Dobson, Stein blather really not important

Brian Olson, Highlands Ranch

Published November 21, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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November 21, 2008

7:27 a.m.

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Acemon writes:

I sincerely hope your wife makes a full recovery from cancer. Nobody shoud go thru such pain and trauma.

As far as theological love goes, Satan loves self-confessed sinners.
November 21, 2008

7:51 a.m.

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SheikYurBooty writes:

Brian: "I know what my priorities are and could care less if you call it the "holiday season" or Christmas."

Which highlights the difference between you and me. I could NOT care less.
November 21, 2008

8:05 a.m.

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LetsThink writes:

Brian makes some good points.

But he missed the critical point. Jesus says that the only way to Heaven is through faith in Him.

We want everyone to go to Heaven. So Christmas is our opportunity to tell them about the way to salvation -- Christ.

.....if they are willing.
November 21, 2008

9:23 a.m.

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TimeLord writes:

It just doesn't get any more revolting than the hypocrisy of LB.
November 21, 2008

10:39 a.m.

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David_R writes:

@LT - "...Jesus says that the only way to Heaven is through faith in Him."

This provided by revelation to man in the form of the Holy Bible.

Islam states that Mohamed was given the Quaran by a messenger angel from God -- it was written in heaven and delivered to mankind as a revelation.

Seems to be a conflict in revelations --how do we determine which is correct?

Even within Christianity we find major doctrinal differences each claiming the only way to receive salvation is through the adherence of their creeds and ignoring other Christian creeds as they are the only true followers of Christ and hence, the only true way to God the father in Heaven.

Which one are we supposed to follow? What happens to those who choose a Calvinistic based postmillineium, dispensational creed if a Wesleyan free will premillineium creed is found to be true?

By the way, I do wish all the participants on the boards a very Merry Christmas and happy holiday period; and hopefully for the country, a truly prosperous New Year.
November 21, 2008

7:17 p.m.

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IronmanCarmichael writes:

Mr. Olson, if you read these posts (and even if you don't, in which case you were spared the fatuous idiocy of LetsStink), I hope you and your wife have many more happy and healthy Christmases together. This year, may Santa fill Mrs. Olson's stocking with those new pills that are supposed to work better than chemo and without the nasty side effects, and tell her that hair lost to cancer treatments usually comes back softer and prettier than it was before. (I've seen it happen a dozen times.)
November 21, 2008

7:48 p.m.

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LetsThink writes:

Does anybody really want to find out how to get to Heaven?

Or do we just vanish into nothingness at the end of our purposeless brief life?

How do we find out which Religion is true???
November 21, 2008

8:51 p.m.

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Sweetpickle writes:

Where Jesus failed LetsThink is now ready to lead us to God. There is really no limit to his ego.
November 22, 2008

8:38 a.m.

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AngelontheSidelines writes:

Woah!
A reply from our sage of servility, Let's Think.

If you are still with us, why are you so worried about getting into heaven?

Life is for the living, and our experience is what God cannot have, so why deny our genetic programming and reproductive wiring to satiate some desert tribe's God and gain entry into heaven?

If we live our lives devoted to the moment, and die to vanish into nothingness, we have experienced our lives. Denying behavior, and emotions to avoid offending an invisible, insecure, and capricious man, all to maximize the chance to spend eternity with him, is the waste of possible experience and completely denying the precious moments that our lives really are.

How do we find which religion is true? One clue is where the spiritual leader demands your money.
November 22, 2008

1:50 p.m.

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p_myers661 writes:

How do we find which religion is true? One clue is where the spiritual leader demands your mon

Good point. Perhaps another one, much older would work with it.

The Biblical phrase, "easier for a camel to pass through the Needle's eye than for a rich man to enter heaven.

The reference was not to a sewing instrument. It was to one of the gates in the walls around Jerusalem. It was narrower than most gates but still wide enough for a lightly loaded camel to pass through. Problem was that some visual or other problem existed and camels tossed and fought and generally made it take so long that going through another gate was the best choice. A trader with only one camel, not a caravan, could enter if he had control of his camel and could keep the camel's attention fixed instead of allowing it to be distracted by what some Roman writings have been interpreted to be a visual distraction caused by the position of the walls and the houses next to it.

Thus, for a rich man to enter heaven, he must be more focused on the destination and less on his own baggage.

I say that anyone who greets me with courtesy is welcome, those who do not are to be pitied for they increase their own misery. It is also a good bet that IF a management of any retail business orders its employees to use ANY particular phrase, I will do my best to stay away.

Free will greetings are fine with me. So are suggestions, as FOF and Stein offered, for those businesses to reward with my business. Now who wants my fifteen dollars of Christmas Spending?
November 22, 2008

2:04 p.m.

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TimeLord writes:

LT is a self-righteous hypocritical fool who has anointed himself judge of lesser mortals. Any creator would judge him a sorry example of his work.
November 23, 2008

9:12 p.m.

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skeptical writes:

(not much)Time(left until the)Lord(returns) writes to tell us that LetsThink is a "self-righteous hypocritical fool who has anointed himself judge of lesser mortals".

In Isaiah we are told by the Lord through the prophet that "those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice" will be judged more severely one day before His throne.

As LetsThink has so graciously advised in his post "Jesus says that the only way to Heaven is through faith in Him. We want everyone to go to Heaven. So Christmas is our opportunity to tell them about the way to salvation -- Christ."
November 24, 2008

7:22 p.m.

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grandpaw writes:

Wouldn't that be something if there were a god who had a heaven into which he would only let those who had faith in him, regardless of how they lived, leaving out billions of people, many of whom are very loving and good people?

Trying to get to heaven is like trying to go to sleep. You go to sleep by forgetting about going to sleep. You gain happiness, not by trying to be happy, but by living a good and loving life. Same with heaven. I have the feeling that Let'sThink is going to be very disappointed with the demographics of heaven, what with all those people there who concentrated on living a good and loving life rather than on getting to heaven.
November 25, 2008

12:32 a.m.

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skeptical writes:

So grandpaw, are we to believe you or the Lord Jesus Who plainly stated, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me."
November 25, 2008

6:10 a.m.

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grandpaw writes:

And you, skeptical, are you to believe we have an all-loving God or a hateful god who condemns to the fires of hell billions of good and loving people?
November 25, 2008

10:23 p.m.

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skeptical writes:

It is by His grace alone that anyone spends eternity with Him.

Our own demands for "justice" are what condemn us to hell.

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Dobson, Stein blather really not important

Brian Olson, Highlands Ranch

Published November 21, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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