Conversation with An Atheist

[Matthias]

I'm doing it because I'm interested in what Christians really think, when I say I'm not interested in what the Bible says, that's a response to people who use the Bible to dodge questions by either quoting it or by saying that I should know because I've read it.

Why are you interested in what Christians really think, especially Christians whom you believe “use the Bible to dodge questions by either quoting it or by saying that [you] should know because [you’ve] read it“?

I've now asked all contributors to this thread for their views on what the afterlife has in-store for them.
The only person that has half answered is you....
The silence from everyone else is deafening.

The question remains, what - outside of storing it in files in your ginormous brain - are you going to do with the information?

 

[Mancunian]

I didn't say that I'd got a ginormous brain, but thanks for the compliment.
Much like you, I'm interested in finding out what motivates people. You've been a pastor, presumably your motivation was and still is to spread the word of salvation. I'm interested in what you think it is that you are preaching.
Have you read the small print? Where is the detail? What is it that you're actually offering?

To me it's like recieving a gift and realising that you don't like it, but having no receipt to return it.
If the gift had been clearly explained beforehand, it could be politely declined.

What is the gift? Explain what the gift is in detail.

 

[Matthias]

I didn't say that I'd got a ginormous brain, but thanks for the compliment.

You don’t have a ginormous brain and that’s not where you keep your files.

Much like you, I'm interested in finding out what motivates people.

You already know who and what motivates me. I know the same about you. Then why do you suppose I’m asking you?

You've been a pastor, presumably your motivation was and still is to spread the word of salvation. I'm interested in what you think it is that you are preaching.

I’ve already told you -> the gospel of the kingdom that Jesus and the apostles preached.

Have you read the small print? Where is the detail? What is it that you're actually offering?

See again their preaching as preserved in the New Testament.

To me it's like recieving a gift and realising that you don't like it, but having no receipt to return it.
If the gift had been clearly explained beforehand, it could be politely declined.

You’ve already declined it. You’re a dead man walking. I don’t have any issue with that. Neither does God. He asks you to choose. You’ve chosen.

What is the gift? Explain what the gift is in detail.

Life.

 

[RLT63]

I'm doing it because I'm interested in what Christians really think, when I say I'm not interested in what the Bible says, that's a response to people who use the Bible to dodge questions by either quoting it or by saying that I should know because I've read it.
I've now asked all contributors to this thread for their views on what the afterlife has in-store for them.
The only person that has half answered is you....
The silence from everyone else is deafening.

See post #366

 

[Matthias]

See post #366

And the files he’s keeping on you in his brain.

 

[RLT63]

And the files he’s keeping on you in his brain.

I don’t think he knows that I was a Youth Pastor and I filled in for other pastors regularly. His file on me is incomplete

 

[Matthias]

I don’t think he knows that I was a Youth Pastor and I filled in for other pastors regularly. His file on me is incomplete

 

[Matthias]

No interest = willful ignorance.

The wild card? You say that you’ve read the Bible and that you’re re-reading it.

Reading = acquisition of information.

What does that say about interest?

What does that say about motivation?

It says that there is interest and that there is agenda -> the opposite of what was claimed.

It’s the agenda that the reader needs to know / understand in order to decide how best to proceed.

 

[Mancunian]

It says that there is interest and that there is agenda -> the opposite of what was claimed.

It’s the agenda that the reader needs to know / understand in order to decide how best to proceed.

I'm putting that in the file ' for the trash.'

 

[Matthias]

I'm putting that in the file ' for the trash.'

If you’re to be believed, it’s your brain that you’re filing it in. Your mind is filled with garbage.

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A general word of advice to my readers. Don’t file trash in your brain. Get rid of it.

 

[Matthias]

The question remains, what - outside of storing it in files in your ginormous brain - are you going to do with the information?

He hasn’t told us but he has shown us.

 

[Mancunian]

If you’re to be believed, it’s your brain that you’re filing it in. Your mind is filled with garbage.

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A general word of advice to my readers. Don’t file trash in your brain. Get rid of it.

Your readers?
Who are they? If anyone follows you and are interested in your vague comments, then I think that they need to demand a bit more from you.

 

[Matthias]

Your readers?

Yes.

Who are they?

Friends and enemies.

If anyone follows you and are interested in your vague comments, then I think that they need to demand a bit more from you.

Which brings us back to you and your godless purpose.

 

[Mancunian]

He hasn’t told us but he has shown us.

Are you suggesting that I'm not a fifty six year old man from Cheshire?
You're not trying to bring Satan into the conversation again are you?

Just answer my question Mathias.

 

[Matthias]

Are you suggesting that I'm not a fifty six year old man from Cheshire?

No. I believe that you are.

You're not trying to bring Satan into the conversation again are you?

No. He’s been here the whole time.

Just answer my question Mathias.

I have. You haven’t answered mine.

 

[Matthias]

Store it.