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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:41:53 -0400
From:      Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>
To:        Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net>
Cc:        drew-dated-1032126947.90fe3e@rain3s.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why did evolution fail?
Message-ID:  <20020912044153.4396d498.yid@softhome.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020911191224.GA10929@uffdaonline.net>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:12:24 -0500
Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:18:45AM -0400, Joshua Lee wrote:
> > Drew Raines <drew-dated-1032126947.90fe3e@rain3s.net> wrote:
> > > Romans 3:23 all over again.  We all live our lives deserving
> > > eternal punishment.  This is the reason we worship Christ, our
> 
> > I'm Jewish, so quotations from the NT aren't particularly convincing
> > to me. You'll have to convince me with reason, which I doubt can be
> > mustered to defend this idea of eternal-torture-by-god.
> 
> Now I'm confused...  I always considered death to mean something
> closer to comatose rather than eternal torture.

And I have yet another view.

> Rom. 8:23  "For the wages of sin is *death*..."
> Rev. 20:6  "Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first
> Rev. 21:8  "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers,

This thread is starting to degenerate into Bible thumping. Although passages from the Tanakh and from our sages z"l are convincing to me when well understood, quoting from the NT will do nothing for me but generate a yawn. :-)

> and there are passages to suggest that it all does come to an end,
> eventually:
> 
> Rev. 21:4  "And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; there

Origen was of the opinion that even the devil would be redeemed, and
that eternal torture in hell was merely a doctrine to keep the
unenlightened masses behaving themselves.

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