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By your own admission, you're an ex-pastor. That should put is on even footing.

Then the question will go unanswered because I do not trust or respect pastors.

My behavior? What are you talking about?

You should have said that in the beginning. Why do you question my motives? Isn't curiosity enough?

That's a cowardly way to dodge a question.

What good things do bad men achieve?

Oh, okay. So we're good then. :phew:

Don't say that too loud. @Matthias might hear you. :funlaugh2

If he's God, wouldn't the question be rhetorical? :IDK:

So do most people. But I don't think it's anything to be afraid of. That being said, it doesn't go over well with church goers. They want Christianity to be a certain way. They want to immediately go to heaven upon death. Nonexistence, even if for just a blink of an eye, sounds terrible...

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but I don't think you should go around calling other people savages when engaged in civil discourse. And we return to that state of nonexistence after death as well, Christian or not.

It's simply an explanation. Why are you so afraid of dying anyway? We've already experienced death before: the time before we were born. I knew a Christian once that believed Christians that believed in a spherical earth were going to hell.

No. Evolution doesn't promise anything. Then why do so many, the majority in fact, believe it?

99.9% of all the species that have every lived on this planet have gone extinct. Evolution doesn't promise anything. It explains the diversity of life that we see around us.

An incomplete creation? Where does it say this in the bible?

You know, you're kind of cheating by having this AI in your corner. What are your thoughts on the other planets that exist in the solar system? I ask because what if humanity manages to colonize another planet before Jesus returns? It would make rebuilding the temple somewhat of a moot point...

Why did they think that though?