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Originally Posted by Baron Opal
Expanding the nutshell of my faith a bit more-
1) There is a God.
2) He really doesn't care by what name you address Him.
2a) He doesn't have a gender, "He" is a convention.
3) He wants people to love and care for one another.
4) He wants us to use our intellect to grow and understand the world we live in.
5) Hell is not lakes of fire and chains of ice, it's being separate from Him. If you are in hell, it is by your own doing by casting aside love for things that can return it (people) for things that can't (money, possessions).
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Nope, it answers nothing, and it says nothing. Theonly way your five rules work, on any level, is if you start by be;leiving the premise stated in number 1, which I don't and many others do not. And, the obvious problem here is that he is a God, and he "wants people to love and care for one another" yet he does nothing to further that agenda.
I suppose if you fear living in hell "without him" might scare you into being loving and caring, but I doubt that very much. I an loving and caring without God, and many beleivers are not, so why the disparity? And is fear the only motivator this GOd has and, if so, does that not display a stark inability to cement his wants and desires into a human model that exemplifies that?
Sorry, it's very weak, and although I respect your need to believe in a God, and I respect that you may need these guidelines in your life, they represent chains and cages for others that already have found peace in their life without the artifice.
Peace,
Pierre