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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:44
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rbwinn wrote:
> On Jul 4, 3:14 am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
>> rbwinn wrote:
>>> On Jul 3, 6:39 pm, hhyaps...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Jul 3, 9:43 pm, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 3, 6:05�am, "Alex W." <ing...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:f807e4d0-b40f-4cb8-bb4c-12f00021898d@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>> Well, the scriptures say that the wicked would be more miserable in
>>>>>> the presence of God than with the devils in hell.
>>>>>> ===========
>>>>>> In other words, since we are all sinful by definition, the smart choice is
>>>>>> to aim for hell in the first place. �Nice morality ....
>>>>> No, the smart choice is to repent of sins.  However, atheists claim
>>>>> that nothing they do is sin, so they are not going to repent.
>>>>> Robert B. Winn
>>>> So, what you have written so far is sin, please repent fast, real
>>>> fast.
>>>> However, since you loons always can ask for forgiveness, whatever sin
>>>> committed never matters.
>>>> We, OTOH, always careful to make sure we do the lawful and un-sinful
>>>> things.
>>>> That is the real difference between loons and atheists (or normal
>>>> people).- Hide quoted text -
>>>> - Show quoted text -
>>> Right.  So when atheist Josef Stalin killed 12 million people, he was
>>> careful to do it in the lawful and un-sinful way.
>> Yup. He slept as peaceful as a babe.
>>
>> He had redefined sin to be anything he personally wasn't and didn't
>> like, or want to happen.
>>
>> About the same as your average fascist Christian.
>>
>> Sin is what you think it is.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> I think sin is wilful disobedience to God.

There you go! sin is what you think it is.

Which is waht I dsaid.

*I* think sin is disregarding all the data that the world presents you 
with, and adhering to a musty old book that wasn't what you claim it is, 
even when it was written, out of sheer intellectual laziness, emotional 
weakness and spiritual pride. But that's only what  *I* think. YMMV.
.
Go ask Jesus.



> Robert B. Winn
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From: The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
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