Guys...the issues concerning the innerrency and reliability of scripture will be discussed forever. I suggest that we refocus on our Post Topic, however.
Parasomnium,in Opening Post writes:
Why does God want us to reach belief in him in the very short period of our existence when it is hardest for us to do so?
Why can't God accept people who only come to believe after they have died and then see that everything they've been told in church is true after all?
And if, when staring Peter in the face, you would still not believe in God and heaven, then God would really have a reason to send you straight to hell. (In which case you'd perhaps do well to pretend not to believe in Satan either, since I'm told hell is a rather nasty joint. Who knows, you might even get sent back to earth.)
Does God insist on people becoming believers during their lifetime?
Does God prefer people who will believe things in spite of a total lack of evidence?
Or is the afterlife a myth after all, and is infecting people's minds, while they are still operative, the only way for religious memes to survive and thrive?
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