[Vision2020] Everyone Deserves Death

[Donovan Arnold]

Ralph,
   
  So your argument is; you don't believe in the afterlife because of a few cherry picked quotes taken out of context from a book you don't believe is true and written by an omniscient being that you don't think exists?
   
  OK, do you know of anyone that is persuaded by your argument?
   
  Ralph, you don't know that there is no afterlife, because you cannot know that.
   
  Best Regards,
   
  Donovan

Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu> wrote:
  
I already gave you the answer, Donovan. I wrote:

If people knew that there is no life after death, only life before 
death,
they would live their lives more realistically.

And if the religionists would read the Bible more carefully, they
would know that there is no life after death. The Hebrew Bible (O.T.
in Xian propaganda) had it right. An ancient writer explained it this
way. He had the God Yahweh (the LORD) tell the first man, "By the
sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the
ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you
shall return" (Genesis 3:19).

This straightforward statement about human mortality was taken out of
context by Xians and twisted into a sorry tale about human depravity
in the theological theory of Original Sin. They perverted the ancient
Adam and Eve story into a sick yarn about hereditary punishment for
all of their descendants for all time.

Death is a fact of life for all beings. Neither humans nor any other
animals are destined to live forever. The ancient Hebrews knew this too.

"Then the LORD God said, "See the man has become like one of us,
knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take
also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"---therefore
the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east
of the garden of Eden he paced the cherubim, and a sword flaming and
turning to guard the way to the tree of life (Genesis 3:22-24).

The ancient Hebrew writer is simply explaining why we don't live
forever. We are not being punished for anybody's sin; we most
certainly do not "deserve death," as Xian sickos love to proclaim. We
are products of the planet earth; we are made of dust and to dust we
shall return.

So be it.


Ralph,

"If people knew that there is no life after death, only life before 
death, they would live their lives more realistically."

Tell us how you know for fact that there is no life after death? 
Curious, how someone could possibly know that?

Best Regards,

Donovan




       
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