If you were to die today do you know where you would go?

**jitBob** · March 15th, 2005, 11:34 AM

I think that he posted this here to invite comment and now that he has comment those that disagree with him are lambasted? Nope, that ain't right.

Faith = Belief in that which you cannot see

Religion = How you worship your higher power, i.e., the mechanisim's of bowing, kneeling, fasting, ect.

I have faith and do not need YOUR religion.

**RejectionMan** · March 15th, 2005, 12:13 PM

my "philosophy" is that name any "religion" and im going to hell in it.

Pick one over another and you are surly doommed if you chose wrong.

Based on that why bother, chances are good im going to hell any way. That and according to the bible only 144000 will get in any way, im sure its full by now, unless they have only been accepting saints.

Also, im sure im in purgatory now, having to deal with users has to be punishment for somthing I did in a past life!

**iceman** · March 15th, 2005, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by RejectionMan

my "philosophy" is that name any "religion" and im going to hell in it.

Pick one over another and you are surly doommed if you chose wrong.

Based on that why bother, chances are good im going to hell any way. That and according to the bible only 144000 will get in any way, im sure its full by now, unless they have only been accepting saints.

Also, im sure im in purgatory now, having to deal with users has to be punishment for somthing I did in a past life!

What about the rest of us????

**meatwad** · March 15th, 2005, 12:46 PM

I was touched...by the power...on my unit...in broad daylight. Starring Lou Diamond Philips.

**gazzak** · March 15th, 2005, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by RejectionMan

That and according to the bible only 144000 will get in any way, im sure its full by now, unless they have only been accepting saints.

They need more real estate up there

**Ferrit** · March 15th, 2005, 02:32 PM

I got a bridge for sale and it starts with a B

**Commander Klarg** · March 15th, 2005, 04:25 PM

StoVoKor, of course.

**RejectionMan** · March 15th, 2005, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

What about the rest of us????

as the jhovas wittnesses they seem to have all the answers regarding the limitations.

**meatwad** · March 15th, 2005, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by RejectionMan

as the jhovas wittnesses they seem to have all the answers regarding the limitations.

It's heaven not Studio 54!

**Stalemate** · March 15th, 2005, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by RejectionMan

...according to the bible only 144000 will get in any way, ...

Not quite true.

Look it up.

**arch0nmyc0n** · March 15th, 2005, 06:12 PM

"If you were to die today do you know where you would go?"

Knowing my luck recently, I'd be kept outside the pearly gates fixing St Peter's old pentium 75 get on highspeed internet while it's heavily infected with all sorts of little demons...

**Khazad** · March 16th, 2005, 12:18 AM

Adept, there is a difference between the way you discuss your beliefs and what this guy just did. To pop in un announced and to start preaching at people is Pointless. If you're trying to educate people to your point of view, that attempt will only geberate contempt.

As for christianity. I was raised in a christian family, and lived as a christian for my entire life. It's just been recently that i've been looking through other religious and mythical text that i have found the the bible draws on books that were written before it was. And the biggest things i have found recently by evaluating my life is that there was too little sense in the events of my life for there to be some devine plan behind my existance. And the whole notiion of when things are bad in your life it's because you're being challenged, or punished, but when things are good it's not because you fought to obtain the small measure of happiness you've found, no god gave it to you. It just seems to belittle my struggles to get there. In the end i've found that i am not a godly man anymore, there is too much ambiguity about it, I however retain the moral constitution i was raides with in a christian home, so i have bercome a man of honour, not a man of god.

**Lost** · March 16th, 2005, 07:10 AM

It's interesting how two people can start out on the same road, but end up taking opposite paths. I was also raised in a christian home, never gave God too much thought while I was growing up, till I started to go through some really hard times, I couldn't make sense of it, I had nowhere to turn, but I started reading the bible, for myself, seeking for something, I don't really know what, and I grew closer to my faith, but because I wanted to, if I hadn't wanted to follow god, then that would have been my choice .

Then and now, if anyone tries to push upon me that their way is right and my way is wrong, it's instinct to tell em to back off, I am not about to have anybody tell me what to think, thats where ki went wrong, going to a group of people whom you've never met, and telling them they have to convert to your religion or they'll burn in hell for the rest of eternity...sharing you're religion is one thing, trying to scare people into converting is another, all that serves to do is to pervert the code christians live by.

**iceman** · March 16th, 2005, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by a d e p t

Not quite true.

Look it up.

Found this while looking it up

at BibleGateway.com...

Revelation 14

The Lamb and the 144,000

1Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

Interesting read... Soooo back to my question.... what about the rest of us?????

**gazzak** · March 16th, 2005, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by Lost

I was also raised in a christian home, never gave God too much thought while I was growing up, till I started to go through some really hard times, I couldn't make sense of it, I had nowhere to turn, but I started reading the bible, for myself, seeking for something, I don't really know what, and I grew closer to my faith, but because I wanted to, if I hadn't wanted to follow god, then that would have been my choice .

Now that's the sort of post that would make me think more about the bible than the first post in this thread, by a long way.