religion, again.

[Warren]

[Paul]

[TechMage]

[James S]

I really don't recall where in the Bible it says animals "don't have souls."
I'm going to read the Bible again soon, I need to catch up on it. PAX channel 12 says the end of days is near and all ... pfft. Something about the World Trade Center being the second Babylon falling. But the earth has been on the countdown to the end of days for a long time, it's always been the end of days, no matter what religion or lack there of you are. It's gonna end sometime.

The Bible does not say to hate gay people. It says it's wrong but it's they're choice. I don't know why some "Christians" make such a big deal out of opposing they're twisted interpretations on others. That's not how to convert people. And I really don't see what's so oppressive about Christianity, I mean rule wise. So you're not supposed to kill people, big deal... I don't know of any real "oppressive," "strict" Christian rules. Sorry.

[Paul]

[TechMage]

[TechMage]

[Bjorn Keizers]

[James S]

It doesn't say "Forgive and forget" anywhere, I can be pretty sure of that. "Forgetting" defeats the entire purpose of "forgiving." If you forget what you forgave then the forgiven will keep needing forgiven because the forgiver has forgotten what he forgave
Of course, only God can forgive people from their sins. All we can really do is say we're okay with it.

The Bible says it's not our place to judge. "Judge not lest yee be judged." It's not a Christian's place to judge homosexuals or other religions. God is the Judge and we need not trouble ourselves. The Bible teaches AGAINST bias and prejudice. This is why I keep saying that Christians that hate gays are not Christians and that that, those people and their actions, is not the Christian religion.

[EDIT] here we go. I just opened up my Bible and read something and here's what it had to say: "Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy." You see, the Bible doesn't teach Christians to hate or judge others. Some people do in the name of Christianinty, but, according to the Bible, the people that do that are wrong themselves.

[Warren]

But that says that there should be no punishment, that just let bad people be bad. Oh who cares, I don't feel like arguing.

You what's crazy in the bible, it says that it's a sin to....wack off. In the bible somewhere, this guy "dropped his seed" and god killed him. If this is true, then we're all sorry for Paul.

[Paul]

[James S]

[Paul]

[James S]

He died to be the perfect sacrificial offering that can take all of our sins so we are clean through Him. Jesus went to Hell after dying on the cross and was there fighting Satan for 3 days, on the third day He was victorous. He returned to life, rose again, to fullfill the prophecy and celebrate with His buddies, the 12 Apostles, then He went on to live the rest of His life and spread the word a little Himself. Maybe he married and had 12 thousand kids, we don't know any of that.

Now he's sitting at the right hand of our Father, the Lord Almighty, as the Bible verse goes. He will return some day to, 'judge the quick and the dead.' His return IS what is prophecied in Revelations, the end time. That's when He, Jesus, comes again to judge what people have done in they're life. All companies of Hell and Heaven will be brought to earth (raised from the dead) to be judged by the Lord along with those still living. This is the Judgement Day. But that's plenty after tons of other stuff happens on Earth, the signs. But during the Judgement you could have been in Hell, not ever having known Jesus Christ before, but if you lived your life according to His Law then you will then be saved. And Christians that washed their sins through the Blood of Jesus could be terrible people and then sentenced to eternity in Hell after the Judgement.

[Paul]