GhostontheNet wrote:To be quite honest, that life is meaningless and only annihilation awaits humanity after death, that though there was ample reason to believe that the trinitarian YHWH exists, He nevertheless didn't.
kaemmerite wrote:Hmm...that's a tough one.
I'd have to say first and foremost (and this is gonna sound REALLY bad, but it isn't intended) is that people once again become super-patriotic like they did after 9/11, where if you even said "I think the government sucks" you were frowned upon and even called a terrorist in the worst cases. I think that fanatical devotion to an earthly organization/government is extremely dangerous. Since God isn't earthly, He doesn't count.
That my greatest fear is that our faith is in vain, that though there was compelling reason to believe that YHWH (Hebrew name of God in the Old Testament, usually translated LORD in all caps, though it can also mean the EVER-LIVING) exists, He never in fact did. That all life was for naught and that the fate of all men is to have all consciousness destroyed forever, as a common pagan grave inscription in the Roman era had it, "I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care." And that not only I go through this fate, but untold generations of humanity had to and will have to to endure brief lives filled with suffering for no reason at all, and to likewise forget all they ever felt, all they ever thought, and their very existence. If such were true, I think it would have been better that life had never had the misfortune of coming into existence. That we had believed a false hope that we had the misfortune of spreading to others, that because there was no God the universe would end merely by suffering from thermodynamic heat-death where all energy is conserved but none is usable for anything anymore. In truth, that is my greatest fear.Destroyer2000 wrote:What the heck is that supposed to mean?
Don't get my wrong, I believe that YHWH of the Bible exists beyond a reasonable doubt, but that there are times when an unreasonable doubt sets in, with disasterous implications. I will not still call myself an agnostic, those days are over, merely that though the fear rarely takes force, it nevertheless exists and counts as the greatest. If you are a fool for believing the Gospel, then so am I.true_noir_chloe wrote:Wow, Ghostonthenet, I'm not even going to comment on that. I guess you will forever wander around unsure. For me, I am very sure of Who my God is, and that He is the great Creator of all life and His Son, Jesus Christ the only way of salvation. If I am a fool in believing, then count me a fool (I Corinthians 1:25-31).
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