re: Hell is real. Non-Christians and unbelievers I would love your thoughts. I love you guys.

The number of people who have ever lived who never even heard the word Christianity is well into the billions

Not sure I can get on board any longer with a vision of god as an old angry dude who requires vicious blood sacrifice to satisfy his anger and who will subject you to eternal pain and suffering if you have impure thoughts or otherwise disagree.

Roman empire / dogma hijacked Jesus message of the creation being good, priestly intercession no longer needed, the kingdom of heaven being within, we're bound up in the nature of god and always will be etc.

A lot of people seem to equate love as being nice or a feeling. Love is a choice. Many good fathers discipline their children in love, many bad fathers spoil their children. Some are okay if the children don't respect the fathers word. Many have heard the term tough love as a teacher especially in situations to learn right from wrong.

God values His word and going against His word is a choice, He allows you to separate yourself from Him but also offers a redemption through Him. No one had to eat the fruit in the garden, but a choice was made, just as God allowed his creation of the serpent to make his choice, yet a redemption plan was put in motion, starting with the atoning blood of the animals. God used animal skin to cover them, which ultimately points to how Jesus's blood was the ultimate sacrifice (that of God Himself), which was much greater than of bulls and goats, or birds. He could have made everyone perfect robots, without a will of choice, but there is no love without choice. His choice to be the sacrifice to bring you back into His plan within His word is also His love for you. He is not going to force anyone to make the decision to be with Him, rather you make the choice, because you can't really give Him much other than your choice.

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Historians also told us a few hundred thousand Native Americans scattered across NA and SA hunted Wooly Mammoths to extinction. Which happens to be patently false.

Point is, history is what people want it to be, not what actually happened. You must leave the door open to "being wrong" to be intellectually honest.

Not saying Jesus was a myth, but I'm open to the possibility if proven otherwise.

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Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches.

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I've never in my life had a problem with anybody believing anything or putting faith and time into anything. But these kind of definitive statements about something so completely unverifiable is what people have a problem with and what gets these heated debates going. You can simply say "I believe this based on what I've studied", but saying "it's real trust me because I've done a lot of ministry" is, with all due respect, just not to be taken seriously. It's not one bit different than saying vampires are absolutely real, trust me because I've read Bram Stoker's Dracula for decades

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Are you willing to take that stance with origins? Instead of "we evolved from single-celled organisms", are you willing to say "I believe this based on what I've studied"?

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Are you willing to take that stance with origins? Instead of "we evolved from single-celled organisms", are you willing to say "I believe this based on what I've studied"?

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I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking if I believe our origin is from single celled organisms? If so I have seen scientific and feasible evidence that is true, so yes I believe that based on what I have read

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Jesus mentions Hell more times than he mentions Heaven.

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Does he say that it's your place to determine who is going there?

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Roger is one of the lowest pieces of scum on this site. He needs to hear the truth.

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Not to white knight for Roger (he can be obnoxious at times, although can't we all?), but that's a little extreme don't you think?

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Trust me. Heaven is real. Hell is real also. That statement comes from decades of ministry on God's good earth. As a young man decades ago I choose to pursue truth. I wanted truth. I found truth at the Foot of the Cross. My pursuit of truth led me to many many remarkable moments of clarity. But most of all it brought me to come to know a God who loves me so much He descended from His Throne and died for me.

Ultimately this exchange between Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ (aka God) captures the struggle between truth and falsehood, between good and evil, between God and satan.

"And Jesus answered, It is thy own lips that have called me a king. What I was born for, what I came into the world for, is to bear witness of the truth. Whoever belongs to the truth, listens to my voice. Pilate said to him, What is truth? - John 18: 37-38

Each of us must decide on his own. Truth or falsehood?

Please make your choice NOW! Pursue truth.

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What do you do for a living?

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Jesus mentions Hell more times than he mentions Heaven.

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Jesus mentioned Hades and Gehenna. He never spoke of Hell. Hell is a fabrication. The word Hell is from an old English word helan, which means unseen. Bibles mistranslates words often.