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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]We Christians aren’t rubbing our hands with glee over non-Christians thrown into the lake of fire, we are trying to warn people how to avoid going there. [/quote]

Like hell you're not!  You're downright gleeful about it.  You and your horrific worse than Hitler mass mudering slavery endorsing god.

Again, the world is fortunate there is no evidence one exists.
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I don’t recall Hitler giving people a choice.  [/quote]

What choice did your wicked God give people in the great flood?[/quote]

I don’t know.  I wasn’t there.  I know that you have a choice and you are choosing “lake of fire.”  Don’t you think they may have done something similar?  
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You don't know because you weren't there?

I am fine with that answer.

Now: apply that standard to all your other claims.

ps - you're 100% a faker.[/quote]

You are talking to multiple people.  I’m not the one with the Bible quotes.

I think it’s interesting that you, personally, would choose Hell over Heaven, but you believe other people were forced there by an evil God.  What’s up with that?  
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Everything you type is wrong.

- I don't choose hell as I have no reason to believe there is one.

- I don't believe anyone was forced there by any god (this is a good thing, too).

- the Christian god is clearly evil, and fictional characters can be evil, like Dr. Doom, Iago, and Hannibal Lecter, etc.  You don't have to believe it is real to consider it evil.

Does that clear it up for you?[/quote]

Okay.  I hear you. 
You feel that the Abrahamic God and Jesus Christ are evil, though fictional.

I think it’s reasonable to say that if you lived in this fictional world, you would not want to spend all of eternity alongside these evil omnipotent beings.

So, if you lived in a world where the Abrahamic God were real, you would not choose to spend eternity in Heaven with God, but would instead choose to spend eternity in Hell.

If Hell is real, everyone there made and continues to make the exact same decision that you would make.

Whether Hell is real or not, there is no reason to suppose that anyone in Hell is a victim of a vengeful God.  They are people exercising their free will exactly the same way you would in the same situation.

If you want to say that the God of the Bible is Evil or that God asks too much of people, that’s fine.  But it’s not because there are people who choose to live in Hell.  That’s their choice.

The Christian God made himself from a word or a concept into a corporeal human being just to tell people that He wants them to be with Him in Heaven.  It’s quite an invitation.   [/quote]

That's practically an irresistible way of putting it:

"Look what God did for you -- the least you can do for him is to believe in him -- then you can go and live with him forever after you're dead."

Bet you learned that in Church.[/quote]

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