|  tortdog | Mar 28, 2007 5:45am | Christ taught that all men must be baptized by water and the spirit or they could not enter into heaven. John 3:5.
So if this doctrine is true, what happens to those who die without ever having heard of the idea of baptism? Does God keep them out of heaven? |
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Sponsor |  Jung | Mar 28, 2007 10:47am | | I think you are avoiding another (highly) more likely scenario. People die, they are gone forever. The end. Human manufactured nonsense plays no part. |
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| | tortdog | Mar 28, 2007 10:51am | | This position is more for those who believe that Christ's teaching is true. If you don't believe in the hereafter, then the question is irrelevant to you. And if you don't believe that Christ knew what he was talking about, similarly it's a moot point. |
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| | tortdog | Mar 28, 2007 11:15am | | What don't you two get about the word, "if"? And if you believe the topic is irrelevant, why are you posting anything? |
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Sponsor | | Vortexfugue | Mar 28, 2007 11:41am | | If purple causes people to live forever in an idyllic magical forest when they die, what happens to those who never believed in purple when they were alive? Ifs are fun when they are baseless... and silly. |
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| | tortdog | Mar 28, 2007 11:43am | | So stay away from the thread and stop crapping on it. Who is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to post? |
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Sponsor | | Vortexfugue | Mar 28, 2007 11:46am | | Why do you pretend I don't want to post? |
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| | tortdog | Mar 28, 2007 11:47am | | You are crapping on a potential discussion. Why? |
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Sponsor | | Vortexfugue | Mar 28, 2007 12:08pm | | I'm showing the problem with unsupported ifs. If you think unsupported ifs are crap then you shouldn't have used the unsupported if in your OP. |
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