Rob Bell (Love Wins, p. 66):... "Could God say to someone truly humbled, broken, and desperate for reconciliation, "Sorry, too late"? Many have refused to accept the scenario in which somebody is pounding on the door, apologizing, repenting, and asking God to be let in, only to hear God say through the keyhole: "Door's locked. Sorry. If you had been here earlier, I could have done something. Bu...more

Rob Bell (Love Wins, p. 66):...

"Could God say to someone truly humbled, broken, and desperate for reconciliation, "Sorry, too late"? Many have refused to accept the scenario in which somebody is pounding on the door, apologizing, repenting, and asking God to be let in, only to hear God say through the keyhole: "Door's locked. Sorry. If you had been here earlier, I could have done something. But now, it's too late."..

Jesus Christ (Matthew 25:1-13):

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

And at midnight there was a cry made, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him."

Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, "Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out."

But the wise answered, saying, "Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves."

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us."

But he answered and said, "Verily I say unto you, I know you not."

Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."

Am I saying that those in Hell will come "truly humbled, broken, and desperate for reconciliation" - no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that when the door shuts, it's too late. So, since you don't know when Christ will return, or when you yourself will die, take hold of the kingdom of heaven now. Be prepared."

Bell's dream of an always-open heaven is nothing more than a delusion.

http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=4550

The central theme of the Bible, of Christianity, is the LORD Jesus Christ and Him crucified and risen from the dead, therein lies our hope.less

Satan and all the demons believes in the lake of fire now and after you die. God is love demands perfect justice, man has no ability to fully comprehend perfect justice...

because God saved me

I think they is being silly asking that to get at ya

no such thing as a "gay" man, a man that commits the sin of homosexuality, yes, gay, no. I wouldn't want a daughter of mine to marry a fella that's into the dirty filthy sin of sodomy with other men, he'd probably infect my daughter with some disgusting, ugly, deadly, viral disease and kill her...

thanks, I am a touched crazy I dink...of course it's in a shrill tone can't ya hear?

everyone is a sinner....homosexuality is sin, fornication is sin, adultery is sin. Marriage is defined by God in His Word between one man and one woman until death do they part. The issue is, have you been redeemed by the shed blood of the LORD Jesus Christ upon that brutal Roman cross of execution or are you still dead in your trespasses and sins?

Polygamy is sin, incest is sin, homosexuality is sin, beastiality is sin, fornincation is sin,.......

what's wrong with it???? It's sin, plain and simple that's what's wrong with it. Falling in love? No such thing as falling in love. Load of hooey. Falling in lust more like it. The sin of homosexuality is a stench unto God and you will have God to contend with rather smartly if you die in your sinful unrepentant state....you won't be able to play the poor victim card neither nor...

it comes down to the fact that you are blind and lost and if you die in that sinful state you will be cast intop the lake of fire forever nothing surer than that. Tragic...flee the wrath of God that abides upon you, repent or you shall perish...

that really made chuckle. Oh, that must mean I'm not "angry" all the time. LOL! angry ol turkey I am. now where's that slave of mine gone? 2245. where ARE you, here boy, get in behind like a good little laddie...carry me schoolbag and lunch box and don't you dare drop dem in da mud or you will be getting some lashes...

"...a book that is full of error, lies, inconsistency and downright evil."...yep, it sure is, it is full of the exposure of the error, lies, inconsistency and downright evil of depraved sinful mankind like you and me and all the rest...oh, am I angry? Not anywhere near as angry as God is with the wicked every day...you want a god made in your very own image who is all lovey dovey warm soft and goo...more

"...a book that is full of error, lies, inconsistency and downright evil."...yep, it sure is, it is full of the exposure of the error, lies, inconsistency and downright evil of depraved sinful mankind like you and me and all the rest...oh, am I angry? Not anywhere near as angry as God is with the wicked every day...you want a god made in your very own image who is all lovey dovey warm soft and goooey that wouldn't squash a gnat while you is busy straining the camel that is there in your tent...less

theeviljuan is an evil one for sure, tricky little devil/demon/s I reckon, not flesh and blood we're battlin' that's for sure....

It probably applies to Christians who are kept as slaves by Muslim's in Islamic countries. Crikey, it must be tuff going for those Christians there, eh? Even getting tortured & killed over there...I'd rather be a Christian slave in America than over there.

SABBATH... "Using hyperbole, the president suggests that the very Bible that condemns homosexuality mandates that he kill his own chief of staff for violating the Sabbath. Answering this question may pose somewhat of a challenge for orthodox Jews such as Dr. Laura or Senator Joseph Lieberman, but it poses no problem whatsoever for Christians who recognize that Christ is the substance tha...more

SABBATH...

"Using hyperbole, the president suggests that the very Bible that condemns homosexuality mandates that he kill his own chief of staff for violating the Sabbath. Answering this question may pose somewhat of a challenge for orthodox Jews such as Dr. Laura or Senator Joseph Lieberman, but it poses no problem whatsoever for Christians who recognize that Christ is the substance that fulfills the symbol of the Sabbath.

To begin with, as the president of the United States would surely know, America is a democratic republic and not a theocratic form of government; thus, Sabbath-breaking may have had serious ramifications within ancient Israel, but it is not a warrant for executing people today. Not even Joseph Lieberman, who is still looking forward to the first coming of Messiah, would suggest killing the President’s chief of staff for violating the Jewish Sabbath.

Furthermore, there is no more warrant for killing a homosexual today than there is for killing a Sabbath breaker. In fact, the mechanisms required to carry out the death penalty under Mosaic Law are no longer extant. Ironically, the very Jews who believed that Christ was worthy of death for violating the laws of Moses had to convince the Roman authorities to crucify Him.

Finally, while Schlessinger and Lieberman have a hard time explaining why Mosaic penalties no longer apply (at least in spirit), the answer for Christians is found in Christ. As the apostle Paul explains, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.’ He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit” (Gal. 3:13–14). This redemption from the curse of the law is available to all regardless of ethnicity or gender. Paul continues:

So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise (Gal. 3:24–29).7 ~ President Bartlet's Fallacious Diatribe

http://www.equip.org/articles/president-bartlet-s-fallacious-diatribeless

Here's another really good Christian site (probably a tad biased eh heathens?) dealing with Bible diffulties that the wicked evil sinful athiests gleefully rip into Christians with: http://carm.org/bible-difficulties

P&H said Sunday not the Sabbath ya ning-nongs. ROFLOL. hohohohehehehahaha, you evil wicked sinful atheists are stumblingly all over yourselves in big ol tumblin' mess....:-)

This lot will knock out many many many of the supposed discrepancies atheist’s gleefully drag up here there and everywhere: Bible Contradictions and Other Bible Difficulties: http://www.apologeticsindex.org/b08aa.html#articles

The problem of the loose use of the word contradiction came home to me in a discussion I had with a seminary student. He repeated the charge, "The Bible is full of contradictions." I said to him, "The Bible is a large book. If it is full of contradictions you should have no problem finding 50 clear violations of the law of contradiction in the next 24 hours. Why don't you go home and write down 50...more

The problem of the loose use of the word contradiction came home to me in a discussion I had with a seminary student. He repeated the charge, "The Bible is full of contradictions." I said to him, "The Bible is a large book. If it is full of contradictions you should have no problem finding 50 clear violations of the law of contradiction in the next 24 hours. Why don't you go home and write down 50 contradictions and we'll discuss them at the same time tomorrow." He accepted the challenge.

The next day he returned bleary-eyed with a list of 30 contradictions. He admitted that he had worked long and hard into the night and could come up with only 30. But he presented me a list of the most blatant contradictions he could find. (He made use of critical books that listed such contradictions.) He went through his list, one at a time, applying the test of formal logic to each alleged contradiction. We used syllogisms, the laws of immediate inference, truth tables and even Venn diagrams to test for logical inconsistency and contradictions. In every single incident we proved objectively, not only to my satisfaction, but to his, that not a single violation of the law of contradiction was made.

Not every biblical discrepancy has been resolved. But the direction of the evidence is very encouraging. As biblical scholarship increases and our knowledge of language, text, and context increases, the problem of discrepancy becomes smaller and smaller. There is less reason today to believe that the bible is full of contradictions than at any time in the history of the church. Prejudice and critical theories, however, die a slow and hard death." - Reasons to Believe by R. C. Sproul pp. 24-26less

Is the Bible Filled with Contradictions? "People accept without hesitation the charge that the Bible is full of contradictions. Yet the charge is completely inaccurate and misleading. Why, then, if the charge is inaccurate, do we hear it so often repeated? Apart from the problem of prejudice, there are other reasons why this misconception is propagated. There is a problem not only of ign...more

Is the Bible Filled with Contradictions?

"People accept without hesitation the charge that the Bible is full of contradictions. Yet the charge is completely inaccurate and misleading. Why, then, if the charge is inaccurate, do we hear it so often repeated? Apart from the problem of prejudice, there are other reasons why this misconception is propagated. There is a problem not only of ignorance of what the Bible says. but perhaps even more so, a problem of ignorance of the laws of logic. The word "contradiction" is used all too loosely with respect to biblical content. That there are divergencies of biblical accounts, that biblical writers describe the same thing from different perspectives, is not in dispute. Whether those varied accounts are in fact, contradictory is in dispute.

It would be a serious overstatement to say all discrepancies within the biblical text have been easily and satisfactorily resolved. There are serious discrepancies that have not yielded full and satisfactory resolutions. But these problems are few and far between. To say that the bible is full of contradictions is a radical exaggeration and reflects a misunderstanding of the law of contradiction. For example, critics have alleged repeatedly that the Gospel writers contradict each other with respect to the number of angels present at the tomb of Jesus. One writer mentions one angel and the other mentions two angels. However, the writer who mentions one angel does not say there was only one angel. He merely speaks of one angel. Now if in fact there were two angels, it is mathematically certain there was also one angel. There is no contradiction in that. Now, if one writer said there was only one angel and the other writer said there were two, at the same time and in the same relationship, there would be a bonafide contradiction.
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