Reverend without afterlife belief: dead is dead

HarveyDarkey

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Sun Mar-13-11 02:26 PM
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Reverend without afterlife belief: dead is dead

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Jackpine Radical

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Sun Mar-13-11 02:32 PM
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1. Not uncommon. Ever hear of Bishop Spong?

Or, for that matter, the whole "modernist heresy" as the Catholic Church terms it?

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aquart

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Sun Mar-13-11 02:41 PM
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2. Never understood how the immortality of God translated to immortality of man.

People just don't want to remember there were two trees in Eden, not one. We got tossed out because eating from the Tree of Knowledge made us smart enough to want to eat from the Tree of Life. And that was a big fat no no from God.

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Igel

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Sun Mar-13-11 05:29 PM
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3. No biggie.

My entire church believed it. Or something like it.i

You die, you're dead. King David's dead. Moses is dead. The apostles are dead. Jesus was dead.

Not harrowing hell. Not in limbo. Dead.

Of course, it also had a belief in the resurrection. So Jesus was alive, then dead, then alive. People like the apostles, presumably, just having a longer gap between dying and living again.

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Critters2

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Sun Mar-13-11 08:43 PM
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4. I'm agnostic about life after death. And a Christian clergyperson. nt

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GKirk

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Sat Mar-19-11 08:07 PM
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5. What the heck is the point

of following a religion if you don't get rewarded with eternal life after death?

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