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I'll have to be in the fire No thanks, I believe.
Debate Score:73
Arguments:83
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I want proof of Hell

Why in the world would anybody demand proof of the reality of Hell? That's tempting God to give it to you.  Don't be a fool. Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

I'll have to be in the fire

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No thanks, I believe.

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4 points

Yeah I won't believe in Hell till I'm having a hot beer with ol' Lucifer wile the flames lick at my feet and the demons dance and laugh.

Just like I won't believe in Heaven till I am walking through the Pearly Gates and Pete greets me and goes, "Hey Slappy, we thought you'd never make it!"

I won't believe in god till he roars down from Heaven and stands before me. And answers all the questions I would have for him. Like why have you allowed so much violence and suffering for your supposed children whom you love? And, how can the Flood story be true when we have documented proof of other flood stories of other religions that PRE-DATED the Torah?

And, why so many beetles? LOL...and old Biologist joke. Stemming form the fact there are millions of sub-species of beetles for which there is absolutely no reason a Creator would have to create them in a perfect environment. I think it was JBS Haldane who first asked this, or rather stated it when somebody asked him what he thought of the idea of a god. (He was an atheist Biologist like me.)

Haldane quipped, "He must have been inordinately fond of beetles."

SS

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-there-so-many-beetles-theyre-extinction-resistant/

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Saintnow(3684) Clarified
1 point

I unbanned you here....I think I banned you here at the same time I banned you from another debate and you surprised me by responding well to the action. A lot of people here could learn a lot from you. Thanks.

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Saintnow(3684) Clarified
1 point

God did not have to create beetles or birds or people, but He did. He is to be thanked and honored for giving life, not doubted and criticized. And yes, though Haldane was being sarcastic toward God, you can accurately say his fondness for ever single individual creature is inordinate because our view of God's affections naturally places less value on the creatures than their Creator, so to us His affections may well seem inordinate. What is really inordinate is our lace of affection for God's creatures.

As for your implication that God allows violence and suffering for His children, I suppose there is some truth in that as well. God allows us time, and all suffering is the consequences of sin, our own or that inherited from our parents, or the sins of others, and sometimes it becomes violent with us as it is violently against God.

I answered your point about other flood stories of other religions. Flood stories are found in virtually every culture, religion, and country, and there is a very simple reason for this...they all descended from the sons of Noah. The story changed as people developed different religions, but it is still basically the same, a global deluge.

All of your questions can be answered if you will allow a hole in that brick wall you have set in your mind hiding behind, trying to keep God from knowing you. Until you are his child, he does not deal with you as one of His children, but He is still good to you as He makes His sun to shine and rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike. You are born of Earthly parents, your spirit is like theirs, sinful, it's in our genes. To be one of God's children you have to be born of His Spirit and He cannot give you this new birth if you will not 1) come into agreement with Him as to His right to ruin and destroy you forever for being a sinner 2) believe He took on human form to pay your price in dying so you can be forgiven 3) call on God the Father, ask Him in the name of God the Son , to forgive you of your sin and receive Jesus as your Savior. You must be born again or you cannot see the kingdom of Heaven.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

God grieves when He sees a sparrow die, I suppose he grieves when a beetle dies. That is because of His love. Of course atheists think God's love is a joke and inordinate because they believe they cannot be loved by God....so who really can love an atheist?

Side: No thanks, I believe.
sylynn(626) Disputed
1 point

Atheists do not believe God's love to be a joke, nor do we believe we cannot be loved by God because we do not believe such God exists.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

You are not banned here...you will probably get yourself banned, but for now it's open to you.

Haldane is not very bright. An artist may produce works of art all his life simply because of the pleasure in doing it. So God created many beetles? You don't like beetles? Too bad, God made lots of beetles and He likes what He made.

I'd like to see Haldane make a beetle. You evolutionary biologists can't even make one living cell from scratch. God make more kinds of single celled animals than He made beetles. God made monkeys and man and you try to turn monkeys into your ancestors. I think God is smarter than Haldane and your idol, Dawkins..in comparison to God, your idols are fools and why in the world would anybody want to be like them? It seems an intelligent person would want to be like God who created beetles. If you claim God has faults and you don't want to be like Him because of His faults, the truth is that you are projecting your own guilt for your own wrongs and faults onto God.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Saintnow(3684) Disputed
0 points

Uh huh, sure. Prove it. I read the first line, that's enough. Don't want to be reading filth.

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Jacobcoolguy(2428) Clarified Banned
2 points

So you can't even read more than one sentence, but if I don't feel like watching one of you 30 minute videos, I'm lazy? If you post mindless posts in someone else's debate its constructive, but if I make an argument that is contrary to your beliefs, I'm a troll or a punk?

Fair enough. Okay, I do want proof of hell in order to believe it. Could you try presenting some evidence and actually engage in a debate before you ban me this time? Really, I'm open minded.

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2 points

Wanting proof of an assertion is a natural human response; it's what thinking people do.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

You are going to get proof that Hell is real. You can wait until the proof is forced on you.......how long will you wait for proof? God only knows, but you will get proof.

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Poseidon(61) Disputed Banned
1 point

So God knows how long these people will have until they go to Hell? So he already knows who is going to hell and who isn't? That means that free will doesn't exist. without free will, this is all one big show with a predetermined ending. The people going to hell never stood a chance because they were predestined to burn. God created people just to send off to an eternity of torture.

God sounds like a sadist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxTCOR62Cgo

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

Fools demand proof of the reality of Hell and they get it when they find themselves stuck in the fire with no way out.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
AlofRI(3294) Banned
2 points

It's amazing to me how those who live in a world of hearsay and myth continually ask those who believe differently for "proof".

There is not ONE iota of "proof" to their mythological gods, heavens and hells, yet they insist that WE prove ourselves.

I'll be a good guy. If I go there I'll try my DAMNDEST to come back and give you a taste of it ... okay??

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

so you want proof of Hell, fine. you'll get it...................

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

You don't scare me. The worst you can do is send me to Heaven. You're on auto ban.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Saintnow(3684) Disputed
0 points

You are going to get proof. You want proof, God will give it to you and if you wake up in the fire not believing the proof, you will be more of fool than you already are.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Saintnow(3684) Disputed
0 points

You're trying to give me a taste of it now. All you can do is send me to Heaven, even if you burn me at the stake. Nobody comes back from Hell. You won't be coming back, and it sounds like you won't be saved from going there. Nobody comes back. Sorry.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Atrag(5666) Disputed Banned
1 point

There is no way you are going to heaven. You think just saying the words is enough?? You are an idiot.

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AlofRI(3294) Banned
2 points

It's amazing to me how those who live in a world of hearsay and myth continually ask those who believe differently for "proof".

There is not ONE iota of "proof" to their mythological gods, heavens and hells, yet they insist that WE prove ourselves.

I'll be a good guy. If I go there I'll try my DAMNDEST to come back and give you a taste of it ... okay?? It shouldn't be too hard to get ol' Lucie to agree to make life miserable for one o' them who are against him.

Nah, I couldn't do that. I believe anyone should be allowed to believe what they believe .... until "proven" wrong ... unlike some I could name.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

The problem with you is that you are a sinner condemned to die and you will wake up in Hell if you won't repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from it. You acted civil with me, deceitfully, for a few minutes and ever since you admitted it, it seems all you want to do is tear me to pieces for telling you the truth. We both deserve to die and burn in Hell, I'm forgiven and you think your life is justified by your own existence so you are not forgiven by God. I forgive you, but that won't get you out of your sin. You need God's forgiveness. Yep, I forgive you but as long as I can ban you, I'll ban you until I see some kind of change in your attitude and that is not likely since I don't read your posts anymore except maybe by accident not knowing it was you.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

so you want proof of Hell, fine. you'll get it...................

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Atrag(5666) Banned
1 point

I have worked it out. You are certainly not a Christian but what religion are you? You dont follow the teachings of the Bible, but yet have knowledge of it, you act like youre the Messiah and you seem to be turned on by the idea of people sizzling like sausages. You are a Satanist arent you?

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Any one who says that their is no hell/ punishment in the afterlife, is say basically this: "In the real world I can do what I want in society as long as I follow rules, but it is okay to bend them if you don't get caught, because after all their is no hell and no punishment for what wrongdoings I have done in the past." I prefer the idea that there is justice in the world than the idea that after you the die you are never get the judgement that makes God just and good.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

Amen. That's what it's all about, JUSTICE, and God's offer of mercy in love through His Son who He gave to execute our punishment on Himself so we can be set free of execution of justice which we deserve and which is the fire of Hell, the only answer God has for His creatures who will not cease their animosity against His order.

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1 point

That's not what they are saying at all. Just because someone does not believe in the theological concepts of Heaven and Hell, doesn't mean they lack a sense of ethics.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

First I'll ban you.....ok, banned....now maybe I'll read and maybe I'll respond. I know what to expect from you, never anything contributing to constructive conversation with me, always pot-headed provocative garbage.

Ok, since for a change you actually appear to be trying to make a constructive discussion, I'll un-ban you.

The first time you use profanity or insult me, you are banned. I will show you respect if you show me respect. If I tire of the conversation and it is repetitive, I may ban you to end the discussion but as long as you keep decent manners with me, I will post only one final reply at the end with appreciation for your time.

A sense of ethics is not objective. Everybody has a sense of ethics, some feel it is ethical to kill or rape to get what they want from their victims. Ethics are subjective morality determined by the individual, and why should your ethics trump theirs if they want to take your life or possessions or abuse your body?

You opened the possibility for a decent discussion of ethics or morality, I accept the offer and await your response.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

IAmSparticus

That's not what they are saying at all. Just because someone does not believe in the theological concepts of Heaven and Hell, doesn't mean they lack a sense of ethics.

Saintnow

A sense of ethics is not objective. Everybody has a sense of ethics, some feel it is ethical to kill or rape to get what they want from their victims. Ethics are subjective morality determined by the individual, and why should your ethics trump theirs if they want to take your life or possessions or abuse your body?

You opened the possibility for a decent discussion of ethics or morality, I accept the offer and await your response.

IAmSparticus

Fine, I'll bite. You say that ethics are subjective, but ethics are merely a set of morals (according to the definition), which means that you therefore think morality is subjective, which means you agree with me.

Odd.

Saintnow

What are morals? Who determines what is moral? If that determination is made for yourself by yourself, then the morals are subjective to your own thoughts and feelings which are changeable, so you live by ethics and not by morals. If you say something I do is immoral or unethical, then you are appealing to a morality which is objective and ethics then would be subjective to morality. No?

Please respond to discuss your views with me on this subject or cease posting in this debate.

Apparently, IAmSparticus sees where this conversation is going and has chickened out of the discussion.

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1 point

Scientists that understand math disagree with creation evolution theories. Adaptatations are adjustments but we never saw a new unrelated animal come out of another.

So to make adaptation what it is not, is just covering bs with lies. The new spin everytime they have to redefine words to make them fit.

Evolution is a nothing god, that exists in pseudo-scientists imaginations .

The Bible has proven itself. And all creation tells of Him..

At least my sky God has evidence I can see right in front of my eyes, and has proven Himself by showing "coincidences" at ridiculously impossible odds.

So God shows physically in front of our eyes evidence we can see, and affirms it by showing its at odds that require Him as Creator, Authorship, and Savior... whereas evolution holds impossible odds in their hands with no proof or affirmation of its claim.

So I can only believe what I see sir! And evolution shows no proof at all,:just a hypothetical story authenticated by nothing more than creative fiction at far fetched impossible odds!

But I have a God who knows all things you seek to know, He made them. And He knows exactly how it was done.

And the evidence is piled high to Heaven, and He reveals more everyday.

I love those tidbits that show Him in strange ways, eyewitness to His own creation.

Example 1 of 1000's,

Jesus describes accurately both "Hell" and the "Lake of Fire." These are two different places, in two different locations.

This short video shows these two places exactly as Jesus described them. Jesus knows science inside and out!

https://youtu.be/ydOOCJAigPc

Side: No thanks, I believe.
0 points

Go live with my mother.

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0 points

Excellent. Then the fact you no longer live there also proves escape from hell is possible.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

so you want proof of Hell, fine. you'll get it...................

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The Hell is still in me

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Saintnow(3684) Clarified
0 points

That's not escaping Hell, it's temporarily avoiding it. He needs a permanent solution from God and that solution is the good news of Jesus Christ........but he won't have it if he won't receive the Savior and neither will you.

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Amarel(5669) Banned
0 points

The problem with SaintNow is that he believes he IS god. When people disagree with him, he says they are going against god. The irony is that he ends up calling all of his dissenters blasphemers for disagreeing with him, which is perhaps the greatest blaspheme.

He even calls god and Jesus unjust. He says that we all deserve justice (by which he means hell) but that Jesus helps us escape justice and go to heaven. He holds justice and hell to be synonymous and claims to be for justice (hell) all while claiming we can escape justice. Any who disagree with him, by disagreeing with his hell worship, is disagreeing with a self-made god.

Aborted babies are the only ones who he believes are deserving of heaven. While aborting them makes you no worse than anyone else (since we all deserve hell), he is against abortion. In a world where SaintNow is god, the only way to guarantee the passage of another into heaven is abortion.

Of course there is no proof of his repulsive worldview. There isn't even a shred of evidence. That's because a worldview as self-deifying, self-righteous, and seething with hatred as his can only be the product of illness and/or delusion.

So no thanks, I believe. I believe in a right-side up world where God and Justice are on the same side. Where being a dead baby isn't the only way to be a good person before Justice. Where disagreeing with SaintNow indicates sanity and usually civility.

Side: No thanks, I believe.
Saintnow(3684) Clarified
1 point

The problem with you is that you are a sinner condemned to die and you will wake up in Hell if you won't repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from it. You acted civil with me, deceitfully, for a few minutes and ever since you admitted it, it seems all you want to do is tear me to pieces for telling you the truth. We both deserve to die and burn in Hell, I'm forgiven and you think your life is justified by your own existence so you are not forgiven by God. I forgive you, but that won't get you out of your sin. You need God's forgiveness. Yep, I forgive you but as long as I can ban you, I'll ban you until I see some kind of change in your attitude and that is not likely since I don't read your posts anymore except maybe by accident not knowing it was you.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

Why don't you make your own discussion entitled "The Problem With Saintnow"? Maybe I'll post there and you can ban me.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
1 point

Jesus won't help you escape justice, moron, He's not your partner in crime. He took your place in condemnation of death so you can be set free by Him in His resurrection. Only God can give you eternal life, Jesus is God who took on the form of a man to take man's place in death so man can be pardoned by Him through faith in His sinless innocent blood which He paid on behalf of all who will trust in Him. If you honestly, admitting your worthiness of punishment, seek God's mercy through Jesus Christ, you will find it and know Jesus is God who loves you so much He died for you even though you were His enemy.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
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Wow, you really went off here, didn't you? What's so repulsive about the fact that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life? Is it repulsive to you knowing all can be saved but you will not believe so you will not be saved? Is that what it is? You find it repulsive that you will not be saved? So you shoot yourself in the foot and blame me?

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
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People who believe they are "god"("god" being a thing which is not God the Creator who died for us to be our Savior) are generally Hinduistic, thinking they are a spark of the divine, god material, part of the divine force of reality. I do not believe I am god. That's a stupid thing to say. Anybody who believes they are god or a piece or part of god is insane.

Jesus Christ is God, I am a sinner saved by grace through faith named Saintnow and I have a new name reserved for me in Heaven which I will not know until I get there.

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Saintnow(3684) Disputed
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Your problem is that you are trying to justify yourself............and obviously you have very low reading and comprehension skills as your diatribe against me is based on nothing I have said while you pretend you got your ideas from reading my posts. I think you are smoking too much weed and watching too much TV

Side: I'll have to be in the fire