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Thank you for your hug. I return the compliment. But honestly, a smile would do. I like it when people smile. It means that they have, briefly, put aside the cares and woes of life, and are living happily in the now. Best wishes, 2RM.

It's certainly easier to be a good individual (ie, have a good way of being) as a believing Christian, but I would not like to dismiss those of any other faith or none. Best wishes, 2RM.

No, I had not thought of that. On the whole, I am content to let the Mormons be the Latter Day Saints they think themselves to be. And further on the whole, I was tackling them about their politics, rather than their religious doctrine, and the deployment of the world's wealth, on the grounds...

At this point in time, I reach no conclusions. I am leaving it to the forum to decide whether or not our world is the best of all possible worlds. I may add some thoughts to the mix, though, if I think them relevant as the conversation proceeds. Best wishes, 2RM.

On the contrary, what humanity makes of, and understands about, God, is certainly theology. Occasionally the total of evidence and reason outweighs traditional beliefs and practices, and these are discarded, and there you have it. Theological progress! Best wishes, 2RM.

Hmmm. What do think Jesus was about then? If He had not wrought a paradigm shift in theology, we gentiles would all be Jews or Pagans. Seems like theological progress, to me. Best wishes, 2RM.

Since my opinion has a direct impact on my 'way of being' and my way of being has a direct impact on my opinions, I do not see anything irrelevant here. I maybe ought to add that in my estimation, salvation is not through works, nor beliefs, but through the kind of person you are: your way of...

Scripture, to be sure, is not a philosophy, in terms of a rational world view. We can agree on that. But it may be thought of as a record of humanity's theological progress. And I still await your ideas on whose names are in the book, and whose names aren't. Best wishes, 2RM.

Uh huh. I will concede that philosophy deals with matters to do with truth that may or may not be true, but it seems to me that the slightest knowledge of higher matters can sometimes outweigh a complete knowledge of lower matters. In philosophy, we pursue a quest that we might never resolve...

Fine, thank you. I particularly like the tendency of philosophers to engage with the arguments, and refrain from insults and insulting innuendo. And I am still interested in how you think one gets one's name 'written in the book?' Best wishes, 2RM.

Does this organisation have a name, and a defined membership? Or are we just talking another paranoid conspiracy theory? Best wishes, 2RM.

You'll have to forgive me, but I am always suspicious of those who claim they know the one true path to salvation (one reason I am not a Catholic). Seems to me there are as many ways to heaven as there are people, given the correct attitude. And I am the ornery sort of critter that goes his own...

So, whose truth do you interpret and manufacture for your own purposes? Best wishes, 2RM.

So, am I to construe from this that you think the quality of afterlife we can expect to be predetermined, and there is nothing we can do to affect it? Because, if so, it doesn't seem to me to be a just arrangement, and if not just, not good, and if not good, not Godly. Best wishes, 2RM.

I'm interested to learn how a believer may be illegitimately saved? Best wishes, 2RM.

Hmmm. So for you, @An Apologetic Sheepdog, it all hinges of the definition of 'neighbour'? I'd be interested to know who you leave out of the classification of neighbour? For me, it hinges likewise, but I leave no one out of that class. In today's world, where communications and transport are...

I shouldn't worry about it, too much: Matthew 6:28-29 KJV And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Best wishes, 2RM.

Hmmm. I'm not a great fan of evangelical prosyletisation, preferring a good and Godly example. I think I would rather see the money spent on tattoos going to charitably succour the poor. This would seem to me both to save lives in our temporal space, and develop those spiritual attributes we...

So how do you account for the fact that when Jesus was asked: 'Who is my neighbour?' He replied with the parable of the good Samaritan? (I am sure I need not remind you that, at that time, the Jews and Samaritans were generally unfriendly towards each other). Best wishes, 2RM.