HardMirror:

To ease my fear of the Law and Police, I have to lie to my self that the police is not real so I can commit crime. Does that make sense to you?

winner01:
Police men are real, thats why we dont spend our lives trying to disprove their existence.
He made perfect sense.

johnydon22:


And the bolded is even grosser - it seems Yahweh has a severe lust for bloody sacrifices even to the extent of using a human [Jesus]……

Thanks for bringing more abhorable verses.

Immorttal:
thank you mr sekundo for your kind gesture but can you please enlighten me why you think your god amongst the other 4000+ gods is the Almighty God. any prove would be appreciated.

malvisguy212:
Hey, I have read many post on nairaland, and I can confidently say, their are NO Agnostics atheists on nairaland. If you truly know the meaning of agnostics atheist, then you will know what am talking about.

HardMirror:

So how is hell real? Why fear something imaginary. When I was a little boy I lived in fear of imaginary monsters in the dark. Now I know better. Why live in fear of what is imaginary I ask again

malvisguy212:
All religion talk Good about jesus christ, if you don't subscribe to religion, than focus on what jesus teaches, this is the first step you need to take. Thank you.

winner01:
The key word here is "imaginary".
You need to have infinite knowledge of all things to make such assertion.

As for fear, im at loss on why some atheists emphasize this. I and many other people i know do not talk about hell as much as we talk about heaven. I look forward to heaven, i rarely think about hell talkless of fear it.

The Bible itself teaches to fear God and not hell. The fear of God "Yirat Adonai" in the real sense means reverence for ones Creator. Its like saying I fear my father. I take care of him now but i revere him. There are portions of the Bible which reads "and he greately FEARED the Lord". This means serious reverence. Not that he fears the idea of God.

The contemporary meaning of fear now is what we cant attribute to scriptures.
Fear itself is not a bad motivator. Im yet to see a real student of psychology among you atheists. The other day one tried to explain to johnydon22 how humans are naturally selfish, he was greatly misunderstood, and humans really are.
Fear can be a motivator to reach a required goal. Other forms of motivation are wages, promises, promotion etc

Many humans feared the law else they will be dancing to the tune of their animalistic desires. Some men want to rape that lady they can get but for the law, some men want to rob that bank but for the law afterall our leaders are corporate thieves etc. The fear of losing someone might motivate you to engage in an action. Fear might hinder your children from engaging in certain activities because of what daddy and mummy would do if they try it.
Fear is a part of our daily motivations.

I wonder what all this fuss about fear is.

HardMirror:

Heaven is also imaginary

HardMirror:
Heaven is also imaginary

HardMirror:

Heaven is also imaginary

malvisguy212:
you don't believe, but it is true. Okay.

honourhim:


Yes i am for God (Yahweh) till eternity. A million atheists or even more cannot change my stand for God.

reallest:

Dats good for you

honourhim:


Heaven is imaginary to you and your cohorts but very real to us. Nothing makes you wiser than us. You atheists have a false sense of seeing yourselves as being more intelligent than us. You can continue to massage your no-god mantra with this false sense . We are not moved.

hopefulLandlord:

you killed his long rigmarole of a post in one sentence

winner01:
It does not matter what you say.

malvisguy212:
All religion talk Good about jesus christ, if you don't subscribe to religion, than focus on what jesus teaches, this is the first step you need to take. Thank you.

HardMirror:
Lol When u go build ur house

hopefulLandlord:

soon o!

HardMirror:

I gbadun this my brother. Baba Landlord in the making

johnydon22:

The jewish tribal deity yahweh loves the smell of burnt flesh, it is pleasing to him - why should it come as a surprise to you that it plans to set up an eternal barbacue of burning flesh for his own lustful insatiable pleasure and need for burnt flesh.

johnydon22:

I made a comment on a front page thread

https://www.nairaland.com/3368022/why-does-god-create-people#49627369

And i got a bombardment of quotes the next time i logged in from Christians who were obviously offended by my post and some even implying that my post was insultive and blasphemous against God [Judeo/Christian]

This particularly interesting one is distancing the Christian yahweh from the original Judaic Yahweh due to obvious reasons of distinct attributes and almost unreconcilable personalities of the deity.

chysam:


Before you go astray,the Judaism god doesn't believe in hellfire. It is the Christian god that boast of hellfire through the hellinists. Please google the "hellenists" and get educated further.

johnydon22:

Here are the other replies

Xflint:

mind the way talk before God strikes u down. However, may God have mercy on u

pedmet:

......You just spoke carelessly about your creator,the one that's holds your LIFE..... Where is common sense in you?..... You seriously need deliverance.

yeyeboi:

May GOD forgive u

johnydon22:

Worthy mentions

fyneboi79:

I also ask them in laymans english;How many earthly fathers look up to judging theirs childrens sins and casting away some of their children into eternal damnation one day? It doesn't make any sense,Instead,He should keep loving all his children the same. So what kind of father is the Christian God? Partial to sufferings of his people or powerless against the forces of evil?

emmkeffs:

you are on point

johnydon22:

Ok now down to the point -

I'm confused on why the post irked some nerves, i'm confused how the comment was an insult to the Christian deity because anybody who knows Christianity, Yahweh or the bible even in a fundamental sense knows the post is just an explicit truth about the Character.

What part of my post was incorrect or insultive.

That the Christian God loves smell of burnt flesh or That it has a hell to burn people for eternity?

Let us check!!

That Judeo/Christian God love the smell of burnt flesh?

This is a biblical truth, it constitutes the very fabrics of the Judeo religious rituals and tradition.

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean
animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The LORD
smelled the pleasing aroma…

Exodus 29: 22 -25
“Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat around the inner parts, the
covering of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh.
(This is the ram for the ordination.) From the basket of bread made
without yeast, which is before the LORD, take a loaf, and a cake made with
oil, and a wafer. Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and
wave them before the LORD as a wave offering. Then take them from their
hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering for a pleasing
aroma to the LORD, an offering made to the LORD by fire.

Verse 40
to the LORD, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a
quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a
drink offering. Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain
offering and its drink offering as in the morning—a pleasing aroma , an
offering made to the LORD by fire.

There are tons of other biblical references pointing to this fact - The Judeo/Christian Deity Loves the smell of burnt of flesh

So as it has been shown - This was not an insult from my post but a biblical fact. i wonder why people were disturbed by it.

Jumping to the next point of my post

" why should it come as a surprise to you that it plans to set up an eternal barbacue of burning flesh for his own lustful insatiable pleasure and need for burnt flesh."

Eternal Barbecue

It is a gospel truth that the christian God has a hell [Lake of fire for sinners and unbelievers] (The Judaic Yahweh had no mention or reference to that - as the character of Yahweh goes, hell became part of it's scheme immediately after it was Christianized)

here are some verses from the bible

Rev 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually
immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they
will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second
death.”

Matt 13:50
and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.

To mention but a few and also right here on NL we get countless threads from Christians reminding others of how hell is waiting for them.

Now as i have supported my comment on the Judeo/Christian deity with biblical verses which is exactly the religious book from whence the character is portrayed.

Why then were these Christians disturbed, they read this everyday in the bible, hear it every sunday in church, or on daily basis in the street, buses and even say these things on NL without twitching but if someone makes an exact comment in a very explicit manner they get offended?

Maybe there are things in these attributes that are disturbing, maybe they find these attributes distasteful - there is no more reasonable explanation than this.

How exactly are the attributes of Yahweh as the bible and Christians imply an insult to Yahweh when i say it?

If you get offended when someone mentions the fundamental attributes of your God concept, then maybe there is something wrong with your concept of God..

You either modify these disturbing attributes or live with that bitter truth and continue a gross reverence for complete abhorence.