Isn't it just delightfully curious how different people always seem to show up in these threads with wildly different beliefs (those before Christ are saved/damned), and yet each of them are 100% convinced that they have the Truth?

Who would need a better reason to call all of it bunk? People have been believing BS for hundreds of thousands of years. Adam, Eve, and original sin is just the cult du jour.

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Posted by Mr. Misanthrope

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Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:57 am to OMLandshark

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...and don't demonize you as being a subpar person.

I don't know about that. There are rules and then there are Rules.

Three ladies, a Baptist, a Roman Catholic and an Episcopalian died and were on the elevator down to hell. During the ride each tried to clarify what had landed them in their respective predicaments.

Baptist lady: I realize I'm doomed because one Saturday the husband and I went out dancing.

Roman Catholic lady: Not me, I going because of the birth control pills I took.

Episcopalian lady: (putting away her compact, lipstick and adjusting her gloves and taking a final look at herself in the mirror) I too have reflected long and hard and have just come to realize that during a dinner party at our home in Oxford the night before homecoming, I ate the entire meal with my salad fork.
An Episcopalian insider joke, sorry, couldn't help myself.

I can apparently resist everything but temptation.

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Posted by JudgeHolden

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Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:24 am to Tigerlaff

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100 convinced that they have the Truth?

I'd ask you to re-read a little before you say that. Doubt is an integral part of faith.

You reject because those with differing views on God seem totally convinced. They can't all be right, so none of them are.

That begs the question some. Call it bunk if you want. Maybe it is for you. I might very well be a mystical moron. I've certainly felt that way at times. But please, please don't do an end around on the question because you think I'm an idiot.

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Posted by The Dutch Oven

Member since Jul 2014

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Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:59 pm to Starrkevious Ringo

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Oh. You mean, someone came along a hundred years later and TOLD everyone Jesus said this.

Correct

And somehow by accepting religious views(only the ones that are most popular in said area) you are able to speak with the maker of all of time and space

I have my doubts

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