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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Re: Going to Heaven
- Message-ID: <11553@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:54:46 GMT
- References: <76790001@teecs.UUCP> <bdEA02P72aSV01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <ksand-121192182635@wintermute.apple.com> <11516@hogg.ed.ac.uk> <mjenkins.721874244@cunews>
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- In article <mjenkins.721874244@cunews> mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
- <In <11516@hogg.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
- <
- <>Suppose God has decided to damn all Christians and
- <>save everybody else. Or to save all atheists and damn everybody else.
- <
- <Then God would be going directly against his word:
- <
- <"God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son, that
- <whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting
- <life." John 3:16.
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- But by saving the Christians he'd be going directly against his word:
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- [insert appropriate quote from the _Qur'a:n_]
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- and against his word:
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- [insert appropriate quote from the _Zend-Avesta_]
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- and against his word:
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- [insert appropriate quote from the _Bha:gava:d-Gi:ta:_]
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- and against his word:
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- [repeat ad libitum]
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- Seriously, the Christian god wouldn't do that. I didn't mean him, though.
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- `Haud yer wheesht! Come oot o the man an gie him peace.' (The Glasgow Gospel)
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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