going to find out they won't be.  This really hit home for me this past week when I saw a video clip of a pastor that died and an angel showed him Heaven.  Then the angel showed him Hell.  After he watched & heard the tormented, the angel told him that if he had died that day, there in Hell is where he'd be.  The pastor asked how that could be, he was a pastor.  The angel said it was because there was unforgiveness in his heart.  If one can't forgive others, God can't forgive them.  One can't sow unforgiveness and then reap forgiveness.  The pastor was told to come back and tell others.   He was so lucky to have gotten a second chance.

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