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Questions for Christians (3)

I'll start with the questions: 21) 'people go to hell only if they have a perfect knowledge of the gospel and of God and of Christ and they still make the decision to follow the devil, that is the only way someone goes to outer darkness. ' a) What does it mean 'follow the devil'? Do bad things? b) Could you give me an example of someone like that? c) Can Christians fall into that category? d) Atheists? 22) How do you know that the book of Mormon is better translated? Do you know when the book was written and by whom? 23) 'he tests our faith because we came to this earth so that we could attempt to become like our father and inherit all that he has but we must prove our worth to do so. ' You contradict yourself. You actually say here that we are worth to go in heaven only if we believe in him. And what if someone loses their faith? What if God tested the faith of a Christian by killing his family, taking his home and his job. . and the man loses his faith? Is he not good enough? 24) God DOES ruin the lives of the ones who get hit by a natural disaster. That's a terrible thing to say! You know what, let's leave alone the people who die in those natural disasters. .. what about little kids and babies who become orphans? What about a father who loses all his children? What about a young woman who loses her fiance? You can't say their lives didn't get ruined! 25) (about 11): Let's leave alone the very hard to read sentence. It's not a way of interpreting it, it's what's written, black on white! When it is said that people who won't accept the words of Jesus God will be more merciful on Sodom and Gomorrah (the cities that God destroyed in fire because of their sins) it's pretty obvious what these words mean. Your religion really puzzles me. You claim to be Christians. .. but you don't accept the new testament! 26) If you are a very poor student, and you have a very rich teacher, that has a closet full of pencils, and you ask for one - and he doesn't give you one - that's cruelty. And what does it mean 'they are needed in heaven'? For what? 27) You are saying the people of Syria NEED to live like that? I challenge you to open up this link: . http://en.wikipedia.org... , read, look at the pictures, and say that this is what these people NEED! No one deserves that! Who are you to claim you deserve a better life than them? ? 28) (regarding 14) You received information ? What information ? I have to admit that's not a very convincing argument. I know too many people from many religions that claim the same thing. 29) You claim to be a Christian, but every time I bring an example from the new or old testament, you discard it because it is mistranslated. That contradicts my terms. How can you call yourself a Christian if you don't accept the new testament? 30) What would make you say: 'I don't believe in God anymore'? 31) You mentioned the devil in this entry. Who created the devil and what for? I don't think we have a reason to continue this debate.
Questions for Christians (3)

first off thanks for letting me try my hand at this debate topic. Ill try to answer as best as I can but I am no expert. and to clarify I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 1/2/3) In my faith we believe that when we die we will enter the spirit world and there will be a period of time in the spirit world when everyone who has ever lived will have the ability to learn of the gospel and have the ability to repent of their sins through the plan of salvation. So while I can't say whether or not Anne Frank is in hell for positive I can say that she likely is in heaven instead because we believe that in order to go to hell you have to have a knowledge of our heavenly father and of the gospel and know that the church is true and still turn your back on it and go against your knowledge of the truth. We also believe that children under the age of 8 and mentally handicapped people are not held accountable for their sins so regardless of their beliefs they will still go to heaven. I do not believe that God is a Nazi God as you said, rather I know that he loves all of us and WE choose to come to this earth as a sort of test and since God loves us he WANTS us all to be able to return to him. 4) to an extent I believe that God causes them because we were sent to this earth as a sort of metaphorical test and these earthquakes and deaths and such are sort of like a metaphorical pop quiz meant to test our faith and to make us stronger. 5) God has a master plan but we still need to ask him for help. to continue this test metaphor God is like the teacher, he wants us all to pass very much but he realizes that we need to do it of our own free will so praying to God is sort of like asking a teacher for help, if he can help us he will. 6) Yes I have many friends and loved ones who are Non Christian, but I do not believe that they will go to hell just because they are not Christians as well. We are judged by our actions through what we believe so if a Muslim person does the best that they can do to be a good person they will be able to go to heaven as well. That is the judgment period I mentioned earlier where EVERYONE will have a chance to repent and learn of the truth. 7) I would like to believe that I would still be a Mormon but I have know idea what it would be like to grow up there so I consider myself blessed that I was able to be born in a area where the truth was easy to find. 8) I believe in God because I have prayed to him and I know him to be true. If there wasn't a God there would be nothing at all, there would be no purpose to anything and we would not even be here, so the number one reason is that I have read the scriptures and prayed and received the answer to know that God is truly there. I hope I answered these first questions well enough but if you want me to expound or clarify anything just tell me in the next round and I will try to do my best, thanks a bunch.
Questions for Christians (3)

Hello, You must confirm that you accept these Christian foundations: -I believe in a God -I am a Christian -I think everything the bible says is true -I believe in heaven and hell -I believe heaven is reached through salvation (meaning only believing Christians go to heaven and all believing Christians go to heaven) -I believe Christianity is moral. Round 1 - Acceptance and first 8 questions Round 2 - questions Round 3 - questions Round 4 - questions (*in this round you may ask me questions too, if you want) Round 5 - Conclusion First 8 questions: 1) Is Anne Frank in hell? 2) 2) How about other kids? If a boy dies at age 3, and he comes from a Muslim family, does he go to hell? 3) According to Christianity, hell is for non-Christians, and is supposed to be a very evil place, to make people suffer. It doesn't matter what they did. It doesn't matter what they believed, it doesn't matter who they really were. It's just like Hitler's death and concentration camps. Do you think it's moral to believe in a Nazi God ? 4) Are earthquakes, tornadoes, accidents etc. are caused by God? And if yes, why are there earthquakes, tornadoes and accidents? 5) If God has a master plan, why bother praying? 6) Do you have non-Christian friends or loved ones? If no, why? If yes, how can you believe in a religion that tells you these are evil people who will be going to hell and deserve incredible suffering for eternity? 7) If you were born in Syria, do you think you would be a Muslim or a Christian? 8) What is your #1 reason you believe in the Christian God? Good luck answering the questions, I am waiting for your response! :)
Public School should start After Labor Day and end by mid June

I will address most friends that students have are within their school. Quite often students don't see most of their freinds outside of school. Also in the summer students are more likely to be vacation and less likely to see their friends but during a teacher conference day, students are moreso able to meet together and socialize. In regards to teachers and administraors and students being done by mid june, even if school ended earlier they would still be 'done' a few weeks before the school ended. If they are told schools will go out on mid June they'll simply feel done by mid may or earlier. This is simply because there will be more intense studying in a shorter period of time thus exhausting their endurance by an earlier date. Simply ending school earier by making fewer breaks and making academics more intense does not increase durability of students. In regards to round 2, pro hasn't provided a solution for kids slipping in the summer. They will simply slip more over the longer summer. Also since there is less time to reinforce taught concepts and cocnepts are taught faster, they will also silip in the school year meaning slips wil happen the ENTIRE year. I realize my opponent is not overall shortening the curriculumn but those relax days inbetween are of CRITICAL importance. Also pro seems to want kids to have a long summer and little to no time to adjust to school. Those days around labor day allow kids to be in a transition between school and summer. Without transition time to adjust, students are hit with a brick wall with no ladders to climb over it. Since there is less adjustment time, this will in fact cause more stress. The conference days that pro seems to call mysterious are in fact very important days for teachers to discuss how to better improve student education. It's obvious conference days exist simply because schools cannnot operate without them, taking those days out is out of the question. If teachers work for more days they get paid more so even if taxpayers pay more, they're paying for better education and improving the lives of teachers. Forcing students to intensify there work and allowing them a shorter period of time to complete their work in fact makes more stress. they will thus be put into more misery. Assuming families are relaxed over the summer cannot always hold true. Most parents still work in the summer and will have to work more since they must cut into their work time to take care of their children. the intensity of work will couse students to go rough rather than round, teachers will have lower pay and will be less able to support their families, it is psycologically more pleasing to a student's eye if he/she know that he/she has more time to understand and grasp concepts, reducing their stress. Thus providing less time for students to complete their work worsens the mental health of kids.
Public School should start After Labor Day and end by mid June

Excessive pressure will be applied if students must work on a fast paced schedule. They will have less time to do more homework, less time to grasp more concepts, the result will be a decrease in understanding concepts meant to be taught, a more failing especially among students who need lots of time to process the information. This also increases stress leading to high alchol and other risky behaviors and possibly death due to suicide, durg related car accident, or drug overdose. Colleges will then see a dramatic decrease in public schools aiblity to properly explain essential concepts and be more selective towrads private school. Thus this will segregate families that an afford private schools from those that can't, and people who go to private schools *hint hint wealthy* will be able to recieve better job oppurtunities and thus more power in the American economic and political system. This will severly hurt democracy in America. Sry I can't write too much, cause i'm a little busy, hopefully later rounds i can post more.
Public School should start After Labor Day and end by mid June

Many might think that having a longer summer for kids sets them back in their reading and math skills. There is plenty of proof from studies across class, geographic and age lines that kids slip during the summer if they don't keep their reading and math skills up. I contend that keeping kids in our ever increasing troubled schools results in the same thing. The mind numbing repetition, the shocking loss of order, the pairing of kids who vastly differ in basic skills, the top down curriculum,etc drag all students down. Tightening up the year by removing random days off for "breaks", eliminating some religious holidays and requiring teachers (and their unions) to meet after the school day for training and the like would allow a more streamlined school year that would result in at least as good an education and certainly a better quality of life for students and families.
Public School should start After Labor Day and end by mid June

Many communities are starting schools prior to labor day and ending in last week of June due to snow days. This is resulting in social, economic and educational problems that would be solved by making the school year tighter from start to finish. Socially, kids and families suffer with prior to Labor Day start (PLDS). Kids have a short summer to relax, hang with their "summer" friends, work, take a break, travel, go to camp, learn new things. Cutting this too short hurts those relationships and that time to self that kids need to reenergize for school year. Families suffer because let's face it: during the school year it is hard to spend lots of great time with your kids especially when they are older. Sometimes that summer holiday is when you get to really reconnect with your teens and pry them away from their activities to reenergize your family life. This is really important! Families traditionally use Labor Day as their Last Hurrah: PLDS destroys this. Teachers are part of families too so their stress begins right away as well which can create an unhealthy start to a school year. From an economic point of view I see two major problems. When public school kids are let out late June and due back late August they are out of the running for lucrative summer work like lifeguarding, ice cream scooping, mowing lawns, waiting tables etc. The kids who get the jobs are from private and some public schools who can report early and work through Labor Day. This leaves a lot of public school kids out of the running for the work that will let them save for college, a trip, a car, a class etc. Also and just as important, the businesses that rely on Labor Day as their final push of the summer are hurt when families pack up the weekend prior in order to get their kids back to school by Tuesday or Wednesday of that week. It is a rare family that can leave their summer holday for three or four days and then return for three only to leave again. Generally, if school starts early, the holiday ends early and that means that the restaurants, bars, pools, ice cream shops, candy shops, hotels, motels, car rentals, etc lose business. Educationally I think any quick visit to a school in mid June confirms that the kids, teachers and administrators are "done". By third and fourth weeks of June misbehavior is on the rise, kids are sullen, tired, angry, overheated, fed up. They are not learning anything new and are having their time wasted. Teachers are feeling the same way-there is tedious review, tedious field days in the heat of the sun, no real education going on at all. And administrators are checked out on the current year and focused on the following one. Nothing good comes of extending the school year so long. If school districts shaped their year in order that kids can complete the required 180 days in a tighter time frame the school year would be more productive for all.
DDO should keep a voting system with multiple categories

Currently, debate.org uses a seven point voting system for judging debates, with points awarded in categories according to:Who had better conduct (1 point)Had better spelling and grammar (1 point)Made more convincing arguments (3 points)Used the most reliable sources (2 points)All the points in a category are awarded to one of the two debaters by each person voting on the debate, or the category may be left tied by the voter with no points awarded. The winner of the debate is determined by the greater overall vote tally. The system is explained at [1. http://www.debate.org...].In this debate my opponent will argue that the system should be changed to a single voting category of "Made more convincing arguments." I will argue that the voting system should be maintained in essentially the current format of multiple categories. I will not argue that the points in each category should be changed, but will allow that as possibility so long as the categories are substantially the same. I will argue that the site should move in the direction of having more detailed voting guidelines saying more precisely how points would be awarded in each category, rather than in the direction of having fewer categories.The proposed change in the voting system has been debated and discussed elsewhere on the site. This debate is intended to be self-contained and to be judged independent of other discussions. The first round is for acceptance, definitions, and clarification only. The Pro case will be presented at the start of Round 2. DDO site rules apply to this debate. [2. http://www.debate.org...] The first round is for acceptance only. All arguments and source citations must be made within the character limits of the debate. All words not specifically defined are defined by the ordinary dictionary definition that best fits the context. No new arguments may be made by Con in the last round of the debate, because Pro has no debate round left to rebut them. This debate is the fifth and final round of ClassicRobert's Gauntlet Tournament. [3. http://www.debate.org...] I welcome my worthy opponent to the arena. [crowd roars] The gonfalon awaits the winner.
God is good despite evil.

I happily accept Pro's challenge and I look forward to what I'm sure will be a lively debate about the nature of the god of the Bible, namely Jehovah. As a former fundamentalist Christian, I also believed at one time the god of the Bible was the source of all morality and that his nature was absolute perfection and purity. However, I began to question what the Bible had to say about the nature of Jehovah to the point that my faith died and I became an agnostic. This was a long, painful process for me, full of internal struggle. My opinion of Jehovah is now the opposite of what it was seven years ago. Throughout our discussion, I will show that Jehovah is anything but a moral being and is nothing more than a war god from the Canaanite pantheon, and that even if he did exist, he would at least have some degree of responsibility for the existence of evil. I look forward to my opponent's opening arguments.
God is good despite evil.

The world contains much suffering and moral corruption. Yet, the God of the Bible is morally pure and kind. Some have argued that when one considers the full nature of God; then both cannot exist. Some things about evil. One, God did not create evil. Evil is not a thing. It is a state of being that a thing might find it self in. It is a disposition. The possibility of the existence of evil is the logical necessity of the greater good known as freewill. God can be sovereign and yet limit himself. When he gives us a real choice in something, once we make a choice we have limited His choices by logical necessity. If our choice is evil then evil is now in the world. It's not God's fault, it's ours. People have argued that God and suffering cannot simultaneously exist. But living in a state without suffering is not the highest state of well being. That is really the test here. Is God acting in our best interests? The highest state of well being is to be free to choose or to choose otherwise. The reason is because God is love. Love is always understood in the context of a relationship. Love is always by choice.
God is good despite evil.

I'm grateful for my counterparts participation in this discussion. First I feel I need to address the use of the name "Jehovah". I consider it inappropriate. It was introduced into English based on a German corruption of the text. God's proper name is YHWH. We would pronounce it approximately Yah Way. There are no J's in the Hebrew language. The Tetragramaton or the YHWH spelling of God's name means something like I am, I am. In the story in the text we see God speaking to Moses telling him that His name is I am that I am. It is impossible to accuse God of immorality of any kind; nor is He responsible for it. All of what is truly good is defined by God. It is measured by His own nature. Good is also that which is consistent with God's will. Evil is that which is not consistent with God's will. If God was to actually direct a morally evil thing to happen to someone, something i doubt, He would not be stained by that. It is not evil for Him because it is His will. If we participate in the morally evil thing then we are guilty. It is not God's will for us to do what is Morally evil. Another example of this principle is revenge. God has a right to take revenge while we do not. One difference between us and God is that God owns us and everything else. Doesn't He have the right to do what He wants with His own things? We do not own ourselves or other people. It's true that God's name turns up among the ancient Canaanites as EL. But just because human beings here of God or borrow and misuse His name doesn't mean that He is not real or He is defective. God's name also turns up as partnered with pagan Goddesses in ancient Israel. The Bible itself mentions this and explains that at times the people fell away and associated YHWH with foreign gods. This obviously doesn't make YHWH a pagan god.
The resurrection of Christ was fabricated, added in later stuff.

I assume that by you saying "added in stuff" you are talking about how some of the bible is true, but all of the so called "miracles" are fake, just like a fantasy story in the library. According to, www.strangenotions.com/who-has-the-burden-of-proof-when-discussing-god/, you have the burden of proof since you have made the hypothesis, that the resurrection of Christ was fabricated. Therefore you have to provide real evidence for your claim, and saying things like "there is no evidence of this being true, that's why I take this position" will only get you no where in the argument. None the less, I would still like to make one pointer. The resurrection of Christ happened at the times of Roman rule. The Romans were a fierce empire, that if anyone tried to attack or mess with would be severely put down. So therefore ANYONE, that tried to create a fake story about some guy dying and being resurrected, and then claimed it to be true would be executed, because the Romans would of known that this "story" was not true, and the whole Christ movement would of stopped. And if you say that, well there was still people after it was over that thought it was true and that how in began to spread, would also be false. The Romans would put fear into anyone that still believed the story, and also give real reasons why it wasn't true in the first place. They would also have hunted down and killed anyone that was still trying to trick the Roman people into believing it. There would of been no resurrection of Christ story.
Bruce Wayne would make a better president than Tony Stark.

Wayne is not full of himself ...While Stark is. Who wants a president that is so conceited that they think they should have more power? That already happened, and that president got impeached (*cough* Johnson *cough*). This also goes along with Stark's severe cockiness. Wayne knows how to keep his priorities straight, but Stark would try to act like a tough guy and go telling our secrets to terrorists.Wayne has experience Believe it or not, Wayne has been politically involved before. He is mature when it comes to politics, and I'm not even sure if Stark knows what then word politics even means. Wayne will promote Justice Wayne already has created and funded a worldwide group of heroes called "Batman, Incorporated". If he is elected president, he will create and fund more and more justice services like these.More next round.