Do you love Jesus?
Yes.
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No.
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I cannot love Jesus because I cannot believe he even existed. What makes people believe in a god? (or Jesus) Prayer? Faith? Both are meaningless. Prayer is a great example of confirmation bias, whilst faith is completely unsupported and has no defence. They're more than 3000 different gods, and I'm sure you kept an open mind and tried each religion before settling with Jesus (assuming you settled with Jesus.) What makes Jesus more real than the other gods? In my opinion, and I could be wrong, religion is full of shit and was and is nothing more than a tool to be exploited by rulers. Religion is a convenient reason for people to put up with mortal suffering, and work harder for the ruler in hopes of spending eternity in "paradise." Speaking of which, Heaven and Hell violate the laws of thermodynamics, as both take in heaps of energy, but never release any. If God really exists, and is all powerful and benevolent, why are there starving children in Africa. They certainly need God's attention more than whoever wins the next Oscar. Additionally, if God is omnipotent, then is he capable of creating a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? No matter the response, God is not omnipotent (and nothing is for that matter.) My apologies for getting a bit off-topic, but it all ties into the topic at hand in the end. Side: No.
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"Heaven and hell violate the laws of thermodynamics" 1) Science is constantly changing, so we can't even trust the laws of thermodynamics, just as we cannot trust parity symmetry and charge symmetry. 2) This "paradox" can be easily resolved by saying that God has infinite energy, God created heaven and hell with the energy (this sounds weird, I know), so heaven and hell both have infinite energy, and so does God. Side: Yes.
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The laws of thermodynamics have not changed anytime recently, and nothing can prove it's inaccuracy. If you're trying to make that claim, you have BOP. An argument pushed without proof is resolved without proof. For your god to have infinite energy, your god must first exist. As your god is unproven (not disproven, impossible to do with science,) we can therefore dismiss him because he is asserted yet unproven. Additionally, your god having infinite energy doesn't solve this dilemma, as the energy of those going to heaven/hell is leaving the current system, and they certainly don't give back any energy, so after a long enough period of time, the universe as we know it will run out of energy. Side: No.
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